hello visitor!
welcome to ‘de culinaire werkplaats’ online.
de culinaire werkplaats is a novel eating initiative & experience located opposite amsterdam’s culture park westergasfabriek.
the initiators and designer’s couple marjolein wintjes & eric meursing, are offering a fresh approach to what’s happening on your plate and you are invited to shake up your culinary lifestyle.
it’s a blend of a design studio and a restaurant for contemporary food & eating concepts at the intersection of food & art.
the team of de culinaire werkplaats creates & makes contemporary dishes, bites, delicatessen, new foods, and invents sometimes even new ways of eating. inspirational concepts, like ‘black’ or ‘flowers’, are guiding our creative perspective on foods & eating.
de culinaire werkplaats won the title of best benelux vegetable restaurant 2011 (october 25, 2010), received the golden tray in the category small employers for fairtrade@work by max havelaar (october 26, 2010), is one of the top 10 amsterdam restaurants according to specialbite.com, and in the gault millau 2012.
besides taste and inspirational concept at least 2 of the following criteria also provide for our choice of ingredients, products and suppliers: animal welfare, small-scale or organic farming, fair trade, season, distance, and personal health.
what can YOU do at ‘de culinaire werkplaats’
eat’in à la carte in an informal setting;- shop’in and buy from our ready-to-eat collection, ‘green’ pastry or tailor-made specialty breads that we call emotion.breads;
- cater’in, only when you have challenging requests;
- book’in our location for gatherings and special events that require an out-of-the-box setting and/or eating experience, such as brain.storms and brain.stills, product launches, weddings, press events….. meer…
meet the initiators & their motives
de culinaire werkplaats is a concept of marjolein wintjes and eric meursing. the ‘trigger’ of this business concept can be found some 8 years ago. at that time the initiators changed their personal lifestyle, discovered some hidden talents and were looking for new personal and business opportunities.
some other kind of fiber art
marjolein is a storyteller. she tells stories with food, e.g. with her emotion.breads of installations like deli.wear. fibers are her life. so the move from dietary fibers to textile fibers was a natural process. at de culinaire werkplaats you’ll find a lot of her work and she’s often working on commissions in the restaurant.
she makes amongst other things: meer…