For: Our cooking desire
My work: Concept, cooking & communication
Created: April 2006_now
Challenge
Create a restaurant concept based on a tiny kitchen and lots of students living around. Generally speaking, they don’t particularly love cooking and we (my friend Vera and I) just do!
Concept
‘Stiekem raamrestaurant’ translates as ‘secret window restaurant’. Once a week we cook our ass off and serve dinner out of the window of a ground floor student house (or container actually) in Amsterdam West, secretly (as we don't like tax and strict hygene rules). A three course meal full of surprising elements and appreciated experiments, for a good price. We invite everyone through a few flyers, a fast growing mailing list and mainly the word of mouth magic. Soon people stuck around for a chat and drinks with other Stiekem regulars, instead of just picking up their meal. We decided to focus less on the take-away concept, threw all the chairs, couches and glasses out on the sidewalk. Once a week Stiekem took over the pavement as more fans gathered each time.
Stiekem has moved from the tiny container kitchen to a little bit bigger place; my small house & garden. Friends of friends meet friends of friends and fun nights full of unexpected conversations emerge. Stiekem turned out to be ‘stiekem en sporadisch’ (secret and sporadic). It’s nice. Join Stiekem on Facebook for updates.
