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Shorter and plainer than visitors expect, and that is habit rather than rudeness.
The length
An hour, sometimes forty-five minutes. In France or Italy a business lunch runs two hours; here that reads as wasted time.
What is eaten
Soup with a roll, a salad, fried eggs on bread. Two courses is generous, three is rare.
No alcohol
Wine at lunch has become unusual in Dutch business circles. Ask and you get it, but the table usually drinks water.
Who pays
The party who invited, without argument. Splitting also happens and causes no embarrassment.
Where it happens
Grand cafés, hotel restaurants and lunchrooms near office districts. Around the Zuidas in Amsterdam and central The Hague the offering is built for it.
Where to look
Grand cafés in the centres, and places near office locations.
Where to try it
Places in our directory that serve this
Restaurant in Den Haag 748 · Restaurant in Rotterdam 753 · Restaurant in Utrecht 452 · Restaurant in Eindhoven 361