{"id":65062,"date":"2026-08-19T00:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/nederlandse-keuken\/tosti\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T00:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:36:26","slug":"tosti","status":"publish","type":"dish","link":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/nederlandse-keuken\/tosti\/","title":{"rendered":"Tosti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A toasted sandwich with cheese, or ham and cheese. The simplest hot dish on any Dutch menu.<\/p>\n<h2>The standard<\/h2>\n<p>Tosti ham-kaas is the usual order. Cheese alone is just tosti kaas, and the range rarely goes further.<\/p>\n<h2>The machine<\/h2>\n<p>A tosti iron seals the edges so the cheese stays in. Caf\u00e9s using a flat grill make something else, and you can tell by the open edges.<\/p>\n<h2>Why it is always on the menu<\/h2>\n<p>Fast, cheap and requiring no cook. Almost any Dutch caf\u00e9 can make one, even without a kitchen.<\/p>\n<h2>With tomato soup<\/h2>\n<p>The fixed pairing in eetcaf\u00e9s: tosti with a cup of soup. A lunch pattern that barely exists elsewhere.<\/p>\n<h2>The name<\/h2>\n<p>From the Italian tostato, toasted. It has nothing else to do with Italy.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to find it<\/h2>\n<p>Caf\u00e9s, lunchrooms and cafetarias everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A toasted sandwich with cheese, or ham and cheese. The simplest hot dish on any Dutch menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false},"dish-region":[18893],"dish-type":[],"pairing":[],"class_list":["post-65062","dish","type-dish","status-publish","hentry","dish-region-nederland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dish\/65062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dish"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dish"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dish-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dish-region?post=65062"},{"taxonomy":"dish-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dish-type?post=65062"},{"taxonomy":"pairing","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pairing?post=65062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}