Restaurant Coco takes over Het Nieuwe Café
Het Nieuwe Café is the open for all restaurant and bar with a beautiful terrace in Het Nieuwe Instituut. Het Nieuwe Café has a new chef. Manuela Goncalves Tavares (already known for Coco) runs the restaurant now. Together with her team, she serves colourful, mostly plant-based and seasonal dishes. Manuela Goncalves Tavares is well known in […]
BackWerk arrives at Rotterdam Central Station
MSHost International, global market leader in the food and hospitality industry for people on the move, has welcomed the fast-growing foodservice format BackWerk to their portfolio. It will replace the Broodzaak stores at Dutch Railways stations. In the hall of Rotterdam Central Station BackWerk is now open for train passengers. Backwerk is already known in […]
Jim de Jong heads the restaurant of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
When Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen opens on the 6th of November a new restaurant will also appear on the culinary map. On the top floor of the depot well-known Rotterdam chef Jim de Jong will be in charge of the kitchen. Visitors of the depot can enter the restaurant for lunch during the day. In […]
At Hotel âme aesthetics and tranquility gracefully meet
Housed in a monumental building from 1867 Hotel âme offers 14 extremely comfortable rooms, designed with passion and attention to detail. The same goes for the coffee and pastries in the café and the carefully curated interior and lifestyle items in the concept store. Right in the city center at Eendrachtsweg 19, next the cultural […]
Set sail to Heeren aan de Haven
Fortunately, more and more new restaurants, bars and hotels are opening their doors in Rotterdam. But sometimes you want to get out of town. Heeren Horeca Groep offers the perfect oppurtunities as they operate four restaurants just outside the city. After Heeren van Ambacht, Heeren van Slydregt and Heeren aan de Lek in Groot-Ammers they have […]
A lot of new developments on the Lusthofstraat
The Lusthofstraat is one of the best-known and most vibrant shopping streets in Kralingen. Located in the heart of the chic old neighborhood. There are more than 65 shops and eateries like Master’s Tea & Coffee, Alexanderhoeve, Il Capo, and Elle & Moi. Some new companies have opened their doors recently to make the street […]
FD Hotels and other new hotels in town
Slowly but surely tourists are coming back. Mostly Dutch or visitors from surrounding European countries. Before Covid-19 Rotterdam became more popular every year and entrepreneurs in the hospitality took notice. That’s why new hotels were being built and designed. That’s why despite the pandemic new hotels have opened like the Postillion in the WTC and […]
The perfect weekend to get to know Tech Noir and other new spots
After Corona all things slowed down. The economy came to a blistering halt. But fortunately, there are still many entrepreneurs who push through. So to acknowledge their ambitions, preparations and persistence we present new restaurants and cafes like Tech Noir, Smells good in the Hood, Loeve, Café Roosje, Endless Sunday and On Cru which opened […]
kien is obsessed with good sound
Frenchman Florent and Dutch Jorn met at Bang & Olufsen. That’s where the idea of designing their own audio system was born. They imagined the beauty and simplicity of multiple portable speakers that could combine to form any other home system. They found an office in Groot Handelsgebouw and have now opened kien Sound Studio […]
Some delicious news, Groot Handelsgebouw will open a foodhall
Real estate investor Jamestown acquired Rotterdam’s historic Groot Handelsgebouw a couple of years ago. It was its first large format acquisition in Europe. Until now everything more or less stayed the same but now a big change is coming. A foodhall will soon be opened in the former Brasserie Engels and you can be part of […]