Indonesian, out of the centre
Bogor
Van swietenstraat 2 070 346 1628. know by the in-crowd as traditionally the best place in town. simple but excellent food, has been around for over 40 years and has not changed since.
Tampat Senang
Laan van meerdervoort 6. very colonial-style restaurant with waiters in traditional costumes. beautifully decorated with indigenous art. excellent garden for outside dining in summer.
Palembang
Thomsonlaan 17. cosy place with excellent food. lots of pictures on the wall with local celebrities who visited here.
Sarinah
Goudenregenplein 4, 070-360 1585. a local institution, this place gets especially busy in the weekends when service can be a bit slow. has both a restaurant area and a take-away service.
Keraton Damai
Groot hertoginnelaan 57, 070-363 9371. small 'living-room style restaurant' with very personal and attentive service. small but excellent choice of dishes.
Other
Dudok.
Hofweg 1a. dudok lies right opposite the binnenhof and is quite popular with both politicians and the "ordinary" public out shopping.
Irodion
greek in the city centre, next to the media market. actually this is made up of two restaurants; the first one is fast food take out, where you can get the ubiquitous giros and tzatziki, with a generous portion of french fries. the second part is actually more fancier eat-in restaurant. highly recommended.
Bodega de Posthoorn.
A grandcafe is the centre of the hague. located near various tourist attraction: maurtishuis, hofvijver, binnenhof, historical museum and escher museum. bodega de posthoorn is a unique eating and drinking establishment with typical dutch grandieur. if you visit the hague, you must have had a at least a cup of coffee here, to experience the typical dutch grandieur.
Asian Fusion HanTing restaurant on Prinsestraat 33 offers a fusion of Asian flavours with flair. Price range around 30 Euro for a 5 course gourmet meal. www.hantingcuisine.nl.
Sakura.
In scheveningen. a friendly sushi bar that can accommodate a big crowd.
There are also other small mom and pop restaurants around The Hague, such as take out Suriname, Chinese, or Thai. They are small and normally a tourist wouldn't know much about them. But if you wander around the city and the more residential areas, such as the Zeeheldenkwartier, you'll find them easily. On the main street in the Zeeheldenkwartier Elandstraat 52, past the McDonald's and the Albert Heijn, you'll find a small Suriname restaurant called Warung Kromo there. It is mostly for take-away dishes, but there are a few tables and chairs inside if you want to eat there. The people are friendly and the food is good and cheap. Try the roti and curry dishes, as well as the simple Suriname "broodjes".
Indonesian, city centre
Garoeda
Kneuterdijk 18a. historic place founded 1949 with waiters in traditional costumes, spread out over two floors.
Poentjak
Kneuterdijk 16. next to garoeda. interior is a time-warp to the 1920ies.
Istana
Wagenstraat 71. small restaurant with somewhat minimalist decor. excellent sateh.
Just as Indian restaurants abound in the UK, the Netherlands has an excellent tradition in Indonesian and colonial Dutch-Indies cuisine. After Indonesia became independent from the Netherlands in 1945, the country received a large number of former colonials from Dutch and mixed descent who had been forced to leave the newly independent colony. The Hague received a relatively large number of these people and is still a centre of the Dutch-Indonesian community.