Culinary Cinema

In more and more unusual places, we can eat increasingly well in our country. At petrol stations and pop festivals, in furniture stores and museums. And now also at the cinema. The next food destination.

Petrol stations, for example, were once breeding grounds for soggy sandwiches and bad coffee. But since Scheiwijk (no. 8 Food Influencers Top 100) and Foodplaza AVIA Lonnekermeer (no. 94), they have become food destinations for which many a motorist is happy to take a detour.

Petrol Station Bakers

Even Shell has been inspired by these developments and now employs hot bakers at its petrol stations who bake bread all day long (rather than merely reheating it).

You can now also find an above-average bite in furniture stores (IKEA, no. 55), museums (RIJKS, no. 3), hospitals (De Gelderse Vallei, Ede) and care complexes (Hogeweyk dementia village, Weesp). The cinema has finally been added to that list.

The typical cinema snack popcorn is facing competition from Flammkuchen.

There were, of course, already cinemas that either served food themselves or had a deal with nearby restaurants. But the recently opened cinema-cum-wine bar-cum-petit restaurant FC Hyena in Amsterdam-Noord, from the men behind Hotel De Goudfazant restaurant, really is next level.

Urban hangout

And at the beginning of December, fast-casual restaurant Charlie’s will open in the Pathé cinema on Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam. From 10 a.m. onwards, the typical cinema snack popcorn will face competition from coffee, lunch, drinks and dinner, including Flammkuchen. ‘Made with fresh and, wherever possible, local ingredients,’ emphasizes the self-proclaimed urban hangout.
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Charlie’s
Schouwburgplein 101
Rotterdam