The cook’s studio: two long wooden tables, candlesticks and an open kitchen

Studio on the Nieuwe Meer

Cooks with or for you.

Private dining in a former industrial building at Nieuw & Meer, catering wherever you need it, workshops at the long table. Chef Mikael Besson — Mik — cooks by appointment.

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In the diary

Next in the cantina.

Dinner

Mik & Friends

Guest chef Adriaan van Raab — autumn menu

Saturday, 3 October 2026 · 6.30 PM

Around Mik, chef friends cook along. Each session one guest chef is at the centre and shapes the menu. On 3 October that is Adriaan van Raab of restaurant Le Hollandais.

A five-course autumn menu with amuse: wild boar, girolle, risotto alla Milanese, wild duck and mont blanc. Click the picture for the full menu.

Maximum 28 guests. When it is full, it is full. Please pass on any dietary needs in time.

€ 65 p.p. · drinks extra · deposit € 25

Adriaan, Mik & Lia

This also works as private dining in the studio, or at your place.

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Three ways

The studio, your table, or together at the stove.

Studio

Dinner, walking dinner or a meeting day in De Zeemeermin zonder hoofd. You may bring your own wine.

To the studio

Purple potato bites with cream and caviar

On location

Mik comes to you: home, office or an event, from finger food to a full menu.

Catering

A colourful starter in a white bowl, next to a chef’s knife

Workshops

Cook together in the studio, or a masterclass in your own kitchen for the brigade.

Workshops

Mik le Chef

A chef with a studio, not a restaurant with a menu.

Mikael Besson grew up in Sweden, trained in Lausanne at the Beau-Rivage Palace and later cooked for KLM Business Class. He now works from Amsterdam Nieuw-West — and regularly in Switzerland and France: regional produce, bread from his own kitchen, a room that smells of candlewax in the evening.

The story

From the kitchen

Finger food, courses, desserts — always from his own kitchen.

Wooden serving board with canapés and edible flowers

Petit fours with lemon, chocolate and blueberry

Place

Nieuw & Meer, Oude Haagseweg 75.

The studio sits on an artists’ and business plot by the water, just outside the ring. Free parking, projector and wifi. Open by appointment only — except when Jazz Bites or an open day throws the doors wide.

Plan an evening

Drag to look around inside De Zeemeermin zonder hoofd.

At table

Say what you need. Mik will call back.

+31 6 4861 5058 mik@miklechef.eu

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