Winners of the ‘Purest Restaurant of the Netherlands 2012’ award, Niels en Mirjam Gouda, owners of Restaurant Natuurlijk in Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands, are the new ambassadors of the annual ‘Purest Restaurant’ competition. They represent Pure! in helping restaurants to use more honest ingredients: organic, fair trade, sustainable fish and vegetables. But most of all to make their food taste good!
Placed in between the dunes on the Dutch coast, the cozy ambiance and the warm welcome you receive when visiting Natuurlijk (in Dutch the word has two meanings: of course and natural) makes it the ideal place to experience honest food. The menu boasts dishes that consist of sustainable, organic, local ingredients.
Natuurlijk has a large, sun drenched, terrace and looks like an Austrian chalet. There is an 18 hole minigolf course, a great collection of climbing frames, and inside they have a playroom. They even have special menu’s for the kids. But if you think everything is geared to kids you are wrong. We suggest you try the ‘pick the wagon’. A lovely honest picknick with bubbles or wine packed in a wooden cart (bolderkar) for you to take into the dunes and onto the beach.
The restaurants name: ‘Natuurlijk’, stands for what the owners wanted the restaurant to be: honest food, warm atmosphere, and fresh ingredients. You must taste their Albacore tuna sashimi and Sockeye salmon with wasabi and sesame sauce. The restaurant is MSC-certified, which means the tuna and salmon are sustainably caught.
Sustainable produce
organic: meat 80% (Kemperhoen-chicken, hamburgers,..), vegetables 40%, some from their dune kitchen garden, 100% organic: bread from Carl Siegert, dairy (milk, buttermilk, yoghurt) eggs, butter, goats cheese from care farm De Klompenhoeve in Egmond aan den Hoef, ice cream 80%, wine 50%. Fair trade: coffee, tea, cacao, chocolate, sugar, wine, bonbons (also organic), ‘Natuurlijk’ is MSC-certified and only serves sustainably caught fish, Winner of the ‘Purest Restaurant of the Netherlands 2012’ award and ambassadors of the annual competition
