Marc: 'Since the beginning of april the beautiful terrace of Serre Restaurant is open and from the first day onwards it's a real hype! Which is only natural by the way: man can be quite happy under the shade of the trees, glass of Burgundy white wine at hand, watching the Amstel Canal and the boats go by. That alone is reason to be jealous.

Highlight of the past few weeks was the presentation of Daniel Maissans book #Sterrenchefs (#Star chefs). Which was presented at Duin en Kruidberg in Santpoort and it was unique in itself that 50 to 60 Michelin starred chefs were present. You don’t get so many chefs together very often, because we’re all awfully busy! But besides that, the book is brilliant. Maissan managed to portray no less than 103 Dutch star chefs. Well, that is almost every star chef in The Netherlands, I believe only one is missing. And those portraits are very special too:

The first week of April was the week of the successful charity event for Japan. We collected more than two hundred thousand Euros for the victims of the earthquake and the tsunami, which gave us all a great sense of unity. But despite that, it was mainly the week of my colleague Marc van der Tang, Chef of our new Serre Restaurant, which is inspired on the cuisine of Ciel Bleu. Why? He tells himself in this weblog...

Directly after the catastrophe in Japan and in the days after, for us the world stood still. Although everyone in the Netherlands was shocked by the intensity of the natural disaster and the disastrous consequences of it, the emotions where really tangible in our hotel. No wonder when you realize that more than one third of our colleagues is Japanese!