The delicious details
Broei sits along Utrecht's Vaartsche Rijn, where co-owners Stijn Knaapen and Danny Simon run a fully plant-based kitchen that foregrounds vegetables rather than substitutes. Chef Niels designs a rotating menu every eight weeks around seasonal produce from local growers, including De Groentenakker in Odijk and flour from Commandeursmolen in Limburg.
The atmosphere blends a living room feel with serious cooking: multi-course dinners feature dishes like pickled watermelon with salted plum sorbet or roasted cauliflower with miso pickles and fried lotus root. Mornings bring homemade sourdough, cinnamon rolls and coffee from Utrecht roaster KEEN Coffee.
Almost everything is made in house, from bread and preserves to kombucha. Broei holds the Lekker Vega Gold quality mark and a Gault&Millau score of 12/20.

Vegetarian options
Fully plant-based









