Delft: Historic Dutch Food Town ★ 4.5
Delft is 12 minutes from Rotterdam by intercity train with canal-side cafes, local craft beer, and artisan food shops in a UNESCO-quality historic centre and Saturday market.
Schiedam: Jenever Distillery Town is a food day trips in Rotterdam.
Schiedam, 12 minutes from Rotterdam, is the world capital of jenever with five surviving windmill distilleries, a dedicated jenever museum, and tasting rooms in historic buildings.
Address: Lange Haven 74-76, 3111 CH Schiedam, Rotterdam
Delft is 12 minutes from Rotterdam by intercity train with canal-side cafes, local craft beer, and artisan food shops in a UNESCO-quality historic centre and Saturday market.
Dordrecht, the oldest city in Holland, is 20 minutes from Rotterdam and offers smoked Biesbosch eel, canal-side cafes on Wijnstraat, and a Saturday heritage market.
Kinderdijk's 19 UNESCO windmills are 30 minutes from Rotterdam by waterbus, surrounded by the dairy-farming polder landscape that produces Gouda and farm butter for the city.
The Hague is 20 minutes from Rotterdam and has the Netherlands' best Indonesian rijsttafel tradition, with deep restaurant variety rooted in the large Indo-Dutch community.
Gouda is 25 minutes by direct train from Rotterdam Centraal. The Thursday cheese market (Apr-Aug) and T Kaaswinkeltje cheese shop offer the best raw-milk Gouda in South Holland.