Rotterdam wine tips

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…

Ward de Zeeuw and Bas Fraterman have known each other for years: they worked together at IJsclub Kralingen and then at restaurant Dertien. Ward trained as a wine specialist and worked as a sommelier a…

Puck Kalkman and Nienke van der Neut are two passionate young entrepreneurs who met as colleagues and worked together in hospitality for years. Their shared dream came true with Juni, the first wine a…

An intimate wine shop on the Provenierssingel that is also a fully fledged wine bar. Downstairs is the shop with a carefully curated selection; upstairs an atmospheric tasting room where you can simpl…

A minute's walk from Rotterdam Central, but far removed from the usual station surroundings. L'Ouest specialises in wine flights: three carefully selected wines with matching bites and explanation fro…

In November 2011 Kick Smol opened the first wine bar on the Witte de Withstraat, and it has been one of the most visited wine bars in the city ever since. The building dates from the 1940s and was des…

Jelle Stelpstra had worked as a tax adviser for twelve years when, on holiday in Riga, he discovered a wine tap system and decided on the spot: I want this in Rotterdam. In September 2020 Walsjérôt op…

Almost 130 years old and a Purveyor to the Royal Household since 2019, yet far from stuffy. More than 1,000 wines from all over the world, from European classics to New World gems. In spring 2023 four…

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