Information city center Rotterdam

Restaurants on walking distance from city center Rotterdam

Area Wilhelmina pier

1. Hotel New York (from where the emigrants to America and Australia left) 
2. Bar Basement (which is in the basement of Hotel New York).
3. N-How hotel (terrace on 8th or 10th floor) 
4. Gauchos aan de Maas (grilled meat)
5. Ketelbinkie 
6. Brasilbinkie (Otto Reuchlinstr.) 

Area Deliplein: 

1. Fenix Food Factory (for drinks with small shops for food with drinks)
2. De Matroos en het Meisje 
3. CEO, baas van het vlees
4. Bleij (nice pizzas, not to big, not to expensive) 

Area Rijnhaven

1. Obba Lounge (Mediterranean restaurant)

Area Veerhaven

1. Zenne (Mediterranean restaurant on river waterfront, almost opposite hotel New York)
2. Captain’s Cabin (old fashioned restaurant, Calandstr.) 

Area Witte de With straat

1. Ter Marsch & Co (best burgers in Holland for 2 years) 
2. Bazar (Mediterranean/ eastern restaurant)
3. De Witte Aap (for drinks) 
4. Proeflokaal Reijngoud (for special beers with bitterballs and simple food like saté, steak)

Area Blaak (area Market hall) 

1. Obba (same as Rijnhaven)
2. Jamie Oliver
3. Tapas bar 21 Pinchos 
4. Restaurant Basq
5. Dudok (famous for its apple pie)
6. Napoli
7. Restaurant Amarone (more expensive)
8. Café Pol
9. Sorbonne(burger, drinks) 
10. Asian Glories (Leeuwstraat) 

Area Oude Haven

1. O’Pazzo (special looking pizza oven and great pizzas, and a nice restaurant and bar)
2. Mexican Restaurant Popocatepet
3. Het Witte Huis (the distinct white building, restaurant and bar) 
4. Restaurant Mooii (restaurant and cocktail bar) 

Area Delfshaven

1. Old jenever factories de Pilgrim (the Founding Fathers left here for America) 
2. Loes
3. De Machinist (restaurant in old school for engine-men, check agenda for live music) 

Area Central Station/Schouwburgplein

1. A Proposito (best Italian restaurant but need reservation) 
2. Grand café brasserie Engels
3. Vapiano (in shopping mall near Manhattan hotel) 
4. Manhattan hotel (looks fancy but has a special menu for concert visitors Doelen concert hall) 

Area China town

1. Amazing Oriental (is a huge Chinese/Oriental supermarket)

Area Stadhuisplein (opposite of city hall)

1. Amigo Mexican/tapas restaurant 
2. Coconut Restaurant Bayruth
3. Daily Wok

Area Scheepvaart museum

1. Intel hotel

Things to do

1. Spido boat trip to see the harbour area from a ship
2. Euromast, situated in 'the park'
3. Blijdorp Zoo
4. Musea Boijmans van Beuningen
5. Nederlands Architectuurinstituut(Architect museum)
6. Kunsthal
7. Natuurhistorisch Museum (Natural history museum)

1. Chabot Museum 
2. Timmerhuis
3. Town hall
4. Wereld Museum (world museum – Eastern art)
5. Nederlands Fotomuseum
6. Maritiem Museum
7. Veerhaven (old sailing ships where people live on)
8. Water taxi (from Veerhaven to Hotel New York or from Maritiem Museum to Hotel New York)
9. Maasvlakte 2 (the harbour for huge container vessels, this area was to make a port expansion (land) for bigger vessels)

Click here for more information. 

Rotterdam-Japan Club 

Ms Naoko Oyanagi 
c/o Office of Honorary Consul-General of Japan 
Coolsingel 93
3012 AE Rotterdam 

P.O Box 749 
(PAC: GL 1214) 3000 AS Rotterdam
Tel: 010 402 5655 
Fax: 010 402 3882
E-mail: rotterdamjapanclub@gmail.com

The Rotterdam-Japan Club has as an objective the cultivation of friendly relations between senior Japanese and Dutch businessmen in the Rotterdam area by being open to the mutual cultures, and for the exchange of information. The standard events are Lunch Meetings with guest speakers, held 4 times a year from 12:00 to 14:00 hours, usually at restaurant “De Pappegay” in the Historical Museum Het Schielandshuis. Other activities are a New Year reception and an Annual Excursion.