Restaurant The Black Tie in Assen takes over the bankrupt catering building from the baker and the Schenker on the Brink, a few streets away. That catering company went bankrupt last month. As of 1 June, the owners of The Black Tie want to start a second hospitality adventure in the provincial capital, but under a different name.
“We had been looking for a good place for something else for a few years now, for something new. Then this fantastic location suddenly passed by,” says hostess and co-owner Liz Janssen of The Black Tie.
As a trio, they will take over the catering ground on the Brink. Janssen refers to her partner Benjamin Vandenberg, chef of The Black Tie, and his brother Levi Vandenberg. He recently transferred his restaurant in Orvelte to an employee after a few years.
“The three of us are going on this new adventure, at this beautiful location. With The Black Tie we have been on the Weersloop for seven years now, and that is a restaurant with a high culinary content. We want to put something on the Brink that is just as good, but a little more accessible.”
What exactly is the concept, according to Liz Janssen, it is ‘a bit too early’. “It’s all so fresh. We have to work out that further. In any case, we are going to offer lunch and dinner à la carte. We have an idea, but we all have to crystallize more further. This has now gone so fast.”
They take over the inventory of the bankrupt catering company. Under what name they will soon reopen to the Brink, that is not yet known. How many staff they need, and whether there may be room for the dismissed employees of the bankrupt De Bakker and the donor, that is also unclear. “They can contact us.”
Big plus on the Brink is the large terrace. At The Black Tie on the Weiersloop there is room for thirty guests, but outside there is a small terrace for a few guests. “And not a sun,” says Janssen.
With the building on the Brink, Janssen thinks he could certainly serve around sixty people. “And in good weather there is a lot of place in a beautiful large terrace. An ultimate place to sit and enjoy,” she concludes enthusiastically.
For the adjacent Brasserie De Kroon, which also went bankrupt at the end of March, no definitive takeover candidate is yet known. According to curator Jeroen Sprangers, who handles the bankruptcy of both companies, the landlord of this catering ground is in conversation with several candidates.
De Bakker and De Schenker started in 2016 in Assen by former provincial VVD politician Berthold Ziengs and his partner Renate Vos. In Coronatijd they then also opened branches in Meppel and Roden, and they took over Brasserie De Kroon. Their hospitality adventure is finally over with the bankruptcy in Assen. Meppel was already taken over last year. And in Roden, the case came to an abrupt end last Monday, after the tax authorities emptied the tent.