Café Restaurant ’t Goude Hooft looks unmistakably medieval, but it isn’t. The present-day building was built in the 1930s. However, its history goes back to 1423 when it first opened its doors and the innkeeper started serving food and beer. Beer is still being served today: Heineken and Vos on tap, but also bottled beers; Duval, La Trappe and Sol. Food has been adapted to 21st century international taste: chicken fillet with pesto sauce and pine nuts. ’t Goude Hooft is famous for its Dutch cuisine favourites: peasoup with smoked sausage, kroketten, uitsmijter, poffertjes, bitterballen, appeltaart. 
Outside facing the street is a terraced area; on a sunny day it is quite difficult to find an empty table. It is a perfect place to do some people watching as ’t Goude Hooft is right in the centre of The Hague.
Inside there are tables mostly for four persons, placed not too closely together so that it doesn’t feel crammed. There is also a reading table with up-to-date newspapers and magazines, some in English.
An old mural shows how Amalia van Solms commisions the decoration of the ‘Oranjezaal’, one of the halls in Palace Huis ten Bosch, Queen Beatrix’s residence in The Hague. Amalia van Solm is one of her forbears.
I was here together with guide cls223, who assured me that her ‘appeltaart’ was the best she had ever had. I had ‘poffertjes’, a kind of tiny yeast pancakes served with butter and icing sugar.