After weeks of silence, there is plenty of excitement on the Brink in Assen in two bankrupt catering establishments. Not caused by guests, but by hard workers. Hard work is being done behind the walls to breathe new life into both catering establishments, under a fresh name.
At the end of March the curtain fell for Brasserie De Kroon and restaurant De Bakker and De Schenker due to financial problems. But two new Asser Catering Companies are in the starting blocks to open, one as the Brasserie De Drie Esschen, and the neighbor under the name Restaurant Brink.
Before you can reach the table as a guest, and actually get something tasty on your plate, a lot still has to be done. A little more than with the other. Especially the brasserie of the Asser Horecapaar Nicole Landsbergen (56) and Harry Bust (61) is still heavy under construction. D’r is not even a kitchen yet. It will only be placed on Wednesday.
But even then they are not out of the fire. They are also urgently looking for a good cook. And in the hospitality industry they are certainly not the only one. “So if you know anyone else?” It sounds worrying from the mouth of Landsbergen. In a few corridors it is also a lot of care. Because before you know it, you stand with your feet in freshly poured concrete.
In the meantime, Harry Bust puts the flowers outside with a rijke grin, in trays on all the terrace tables that are already beautifully displayed in the morning sun on the Brink. “So it seems a bit more right? And beautiful purple, that gives things some color,” he laughs warmly. Bartender Harry is a well -known head in the Asser Horeca world. For more than twenty -five years he has been behind the Tap, the majority of Café De Koppelpaarden. That he is now going to run his own shop was a bit of a swallow for his employer.
Together with his love Nicole Landsbergen (56), who also has the necessary experience in the hospitality industry – “I grew up under the tap” – he will roll up his sleeves this morning. There is plenty to do. Chairs and tables are all still piled up, safe under plastic, because the nasty dark blue color had to be repeatedly painted over.
“Quite a challenge, it was certainly. But we are now running well on schedule,” says Landsbergen. They would first be open on Sunday 1 June, but they no longer save that, and so the planning has been adjusted. “D’r was so much overdue maintenance. Furthermore, the kitchen was missing, a new one could only be delivered this week. And all walls give a new color, that took us much more time, it will be somewhere after Pentecost, so well before the TT.”
They are looking forward to their new adventure together, which actually comes out a dream. Namely being own boss in an accessible eatery, with nice steak, schnitzel, spareribs and saté on the menu. “This chance now came by, and in a very beautiful place, with a nice terrace in the sun.” For their new name, Brasserie De Drie Esschen, they went into the distant past. “Once there were three large e -trees on this location, and that used to be the name Van Assen, Esschen, and with our brasserie we restore that old name.”
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