The Restaurant at Hotel Arena

"Designer setting and modern cuisine in the restaurant"

"The Continental cafe-restaurant To Dine looks a little like an upgraded cafeteria, but has a great alfresco terrace in the garden and an attached bar, To Drink"

"The cool and pretty upscale Euro-fusion restaurant, called ToDine (geddit?), the cartoonish café-bar ToDrink, and the ToNight club (a mini-Limelight in the old chapel) are popular and therefore noisy, so if you're not joining in with the fun, get a room in the back"

"With more facelifts than a Hollywood star, this building, bordering Oosterpark, has morphed from chapel to orphanage to backpackers hostel to, now, a modern, four-star, 116-room hotel with a trendy restaurant, cafe and nightclub"

"Elisabeth Orphanage in 1890, the brick building now houses the Hotel Arena, with its trendy restaurant, café, and nightclub"

"The restaurant, bar and nightclub are the stars of this former orphanage in a slightly out-of-the-way residential district, so the Arena is ideal for young trendies intent on socialising in situ"

"Lively bar, intimate restaurant, and late-night club (Fri & Sat) located within the former chapel"

"A holy trinity of hotel, restaurant and nightclub in a former Catholic orphanage, Arena's only downside is that it's a bit out of the way - though trams whizz you in to the centre in ten minutes and it's a nice walk in to town through an utterly untouristy area"

"Increasingly it’s bordered by a host of buzzy young bars and restaurants; check out the raucous Bar Bukowski and the cozy Pata Negra 2 (an outpost of a city-center tapas favorite)"

"This grand complex in a former 19th-century orphanage consists of a hotel, restaurant, and dance club (complete with frescoed walls that reflect its former function as a clandestine church)"