Mooncake Maps
Mooncake Maps – the online map with 500+ exceptional places to eat at home and abroad
For curious eaters who are done with copy-paste hospitality – and would rather sit down at a Malaysian neighbourhood restaurant than wait in a TikTok queue.
👉 Join and instantly unlock Mooncake Mapsthe map featuring 500+ carefully selected places to eat, personally visited and tested.
You also automatically join The Tribea community of like-minded serial eaters who look beyond rigid boxes. No ten steps back, no polarisation – just curiosity, connection and progress.
And on top of that, every month you'll receive the most delicious newsletter in existence, plus full access to all articles on Mooncake.nl.
See at a glance where to find the truly exceptional places to eat:
from authentic Venezuelan street food to Syrian patisserie, a Malaysian family restaurant and Surinamese fine dining.
We all only have a limited number of bites in our lives and I, your food pimp, will make sure you spend it as well as possible.
Say goodbye to overpriced avocado toast, dreary poké bowls English concepthoreca that is more about looks than food. With the Mooncake Map you are guaranteed a future filled with culinary bliss.
What you get
No TikTok queues or concept hospitality, but places that stay with you.
Over 500 exceptional places to eat
• Everything tested by myself, everything worth the trouble
• Available in Netherlands, Belgium (i.a. Antwerp), France (Paris), Morocco, Portugal, Greece English Lithuania
• From street food to lunchrooms, eateries and (fine dining) restaurants for an extensive dinner
No fewer than 140 different food cultures to get to know (even) better
Smart search & always up-to-date
• New discoveries every month
• Filter by food culture, veggie/vegan, halal, kosher, (no) alcohol and more
• Photos + concise background stories with must-eats and insider tips everything you need to know at a glance.
BONUS: you automatically join The Tribe+
A community of like-minded serial eaters who look beyond pigeonholes. No ten steps back, no polarisation – just curiosity, connection and progress.
You will also receive:
• Every month, the most delicious newsletter in existence
• Full access to all articles on Mooncake.nl
• Exclusive addresses, insider tips, deep dives, stories & giveaways
And last but not least
You support exceptional – often small – entrepreneurs who make our culinary landscape a little more delicious every day. And you ensure that I can continue to do my work independently.
All this for €4.95 a month
(less than an empanada or matcha latte) 🍵)
The Tribe+: a movement beyond the boxes
Mooncake is about who we want to be together. We live in a multicultural country and in a connected world. And the best way to experience that is at the table.
By joining The Tribe+, you are joining a movement that looks beyond pigeonholes. No ten steps back, no polarisation, but curiosity, connection and progress.
Met The Tribe+ you are not only guaranteed a future full of culinary happiness – you are contributing to a new shared story of connection.
For €4.95 a month
(less than an empanada or matcha latte) ☕)
The Google Maps map that ensures you eat and drink at the most original addresses
Does this sound familiar?
You love food – real food. Not that slick plate of avocado toast everyone takes a photo of, but dishes with a soul and a story. Dishes that feel like coming home, even if you are eating them for the first time.
Yet sometimes your city feels like a carbon copy of itself. Everywhere you look, the same concept coffee shops with concrete floors, industrial light fittings and latte art you could now draw with your eyes closed.
Are you finished with this?
Are you tired of spending hours scrolling through Google Maps or TikTok looking for something authentic – only to end up right back at a place that mostly smells like marketing instead of masala?
Do you miss the thrill of the unknown? The feeling of finding that one (still) secret address? Or a spontaneous chat with the owner proudly talking about her grandmother's recipe?
Do you also get tired of the idea that ‘discovering’ nowadays means queuing up for the same viral hotspot that everyone has already been to?
And how often do you think: Where have the real places gone? Those places where food is cooked with love and dedication, where cultures come together and where food brings people together instead of dividing them?
Imagine…
That you can see where those spots are within one minute – a hidden Turkish restaurant what no-one is talking about yet, a Georgian neighbourhood restaurant where it tastes like in Tbilisi, and a Surinamese address with Creole classics in a vegan jacket.
Not hidden behind hashtags, but simply in one clear Google Maps map.
Knowing precisely where your next culinary adventure lies, without endless scrolling or guessing.
That is what Mooncake's Google Maps map is for.
👋 Hi, I'm Jonneke aka Mooncake
I am a serial eater and food pimp 😎 and on my platform Mooncake.nl I share where you simply must eat before you leave the planet. In the Netherlands, I show just how delectable and versatile our culinary landscape has become, and while travelling, I discover the places that aren't in your guidebook, but which you absolutely cannot miss.
You can wake me up at night for Indonesian food chicken and mushroom noodles, dolmas of all shapes and sizes, Moroccan pastilla and thin, crispy Indian dosa. I write books and articles, make TV segments and videos,
and I give talks and food tours.
Up Mooncake.nl, my socials and with Mooncake Maps I offer an independent platform to exceptional food entrepreneurs.
To bring people together and make them feel at home through food.
My vision:
“Every bite counts, until no-one is that other person anymore.”
💡 What I believe in
At Mooncake, it's not just about food, but also about what food can do: break down walls, puncture bubbles and offer hope in a time when division often seems to prevail.
Mooncake is about who we want to be together. We live in a multicultural country and a connected world. And the best way to experience that is at the table.
When you join The Tribe+, you belong to a movement that looks beyond boxes. No ten steps back, no polarisation, but curiosity, connection and progress.
Every bite is an opportunity to get to know each other better. Moroccan apple tart with dates. Croquettes with rendang. Halal stamppot. Antillean johnny cakes with sauerkraut and sausage.
Dishes that show that a new shared culinary identity has long been in the making. For time and again, when I look through the lens of food, I see how many people do want to move forward together.
Met The Tribe+ you become part of that movement. You are not only guaranteed a future full of culinary happiness – you are contributing to a new shared story of connection.
⚔️ My serial eater community
The Tribe+ is a Mooncake members-only community for serial eaters who are hungry for more: more flavours, more stories, more connection.
Members have access to Mooncake Maps They receive the most delicious newsletter in existence every first Sunday of the month. Furthermore, they have access to all articles on mooncake.nl.
Years ago I ran into the same problem as you. I was always looking for special places to eat. Not the well-known brunch spots or TikTok hypes, but places with a soul and a story. With people behind the stove who cook out of love, not out of trend.
Yet I noticed that the media mainly published about trendy hotspots or upscale restaurants, and very little about the places I liked to go. And when they did, it was often from the perspective of that “exotic other” – who had sometimes already been here for three generations. I found that backwards.
And so one day I started sharing my favourite addresses on Mooncake.nl, my socials and in my books and articles.
Following the publication of my book All You Can Eat – a food guide featuring 450 places to eat and 120 different food cultures across the Netherlands – I was asked more and more often if I could create an online map with all the addresses on it. And that is what I started doing.
That is how it came about Mooncake Mapsa living guide to the most authentic places to eat in the Netherlands (and far beyond), which is continually being expanded. All personally visited, tasted and selected with love.
You also automatically join The Tribe+a community of like-minded serial eaters who look beyond boxes. No ten steps back, no polarisation – but curiosity, connection and progress.
And on top of that, every month you'll receive the most delicious newsletter in existence, plus full access to all articles on Mooncake.nl.
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