Restaurant De Doelen - Sluis 1

Great food, great staff! What more can you wish for? (Great company;)

Very good bib-gourmand awarded restaurant where patron Reinier has everything under control and serves high quality food with style, charm and character.

Very very very very slow service. Food served was not worth Waiting 1 hour 40 min. Normal from the oven. Also a very special cola they got here ... it took 40 min to serve. I highly recommend this restaurant if you like to waste your time.

Excellent quality and service, friendly and relaxed setting. A reasonably priced day menu offering a choice from 3 starters, mains and sweets - a starter + main or a main + sweet for under 30 euros. An excellent a la cart caters for a broader pallet but then with a price card to match. At its best in Nice weather with a table outside and for the other 300 days in the year when it's raining in Holland.. Inside is chique - comfortabel. I ate here twice, once with my wife on the terrace, enjoying the summer evening and with a view over the locks and passing sail boats, loved the gravad lax followed with a bavette bernaise. My teenage children joined us on a second visit, and chose the Bavette aswell. Loved the food but found the portions too small - especially having to share a few home made chips and hated the unhurried service. (teenagers don't forget!) We adults however, loved it. An excellent restaurant, a beautiful location and well worth a try. Four stars in place of 5 because teenagers also have an opinion.

Unfortunately, I have to say that we were disappointed. Maybe it was a one off experience, maybe our expectations were just too high, since the restaurant had the Bib gourmand sticker. Food was OK, but not excellent, the service was strange and cold; for a long time, I was giving the gentleman a benefit of a doubt, trying to persuade myself that he was just a little bit eccentric. But in the end I felt unpleasant; the service was not friendly, it was slow and perhaps even a bit rude. We order the Bib gourmand menu, but we were not really sure what we were getting, there was not really much communication. When we asked something, he just turned around and went away, sometimes even before we finished a sentence - I did not know - did he not hear us? Or is this kind of a flamboyant behaviour? We were not offered anything; we felt like we had to keep asking and keep asking. I understand that the gentleman was there alone that night and maybe that was a reason - but I still think you can be friendly and try to make your guests feel good and welcome… There was only one glass of wine - we expected a wine pairing with at least 2 courses - and the gentleman was never there to ask for more. The food, as mentioned, was OK; but there were small things like e.g. crème brûlée with the crust not totally caramelised, the dish not really seasoned well… The place is beautiful and interesting. The house is historical and for sure nice to see and learn about. I really, really wanted to like this restaurant, but it left me with mixed / more negative feelings.

I arrived at this village by chance while all the restaurants were closed. I read the review of the restaurant and yet I decided to give it a try. The food was excellent. The waitress is gorgeous. For years I haven't gotten any service like here, well I live in Berlin, maybe that's why. And the restaurant owner himself came to ask me if I enjoyed the food. The prices here are expensive and not suitable for everyone, but the food and service are definitely worth it.

Loved it. The 2.9 rating is totally unrealistic due to ex staff with a grudge, sad people. An appropriate rating would be 4+. A great restaurant.

A really nice gem in the heart of Muiden with cozy service and high quality meals for reasonable prices. Will definitely go back.