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Amsterdam steakhouse boss admits selling horse for 63 years

Friday 15 February 2013

Amsterdam steakhouse Piet de Leeuw has been selling horse fillets as beef for 63 years, owner Loek van Thiel admitted to the Parool on Friday.

On Thursday, Van Thiel had denied the charges, saying the cafe only sold South American beef. The Parool had various pieces of meat tested and concluded the cafe's popular steaks were horse.

Van Thiel came clean on Friday, saying the cafe has sold horse since 1949 when his father, a horsemeat butcher, bought the premises.

Staff at the cafe have a contract which states they are not allowed to say anything about the use of horse. 'I've never considered saying 'horse steak' on the menus,' he said. 'People enjoyed their food, business was good, so why should I?'

Horse tastes great..very good meat...smothered in BBQ sauce ,horse rocks....

USBONGLORD wrote:Horse tastes great..very good meat...smothered in BBQ sauce ,horse rocks....

I love horse, more flavor than steak. But this is gonna freak some people out!

you think thats bad search uk horse meat scandal its all going on right now, horse meat found in microwave meals and other meat products

I've had it at a shop in Belgium. I didn't care for the taste at all, just not my thing. I would have expected Piet de Leeuw to disclose this on the menu. I've never eaten there, but I've had the place bookmarked for a while. I've heard we (USA) ship caught wild horses to sell for the meat. A lot of people over here are upset about that. The other side being those horses, usually from Arizona, Colorado and Utah will end up dying of starvation.

Shock!!!Horror!!!Meat comes from ACTUAL animals

I'm pissed as I was looking for some good Horse meat to eat when I was in the dam. No double meanings there either?

Ive been Piet de Leeuw! It was good that's a really dishonest thing to do though.

My friend Jay Reimerschneider eats horse all the time, gets it from his butcher.

I have had many good meals there & all were good. I have had the fish, the sweetbread , & the steaks. I almost ordered a horse steak in Brussels but didn't like the price. Glad to know I had a good one in Amsterdam. I once had some horsemeat sausage in a bar in Amsterdam & it was good. The person who brought it in did not tell us what it was until we tried it.

Comforting to know that the glue holding the menu together could be the same lineage as the steak on the plate.

This place was too expensive for me, too much for numbered steaks.
Now I'm glad about that.

Marco wrote:

Amsterdam steakhouse boss admits selling horse for 63 years

Friday 15 February 2013

Amsterdam steakhouse Piet de Leeuw has been selling horse fillets as beef for 63 years, owner Loek van Thiel admitted to the Parool on Friday.

On Thursday, Van Thiel had denied the charges, saying the cafe only sold South American beef. The Parool had various pieces of meat tested and concluded the cafe's popular steaks were horse.

Van Thiel came clean on Friday, saying the cafe has sold horse since 1949 when his father, a horsemeat butcher, bought the premises.

Staff at the cafe have a contract which states they are not allowed to say anything about the use of horse. 'I've never considered saying 'horse steak' on the menus,' he said. 'People enjoyed their food, business was good, so why should I?'

Marco is there a list of the steakhouses that are using horsemeat?

peace matty

Bet its not just steak houses, what's the odds on Burger bar and meister using it in there burgers, vom in mouth just at the thought or what

Colina wrote:This place was too expensive for me, too much for numbered steaks.
Now I'm glad about that.

Poet de leeuw does not have numbered steaks . You may be thinking of Brasserie de Poort in Amsterdam next to Magna Plaza which does have numbered steaks and are pricy