Lunch at Doppio

My colleague M and me got together for lunch this saturday (or actually, for breakfast). Both being from Indonesia, we originally planned to go to Indonesian restaurant Pakarena, but unfortunately it was closed (even though their website states they should be opened on saturdays, the sign on the door seemed to exclude saturday as an opening day - strange, considering the fact that most people would eat out on saturdays, I'd think).

So, as for an alternative, we went to coffee place Doppio.

I had the "Lunch Complete", which consisted of some freshly squeezed orange juice, capuccino and a three-layered grilled-cheese sandwich with mozzarella, italian ham (serrano), tomatoes, salsa and pecorino, served with a fresh lime-yoghurt dressing.


In Holland, we like to call a grilled cheese sandwich, a "tosti", just like the french like to call it a "croque-monsieur". Molten mozzarella was ooooo-zing out of the tosti, with nice flavours from the ham and tomato combining very well. The lime-yoghurt dressing cut wonderfully through the richness of the mozzarella. My only complaint would be, that it's too small.


M had a roll with turkey breast and a honey-mustard dressing, alongside a separately ordered OJ and capuccino. A very smart choice, considering her plan to stick to her diet.

All was well!

Even though Doppio officially doesn't qualify as a lunchroom (coffee being their main specialty, despite the fact that the place exists for a mere three years, it had already won a national coffee-test in 2008), they serve some good quality food to go with your coffee. I'd say they easily meet the quality of a place like Silo Today, which I posted on previously. They're situated near the edge of the city centre, so it's easy to see why it's always relatively crowded.

Nevertheless, N and S always prefer to go to Coffee United, because they think their coffee tastes better, so I guess this would have been one of my few visits to another coffee place for now.

Valentine's Breakfast

As a little surprise for Valentine's Day, I made breakfast served in bed.

The main was a little roll, cut in halves, put sliced pork roast meat on top with a poached egg and a slice of (canned) pineapple. On top of that satay sauce. Yummy! I got the idea for it from a lunchroom in the village of Vaassen, where I had a bigger version of this for lunch.

Served on the side were a grapefruit half, freshly squeezed orange juice and a cappuccino.

Of course, it being a Valentine's breakfast, I gave N some flowers. Pinkish tulips.

Lunch at Silo Today

Lately, it seems like we haven't been eating at home anymore, but instead always eat out. No difference there today, when we were having lunch at Silo Today.

It's a small lunchroom, situated in - you guessed it - an old silo. It used to be called something like 'the Cereal Silo' and housed a restaurant. Apparently the restaurant wasn't doing great business. Nowadays, it houses several (startup?) companies and also this lunchroom.

N got there before me, and from listening to other people's conversations, she could extract that this was a lunch spot for employees from companies nearby. When I got there, I noticed the majority of the guests were female, somewhere between 30 and 50 years of age. The menu seemed to have been adapted to that crowd, mainly listing rolls and salads.

No matter, I ordered one tall glas of hot chocolate. Okay, it wasn't that hot, but it tasted good. Additionally, the glass had a print that said "per l'uomo" (for the man) and a big male sign underneath that. Apparently, men don't get here very often and special hot chocolate glasses are used to stress that fact. Or something like that. Whatever, I'm just blabbering.

N had a club sandwich (without the cheese, because of her lactose intolerance) and some freshly pressed orange juice. I got to sample a piece of the sandwich and it was good, it had some nice mayonaise on it. Nowhere near as much of a quantity as at Puur! (see previous post), but it sufficed.

For myself, I chose the sourdough bread with bacon and old goat's cheese. It was plain and simple, tasted well and only cost 3,95. Quantity-wise, it wasn't that much (again, I thought, adapted to a woman's appetite) but since I wasn't too hungry anyway I didn't care about that.

All in all I think it's a nice place to have lunch, not too big and not too crowded. Situated at the edge of the city's centre, I think it's good for the city to have gained an extra lunch spot.