The Netherlands, RotterdamJanuary 26, 2015, by Maartje

Man with Glasses Coffee, Rotterdam

The Netherlands, Rotterdam, January 26, 2015, by Maartje

Man with Glasses Coffee, Rotterdam

When you say coffee in Rotterdam, you say Man with Glasses. This coffee supplier provides many catering establishments with the tastiest cups of coffee. Man met Bril Koffie, coffee from a man with glasses, has been a 'thing' in Rotterdam for quite some time. In 2015, smart as the man with the glasses is, opened his first business around the coffee. You will find this coffee bar under the arches a stone's throw from the CS. Good for your cup of coffee and a piece of cake at the long reading table or the bar where you don't look out on the beer tap but the pride of the business, the coffee roaster.

Plans for a second business have been made in recent years. And not just any new coffee bar, but a real coffee hotel. Yes, we have not heard this combination before, but it sounds like music to our ears. It is also the first coffee hotel in the world. Expect here, just like at the other location of Man with Glasses under the Hofbogen, fantastic coffee, an industrial and simplistic interior and a clear but – sincerely – excellent lunch menu. Tip from flip: the Katsu Sando. Try it.

A coffee hotel? What? Yes, we asked ourselves that question too, but coffee plays a major role in this whole concept. Don't think that you're sleeping on a mattress made of coffee beans or that the coffee comes from the shower, but 'just' expect better coffee than expected. In the specialty bar or via coffee room service. The beans are roasted on site. The real coffee addictscan go wild here, because you can get coffee with various infusion and extraction methods. And team I love coffee, but I don't understand anything about it: with every coffee you also get a card with the origin and the taste profile. Now that's great.

And where can you find this hotel? Well, on the Linker Rottekade in Crooswijk. So hop, walk through on Saturday after your round on the Noordermarkt and grab your cup of coffee here.