Cuisine de feu · Amsterdam
Seven courses cooked over a single oak fire, for twenty-two guests a night.
IThe idea
Everything we serve has met the fire. Some of it for hours, some of it for a single breath. We cook for twenty-two guests a night in a canal house from 1683, with nothing but oak, patience and the finest produce of the Low Countries.
IIThe menu
I
Baked in salt, smoked crème fraîche, Oscietra caviar
6 hours in salt
Grüner Veltliner, Wachau 2022
II
Hearth sourdough, cultured butter, ash salt
Last night's embers
Grower Champagne, Aÿ
III
Burnt in the coals, hazelnut, brown butter
40 minutes in the coals
Chenin Blanc, Saumur 2021
IV
Kissed by the grill, sea buckthorn, nasturtium
90 seconds over oak
Albariño, Rías Baixas 2022
V
On the bone, champagne butter, caviar
12 minutes, low embers
Meursault, Côte de Beaune 2020
VI
Aged sixty days, black garlic, bone marrow
Open flame, then rest
Syrah, Northern Rhône 2018
VII
Burnt honey, cocoa nib, gold
The last ember
Banyuls Grand Cru
€165 per guest · Wine pairing €95 · Zero proof €65
Vegetarian menu on request. We cook around allergies with pleasure.
IIIThe fire
IVThe chef
Chef and owner
Fire is the oldest cookin the world. I only tryto listen to it.
Sacha grew up between a bakery oven and the beaches of Zeeland, cooked in Copenhagen, San Sebastián and Lyon, and came home in 2019 to open Cendre in a canal house that had stood empty for eleven years.
There is no gas line in our kitchen. Everything, from the bread to the last chocolate, is cooked over the same oak fire.
VThe room
Low beams, old oak, candlelight and a kitchen you can see from every table. Below the waterline, our cellar keeps 1,400 bottles perfectly cool.
VIOur growers
Move across the tableWatch the table
From the guest book
“An evening that lingers like woodsmoke.”
“I had never really tasted a leek before tonight.”
“Twenty-two seats, and you feel like the only table.”
“The bread alone is worth the train.”
VIIReservations
We are open Wednesday to Saturday from 18:30. Tables are released sixty days ahead, at ten in the morning.
