Parkheuvel is a

restaurant A restaurant is an establishment that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and Delivery (commerce), food delivery services. Restaurants ...

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. It is a fine dining restaurant that has been awarded one or more

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s from 1990 to present. At its top it had three Michelin stars.

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awarded the restaurant 18.0 points (out of 20 points). The restaurant is located at Heuvellaan 21 in Rotterdam, in a semicircular modern pavilion with a view over the

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and Rotterdam Harbour. The pavilion is decorated in

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style. Parkheuvel was in 2002 the first restaurant in the Netherlands to be awarded three Michelin stars. The kitchen staff was at that time led by

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Cees Helder Cees Helder (born 1948 in , North Holland) is a Dutch chef, former restaurant owner of Parkheuvel in Rotterdam. He was the first chief cook in the Netherlands to acquire three Michelin stars. Helder obtained his first Michelin star when he was c ...

. In 2006

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, formerly of two-starred restaurant

De Zwethheul ''De Zwethheul'' is a defunct restaurant located in Zweth, Netherlands. It was a Types of restaurant#Fine dining, fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star in the period 1990-2004 and two Michelin stars in the period 2005–2014. De ...

, took over but lost two stars in the process. In 2009 he had proved that he was worthy to be awarded a second star.

Star history

1990-1994: one star
1995-2001: two stars
2002-2006: three stars
2007-2008: one star
2009–present: two starsTotaaloverzicht Michelinsterren 2012
Last visited 29 November 2011

References

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