Restaurant in Wageningen, Netherlands
O Mundo is a restaurant housed in Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen , The Netherlands . It is a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star for the period 2010–2013.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Gault & Millau awarded the restaurant 15 out of 20 points.[ 5]
O Mundo' s head chef is Dennis Richter Uitdenbogaardt , with the help of hotel owner-chef Addie Roelofsen .[ 6] Baltasar Tieskens , who joined in 2008 from Cordial , was the first chef to earn a star.[ 7] [ 8] Richter Uitdenbogaardt took over in 2011, when Tieskens left, and retained the star.[ 9]
The hotel where the restaurant is housed was the location where Oberbefehlshaber Niederlande German commander-in-chief Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz surrendered to I Canadian Corps commander Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes on 5 May 1945, ending World War II in the Netherlands. The building is owned by the Wageningen University and Research Centre .[ 10] The hotel was revived in 2002, when Addie Roelofsen took over the hotel (but not the actual building) and renovated the place to modern standards within its historical context.[ 11] In September 2013, Jaap Venendaal took over the hotel.[ 12]
O Mundo means "The World" in Portuguese - the same as the hotel's name in Dutch .
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