Location: Parade 39, 5911 CB Venlo, Netherlands
Date Tasted: January 26th, 2020 (Sunday) (dinner)
Price: 9,50 Euro
Beverage: Gouverneur Tripel
Intro: Sorry for the terrible photo, the lighting was very ‘cozy’ at Bonaparte, with only a small tea candle on the table and pretty dark throughout. Very nice decor and perfect for a cold winter night.
Presentation: Small half moon cucumbers and sunflower seeds stood out on this interpretation. Appropriate balsamic drizzle on the meat itself with olive oil on the greens only.
Excellent quality meat, cut extremely thin. Mixed greens instead of straight arugula. Again with the strange cheese treatment, apparently all the good cheese graters in the Netherlands are broken at the moment.
I hit the dish with a very light salt and fresh cracked pepper after initial testing but this dish was close to perfect in that regard.
A couple of crostini’s adorned the top, closer to the type of toast points you would use on caviar than anything I can describe them as. No onion.
Temperature: Perfect
Size: Appropriate as an appetizer for one person. The meat was so thin it took only two fork loads to get the whole thing from the serving platter to a plate.
Value: Excellent, spot on for a dish of this size, quality and presentation. If anything, a bit of a bargain.
Overall Score: 8/10 – Would try again, and take a better picture next time.