Merkelbach
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The read// why locals go
Merkelbach occupies the old coach house of the Frankendael estate on Middenweg, a Dutch seasonal restaurant hidden in parkland in Amsterdam east. The setting does most of the work: a listed country house, formal gardens, and a terrace opening onto the estate grounds whenever the weather allows — one of the calmer places to eat outdoors in this city. The kitchen keeps its menu short and lets the season set it, with mains around €24, modest for cooking of this kind. Watergraafsmeer residents treat the place as a local; everyone else tends to find it only once somebody tells them it exists.
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Middenweg 72, 1098 AK — Amsterdam
The read// why locals go
Merkelbach occupies the old coach house of the Frankendael estate on Middenweg, a Dutch seasonal restaurant hidden in parkland in Amsterdam east. The setting does most of the work: a listed country house, formal gardens, and a terrace opening onto the estate grounds whenever the weather allows — one of the calmer places to eat outdoors in this city. The kitchen keeps its menu short and lets the season set it, with mains around €24, modest for cooking of this kind. Watergraafsmeer residents treat the place as a local; everyone else tends to find it only once somebody tells them it exists.