Guidebook for Rotterdam

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Silvia And Aram
Guidebook for Rotterdam

Essentials

This is a well equipt supermarket, and the closest one to my home
25 locals recommend
AH Mathenesserplein
76 Mathenesserplein
25 locals recommend
This is a well equipt supermarket, and the closest one to my home
Also a good supermarket, a little further from my home than AH, also a little cheaper.
25 locals recommend
Jumbo
77A Hillelaan
25 locals recommend
Also a good supermarket, a little further from my home than AH, also a little cheaper.
Drugstore closest to my home
18 locals recommend
Kruidvat
19-21 Meent
18 locals recommend
Drugstore closest to my home
This is a great fifties place for all your beauty treatments
BSUR Hair
141 Van Speykstraat
This is a great fifties place for all your beauty treatments

Food Scene

Very nice Italian restaurant, specialises in pasta, very friendly staff
20 locals recommend
Spaghettata
151 Nieuwe Binnenweg
20 locals recommend
Very nice Italian restaurant, specialises in pasta, very friendly staff
This is a nice place to have a coffee on the terrace, but they also serve a typical Dutch breakfast, and great french toast called 'wentelteefje'. This restaurant (breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks) has that old Rotterdam feeling to it. If you want to see a typical old Dutch brown bar (bruin cafe) feeling, go here. Very nice staff and even in winter they almost always have a terrace.
40 locals recommend
Grand Café Wester Paviljoen
157 Mathenesserlaan
40 locals recommend
This is a nice place to have a coffee on the terrace, but they also serve a typical Dutch breakfast, and great french toast called 'wentelteefje'. This restaurant (breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks) has that old Rotterdam feeling to it. If you want to see a typical old Dutch brown bar (bruin cafe) feeling, go here. Very nice staff and even in winter they almost always have a terrace.
Best bagels
7 locals recommend
Bagel Bakery
57A Schilderstraat
7 locals recommend
Best bagels
I very much like the atmosphere of this Italian restaurant
29 locals recommend
Restaurant Gusto
40 Schiedamse Vest
29 locals recommend
I very much like the atmosphere of this Italian restaurant
Great building, very nice terrace overlooking the water
39 locals recommend
De Machinist
45 Willem Buytewechstraat
39 locals recommend
Great building, very nice terrace overlooking the water
Great place for lunch, industrial building and good organic menu
33 locals recommend
Hopper Coffee Rotterdam
146 Schiedamse Vest
33 locals recommend
Great place for lunch, industrial building and good organic menu
Nice little place for breakfast and lunch in one of the best shoppingstreets
57 locals recommend
Urban Espresso Bar
263 Nieuwe Binnenweg
57 locals recommend
Nice little place for breakfast and lunch in one of the best shoppingstreets
Nice Italian place
15 locals recommend
La Pizza Noord
1-3 Bentinckplein
15 locals recommend
Nice Italian place
Nice Italian place
34 locals recommend
La Pizza Centrum
21 Scheepstimmermanslaan
34 locals recommend
Nice Italian place
This is a very good Italian restaurant. If you have a little more money to spend, go here
12 locals recommend
restaurant LUX
133B 's-Gravendijkwal
12 locals recommend
This is a very good Italian restaurant. If you have a little more money to spend, go here
Great food market in a great old industrial building. Go to the Markthal for the modern architecture, go here for that old Rotterdam harbour feeling
228 locals recommend
Fenix Food Factory
1025 Nico Koomanskade
228 locals recommend
Great food market in a great old industrial building. Go to the Markthal for the modern architecture, go here for that old Rotterdam harbour feeling
Nice place to have a drink in an old newspaper building
51 locals recommend
Nieuw Rotterdams Café
63 Witte de Withstraat
51 locals recommend
Nice place to have a drink in an old newspaper building
Beautiful building and they are famous for their cakes and pies
46 locals recommend
Dudok
88 Meent
46 locals recommend
Beautiful building and they are famous for their cakes and pies
Nice french brasserie, I like this place a lot for lunch, diner or just a coffee
36 locals recommend
Brasserie Pierre
38A Pannekoekstraat
36 locals recommend
Nice french brasserie, I like this place a lot for lunch, diner or just a coffee
Great coffee place, just won the price for best coffee in the country! It's located in the old police station and run by former juvenile delincents who where given a chance to change their lives, with succes. Great project and a great place.
14 locals recommend
Heilige Boontjes
3 Eendrachtsplein
14 locals recommend
Great coffee place, just won the price for best coffee in the country! It's located in the old police station and run by former juvenile delincents who where given a chance to change their lives, with succes. Great project and a great place.

Everything Else

Nice place to have a coffe or a sandwich, but also a great shop for ham, cheese, wine, chocolate and other delicious things...
20 locals recommend
Vermeyden Delicatessen
335A Nieuwe Binnenweg
20 locals recommend
Nice place to have a coffe or a sandwich, but also a great shop for ham, cheese, wine, chocolate and other delicious things...
Nice park
97 locals recommend
Vroesenpark
181 Stadhoudersweg
97 locals recommend
Nice park
The Rotterdam Zoo is just beautiful and a nice day out
170 locals recommend
Rotterdam Zoo
8 Blijdorplaan
170 locals recommend
The Rotterdam Zoo is just beautiful and a nice day out

Shopping

Great design shop
6 locals recommend
depot Rotterdam
66A Pannekoekstraat
6 locals recommend
Great design shop
One of my favourite shoppingstreets, together with Nieuwe Binnenweg, Pannekoekstraat and Botersloot.
73 locals recommend
Meent
Meent
73 locals recommend
One of my favourite shoppingstreets, together with Nieuwe Binnenweg, Pannekoekstraat and Botersloot.
One of my favourite shoppingstreets, together with Nieuwe Binnenweg, Meent and Pannekoekstraat.
Botersloot
Botersloot
One of my favourite shoppingstreets, together with Nieuwe Binnenweg, Meent and Pannekoekstraat.
One of the oldest Dutch department stores, but very hip and trendy now. Very good products for very good prices
22 locals recommend
HEMA
2 Beursplein
22 locals recommend
One of the oldest Dutch department stores, but very hip and trendy now. Very good products for very good prices
This is the chique department store of Rotterdam, if you have some money to spend, go here!
102 locals recommend
De Bijenkorf Den Haag
32 Wagenstraat
102 locals recommend
This is the chique department store of Rotterdam, if you have some money to spend, go here!
This is the newest trendy shoppingstreet in town. It's about ten minutes walk from my home and takes you right into the heart of the city. I recommend this is the route to take, because the Nieuwe Binnenweg is full of nice places to shop for food, clothes, design, flowers, and have lunch or diner.
40 locals recommend
Nieuwe Binnenweg
Nieuwe Binnenweg
40 locals recommend
This is the newest trendy shoppingstreet in town. It's about ten minutes walk from my home and takes you right into the heart of the city. I recommend this is the route to take, because the Nieuwe Binnenweg is full of nice places to shop for food, clothes, design, flowers, and have lunch or diner.
The best flowershop in town, in one of the best shoppingstreets
NICHE Flowershop
235A Nieuwe Binnenweg
The best flowershop in town, in one of the best shoppingstreets
The below streetlevel shoppingstreet, touristic but nice to watch
85 locals recommend
Koopgoot
Koopgoot
85 locals recommend
The below streetlevel shoppingstreet, touristic but nice to watch
Beautiful Finnish ceramics and glass tableware
Iittala Outlet
354-356 Karel Doormanstraat
Beautiful Finnish ceramics and glass tableware
Great fifties colthes
very Cherry
64A Botersloot
Great fifties colthes

Arts & Culture

Contemporary exhibitions, great building
255 locals recommend
Kunsthal Rotterdam
341 Westzeedijk
255 locals recommend
Contemporary exhibitions, great building
18 locals recommend
Museum Rotterdam
26 Rodezand
18 locals recommend
308 locals recommend
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
18 Museumpark
308 locals recommend
Nice museum, which is also located at a great location. Cross the famous Erasmusbridge, and have lunch at the Hotel New York when you are here.
62 locals recommend
Dutch Photo Museum
1 Statendam
62 locals recommend
Nice museum, which is also located at a great location. Cross the famous Erasmusbridge, and have lunch at the Hotel New York when you are here.

Drinks & Nightlife

Good cocktails
29 locals recommend
Supermercado
91 Schiedamse Vest
29 locals recommend
Good cocktails
Dizzy is the oldest jazz cafe of Rotterdam, they often have live music, check the website. In the summer they have a great garden terrace. You can also have a bite to eat here.
41 locals recommend
Jazzcafé Dizzy
127 's-Gravendijkwal
41 locals recommend
Dizzy is the oldest jazz cafe of Rotterdam, they often have live music, check the website. In the summer they have a great garden terrace. You can also have a bite to eat here.
Go here for live music, also a great location, under the old trainway
99 locals recommend
BIRD (podium, club, restaurant)
24 Raampoortstraat
99 locals recommend
Go here for live music, also a great location, under the old trainway

Sightseeing

Iconic bridge
221 locals recommend
Erasmusbrug
Erasmusbrug
221 locals recommend
Iconic bridge
Iconic building, very touristic but a must see
304 locals recommend
Market Hall
298 Dominee Jan Scharpstraat
304 locals recommend
Iconic building, very touristic but a must see
The hotel where people would spent there last night before taking the boat to emigrate to the USA (Holland-America-Line). Great old building (have the croquettes on bread) and a great view.
245 locals recommend
Hotel New York
1 Koninginnenhoofd
245 locals recommend
The hotel where people would spent there last night before taking the boat to emigrate to the USA (Holland-America-Line). Great old building (have the croquettes on bread) and a great view.
Check out this traditional old fashioned and now very trendy barbershop! Men wait in line outside for hours if neccessary to get a haircut here.
8 locals recommend
Schorem
104 Nieuwe Binnenweg
8 locals recommend
Check out this traditional old fashioned and now very trendy barbershop! Men wait in line outside for hours if neccessary to get a haircut here.
Walk around here a little bit, this is one of the oldest parts of Rotterdam you are going to see. Afterwards, walk along Nieuwe Binneweg into town.
7 locals recommend
Aelbrechtskolk
Aelbrechtskolk
7 locals recommend
Walk around here a little bit, this is one of the oldest parts of Rotterdam you are going to see. Afterwards, walk along Nieuwe Binneweg into town.
A bunch of nice shops and restaurants underneath the old railway
Raampoortstraat
Raampoortstraat
A bunch of nice shops and restaurants underneath the old railway