Trend: dining out at home
Trend forecaster Vincent van Dijk himself eats out every evening, but this trend makes it very appealing to eat at home once in a while.
Cooking like a chef
Cookbooks are the best-selling books on earth. No wonder: everyone has discovered that you can cook like a real chef at home too. Not only do you need to stock up on quality ingredients from the artisanal butcher and greengrocer instead of supermarket packets, you also need to have a good recipe. Since Jamie Oliver, we know that cooking is even more fun with a group of friends around you – that may well have been the beginning of the ‘dining out at home’ trend.
Airdnd
For dining out at home, you no longer even need to be able to cook. You can choose from various services that deliver food from top restaurants and awe-some (home) caterers to your door at a moment’s notice. There are also apps that let you dine at other people’s homes, such as WithLocals and Airdnd. Home restaurants run by home chefs who are happy to show their cooking skills to complete strangers, but don’t want the stress and responsibilities of running a restaurant.
15 courses
But true food snobs (yes you, admit it) know that dining out at home is even more fun with a real chef behind your cooktop. Conveniently, more and more top chefs enjoy hiring themselves out for dinner parties at home. Such as ‘Wolf on location’, where chef Michael Wolf of Atelier WOLF in Amsterdam comes by with his team to prepare a private dinner. The choice is yours: 4, 6, 8 or 15 courses, with or without wine pairing. From just 46 euros per person for a four-course dinner. The cost of the team and the funny Austrian chef himself is not included.
Two burners and running water
Do you need a professional restaurant kitchen to welcome such a top chef? Not at all: the preparations, or mise-en-place, are done in the restaurant kitchen, and on site the chef only needs to fry a few things and garnish the plates. Two burners and running water are enough. The team leaves the kitchen just as clean as they found it. Major drawback: the final glass of wine is poured into your own glasses, so you can’t avoid doing at least a little washing-up.
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