Restaurant Basaal

Nice and cozy restaurant, with a small regional menu, and sustainable ingredients. The service is very kind, prepared, and not invasive, highly appreciated! The atmosphere is really nice, but the room was very noisy - maybe a table less would have been perfect. The menu is small, but everything is really delicious! I can recommend everything we ordered. Also the wines are pretty genuine.

A fantastic little restaurant. Worthy of all the recognition and praise. Service was warm, genuine and friendly without being overbearing. The food was simple, but elegant. Extremely well done and flavorful. And the wine list was truly wonderful. Cannot recommend Basaal highly enough.

I had a great restaurant experience here! Really good food, service and a cozy atmosphere. It is perhaps the only restaurant where I feel like the concept of smaller sharing plates has actually worked, four plates for two people and some bread, and you left happy and satisfied. All the food was very good but the beef tartare and the mussels were exceptional! The service was kind and attentive and never intrusive. I highly recommend this restaurant.

Very nice service, small regional menu, cozy rooms. Wine recommendations and a nice selection of wines available. Here you will find great value for money. The products are perfectly prepared and meet the regionality of the season. We would love to come back, Basaal is a great addition to the culinary scene in The Hague!

Excellent food, every dish we tried was delicious and special in some way. We loved it so much that we came back the second evening. The main highlights were potato bread, mushrooms, and chocolate ganache. Exquisite wine list as well! Will come back!

Basaal offers a sustainably sourced, well curated menu with great attention to detail. It's a new discovery for us, we stopped by for a small dinner for 2 so we could only try their smaller dishes but we were surprised by how delicious every plate was and how each component in the dish complements one another. We ordered the pork and duck terrine, mussels with miso and cider, veal tongue and the ricotta dumplings. The mussels were by far our favorite, the broth was incredibly savory and so balanced that you could drink it on its own. They have a good wine menu as well, with decent selections per glass. The staff is knowledgeable about both the dishes and the wines. We were satisfied with the service, they were helpful and kind. The atmosphere inside the restaurant is very modern yet cozy, and the window seats have a nice view of the street. We will definitely be back to try the rest of the menu!

This is one of my favorite restaurants in The Hague, if not my favorite. All the dishes are balanced and the portions are not too stingy. The staff is also great at recommending good wine pairings and the ambiance is great year-round. We’ve had a cozy dinner inside, but we’ve also enjoyed sitting in the sun right by the channel. I really like how the chef doesn’t try to be fussy by adding too many elements or ingredients to the plate. Everything is restrained. In my opinion the thing that makes this place really unique is that the chef pays attention to texture when composing dishes. Every dish has contrasting textures (crunchy, smooth, etc.) and elements that elevate the eating experience. I was impressed with how this was carried through throughout several courses. There are very few places in The Hague that pay attention to this. Order a-la-carte, go for a set menu, it doesn’t matter! It’s all great.

A nice culinary experience amidst the burgers and fries. It's recommended by Michelin and I guess the restaurant deserves it. Food portions are quite small for the price - it's more like a tasting menu. Staff is knowledgeable and friendly. Overall enjoyed it!

I am struggling between 4 and 5 stars here. Cava and pate openers were excellent. The mussels were phenomenal. Everyone's meal was so good, especially the steak (I had a taste). But my seafood stew wasn't very good. I'm not a cheesecake guy, but theirs was incredible. Atmosphere was a little formal (a little bright / white table cloths). Service was friendly and helpful, especially as they nicely accomodated a very large group.

We had a large group (19) but the staff handled it like we were a small table. The food was some of the best I've had in The Netherlands, and the wine they paired with it worked extremely well. Our waitress was the politest and hardest working lady I've met, and is a credit to the restaurant. This is a fine establishment with food of the highest quality. If you are in The Hague, you should find the time to dine here, you will not be disappointed.

Well prepared, creative, innovative dishes from excellent ingredients. Great selection of wines by the glass. Professional waitress/sommelier.

My friend who works in the Hague, a.k.a. Den Haag, took me here during my first trip to den Haag in March. The food is great and the service is equally exceptional. The menu is seasonal and when I went there, headcheese of beef cheeks was on the menu (yum!). I had pork chops for entree and shared a few desserts amongst my friends - the chocolate soufflé and a tartin of berries were really good. The staffs are attentive and very knowledgeable on the wine pairing for our dinner. Overall, the meal was one of the best I had during my visit to one of Netherlands' more underrated cities. :)

Very, very good. In Den Haag, it's hard to justify anything other than Indonesian or herring, but this place does it. Some say it's Dutch food, I think it's more broadly continental European. I had the most tender, wonderful fish with potatoes dauphie. Others had a stew. The wine (recommended by the chef) was great. It's a small place, but we did not feel cramped. The chef participated in the service and was a truly gracious host, This was really a very solid restaurant, and I would go back in a heartbeat.

Two friends and visited Den Haag on a weekend break. Hunting for a good quality & reasonably priced dinner we settled on Basaal. Great choice. The food was fresh, delicious, nicely prepared & presented. I had the chicken livers appetizer & lamb. One friend had the fish, the other a beef dish. All were well pleased. Staff is. Erg friendly and attentive. I'd return.

Great food, definitely worth the slightly high price. From what the waiter explained, I got the idea they cared about the ingredients, and you can definitely taste that. The interior is nicely decorated with a retro touch (apart from the bathroom upstairs which is painted in a horribly brown colour). The waiter was very attentive and served the dishes at the exact right moment. He was slightly too pretentious though, for example by pronouncing all the exotic ingredients in a slightly too fast and unarticulated way. I didn't dare to ask him to speak slower. All in all, good food, worth the price, even if the service is slightly snobbish.