Dining room & bar · Leiden

Long dinners on the Rapenburg.

Name: Ferelith
Address: Rapenburg, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, NL
Price range: €€€

A small dining room and bar on one of Leiden’s canals. A set menu that follows the season, a shorter one at the bar, and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday.

See the menu

Tue–Sat from 17:00, kitchen 18:00–22:00 Rapenburg, Leiden

A table laid for the evening: a small brass lamp lit on a white cloth, crystal tumblers and a fork and knife in a folded napkin

Your table is yours for the night.

We book every table once an evening, so nobody needs it back at nine. The kitchen cooks what the season brings in, the room is lit low, and the courses come at your pace. Or skip the reservation and take a seat at the bar.

A single candle on a table with a long white cloth in a dim, wood-panelled room, bentwood chairs around it

The menus

Two ways to eat with us

In the dining room, the set menu. At the bar, cocktails and a shorter menu, no reservation needed. The full menu, with wines by the glass, is on the menu page.

A cook’s hands spooning sauce over a plated main course at a steel pass, a copper pan beside it

A raw shellfish starter in a wide white bowl, with golden oil and fresh herbs

The set menu

from €62 p.p.

Four courses €62 · six courses €82

Served in the dining room and changed with the season; this season it opens with raw langoustine. Add a wine pairing (€38 or €57) or an alcohol-free one (€28 or €42). Bread and butter included.

A martini with olives on a dark wooden bar, a green velvet curtain behind it

The bar menu

€4–17

Cocktails, wine and small plates · no reservation

Walk in for a cocktail or a glass of wine and something to eat: oysters, croquettes, raw sea bass, cheese. Drinks from 17:00, food from 18:00 to 22:00. Cocktails from €11, wines by the glass from €8.

The full menu, cocktails and wines by the glass

A small round table with a tealight in a red glass and dark bentwood chairs, more candlelit tables blurred behind it

The room

A small room, lit low

Ferelith is one room in a canal house on the Rapenburg: twenty-eight seats at oak tables, candles and a few low lamps, and a bar of ten stools by the window.

Eline runs the kitchen and writes the menu around what comes in that week. Tomás looks after the room and the wine. Between the team we speak Dutch, English and Spanish, so order in whichever you like.

Elinekitchen
Tomásroom and wine

Private room

One long table, behind a curtain

For birthdays, dinners with colleagues, or a family that rarely sits at one table: the private room seats 8 to 14 guests at a single oak table, with a heavy curtain between you and the dining room. Everyone eats the set menu, and we go through the wines and any dietary needs with you beforehand.

Reserve the private room by phone or e-mail, at least a week ahead.

Ask about the private room

One long wooden table set for eight in a dark room with curtains, tall candles and greenery on a linen runner, a pendant lamp above

Visit us

Find us on the Rapenburg

Opening hours

Tue–Sat from 17:00, kitchen 18:00–22:00Leiden time

Day	Bar	Kitchen
Monday	Closed
Tuesday	17:00–23:00	18:00–22:00
Wednesday	17:00–23:00	18:00–22:00
Thursday	17:00–23:00	18:00–22:00
Friday	17:00–00:00	18:00–22:00
Saturday	17:00–00:00	18:00–22:00
Sunday	Closed

Drinks from 17:00. In the dining room, the last table sits down at 21:00.

Reservations

Reserve by phone, Tuesday to Saturday from 14:00, or by e-mail at any time; we reply within a day. Tables seat up to six; for larger groups, see the private room. The bar takes no reservations. If your plans change, please let us know at least 24 hours ahead.

Address

Rapenburg
Leiden, the Netherlands

On the Rapenburg in Leiden’s old centre, between the Groenhazengracht and the Doelensteeg, diagonally across the water from the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. About five minutes on foot from the Pieterskerk and a quarter of an hour from Leiden Centraal. Coming by car? Parkeergarage Lammermarkt is about ten minutes’ walk away.

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