Cafes and restaurants in Doetinchem

Doetinchem has 187 places, of which 139 publish opening hours, 74 per cent. Of those, 78 per cent open on a Sunday and 40 per cent work past eleven. A website or social account is held by 78 per cent.

Little is left of the old town centre, and the reason is uncomfortable. In March 1945, on the nineteenth, the twenty-first and the twenty-third, Doetinchem was bombed three times by allied aircraft. Around 170 people were killed and some 120 buildings disappeared. Why the town was attacked has never been established. Canadian troops liberated it at the beginning of April that same year.

What was built afterwards is practical in character: a shopping town serving the whole Achterhoek, with 60,466 residents and an ageing population, since nearly a quarter are over sixty-five. That explains how strong the middle of the day is here.

Achterhoek cooking is farm cooking and sweet at the same time. Krentenwegge and stoetbrood belong to feast days, and in autumn game from the woods around Montferland appears on the menus. One thing is often told wrongly here: Grolsch came out of Groenlo but has been brewed in Enschede for years, and is therefore no longer an Achterhoek regional beer. The district holds no protected European name, and Doetinchem claims no dish of its own.