{"id":7769,"date":"2019-10-28T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T08:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdammagazine.com\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:19:08","slug":"sushi-chef-kit-serves-the-tastiest-sushi-in-the-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/restaurants\/sushichef-kit-serveert-de-lekkerste-sushi-in-the-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam under the spell of Kit's sushi at The Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kit became nationally known when various media like Het Parool, Vice and NRC reported on a Thai student who ran a sushi restaurant in his cramped student room in Amsterdam's Science Park where the best or most unusual sushi in town was rolled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home restaurant Ephemeral<\/strong><br \/>\nKit began his hobby project to become a better chef. His first customers were friends who brought their own drinks and came to eat 15 euro sushi with him. The story of the young sushi chef and his home restaurant soon reached beyond his friends after which sushi lovers flocked to his 20-square-meter dorm room every Friday and Saturday night for 2 years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7775\" style=\"width: 880px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7775\" class=\"wp-image-7775 size-full\" title=\"sushi-restaurant-the-dylan-amsterdam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sushi-restaurant-the-dylan-amsterdam.jpg\" alt=\"sushi-restaurant-the-dylan-amsterdam\" width=\"870\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sushi-restaurant-the-dylan-amsterdam.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sushi-restaurant-the-dylan-amsterdam-600x393.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sushi-restaurant-the-dylan-amsterdam-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Parool \u00a9Dingena Mol<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Dylan<\/strong><br \/>\nThe chefs at The Dylan were so impressed with the talented chef's sushi that they offered Kit a pop-up restaurant at the hotel. A \"secret\" space behind a mirror in the hotel now serves as a sushi restaurant where Kit serves an intimate sushi menu for 6 guests daily from Thursday to Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booking<\/strong><br \/>\nA 20-course Omakase menu is 145 euros per person. Reservations can be made via Instagram by contacting Kit through his account @kitat384.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kit gained national recognition when various media outlets, including Het Parool, Vice, and NRC, reported on a Thai student who ran a sushi restaurant out of his cramped dorm room at Amsterdam\u2019s Science Park\u2014a place where the city\u2019s best\u2014or at least most unique\u2014sushi was rolled. Ephemeral Kit, a home-based restaurant, began as a hobby project to become a better chef\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/restaurants\/sushichef-kit-serveert-de-lekkerste-sushi-in-the-dylan\/\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"district":[9],"class_list":["post-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restaurants","district-amsterdam-centrum"],"acf":{"slider":[7773],"fotograaf":"","editor":"","video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lsER55ApH_8","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"Amsterdammers smachten naar reservering in pop-up sushichef Kitsanin 'Kit' Thanyakulsajja","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"start_datum":null,"eind_datum":null,"cord_A":"4.884023","cord_B":"52.3692786","introductie_tekst":"In Amsterdam is momenteel een sensatie gaande rondom de 21-jarige student Kitsanin 'Kit' Thanyakulsajja die als sushichef in hotel The Dylan in de 9 Straatjes zijn eigen 'geheime' restaurant runt. Van donderdag tot zondag verzorgt Kit voor een selecte groep van 6 gasten een 20-gangen Omakase menu. Een reservering in het restaurant dat doorgaans vol zit, geldt dan ook als <em>the<\/em> <em>hottest ticket in town<\/em>.","rubriek":"Locatie","locatie_event":null,"naam_locatie":"Kit 384","adres":"Keizersgracht 384","stad":"Amsterdam","website":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kitat384\/","telefoon_nummer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63913,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions\/63913"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}