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BLOEM

Where the glass is full and the room is in bloom.

DUTCH GASTROBAR · BLOEMGRACHT 333 · JORDAAN

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TONIGHT

Friday 28 August

Candles lit at five, eight bottles open, and the third plate on the board changed this morning.

THE WINE

Rooted in nature, poured with intention

A short list of old-world bottles and unexpected finds — Loire chenin, Jura savagnin, Mosel riesling with age — chosen to surprise, to complement, and to linger.

Eight by the glass, rewritten on the mirror whenever a case runs out. Ask Sanne what she opened tonight.

EXPLORE THE LIST

A glass of red wine and a bottle on a pale marble ledge, a loose arrangement of wildflowers and greenery behind them.

BY THE GLASS, TONIGHT

Eight open bottles and a mirror to write on.

Half-glasses on request. The point is to taste widely, not to commit early.

Muscadet, sur lieLoire · saline, taut, 2022€ 7

Chenin blanc, drySav.-en.-Vallée · quince, wax€ 9

Riesling, ten years onMosel · petrol, lime, low alcohol€ 11

Savagnin, ouilléJura · walnut, curious, worth it€ 12

Pinot noirBloem house bottling · red fruit, chilled€ 9

Gamay, carbonicBeaujolais · violets, drink cold€ 8

Nebbiolo, langhePiemonte · rose, tar, dried herb€ 11

Oloroso, dryJerez · with the aged Gouda€ 7

CORKAGE ON THE CELLAR LIST € 12 · JENEVER FLIGHT OF THREE € 16 · NON-ALCOHOLIC FERMENTS, ALWAYS TWO

A glass of red, an unlabelled bottle, a lit candle and a small vase of white flowers on a dark table against a wall of ivy.

THE BOARD

Nine plates, and the third one changes weekly

Small to share, or three per person if you skipped lunch. The kitchen sends them as they are ready.

A trout fillet on a dark matte plate with confit vegetables and herbs, photographed on dark marble. — HOLLANDER TROUT
fennel, preserved lemon, brown butter, herbs from the window box
€ 24

Aged beef tartare on a dark plate with cornichons, mustard seed and micro greens. — AGED BEEF TARTARE
cornichons, mustard seed, sourdough crisp, cured egg
€ 19

Roasted seasonal root vegetables on a speckled cream plate with goat cheese and hazelnuts. — SEASONAL ROOT VEGETABLES
goat cheese, hazelnut, wildflower honey, thyme
€ 18

Picked white crab meat on a dark plate with lemon zest, chive, sea salt and brown butter. — NORTH SEA CRAB
lemon zest, chive, sea salt, a spoon of brown butter
€ 22

Duck liver parfait on grilled sourdough with pickled red onion and marjoram, on a dark plate. — DUCK LIVER TOAST
pickled onion, marjoram, sourdough off the grill
€ 14

A slice of dark chocolate terrine with candied hazelnuts and cream on a speckled cream plate. — CHOCOLATE & HAZELNUT
dark terrine, praline, unsweetened cream
€ 12

Bitterballen, but ours

Oxtail, twelve hours, mustard whipped with cream. Six for € 11.

Bread and cultured butter

Baked two doors down on the Bloemgracht. € 6, and you will want a second.

Cheese, three Dutch

Aged Gouda, a raw-milk Boerenkaas, one blue. Quince, walnut. € 17.

THE ROOM

A bruin café, reimagined in full bloom

Layered greens, warm wood, candlelight, and flowers in unexpected places — above the bar, along the beams, in a jam jar on the table by the window.

Thirty-four seats inside, eleven on the canal when the weather allows. Nothing here is loud except, occasionally, us.

VIEW THE SPACE

The ivy room: deep green walls under trailing ivy, bentwood chairs, and a candle and jar of greenery on every table.

THE IVY ROOM · SIXTEEN SEATS

The back room, where the ivy was never pruned back and the lamps were never turned up.

The canal-side terrace at night, lanterns and string lights strung over wooden tables along the water.

ELEVEN ON THE CANAL

Outside from April, and later than you would think.

Lanterns come out at dusk. Blankets on the backs of the chairs, because this is Amsterdam and we are optimists.

THE FLOWERS

The bar is also, on Saturdays, a florist

Marijke walks to the Bloemenmarkt at six and returns with more than the room needs. What is left goes out on the counter, wrapped in paper, until it is gone — usually by nine.

€ 22

the Saturday bunch, whatever the market gave up

06:00

the walk to the market, every week since 2019

Hands wrapping a loose bunch of seasonal flowers in brown paper on the marble counter.

Two glasses of wine, a jam jar of flowers and a lit candle on a canal-side table, the lit houses across the water behind.

Bloem is Dutch for flower.

It was going to be a wine bar. The flowers arrived anyway.

ILLUSTRATIVE REVIEW LAYOUT

Example guest quotes for this fictional restaurant demonstration.

We came for one glass before dinner and never went to dinner. The bitterballen are worth cancelling a reservation for.

Example guest quote — fictional demonstration.

She poured me something Jura and unpronounceable, then wrapped the last of the market flowers for my mother. That is the whole place, in one visit.

Example guest quote — fictional demonstration.

The lit windows of BLOEM on the canal at dusk, greenery framing the door and bicycles against the railing. — BLOEMGRACHT 333
Three canals in from the noise, and one bridge from the tram.

A TABLE

Come early for the bar, late for the room.

Reservation requests go where your guests already are — how many, what time, and whether anyone is not drinking. The eight bar stools are never held. They are for whoever walks in.

RESERVE A TABLE SEE THE MAP

Placeholder address, number and prices — swapped for the real ones before launch.

TUE — SUN17:00 — 01:00

KITCHENuntil 22:30

MONDAYclosed

THE ADDRESS

Bloemgracht 333
1016 KC Amsterdam

TELEPHONE

+31 20 456 7333

GOOD TO KNOW

Groups to 12, one board for the table · dogs welcome at the bar · bar stools walk-in only

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