I’ve been a bit cultural lately. Having not been to the theatre for years, I went twice in the past week. The first show was a musical in Utrecht, and the second was Tanguera – a tango show – at the Carré. The story, as my thespian companion succinctly put it, was like a cross between Romeo & Juliet and Chicago. I’m not very good with plots (especially when there’s no dialogue, which there wasn’t) so I generally had no idea what was going on. If you love tango, though, it doesn’t matter.
Anyway, back to food. Before we made it to the Carré, we met for dinner a couple of blocks further down the Amstel at Ysbreeker. The last time I was there, I was a student, it was summer, and we were sitting outside having brunch – I had the feeling it was a regular grand café inside. Maybe it’s poshed-up a bit since then, but I loved the interior of Ysbreker on the cold, dark, rainy night that we we went this time. Huge stained-glass windows painted in a sort of art-deco nautical theme (maybe?!) adorned the top part of one wall, and the bar was a spacious affair like something you’d find on a Parisian boulevard.
