Rob Geus joins the row over Nicolette van Dam’s brasserie. In Nieuwe Revu he gives her advice on how to work more hygienically. “You have to cover everything well.”
Nicolette van Dam’s brasserie has been heavily criticized in a podcast by two editors of the TV program Media Inside. According to the ladies in question, the dishes were quite disappointing and the fries sauce was downright nasty. “The top layer of that sauce was like darker than the sauce itself,” says one. The other: “Gadverdamme!”
“It was so dirty!”
It was just gross, TV editor Tamar Bot said in the podcast. “Yes, I liked that so much. It was also on a Saturday, it was very very busy. I thought: they just put 50 containers of that sauce there in the morning and not in the fridge. Maybe also with a dirty foil over it that it has stuck to a bit.”
“And then I sit and eat that and I didn’t like the color difference at all. I thought it was very dirty and didn’t need those fries anymore. That was actually a shame, because we didn’t have enough.”
Rob Geus responds
Rob Geus warns Nicolette in the New Revue that she must act hygienically. “It happens regularly that punnets of sauce are prepared in advance. But you have to cover it well, otherwise you will get a layer on top that has dried out a bit.”
A dried out layer on top of the fries sauce doesn’t look very fresh, says Rob. “Then you quickly get a color difference and that is of course not very tasty, such a tricolor mayonnaise.”
Fresh ingredients
What does Rob think about the accusation that Nicolette would work with salmon cubes from the supermarket? “That would disappoint me greatly. If you promote that people can eat at a fairly high level, then you have to work with fresh ingredients, that seems clear to me.”
Rob is a big proponent of healthy food and Nicolette and her husband Bas Smit certainly do have some problems with that, he says. “I learned a few things about the vegetable sweets she brought to the market. They don’t seem to be as healthy as she pretends.”
Inappropriate
Finally, Rob lashes out at De Mediameiden, the podcast that Nicolette’s brasserie threw in front of the bus. “I think it’s strange that you don’t immediately submit the complaint to the entrepreneur; it’s not really nice to go on about this in a podcast.”
According to the ladies in question, Bas Smit, Nicolette’s husband, has responded sportingly to their criticism.