De Hooge Heerlijkheid

De Hooge Heerlijkheid is a restaurant in Middelharnis, Netherlands. It was a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star in the periods 1975-1992 and 1995-1996.

Owner and then head chef John Kern was one of the founders of Les Patrons Cuisiniers.

John and Wieke Kern founded the restaurant in 1969. They developed the restaurant from a pancake-restaurant to a Michelin starred restaurant. Later his son Mark Kern took over the restaurant. In 2011, Mark Kern handed over the kitchen of De Hooge Heerlijkheid to Maurice Montero Lowes and started a fish shop and wholesale under the name "Poisson & Cuisine". The restaurant is now only open to groups.