TIWYA

Restaurant · Rotterdam, Netherlands

About TIWYA

The kitchen behind TIWYA, a restaurant and club on Kruiskade near Rotterdam Centraal station, traces its recipes to CUCU, a Moluccan restaurant in the nearby town of Zwijndrecht, and brings that family cooking into a two-floor venue built around a large central bar. Original Indonesian wooden doors and restroom sinks carved from marble reported to be around 180 years old and sourced from Indonesia furnish a space that the venue's own description frames as a trendy Balinese beach bar rather than a conventional dining room, and a DJ plays lounge music from one end of the bar most evenings. The business is run jointly by Frank van Hese, Dave Grosjean, and Danny Meijer, and its name is presented as an acronym for "This Is What You Are." The food itself follows a sharing format close to a rijsttafel: a colorful, seasonally changing menu of dishes meant to be ordered in multiples and passed around the table, served with fragrant steamed pandan rice. Confirmed dishes include sateh ayam (chicken satay), daging rendang, sayur lodeh with tofu, and pepesan Bali, a mackerel preparation cooked in a spicy bumbu with lime leaf. Vegetarian and vegan dishes sit on the same menu as daily fish and meat specials, and the bar serves both standard and alcohol-free versions of its cocktails. The venue seats up to 200 people across its two floors and has partnered with a nearby Hilton hotel on a stay-and-dine package, advertised at 179 euros for an overnight room plus a dinner for two. At the time it was first covered by local food media the venue was brand new, and the coverage found gives no indication of an exact opening date beyond that. TIWYA is explicitly built around nightlife as much as dining, with its own promotional material describing it as "a restaurant and club in one" next to Club Thalia and across from the Luxor theatre, a framing that sets it apart from most other Indonesian restaurants in this directory and is noted here for that reason rather than treated as a reason to exclude it.

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Indonesian Restaurant in Netherlands

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Modern Indonesian places in Netherlands

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