Landhuis Daniel, is part of the Dutch colonial heritage and was built around 1700 by Daniel Ellis, an English captain of a Dutch WIC ship. During a considerable part of its existence the headquarter of the West Indian Company was in Middelburg, the city where the current owner spend most of his Dutch period:
“When I took over the plantation house, behind an old cupboard I found a yellowed pencil
drawing of the mill on the Molenwater in Middelburg, the same mill I would see when I looked out of my bedroom window from my house in Middelburg! Was it coincidence or predestination that I arrived at Landhuis Daniel, I think the last. The circle was closed” says Jan Francke(artist name Jakke)who owns Landhuis Daniel since 1997
Since then Landhuis Daniel became a popular restaurant -with some guest rooms- where tourists and locals mingle in a laid back Caribbean ambience, enjoying superb food from the eclectic menu.