Café Het College

Not my favourite place to have a drink in Utrecht, but what I like is that it’s not a super busy place. Even when it’s completely crammed het College manages to feel intimate rather than crowded. I last came here on a Friday evening while eight months pregnant and it really just felt comfortable to be out and have a drink here which I’m sure would have been a different story entirely at most other cafés in Utrecht.
Le boyfriend always enjoys it here and they have food, so we’ll definitely have to come back here for dinner.

From the speakers — jazz and revy music (strange cover of «A Night in Tunisia» for exampke, and Sinatra, and be bop…
And in the menu — burgers and salads have names: «Dizzy Gilespie ceazar salad», «Be bop burger» etc.
I was attracted by truffel-​mayonnese in Be Bop burgers, and by the ingredients in Gillespie ceazar salad, so I ordered both.
«I am very hungry» I said to a cool and friendly waiter when I sat down at the table by the window with a view to a little side street, coblestoned as all streets in Utrecht, with bicycles leaned to the colourful walls.
The music, listen here:
I ordered also a La Choufe, and then waiter called me to the counter.
«It’s to big!», said he, and the the chef came out from the kitchen and explained to me, that he thinks I could not eat all that.
«The salad is as big as the burger. Why don’t I make you a smaller version of a salad beside the burger?»
I agreed.
And it was good idea from a considerate chef.
Delicious burger, with cute mushrooms, crispy bacon, with the pickles… And the salad was rich, meat was seasoned and perfectly roasted. The fires was orang-​yellow, as if potatoes was breaded with polenta, but it was the way man should make fries — double fried, I think.
One of the best burgers ever.
And the bill was more than fair — they charged only few euros for small version of salad, so burger with ceazar salad plus beer costed only 17 eur.
This is a cozy meeting place as well, and the food is great, not a tasteless «fusion» cuisine with empty plates. Really delicious classics.