For the last weekend of May, the Koopgoot is bustling with picturesque terraces, pop-up kitchens and gastronomic delights. This year’s Kookgoot event is part of GastRO, the new city festival in the center of Rotterdam. It promises to be a true shopping and food festival with pop-up kitchens, cooking demos and successful Rotterdam chefs. Friday…
Vlaamsch Broodhuys is a popular bakery franchise that knows how to make bread: high quality ingredients, a passion for food and years of experience ensure that. Dutch-Flemish baker Dimitri Roels, who began to bake tasteful sourdough bread in 1996, started the company, which now has baker shops all over The Netherlands Vlaamsch Broodhuys (Nieuwe Binnenweg)…
Located in a previously abandoned, sub-tropical water recreation park, Aloha focuses on sustainable, local food and the circular economy. Where once the old outdoor pools were, is now an amazing terrace looking out directly over the river. Maasboulevard 100alohabar.nl [Photo by Sophia van de Hoek]
The ex-tropical paradise swimming poool turned hip sustainable restauant and café, Aloha, have teamed up with a UK-based restaurant called Issac At. Aparently their no nonsense, hyper-local and young driven team were a perfect match with Aloha and now these two establishments have joined forces for a ‘chef exchange’. Together they serve a six-course menu.…
The Suicide Club Unplugged #8 Unplugged is more than just a dinner show, You and your loved one(s) are cordially invited to refine your Valentine’s Day with an evening of spoken word, poetry and live music. Start your evening with a shared dining experience and then sit back and relax with some performance art. Dinner…
Rotterdammers love satay – small pieces of marinated meat cooked on a wooden skewer. Chicken satay ajam is a particular favourite! For the tastiest chicken and other satay options, we suggest trying these places… Words: Ellen Scholtens IndonesiaA local newspaper once named this family business as the ‘best satay’. With both a pop-up restaurant at…
Named after American filmmaker Wes Anderson, who you might know from movies such The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Royal Tenenbaums, this ‘eettentje’ has a cinematic 50/60s vibe. It’s a colourful and quirky place, just like the popular films and also mirrored in the menu’s dishes – we love the the couscous salad and flatbread…
Walking past the shop of Cor and Tonia de Graaf, you can catch the mouth-watering smell of roasted nuts. Step inside to discover a rich assortment of national traditionally-made cheeses such as Boerenkaas (farmer’s cheese) from Krimpenerwaard, “Gouda cheese” from The Groene Hart, and cheese from North Holland. Great foreign cheeses and matching wines are…
Fancy a coffee? Check out Rotterdam’s newest coffee bar, Joy Espresso and More, located near the cube houses. Their delicious coffee from the brand Single Estate goes nicely with a slice of homemade apple pie or smoothie. Our favourite breakfast option is the farm yoghurt with seasonal fruit, homemade granola, honey and nuts. It’s the…
Hans Kleinjan, Maikel Kleinjan and Roderik Faasen, otherwise known as the artistic trio AAA, have been working together for 10 years. Recently these three artists have announced their collaboration with the Italian restaurant Mangiare to open a restaurant in their gallery: GaleriAAA by Mangiare. Both the artist trio and the restaurant desire to create something…