Just Opened: BAUT
Chef Michiel van der Eerde is opening a new BAUT. The Amsterdam restaurant opens each time under the same name at a new location. This is number six already.
Who: Michiel van der Eerde, owner of BAUT and restaurants C and Zuid (number 42 in the FavorFlav Food Top 100)
Where: an old chapel that also served as a dance school in Amsterdam’s Spaarndammerbuurt neighborhood
When: January 2018
What’s new?
This latest BAUT is already the sixth location of Van der Eerde’s moving circus, in which he keeps relocating to striking vacant buildings. It all started on Wibautstraat, in the former newspaper building of Het Parool. This was followed by, among other things, a former Citroën garage, the V&D department store and the gas distribution center in Oost (the previous BAUT Paradijs).
On the menu?
The completely revamped BAUT menu offers contemporary international dishes. Affordably priced, between nine and eighteen euros (three courses €33.50). Van der Eerde trained in Michelin-starred kitchens, and you can see that reflected in the quality of his food. Made with a limited number of ingredients, but refined in execution and presented without fuss.
Think slow-cooked salmon, cooked at forty degrees, with apple cream, sweet-and-sour radish and peanut crunch. Or baba ganoush made with baby eggplant, with smoked labneh, salsa of preserved lemon and pomegranate molasses. The interior is as we know it from the earlier BAUTS. The tables are dressed in white, with street art and graffiti on the walls. As a gimmick, a large second-hand four-poster bed has been placed in the restaurant.
What stands out?
BAUT wants to be more than a restaurant. In Van der Eerde’s words: ‘a melting pot of food, drink, art and music’. Besides Bar BAUT, with its extensive cocktail menu, BovenBaut is located on the floor above the restaurant. Exhibitions and events are held here, with DJ performances and live acts featuring jazz, funk and hip-hop music on Friday evenings.
BAUT
Spaarndammerstraat 460
Amsterdam
Image: Janneke Nooij
