Rotterdam’s Market Hall is a covered food market and shopping centre at Dominee Jan Scharpstraat 298, where you can browse stalls and choose from Dutch and international food. The horseshoe-shaped building is worth a look for its vast ceiling mural by Arno Coenen and Iris Roskam, depicting market produce. You’ll find options from Dutch cheese and soused herring to ramen, pide and sweets, so it works well when a group can’t settle on one cuisine. It’s more of a food hall than a traditional produce market, and busy periods can mean limited shared seating.
A market inside a horseshoe
The Market Hall brings food stalls, restaurants and shops together inside a large arched building. Its glass sides look onto the interior, where apartments are built into the structure above the market. From the floor, the high curved ceiling gives the hall a scale that is easy to miss from outside.
The indoor market is part of a larger mix of uses: the building includes homes and shops as well as places to eat and buy food. That makes it a place to browse as well as a practical stop for lunch or dinner.
Look up at the market mural
The ceiling and walls are covered by a large artwork by Arno Coenen and Iris Roskam. Its colourful images draw on the produce sold in markets, including vegetables, fish and other foods. The mural fills the arch above the stalls, so you can take it in while walking through or pause to look across the whole interior.
The artwork is one reason to enter even if you are not hungry. From different parts of the hall, you see the painted ceiling against the stalls below and the homes along the sides.
Choose a stall, then share
Food choices range from Dutch products such as cheese and soused herring to dishes from cuisines around the world. Stalls and eateries serve everything from ramen and fish and chips to pide and sweets. The range suits a group with different tastes: each person can choose a dish, then share a few bites at the table.
Many vendors take orders through kiosks. At busy times, the general seating area can fill up, so check whether the stall you choose has its own tables. The hall can feel more like a food court than a traditional market for local produce; come for the variety of prepared food and the building, not for a dedicated fresh-produce market.
Perguntas frequentes
Where is Rotterdam’s Market Hall?
It is at Dominee Jan Scharpstraat 298, 3011 GZ Rotterdam.
What can you eat at the Market Hall?
Choices include Dutch cheese and soused herring, as well as international dishes such as ramen, pide and fish and chips.
How do you order at the stalls?
Many stalls use ordering kiosks, and credit cards are widely accepted.
When is the Market Hall quieter?
A visit before 11:30 AM is a good choice for avoiding crowds.
