A thick Dutch split-pea soup with smoked sausage (rookworst), celery, leek, and celeriac. So dense a spoon should stand upright in the bowl unaided. The definitive Dutch winter comfort dish, served at Rotterdam brown cafes from October through March.
Where to eat it: 1 restaurant across 1 city.
A brewery inside the 17th-century Delfshaven harbour where the Pilgrim Fathers set sail in 1620. Most visitors never pass the church, missing Rotterdam's finest.
Why locals love it: Delfshaven is visited but tourists stop at the church; fewer find the brewery round the corner
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