With an arty but calming interior of leather walls and primary color accents, Plancius offers a refreshing sense of space after the chaos of the Artis zoo or the cramped exhibits at the Resistance Museum. After breakfast and lunch service, evenings see it emerge as a fashionable restaurant with the tables set more closely together, compounding the conviviality factor. The superb menu is adventurous, mixing and matching everything from Italian panzarotti (a folded-over pizza of sorts) to Indian dal-lentil soup to fish steaks with teriyaki and tahini sauce. Everything is homemade from scratch, right down to the tapenade.