The covered market beside the Cube Houses: an easy noisy lunch rather than a destination dinner.
The hall curves in a horseshoe and the stalls beneath it are uneven, which is the honest description — some are very good and some are trading on the footfall alone. Treat it as the lunch between the cubes next door and whatever follows, arrive before the middle of the day rather than at the peak of it, and step outside on a Tuesday or a Saturday when the open-air market takes over the square in front. Walking in costs nothing.
Highlights
- Free to walk through
- Beside Blaak station
- Outdoor market on Tuesdays and Saturdays
Insider tips
- →Sunday is shorter at both ends of the day, so it is the worst date to arrive late.
- →Lunch, not dinner: the noise peaks when the hall is fullest.
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
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