8 minutes on foot
Dinner before a gig at the Effenaar
Eight minutes from Dommelstraat. Doors at half seven, so the timing works out.
16 minutes on foot
A sixteen-minute walk through the city park, or five minutes by car. Curtain up at eight.
The Parktheater is Eindhoven's city theatre: over three hundred performances a year, from cabaret and musicals to drama, dance and opera, in a hall seating almost a thousand plus a second auditorium beside it.
The theatre sits on the edge of the Stadswandelpark, outside the ring road. From Kerkstraat that is about 1.3 kilometres: a walk of some sixteen minutes, part of it through the park. On a summer evening that is a pleasant warm-up. In November in the rain it is not, and you take a bike or a car.
What does hold: evening performances almost always start at 20:00. Eat with us at half six and you are there in good time — even walking.
The Parktheater also plays matinees and family shows. Then it is still light when you come out, you are on the street around half four, and the walk back into town is exactly right for an early dinner. No need to book; we do not hold tables, we simply have them.
The practical bit
Opening hours
8 minutes on foot
Eight minutes from Dommelstraat. Doors at half seven, so the timing works out.
2 minutes on foot
Dynamo is on Catharinaplein. We are on Kerkstraat, around the corner. It does not get closer than this.
5 minutes on foot
Five minutes to the Heuvel. Concert at 20:15, so sitting down at six works perfectly.