Renowned Chef Ottolenghi to open first restaurant at Amsterdam’s Conservatorium Hotel

Renowned British-Israeli chef and cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi will open his first restaurant in the Netherlands at the Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam-Zuid in early 2026. The new venue, Ottolenghi Amsterdam, will be his second restaurant on the European mainland, Het Parool reports. The menu will focus on "vegetable-forward" dishes and will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Ottolenghi operates eleven locations, including seven restaurants, mostly in the United Kingdom. His most recent restaurant opened earlier this year in Geneva, also within a Mandarin Oriental hotel. The upcoming Amsterdam location will be his twelfth overall.

The restaurant is part of a broader renovation and transformation of the Conservatorium Hotel. Last year, hotel group Mandarin Oriental added the property to its portfolio.

Beginning in January, the hotel will be renamed Mandarin Oriental Conservatorium, and later in 2026, it will reportedly launch the new dining concept for both hotel guests and the public.

Ottolenghi is behind globally bestselling cookbooks including Plenty (2010), Simple (2018), and Comfort (2024), and has sold well over 5 million books worldwide. His culinary style emphasizes vegetables and spices, blending Mediterranean and Middle Eastern flavors.

For Ottolenghi, the new restaurant represents a return to Amsterdam. He lived in the city in 1995 while pursuing a master’s degree in philosophy and comparative literature. “It was a fantastic time—everyone was drinking wine on the sidewalk and cycling through the city. I loved it!” Ottolenghi said in a statement to Het Parool.

After Amsterdam, he moved to London, where he trained at Le Cordon Bleu and later opened his own delicatessens and restaurants.