Van Rooi Restaurant — Restaurant in Curaçao

If not for the large sign in front of the restaurant, you would easily drive by this hidden gem. Entering the place you are greated by smiling staff. It's a small restaurant so seating is a bit limited. Tip: make a reservation to avoid dissapointment. The menu looked good. The wait time was a bit longer, maybe due to the full house. I guarrantee you the wait is worth it. The portions are just enough to not overeat and it was quite tasty. We ordered for entree salad mix with shrimp, salmon & king fish. For main dish we had whole red snapper with oyster and tomato sauce, fillet red snapper with tomato sauce and lobster tail with oyster sauce. For sides there was white rice, french fries, fried funchi and baked potato with fish dip. Drinks we usually order a coke, water, apple juice...

Pleasant but extremely expensive for the service, experience, and location. ANG 800 for 4 persons. Tip is added so be mindful not to tip twice. Entre of classical scrimp cocktail with 4 scrimps was nice. Main cause was served cold and the steak was chewy (one of four plates). They have their own version of a mojito cocktail which is sprite, rum, green colour and some mint leaves. Nothing else. They only have a set menu of ANG 125 pp. Staff is new so they come and ask for everything they forgot such as sides.

All in all. A nice place that needs to get their act up. Especially about their menu changes and their own interpretations of...

This is a fantastic off-the-beaten-path fresh seafood restaurant. They actually supply seafood to many local restaurants and have a seafood market next door. They know seafood!

I had the barracuda (pictured) with a seafood trio starter (mussels, shrimp, octopus) and the rest of my party had ceviche, octopus salad and red snapper which was fried as whole fish. We also had plantains, yucca fries and funchi. Everything was delicious down to the fresh made sauces.

The chef and owner is great to talk to, I see great things in the...