Tables in a dim dining room, lit by small lights

A glass of red wine, a candle glowing behind it

Pears poached in red wine on a pewter plate

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.

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

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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.

Ferelith in numbers

28seats in the dining room
10stools at the bar
6courses in the longer menu
10wines by the glass
1booking per table, per evening

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.

The full menu, cocktails and wines by the glass

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.

Tables in long white cloths and bentwood chairs in a dim, wood-panelled room

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 online or by phone, at least a week ahead.

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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

Gallery

An impression of the evening

Candlelight, the plates, the bar by the window. Filter by what you want to see, and open any photo to see it large.

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Guests

After the last course

Demo reviews

We sat down at seven and were the last to leave. Nobody hurried us once, and Tomás poured a different glass with every course without making a speech of it.

Marloes V.Six courses, wine pairing

I walked in on a Thursday without a reservation, took a stool at the bar and had oysters and the croquettes with a negroni. Before I paid, I had booked a table for the following week.

Daniel K.At the bar

As a vegetarian I usually get a plate of side dishes. Here I had the whole menu, course for course, at the same price as the rest of the table.

Sanne B.Vegetarian set menu

We had the private room for my father’s seventieth, twelve of us at one long table. A week before, they went through the wines and two allergies with me, and on the night itself nothing needed explaining.

Joost H.Private room, 12 guests

I brought my parents, who only speak Spanish. Tomás talked them through every course in Spanish, and my father, who never orders dessert, finished his pear first.

Lucía M.Four courses

Written for this demo site, not by real guests.

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.

Ferelith

Rapenburg, Leiden

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

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Reservations

Request a table online or by e-mail at any time, or call us Tuesday to Saturday from 14:00; 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.

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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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