Naar de inhoud

About us

One cooks, one organises

Two people who know the trade from the inside. Nout cooks, Floris runs everything around it — which is exactly why nothing falls between the cracks.

Nout de Lange and Floris Harms, the two behind The Travelling Chef
Portrait of Nout de Lange, chef at The Travelling Chef

Nout de Lange

Chef

Everything that reaches the table

It started with cooking for family and friends, alongside his European Studies degree in Amsterdam. Word spread across Amsterdam and the Randstad.

At some point a growing catering business and a demanding job at UNICEF stopped fitting together. Nout chose cooking on location.

The travelling stayed. Flavours he runs into on every continent come back with him and end up in his dishes. That is where the name comes from — and the globe in the logo.

The menu, the kitchen and everything on your plate: that is Nout.

Portrait of Floris Harms, event manager at The Travelling Chef

Floris Harms

Event manager

Everything around it

Floris has worked in hospitality and events since he was thirteen. He cooked for starred restaurants and starred caterers, ran his own events agency, and later worked as a partner to established event bureaus on large-scale productions.

Where Nout runs the kitchen, Floris runs the event: the planning, the staff, the logistics, the technical side and the hosting. A party for hundreds of guests is a production in the end, and it has to work as well as the food does.

Floris is also the one you will speak to. From the first question through to the running order, contact goes through him.

Track record

Three restaurants later

Alongside the catering, Nout and Floris built places of their own in Amsterdam. Two of them they have since moved on from; one is still running.

  • Former2016

    Visbar Beet

    Dapperstraat, Amsterdam East

    Their first place of their own, opened together. This is where the team that now works on location grew up.

  • Former2020

    de Gastronout

    Amsterdam East

    Their second restaurant in Amsterdam East.

  • Current

    Bar Baarsch

    Amsterdam West

    Bar restaurant, co-owned, with Floris as the driving force.

Chef plating dozens of identical starters along a long prep table

The team

People who know how each other works

Around them, Nout and Floris have gathered a team of chefs and service staff who came up through their own restaurants. It shows: people who know each other do not need words on a busy night.

They hold the same personal approach just as high. Which is exactly why, for a large event, we do not simply hire whoever happens to be free that week.

What we believe

Good food, strong service and events where everything fits

We do not believe in off-the-shelf packages. Every event is different and deserves its own approach — its own menu, its own team, its own atmosphere.

And we look at it through your eyes. It is your event; we keep thinking with you until we have found what you were after.

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