The restaurant Smikkelen & Smullen is located on the ground floor of the building in Oosterhout. Cooking couple Fahmi and Rania would like to introduce you to the authentic Syrian cuisine of Damascus.
Centrum 1795 works together with the restaurant. With the special ‘exhibition+restaurant’ arrangement you can beneficially combine your exhibition visit with a traditional Syrian meal.
The Syrian food culture
Light dishes with healthy and fresh products. Subtly combined with exotic herbs. This is how the most wonderful scents, most beautiful colours and flavours from the Middle East are created. From Syria to be precise.
Smikkelen & Smullen is a restaurant in Oosterhout and owes its name to the typical Syrian food culture: festively decorated tables with salads and 'mezze', a combination of all kinds of small dishes as is often eaten around the Mediterranean. To serve yourself, share with each other and take what you want.
The cuisine of Damascus
The capital of Syria is Damascus and this is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. The city was on the Silk Road and was part of an important commodity trade.
This location has influenced her cuisine. She is a mixture of various cultures. Influenced by Lebanese, Jordanian, Palestinian and Turkish food cultures. The trade conducted along the Silk Road resulted in the arrival of countless exotic herbs and spices.
This is how an elegant and typical Arabic cuisine has been created with the use of many fresh products and a wealth of flavours. This includes various vegetables, lemon, parsley, lentils, olive oil, lamb and beef, rice, bulgur, nuts and much more...