{"id":72595,"date":"2017-07-10T09:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T07:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/?p=72595\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:48","slug":"worst-bistros-in-rotterdam-drank-spijslokaal-lust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/07\/10\/worst-bistros-in-rotterdam-drank-spijslokaal-lust\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst bistros in Rotterdam: Drank- & Spijslokaal Lust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe Albert Heijn is 50 metres down the road; I advise dropping by the supermarket instead. And you don\u2019t go have to there for the atmosphere: it\u2019s great to get your food that quickly, but we could have just as easily left again after 20 minutes. Hardly a success, in other words.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n

The menu of Drank- en Spijslokaal Lust doesn\u2019t bode well. Tapas with a very \u2018Dutch\u2019 twist. But then, which student would turn down \u2018all you can eat\u2019 in a Spanish setting? Which is why we took the bike underpass to the other side of the ring road, to visit an authentic corner of old-school Rotterdam, Kleiweg.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing wrong with the interior, actually. Warm colours and wood panel finishes with a few poppies to spruce things up. The kitchen is decorated with tiles in all colours of the rainbow \u2013 you couldn\u2019t get more Spanish than that. The service is good, we get some snacks on the house and in the kitchen, a young fellow \u2013 just over 18, by the look of him \u2013 is single-handedly manning both the dishes and the cooking range.<\/p>\n\n\t

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Which seems like a good skill to have at first glance. But eventually, it becomes clear he has bitten off more than he can chew. Because the food is rather disappointing. A boring salad, tough tenderloin steak and bland fried chunks that try to pass off as chicken. The most experimental dish on the menu \u2013 pear with Roquefort and walnut \u2013 is a train wreck. The calamari remind us of the rubber bands that our postman used to have dangling from his handlebars, and the fried aubergine could be confused with deep-fried banana pucks.<\/p>\n

Is it all doom and gloom? Thankfully, no: the fries and the croquettes are fine. But we won\u2019t be ordering Dutchified tapas again any time soon.<\/p>\n

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