We are one company with three brands and one job: connecting curious diners with the restaurants and people shaping a city's food scene.
WijnSpijs started in the Netherlands in 2013. The format has not changed since: six restaurants, six dishes, one afternoon, every dish served with a pairing to match. Guests show up, we handle the rest. Restaurants earn their place on a lineup; they never buy it. That discipline is why the brand has held its position in the Dutch market for over a decade, and why we can make a promise most companies in this category cannot: you will want to recommend at least four restaurants from your event.
Table6 and The RestaurantTour carries the same standards into the UK, Germany, and beyond. Same selection criteria, same format, adapted city by city.
That expansion is where we are now, and it is the interesting part of the work. In the Netherlands we have 13 years of relationships and reputation to draw on. Abroad we are building both from nothing: finding the restaurants worth knowing in a city we do not know yet, convincing chefs and owners that we take their craft as seriously as they do, and proving that the audience we bring actually returns. Everyone here works on a young business with a proven model, which means real responsibility early and few processes to hide behind.
You work in our HQ office in Haarlem or remote. The team is small, international, and works across the Dutch, British, and German markets.
Three values decide how we work. Love it, and own it: you care about the outcome and you carry it to the end. Be curious, ask why: we would rather have the awkward question asked early than a bad assumption found late. Keep the main thing the main thing: we are deliberate about where attention goes.
We are opinionated about food, restaurants, and what makes an afternoon worth having. If that sounds like a place you want to work, we are probably worth a conversation.
Our mission: to connect curious diners with the people shaping a city's food scene, until one million people per year have found something worth coming back to.
Most people eat at the same places. Not because they do not want better, but because they do not know where better is. Routines harden, convenience wins over curiosity, and the restaurants doing the most interesting work go unnoticed by the people who would love them most.
Our founder Wouter knew both sides of that table. As a restaurant owner, he watched discount platforms slowly hollow out the value of good work. As a diner, he knew the fear of spending money somewhere new and being disappointed. WijnSpijs was his answer in 2013: six restaurants, six dishes, one afternoon. Guests found new favourites, restaurants found regulars, and the loop closed.
The mission is a number on purpose. One million people a year is not something another 13 years in the Netherlands gets you. It takes new cities, new markets, and a team that can hold the standard while the company grows. Our vision is to become the most trusted name in restaurant discovery across Europe: the name people turn to when they want to find the restaurants worth knowing in any city we serve.
For the people who join us, the mission is concrete work. Find the restaurants worth knowing in a city where nobody has heard of us yet. Convince the people who run them. Give guests a reason to come back, and then do it again in the next city.