The Raffles

Visited The Raffles with colleagues mid week. No problem getting a table and the staff were welcoming, friendly and very efficient. The wait for the food was well worth it — it was excellent. A little pricy maybe, but the quality of the food and friendliness of the staff makes this arguably one of the best Indonesian restaurants in The Hague.

So on a relaxing Saturday night going for some good food.
It had been a while we went here. And actually we should have gone way before today, as the food was great :-)
For example for starters, we took amongst other satays. In the Netherlands, a satay is normally some meat which is drown under peanut sauce. Not at all here, those were simply very nice skewers with a gentle touch of different meats and sauces.
The steam cooked crab and fish cooked in a banana leave was simply excellent.
Then for main some chicken, simple and delicious, and lam, with so many fantastic spices.
So this place offers very refined Indonesian food, without the usual heavy food of other «traditional» Indonesian restaurant in the Netherlands.
For the service, it’s good and efficient, nothing special to say about that one.

Ich liebe indonesische Küche, sie ist einfach sehr abwechslungsreich. Es ist aber nicht so einfach ein richtiges Restaurant zu finden und vor allem ein gutes. Auf dieses hier bin ich durch ein holländisches Bewertungsportal gestoßen und wurde nicht enttäuscht — nettes Ambiente, exzellente Küche, guter Service. Nicht ganz billig aber seinen Preis wert.