Maastricht: Toine Hermsen: Top restaurant in Maastricht
Toine Hermsen is one of The Netherlands' finest chefs. Always in or near the top 5 lists anywhere.Make sure to make reservations well in advance.Closed Sunday and Monday. Hermsen was one of the first chefs that changed the à la carte menu to suprise menu's where you only choose the number of courses and an accompanying wine programme.The restaurant is U-shaped and the kitchen is within the U. Now when I ate there, we had a first rate table at the bottom of the U, looking right into the kitchen. That was like watching a ballet performance. Amazing how this superb food could be made in such a small area. Our eyes were goggling. In fact, we were staring so much that we told each other we should have some table-conversation as it was quite embarrassing. LOL!At some point we saw the chefs desperately searching for something. They lost a whole roasted large cut of veal. After a while they...




































