Restaurant Vermeer

Restaurant Vermeer is a restaurant located in the NH Barbizon Palace hotel at the Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is a fine dining restaurant that received its first Michelin star in 1993. It later lost and regained its star, then scored two stars in 2003.

Vermeer
Restaurant information
Owner(s)	NH Hoteles
Head chef	Christopher Naylor
Rating	Michelin Guide
Street address	Prins Hendrikkade 59-72
City	Amsterdam
Country	Netherlands
Website	http://restaurantvermeer.nl/en/

The restaurant occupies (parts of) four of the nineteen 17th-century houses and fifteenth-century chapel that make up the NH Barbizon Palace hotel.^[1]

Head chefs

Over the years Restaurant Vermeer had several Head chefs:

• Gert-Jan Hageman, 1993^[2]
• Ron Schouwenburg, 1994–1997^[3]
• Edwin Kats, 1997–2000^[4][5]
• Pascal Jalhaij, 2001–2004^[6][7]
• Christopher Naylor, 2004 – 2024^[8]
• Sebastian Baquero Garces, 2024 to present^[9]

Star history

1993–2000: one star^[10][11]
2001: no stars^[12]
2002: one star^[12]
2003–2004: two stars^[12]
2005–2007: one star^[12][13]
2008–2010: no stars^[13]
2011–2012: one star^[14][15]

Because Michelin awards its stars to the head chef, a restaurant normally loses its stars when a head chef leaves.^{[citation needed]}