Grand Café van Piet Hein Eek — Restaurant in Eindhoven

Visited the newly opened ‘grand cafe’ for lunch today and I so wanted it to be fabulous. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. The new cafe is much smaller and has lost its wow factor, which is not balanced out by the new decor. The waitress was very smiley but not great at being a waitress. She did however tell us she was new, so hopefully that was a blip. The food was nice, but it feels like it’s gone up a lot (but not the drinks?) and was not worth the price in my opinion. Apparently the focus is on local produce which is great, but there still has to be a price/quality balance. We were both regular visitors to the old restaurant (and the Lobby Restaurant too) and big fans. I really hope that time improves the Grand Cafe and we can be regular visitors again. A couple of ‘tips’ for the kitchen: the platter should come with a bit more bread the side salads...

Ate there three times so far and on each occasion the food was really good. For dinner always choose their chef's menu - very tasty! Also try their mocktail tbat is done with non-alcoholic gin. Nice and quiet place a bit outside of city centre. Free parking and plenty places to park. It's very spacious inside so you don't feel squashed by other tables and people being too close to you. Addiotnally you can easily talk to your table companions as it's not crowded there, unlike some places in the centre of Eindhoven. Will certainly go back during the Dutch Design Week!

I would love to add some photos of the food but it was delicious that I've forgotten to do so,...

We visited Grand Cafe during DDW. Unfortunately the food was very poor. We ordered 2 different sandwiches. Think they forgot hummus, as it was very dry. The quiche was ok but not warm. The tomato soup was good but very small - the bread was dry. We were also sorry to see that the cafe was so small now but we understand that things change and the previous cafe was too big. The lady at the cafe, who took our order, was very confused and seemed like she wanted to run away. All in all, very disappointing. We love Piet Hein Eek and we will for sure come back. But maybe eat somewhere else next time. (Staff in the shop was very helpful when we wanted to...