ROTTERDAM, 1 June 2026 – Rotterdam now has its own edition of Local Taste, a glossy city magazine that turns the city’s food scene into a self-guided tasting route. The Rotterdam edition includes ten Taste-Coins, which can be exchanged for tastings at participating restaurants, bars, lunch spots and brunch places.
Local Taste 010 is not a classic food tour with a fixed route. Instead, it gives you a year to explore Rotterdam’s hospitality scene at your own pace.
Rotterdam gets its own edition
Local Taste started in Breda and later expanded to cities including Tilburg, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Utrecht and Eindhoven. From 1 June 2026, Rotterdam has joined that list.
The Rotterdam edition brings together a selection of local restaurants, bars and other food spots in one magazine. Each participating venue is presented with background information, a sense of what kind of place it is and details of the tasting available with a Taste-Coin.
Taste-Coins replace fixed routes
Each Rotterdam edition contains ten Taste-Coins. Every coin can be exchanged for one tasting at one of the participating businesses.
That makes the magazine more flexible than a traditional food tour. You can use one coin during drinks in town, another over lunch, and save the rest for a free Saturday or a wandering afternoon through Rotterdam.
Local Taste 010 launches in Rotterdam. Participating names include 1NUL8, Bar Pepito, Wakame, Mies, Villa Kakelbont, ’t Slaakhuys, TEDS, Nursia and IJssalon Koen.
Restaurants across the city
The first Rotterdam edition features dozens of hospitality businesses spread across the city. Participating names include 1NUL8, Bar Pepito, Wakame, Mies, Villa Kakelbont, ’t Slaakhuys, TEDS, Nursia and IJssalon Koen.
The selection ranges from larger restaurants to smaller places, mixing familiar Rotterdam names with spots you may not have visited yet.
Tastings include pasta and ice cream
The tastings vary by location. With a Taste-Coin, you can try dishes such as pan con tomate at Bar Pepito, a panzerò prosciutto at Panzerò, pasta to share at Nursia or an ice cream tasting at IJssalon Koen.
“In the magazine, you can read what to expect from each place,” says founder Thom van den Bossche. “Not just where you are going, but also who is behind it, what kind of place it is and which tasting you get with your Taste-Coin.”
One year to explore
The Rotterdam Taste-Coins are valid from 1 June 2026 until 1 August 2027. That gives you more than a year to create your own route through the city.
“We deliberately did not want to create a fixed route,” says Thom. “Rotterdam has too many good places to tick off in one evening. The fun is that you pick up the magazine whenever you feel like trying something new.”
Rediscovering familiar streets
Local Taste 010 is aimed at people who enjoy food, but also at anyone who tends to return to the same trusted addresses. Rotterdam’s restaurant scene is large enough that even regular city wanderers can miss what is hiding around the next corner.
“Rotterdam has an enormous richness in hospitality, but many people still keep returning to the same places,” says Thom. “With Local Taste, we want to show how much there still is to discover in this city.”
Local Taste 010 price
The Local Taste experience in Rotterdam is available from 1 June 2026 via https://local-taste.nl/ for €34.95.
The price includes the magazine and ten Taste-Coins. Each coin can be exchanged for a tasting at a participating hospitality business in Rotterdam.
