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Those likable Dutch, to celebrate the quadricentennial of Hudson's arrival in New York harbor in 1609, are busy right now building a replica colonial village at Bowling Green. It's part of the NY400 Week celebration, which officially kicks off Tuesday September 8th, and includes a massive Dutch music, art, and dance festival on Governors Island (The New Island Festival), tours of the replica of Hudson's ship The Half Moon , sailing races, the unveiling of the New Amsterdam Pavilion (a gift from the Netherlands at Peter Minuit Plaza, Battery Park), an historic walking tour co-hosted by Russell Shorto, author of the stellar book The Island at the Center of the World; and a boatload more activities! [This pdf has it all.]
But the New Amsterdam Village opens this week, on Friday, and consists of 12 traditional Dutch canal houses, a windmill, and a demonstration model of a contemporary Dutch greenhouse. Open to the public, this is where you can sample and purchase Dutch agricultural products and foods, including stroopwafels (YES!), cheeses, herring, dollar pancakes, cut flowers, flower bulbs and green roofs. Authentic Dutch people will also be making wooden shoes, blowing glass, and holding floral and culinary workshops; and this is where you can borrow those orange Dutch bikes for free. (BYO Old Amsterdam weed.)
And and and, from September 5th to the 20th, a number of restaurants in Manhattan and Brooklyn will participate in Taste Nieuw Amsterdam, offering $24 menus (the amount in Dutch guilders that was paid for the island of Manhattan). Here's yet another pdf of the restaurants involved. Maybe it's finally time to give Danku a try; we're told it's the only Dutch restaurant in NYC.
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Speaking as someone who lived in the Netherlands for the better part of a decade, speaks pretty good Dutch, loves Holland, loves Amsterdam, and is totally psyched about this event, allow me to explain why Danku is the only Dutch restaurant in NYC:
Dutch food is terrible. Great cheese, great herring, great french fries, great pea soup, and decent Indonesian-derived junk food (which is what they serve funky versions of at Danku)... but that doesn't really a restaurant menu make. "Let no vegetable go unboiled" is unlikely to bring in the crowds. Nor is "our meat's been slow-cooked for 3 hours to make it marginally less tough." I'll also claim that Dutch "salads" are the worst foods under that name in any cuisine.
Holland's great, but even the Dutch know Dutch food is bland.
Frikandels??Horsemeat!
Bitterballen? Fried soup!
I know people who would regularly take the train to Belgium or France just to eat a good meal.
Americans. You put every single waking effort into targeting & wiping-out specific ethnic groups ..and THEN you try to re-create them (and badly!) years later.
I recommend counseling.
Great Dutch experience, same old prostitutes :(
Why does this have to get kicked off Tuesday, and not Monday when I actually have some time?