Dear friend,
Welcome to our second newsletter through our favourite platform Substack.
In this monthly newsletter we’ll keep you updated on everything happening at Gedempt Hamerkanaal; at Euro Pizza, Restaurant Europa, Benelux Bar and Eurosoft (NEW). From how our menu’s come together, to upcoming events, neighborhood stories, and other updates.
We’re happy you’re here—enjoy the read.
You might have noticed but we opened EUROSOFT in the space of Benelux Bar!
We had Eurosoft in mind for a while, and when the Benelux space became available in daytime, it was a no-brainer to start with Eurosoft on Gedempt Hamerkanaal.
We serve a selection of baked goods, coffee from Rum Baba, matcha from Nekohama,, tea from Lateef. We also serve focaccia sandwiches and square pizza, a granola bowl and breakfast plate. Our krentenbol is already a neighborhood favorite.
Besides we sell our Euro Pizza bread and more to take home. All made in our own bakery.
Eurosoft is a space where you can come by to have a coffee, work on your laptop, have breakfast or lunch, or read a book while enjoying one of our special teas.
Spend some time in the beautiful Benelux by daylight and bring your colleagues or friends, and of course yourself :)
We’re open from 8:00 AM Wednesday through Friday, and from 9:00 AM on Saturday and Sunday.
Since we want to celebrate the start of Eurosoft we have our Hard Opening planned this weekend: Saturday the 13th and Sunday 14th.
Our team prepared French toast with hay ice cream along special drinks served all day.
On Sunday we close our opening weekend with Edgar Ramiro playing tunes from 13.00 until closing.
Euro Pizza is open during the Holidays! We are open during our regular opening hours, and tweaked our menu in a slightly more festive way.
But no worries, if you want to escape all Christmas hustle and bustle, that’s also possible. We serve our regular menu, pizza and wines as well :)
December 31st we will do all day service. So if you want to have a New Years lunch, have dinner before you go into the night, or just bubbles and snacks, all is possible.
The 31st we close at 23.00, to celebrate 12 o’ clock with the team.
(December 25th and January 1st are the only days we are closed)
On Sunday 28th of December we welcome Johnny Mae Hauser and Aldo van den Broek for this years’ last edition of A Lunch With, in collaboration with The Cristel Ballroom Gallery at Restaurant Europa.
We will serve a special lunch menu (€55), inspired by their work. The duo will attend to present their work and share insights into their practice.
Johnny Mae Hauser is a Dutch-German photographer who challenges the narratives we take for granted. Her work transcends conventional boundaries, redefining how we experience and understand emotion through fresh visual storytelling. Through her lens, she creates images that speak to the heart while questioning the world around us.
Aldo van den Broek is a self-taught artist who finds beauty in decay and transformation. His work explores how systems—societal, political, personal—collapse and reveal unexpected strength in their ruins. Shaped by life on the margins, he sees decay not as an ending, but as a moment of transition where resilience emerges from broken pieces.
Both Aldo and Johnny are our longtime friends, we are honoured and extremely happy to have them and their works around again, come have lunch and drinks with us to celebrate!
We start at 13.00 on the 28th.
Winter is the season for the finest North Sea fish. In this menu we use cod for a tsukune-style fish skewer. And sea bass - we serve the tail raw, marinated like kimchi. We confit the belly and serve it with rice and shore crab sauce. The back is BBQ’d and served raw but warm with a white bisque featuring 3 types of cardamom.
Pumpkin was our nemesis for a long time, but we’ve created a really interesting salad with pumpkin, seaweed and chestnut. With a very special sauce of sherry, white pepper and pumpkin juice. See the clip above!
Additionally, you can now extend both the compact menu and the Europa menu with oysters and a special steak serving. We serve NY strip from Gascogne beef with jus de veau with dried oyster and an n’dole sauce of paprika, habanero, cashew and shore crab. This is perfect for sharing between two people.
Thanks for reading our newsletter. We hope to see you soon at Gedempt Hamerkanaal!
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