Kraantje Lek

Kraantje Lek is a pancake restaurant and former inn in Overveen, Netherlands, on the Duinlustweg.

It was strategically located at the base of a dune referred to as the "Blinkert", often used by sports teams in the area for training purposes.

In more recent times the location is a pancake restaurant with a playground favored by families and it features in Nicolas Beets' stories of Haarlem in his Camera Obscura.

Many children played in the Holle boom, or "hollow tree", located outside and memorialized in bronze today.

In 1805 the Amsterdam banker Willem Borski and his wife Johanna Borski bought Kraantje Lek for 65,000 guilders from Jacob Boreel, as part of the Elswout estate, together with the Blinkert and the large area of dunes behind it bordering on the Visserspad known as the "Zwarte veld", which was used as hunting grounds.