https://inebriatedpig.com Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:05:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 https://inebriatedpig.com/in-den-rustwat-rotterdam/ https://inebriatedpig.com/in-den-rustwat-rotterdam/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2016 14:17:47 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=958 April 8, 2015, dinner at In Den Rustwat in Rotterdam. Do I even remember much about this dinner? Of course not, it was ages ago. But I have badly lit pictures and I even took notes, so let’s give it a shot. Subscribed readers may have noticed that the inebriated pig became the silent pig […]]]> https://inebriatedpig.com/in-den-rustwat-rotterdam/feed/ 0 https://inebriatedpig.com/lebanese-flower-abu-dhabi/ https://inebriatedpig.com/lebanese-flower-abu-dhabi/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2015 07:24:08 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=917 We spent Easter break with friends in Abu Dhabi, and our first night was spent in a tent in the Lewa desert. The desert itself was a surreal experience, beautiful endless sand dunes, and no one around for miles. All we saw were camels, their dung, and of course dung beetles. We left the peace […]]]> https://inebriatedpig.com/lebanese-flower-abu-dhabi/feed/ 0 https://inebriatedpig.com/new-orleans/ https://inebriatedpig.com/new-orleans/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2015 16:25:04 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=898 Two and a half days is all I had in New Orleans, filled with meetings but with gaps in the schedule here and there so I could explore the city and try the food. I managed to fit four spots in, Johnny’s Po-Boys, Mr. B’s Bistro, Cochon Butcher, and Coop’s Place – covering an interesting […]]]> https://inebriatedpig.com/new-orleans/feed/ 0 https://inebriatedpig.com/dertien-and-yama-1-year-celebration-rotterdam/ https://inebriatedpig.com/dertien-and-yama-1-year-celebration-rotterdam/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:22:11 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=697 When I heard that two of my favorite places in town were getting together to organize a birthday party, I made sure to keep an eye out for reservations to become available, and when they did, I hesitated not. So this all played out about a month ago when Dertien and the eponymous Japanese cuisine Yama organized their first birthday […]]]> https://inebriatedpig.com/dertien-and-yama-1-year-celebration-rotterdam/feed/ 1 https://inebriatedpig.com/roccos-pizza-scheveningen/ https://inebriatedpig.com/roccos-pizza-scheveningen/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:50:22 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=767 We were looking for a pizza place in the Hague or Scheveningen when Google suggested Rocco’s Pizza. Their website is seemingly permanently under construction, so no info there, but the reviews on Iens and TripAdvisor were so positive we had to give it a try. Rocco’s Pizza is a low-profile, casual, and unpretentious Italian restaurant. It seems […]]]> https://inebriatedpig.com/roccos-pizza-scheveningen/feed/ 0 https://inebriatedpig.com/de-wulf-dranouter-belgium/ https://inebriatedpig.com/de-wulf-dranouter-belgium/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2015 23:01:10 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=629 I feel a bit nervous writing this post. Can I capture in words how amazing this dinner was? Will I do it justice? Words will never compare to actually experiencing it, smelling the wood fire which permeates your clothing, breaking the freshly baked bread and inhaling the beautiful sourdough scent before lathering it with homemade […]]]> https://inebriatedpig.com/de-wulf-dranouter-belgium/feed/ 0 https://inebriatedpig.com/restaurant-de-jong-rotterdam/ https://inebriatedpig.com/restaurant-de-jong-rotterdam/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:38:04 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=609 Restaurant De Jong, where the chef works exclusively with seasonal vegetables and even picks the ingredients by hand from nature. We had heard very positive things about this place before, and were even encouraged by a complete stranger to try it out. When we had dinner at Kuiter, we stood outside ready to leave and […]]]> https://inebriatedpig.com/restaurant-de-jong-rotterdam/feed/ 0 https://inebriatedpig.com/grand-garden-rotterdam/ https://inebriatedpig.com/grand-garden-rotterdam/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:44:39 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=591 I started a new job three weeks ago. After a 10 week sabbatical, yes let’s call it that, working full time and having to commute for an hour each morning and again in the afternoon/evening has been quite the adjustment. The result has been not writing blog posts, passing out from exhaustion in the evenings, and […]]]> https://inebriatedpig.com/grand-garden-rotterdam/feed/ 0 https://inebriatedpig.com/tai-wu-rotterdam/ https://inebriatedpig.com/tai-wu-rotterdam/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2015 15:27:29 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=493 My friend and I were looking for a quick dinner on a Monday night, and decided on Tai Wu – a Cantonese dim sum restaurant in downtown Rotterdam. M had lived in Rotterdam for many years and to my surprise, had never been to Tai Wu. It’s a shame we weren’t with more people as there […]]]> https://inebriatedpig.com/tai-wu-rotterdam/feed/ 0 https://inebriatedpig.com/umami-han-rotterdam/ https://inebriatedpig.com/umami-han-rotterdam/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:19:52 +0000 http://inebriatedpig.com/?p=478 Umami by Han is a chain of restaurants in several cities in the Netherlands, and is part of the Han Group which has a Michelin star restaurant, HanTing, in the Hague. It is a trendy social dining restaurant that does Asian-French fusion. The concept works this way: everyone gets to order about 6 dishes on […]]]> https://inebriatedpig.com/umami-han-rotterdam/feed/ 1