Shared dining in The Hague
Small plates in the middle and everyone tries everything. These are the places in The Hague built for sharing.
Shared dining in The Hague
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Brasserie Runners
€€Revamped, with banquettes in cognac leather and a compact menu for sharing. Coffee through to dinner in Benoordenhout.
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Onda
€€€Weekend DJs play vinyl through a serious hi-fi while the natural wine and Mediterranean plates go round. Named best new restobar in the Netherlands at the end of 2025.
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The Hague Social Club
€€You pour your own from more than a hundred open bottles. A 1913 printing works done up like a 1920s Manhattan hangout.
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Café Franklin
€€Same stable as Walter Benedict and Bowie, but a neighbourhood café with a big beer list. Small plates and a few hearty mains on the Valkenbosplein.
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De Coterie
€€You come in for a glass of wine and stay for the food. Southern European cooking with Dutch produce on the Theresiastraat, listed in the Michelin Guide.
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Dekxels
€€€Book well ahead, as it's often full. Mediterranean and Asian small plates in a green room that feels like a conservatory.
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El Mercat
€€€Build your own spread of jamón and anchovies, or let the team pick. Spanish, on the Hooikade just round the corner from the Denneweg.
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Garoeda
Five floors of Balinese woodcarving with a cocktail bar at the top. The Indonesian restaurant on the Kneuterdijk is back, with everything from street food to rijsttafel.
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Giorgio Rosa
€€Pasta from their own pasta lab, in a room designed by Rein Rambaldo. You can park across the street.
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Glaswerk
A big terrace on the Trekvliet by the Fokkerhaven. Small plates heavy on fish, with wine by the glass.
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Harpoon
Quieter than the Plaats, from the owner of beach pavilion De Staat. Seafood and wine for sharing, and there's an indoor garden.
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Jamey Bennett
The international living room of the Plaats, all Chesterfields and proper G&Ts. The sharing plates come out of a Mibrasa charcoal oven.
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Kantoor 1643
A 17th-century house on the Prinsegracht with French-Japanese sharing plates and a long cocktail list. Vinyl DJs at weekends.
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Marius Wijncafé
€€Any bottle from the wine shop next door can be opened at your table. There's a serious sake list too, and the menu changes monthly.
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Oker
€€Walter Benedict's next-door neighbour. Good cocktails and French-Asian food in small portions for sharing, from brunch until late.
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Pan
€€A striking corner building near the Beatrixkwartier, with a big terrace. In the evening it's à la carte or the chef's sharing menu.
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Restaurant ñ
€€Boquerones and ibérico to start, then small plates of fish or game. A historic building on the Nobelstraat, with tightly packed tables.
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Suzie Q
€€Botanical inside, the second harbour outside. Small plates to share, ranging from Mediterranean to Asian and Latin.
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Tapisco
€€A bar crammed with hams and bottles. Spanish tapas and Portuguese petiscos to share, and a 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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The Old Jazz
Dark wood and low light in an art deco room just off the Frederik Hendriklaan. Sushi and good cocktails for nights that run long.
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Yuzu Dining
€€Small plates off the robata charcoal grill with sake, in a former garage on the Bierkade. Or leave it to the kitchen and go omakase.
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