Lina Caruso grew up in a kitchen in Bari, where Sunday sauce started on Saturday night. She arrived in Den Haag in 1998, found a canal that reminded her of nothing — and loved it anyway.
In 2004, she took the ground floor of a 17th-century canal house on Noordeinde and filled it with mismatched chairs, her mother's recipes, and the smell of browning butter. Twenty years on, nothing has changed — that was always the plan.
Every dish begins with what arrived that morning: pasta rolled by hand before noon, broth that has never seen a powder. This is southern Italian cooking, honest and unhurried, in the quiet heart of the Hofstad.