Old Dutch Restaurant

[toolpush]

What is happening with the Old Dutch Restaurant at the end of Soi Cowboy? I walked by the other day and it has been gutted. Are the owners planning on renovating and re-opening the restaurant or is it gone for good?

[camble]

It was bought by Crazy House next door and they are opening a new GoGo Bar.

[toolpush]

That sucks. I have been an occasional customer over the years since the late 80s. Always enjoyed the food and ambience. It was a Bangkok "landmark"

[FritsSikkink]

19 minutes ago, toolpush said:

 It was a Bangkok "landmark"

Jeez, get real.

[StreetCowboy]

I'm with Toolpush - it was a welcome respite from the chaos elsewhere in the street, and a chance for a quiet pint in the fresh air, some predictable food and a bit of quiet contemplation at the start of an evening.

[FritsSikkink]

30 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

I'm with Toolpush - it was a welcome respite from the chaos elsewhere in the street, and a chance for a quiet pint in the fresh air, some predictable food and a bit of quiet contemplation at the start of an evening.

Might well be, but doesn't make it a landmark in the city.

[Nyezhov]

Thermae is a landmark

[blackcab]

Gutted is the right word. It's been taken back to the shell.

 

 

Don't forget Scruffy Murphys (new name for the Queen Vic) just across the road. I accept there is no view from Scruffys, but you can get some respite there.

[Jimbo]

What a shame about the Old Dutch. Always went for a bite to eat when in town


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[NickJ]

Loved capping a night off with a sandwich from the takeout window. The meatballs were good .....

[neeray]

23 hours ago, toolpush said:

That sucks. I have been an occasional customer over the years since the late 80s. Always enjoyed the food and ambience. It was a Bangkok "landmark"

There'll be lots of food at the Go-Go Bar ............. meat only !

As for the ambience ........... up to you.

[camble]

They had some nice photos of old Amsterdam and it was good for people watching outside but the food wasn’t anything special, went downhill when the old Dutch guy sold it several years ago.  But i’m looking forward to checking out the new place.

[Jimbo]

I think the Dutch guy sold it more than a few years ago. It was the only place with Dutch snacks in Bangkok for a long time


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[bangkoken]

ANOTHER GO GO BAR?  PROGRESS????

[StreetCowboy]

55 minutes ago, bangkoken said:

ANOTHER GO GO BAR?  PROGRESS????

Shoosh! Some of us are still suffering from Hogmanay.

 

Crazy House seemed like one of the better go-go bars, but it was always too crowded for me.  I was surprised it was allowed to open on the main Soi, though.

 

[dvg]

20 hours ago, Jimbo said:

I think the Dutch guy sold it more than a few years ago. It was the only place with Dutch snacks in Bangkok for a long time


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The owner told me that he did not get a new rentalcontract and the only thing he could do was take out his belongings and go.

*Link to commercial website edited out*

 

[Guderian]

I haven't been to Soi Cowboy in years, but back in the day when I was a regular there I often ate in the Dutch restaurant. The only place in Thailand I've ever had a decent loempia speciaal. Sad to hear that it's gone for good.

[PerkinsCuthbert]

Excellent time to sell, in my opinion; go-go bars as a concept for the consumer probably peaked fifteen years ago or more, now they are overpriced, have poor service, rather tubby girls with bad attitudes, and crap music played over and over again by tin-eared Thai DJs. But as long as tourism flourishes there will be people rubbernecking down soi Cowboy and stopping for a beer, so the real estate is valuable; the owner of the Old Dutch will have got top Baht on his sale of the property. 

[Bangkok Barry]

On 12/31/2018 at 9:38 AM, StreetCowboy said:

I'm with Toolpush - it was a welcome respite from the chaos elsewhere in the street, and a chance for a quiet pint in the fresh air, some predictable food and a bit of quiet contemplation at the start of an evening.

 

Then try the pub a few metres away on Soi 23. It has all you enjoyed at The Old Dutch. More or less.

[dapperdan]

Filthy place with crappy food 

[Thingamabob]

Sad to hear this. Good food, good service, good atmosphere. Most definitely a landmark in days gone by. 

[thepanom]

6 hours ago, Jimbo said:

I think the Dutch guy sold it more than a few years ago. It was the only place with Dutch snacks in Bangkok for a long time


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I met the old Dutch ownwer Henk, a few years ago in Chiengrai he had a restaurant there with the same name Old Dutch

[Wake Up]

56 minutes ago, PerkinsCuthbert said:

Excellent time to sell, in my opinion; go-go bars as a concept for the consumer probably peaked fifteen years ago or more, now they are overpriced, have poor service, rather tubby girls with bad attitudes, and crap music played over and over again by tin-eared Thai DJs. But as long as tourism flourishes there will be people rubbernecking down soi Cowboy and stopping for a beer, so the real estate is valuable; the owner of the Old Dutch will have got top Baht on his sale of the property. 

What you say may be true but have you been in Crazy House lately? It is always packed and doing a great business. So are Billboard and Spankys in Nana. Sometimes you just need a beer at a good gogo and to have some entertainment and touching. Some like to gamble, some like to smoke. There are plenty of us still around that like beer and lap sitting with a woman under age 30. etc ....

[p414]

On 12/31/2018 at 3:29 AM, Nyezhov said:

Thermae is a landmark

WAS a landmark..around 1996..ended when they demolished and rebuilt that area.

Used to enter a public toilet on Sukhumwit and walk through to the other end..came out in the real Thermae...

[p414]

1 hour ago, thepanom said:

I met the old Dutch ownwer Henk, a few years ago in Chiengrai he had a restaurant there with the same name Old Dutch

good guy.

 

[p414]

Is The Ship pub still going strong just down from the Dutch?

[Grouse]

Yes, the Dutch was a haunt of mine for many years as was the 5 Star Blues Bar now also history.

[Grouse]

1 minute ago, p414 said:

Is The Ship pub still going strong just down from the Dutch?

No. Turned in to Crazy House.

[Nyezhov]

23 minutes ago, p414 said:

WAS a landmark..around 1996..ended when they demolished and rebuilt that area.

Used to enter a public toilet on Sukhumwit and walk through to the other end..came out in the real Thermae...

Yeah well, they are redoing Big Ben too, its the tradition!

[donim]

So we have to get our Frikandel Speciaal somewhere else...