Restaurants in Rotterdam

A focus on natural wine and Champagne from small, carefully selected producers. A changing selection, with small bites alongside. A vintage interior combined with changing art exhibitions. Bar Bocht …

Café Kiem is a restaurant and bar with a selection of natural wines, local and seasonal food and organic produce. A small, intimate place with few seats inside, and also perfect for just a drink. Reco…

The name ("The Sailor and the Girl") refers to the past of Katendrecht, the district that was once the harbour area where sailors came ashore and the girls were there for their entertainment. That's l…

An easy-going place where you can walk in without a reservation for a glass of wine or a plate of comfort food. Taco de Vos is no ordinary restaurateur: he is a registered wine appraiser, won the Star…

On the corner of the Schieweg and the Teilingerstraat, seven minutes' walk from Rotterdam Central and tucked away in the Agniesebuurt, is Klaargemaakt. A restaurant that feels like a living room: lead…

Louise Tieleman opened this restaurant on the Veerhaven in Rotterdam's chic Scheepvaartkwartier, creating a little piece of Paris on the Maas. Big red banquettes, classic paintings, a wooden bar, croc…

Lux has been in Rotterdam for more than 25 years. Since 2013 Milan Gataric has been chef-owner, and his menu and wine list are inspired by the seasons and small-scale producers. Gataric works creative…

Restaurant, wine bar and shop in one, and all three at the highest level. Best sommelier in the Netherlands in 2024, 13.5 points from Gault Millau, and the White Star category on Star Wine List. For w…

On the ground floor of De Rotterdam, on the Wilhelminapier, Ingrid and Henrie van der Heijden opened Restobar Vista in July 2024. It is their second restaurant, alongside Vista in Willemstad, which ha…

On the Goudsesingel in Rotterdam, Roy Lammers, Jord Coree and Birk Heijkants opened Rotonde in December 2021. Chef Jord Coree cooks vegetarian and largely plant-based food over an open wood fire in th…

Since 1989 Fred and Monique Zywiecki have run this restaurant in picturesque Historic Delfshaven, the only part of Rotterdam that survived the wartime bombing. Fred previously worked at top restaurant…

Chef-owner Wim Severein had already won a Michelin star at the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam. When that restaurant had to close, he opened The Millèn in July 2018 in the iconic Millennium Tower next to Ro…

In a former jazz cellar beneath the Entrepot building on the Handelsplein, chef Michael van der Kroft descends into his own world. Tres is raw, pure, vintage and warm, and small: just 16 seats at a da…

Owner David van Steenderen is sommelier, wine importer and entrepreneur all at once, a rare combination that puts Vineum in a class of its own in Rotterdam. The name comes from the Latin for "vineyard…

From pouring your own in Blijdorp to natural wine on Katendrecht: the wine bars, wine shops and wine restaurants of Rotterdam, by neighbourhood.