bastien

After 22 months restaurant Vossius has closed its doors because of bankruptcy. Chef Kranenborg and maître Vincke opened the restaurant together with the goal to get the first ***-star restaurant in the Netherlands. (However, Parkheuvel (Cees Helder) in Rotterdam turned out to be the lucky one with 3 stars.)From the beginning, the restaurant was topic of many discussions on the quality of the food, the prices and the service. A few months after it opened it got *-star, but with the last edition of the Michelin Guide the restaurant didn´t get two stars -- while Vermeer (Pascal Jalhaij) did get one star after a few months and the next year the second star. Apparently, the owners didn´t pay the rent since the autumn of last year. Despite the high prices, Kranenborg said that his restaurant was loaded with people every evening and that the clients very extremely satisfied with the quality of the food -- but he was wrong. You can´t aim at the top, have only business people having lunch and dinner and saying you don´t want guests who can´t say the difference between top quality food and quality food (because business people can´t tell!). Anyways..., you can´t have lunch or dinner here anymore -- did anyone have?

There are a lot of top chefs who have their own cook books. I know there are cook books from restaurants like Sadler, Dal Pescatore, La Pergola, etc. Are you also interested in these kind of Italian cook books?

But..., what do you think of this ranking? Is it a wise way to rank restaurants?

Be careful with the tartufo this year! There almost hasn't been any rain, so that means a bad tartufo and porcini year! (Just to let you know.)

By my experience, Roman restaurants are very expensive if you want to have good food, especially if these very restaurants are Michelin star awarded. Even Gambero Rosso standards are disappointing to me... Are there any alternatives?