Merlet is a hotel and restaurant in

Schoorl Schoorl is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, North Holland, Bergen, and lies about 8 km northwest of Alkmaar. Until 2001, Schoorl was also a municipality of its own. Sch ...

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. It was awarded a

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in 1998, which it has maintained ().

GaultMillau Gault et Millau () is a French restaurant guide. It was founded by two restaurant critics, Henri Gault and Christian Millau in 1965. Points system Gault Millau rates restaurants on a scale of 1 to 20, with 20 being the highest. Restaurants given ...

awarded them 17.5points out of 20.Knoopjelos.nl - Merlet
It was named Dutch restaurant of the year 2012 by restaurant guide Grootspraak. ''Merlet'' is a member of

Alliance Gastronomique Néerlandaise Alliance Gastronomique Néerlandaise (popular: ''Alliance Gastronomique'') is a culinary association of quality restaurants in the Netherlands and Flanders. The partnership was established in 1967 as a response to the spreading taste flattening, ...

Head chef A chef de cuisine (, French for ''head of kitchen'') or head chef is a chef that leads a kitchen and its cooks. A chef patron (feminine form ''chef patronne'') (French for ''boss chef'') or executive chef is a chef that manages multiple kitche ...

Alan Pearson Alan Robert Pearson (23 August 1929 – 2019) was a Neo-expressionism, neo-expressionist painter who lived in New Zealand and, in his later life, Australia. Life and work Pearson was born on 23 August 1929 in Liverpool, England, and moved to ...

was the first Merlet chef to be awarded a Michelin star, which was still in place in 2023 following several changes of chef. In 2001 Pearson was succeeded by Wilco Berends, who in turn was succeeded by Timo Munts in 2007. Munts left in 2013 and was succeeded by former

sous-chef A sous-chef is a chef who is second in command of a kitchen, ranking directly below the head chef in the Kitchen Brigade system developed by Auguste Escoffier. In large kitchens, sous-chefs are typically left in charge of managing members of th ...

Frank van Enter, and by Jonathan Zandbergen in 2015.

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External links

Official website
{{Coord, 52, 41, 59.24, N, 4, 41, 39.88, E, scale:6250_type:landmark_region:NL, display=title Restaurants in the Netherlands