The Golden Bull - Haarlem

This was a fantastic spot for steak. Some old friends who live in Haarlem made reservations for us and took us to this fantastic steak house. Great food, great service and fantastic melt in your mouth steak! We enjoyed some good wine, a few good beers and a great time with some old friends. I will definitely be back next time I go to the Netherlands.

If you love your meat, go to this place. Ordered the 300g black angus and it was perfectly cooked and delicious. No real need to order a starter or a dessert: go there for the cuts and the wine.

As an Australian I have searched high and low for a good steak restaurant for the last 6 years that I have been living in the Netherlands. Usually its a mix of poorly trained staff that dont actually know how to cook a steak or the dime a dozen Argentinian Steak that uses tough imported beef along with the poorly trained staff. I went to Haarlem for a weekend away and came across The Golden Bull. The Indian (I didnt think they ate meat) looking spruiker seems like he had no idea about steak so I quizzed him about how he would cook the steak etc. He basically said his steak chef had 12 years experience but if I was still concerned I could watch him cook it and let him know exactly how I liked it. I always figured some of the steak houses I had been to If I had have asked to cook the steak I could have turned out pretty well so I figured this was a good deal. My dad was a butcher and I worked at a butcher for a few years and have learned to cook a mean steak. They set our party up at the chefs table so we could watch the chef prepare the meat. I was looking at the menu when all of my fears were allayed. There was a page dedicated to all the ways of cooking including temperature ranges etc. Its great to look at because they cook the steaks using the French naming system so an Australian medium rare is actually a French medium well. I have never seen this in any NL restaurant, so i figured they new what they were doing. Of the steaks they had I figured the best bang for buck would be the 350gr New Zealand Hereford. It was well priced and I figured if they did a good job I would be back for the 350 or 450g Wagyu which is bred locally. The steak was amazballs. Perfectly cooked, oozing flavour, and easily the best steak I have had outside Australia. I found out the spruiker was actually the owner and the restaurant had only been open 3 months. I was amazed. He runs a tight ship, has a very skilled steak chef and eneded up being a really friendly guy. I started quizing him about the Wagyu and he mentioned one had just been slaughtered.. I did some quick maths allowing for hang time and realised those steaks will be in there prime in about 4 weeks. I booked then and there. I'll be back.

Een van de beste restaurants in Herlem, kleinioos! Fantastische diensten zijn zeer alert en vriendelijk en een fijne stemming in een mooie omgeving, kort van een terrorist!

Goede bediening, correct en nuttige informatie over het vlees qua bereiding mbt rear/ medium/ weldone.