The restaurant is located in an old Saxonian farmhouse. The oldest parts of this farmhouse date from the end of the 1700s.
Around 1986-1987, there was already a restaurant De Groene Lantaarn located in the building, run by a person named mr. J.J. Vierstra. In 2000, it showed up as restaurant In de Groene Lantaarn with mr. Jan Jager as the owner. In May 2009, Jager sold the restaurant to Jarno Eggen and Cindy Donker. They both had worked at two-starred restaurant De Lindenhof in Giethoorn, Eggens as chef, Donker as maitre.
