The Hague's best tips from our editors: designer Yvonne Oostrijk

Favourite restaurant:

My 'old time favourite' is Le Café, small eatery on Oude Molstraat, with small but delicious French menu.

Queru

And my latest favourites are Queru on Prinsestraat and its more luxurious brother Ruiseñor on Denneweg. Special flavours of Mexican cuisine like you've never tasted them before.

Guilty pleasure:

Hotel Des Indes

Once a month a weekend away with hotel stay in NL. Also sometimes in our own city. The other night we did a night at Hotel Des Indes. Feels very decadent, especially because we live one kilometre away as the crow flies.

Holiday in your own city (where or from what in The Hague do you get a holiday feeling?)

After work, on a weekday summer day, have dinner on the beach and then linger well past sunset by a homemade fire.

Golden Hague tip:

I'd rather not say, because then it might get too crowded, but the best coffee is now at the Bookstor on Noordeinde. And you are also in the most unusual bookstore in The Hague.

Wow

Special shop:

Wow (Piet Heinstraat and Frederik Hendriklaan). Gift and interior design shop with very fine taste.

Hague nature:

The dunes, of course. In summer, I cycle on Sunday mornings (for 25 years now) with some girlfriends through the dunes to Katwijk or Noordwijk. A cup of coffee there in our favo beach pavilion and then back again.

Which Hague resident would you like to interview again?

Máxima. About the fun and less fun aspects of being queen of the Netherlands. I am so curious to know whether she ever strolls incognito through The Hague with her husband.