Fun tips from our editors: journalist Casper Postmaa

Favourite restaurant

"I ate out a lot in my life, for the newspapers where I worked, but also privately. As a child, my parents also often took me out. As a result, I belong to the small group that can still remember establishments like Châlet Suisse on Noordeinde and chicken restaurant Wienerwald - Europe's first large restaurant chain - on Hoogstraat. Of the latter, I particularly remember its design, which was very modern for the 1950s. Today, I no longer have any real favourites, but The Raffles on Javastraat and Little V on Rabbijn Maarsenplein I can recommend to anyone."

Little V at Rabbijn Maarsen Square

The Raffles in Javastraat.

Tastiest cake

"Jarreau's cakes in Van Hoytemastraat are expensive, but each one very tasty. They are not a purveyor to the royal household, but sometimes a member of the Royal House is standing next to you."

Jarreau in Van Hoytemastraat.

Guilty pleasure

"Difficult. Once upon a time, in this Calvinist country, any sensual pleasure was a guilty pleasure, but that is fast disappearing. A holiday in a petrol-guzzling Citroën DS (one in six in the city, if you do your best) is a contemporary guilty pleasure, I think, but my daughter disagrees. 'At most a guilty pleasure for decent people,' she judges. So be it, I'm not going to change it. I don't have that Citroën DS anymore, by the way, but who knows."

A holiday in a petrol-guzzling Citroën DS (one in six in the city, if you try your best) is a contemporary guilty pleasure.

Where in The Hague do you get a holiday feeling?

"A trite answer, but there's no better one: if you walk up to a beach entrance in a quiet spot in the dunes with white dune sand planted on both sides with pale green marram grass and above it the slightly sanded blue of the sky; you can't see the sea yet, but you hear and smell the waves. To complete the idyllic picture, preferably also some children, with buckets and shovels, at the hand of their mother. Uncomplicated beauty, nowhere as beautiful as The Hague!"

Golden tip

"Irrawaddy Royal Thai Cuisine on Spui 202. A tiny Thai takeaway run by a couple of Thai ladies. I found it a discovery. The food and those ladies are fantastic. While you are waiting, they tell their life stories and in the meantime you get a taste of the dishes you ordered. At least, that's how it was the first time I was there. It is a place where you can see that The Hague is an international city. It could also be New York."

Irrawaddy Royal Thai Cuisine at Spui 202.

Special shop

"Old specialised shops like 'Italy' in Piet Heinstraat and 'Artifac' on Noordwal are nice, but so are the shops that cater to Hague communities from abroad. For instance, I ended up at 'Hágai Magyar Bolt' on Valkenboslaan via a lodger: a few square metres of Budapest in The Hague. I have especially fond memories of the soft Hungarian pinot noir. Then for little money."

Which Hague resident would you still like to interview?

"As a journalist, I am more into reportage, because then you combine different journalistic forms; interviews, descriptions and thoughts come together in one story. In a big interview, you are often trying to elicit statements from people anyway. I find that uncomfortable, I prefer to be a spectator. But going forward, Anton Corbijn - who prefers not to be interviewed - is of course very interesting."

Anton Corbijn