The establishment was founded in 1932 as Bodega Old Dutch on the Coolsingel 103 and was owned by Toon and Wim Mannes.

On 29 December of the same year the Mannes brothers opened a new bodega and restaurant at the Rochussenstraat 20.

[1] It is the last remaining building of the temporary shopping centre which was built in the neighbourhood after World War II to replace shops which were destroyed during the 1940 bombardment[5] and initially was meant to be a temporary building but was later kept as a permanent housing for the restaurant.

[7] The regular customers were mainly businessmen and wealthy ladies and gentlemen of middle age.

[1] The restaurant also won a joint third prize of the Salon Culinaire at the Horecaf exhibition in Amsterdam in 1950.