Hand-folded since 2024 — Rotterdam

Taste the
journey.

A Dutch twist on Puerto Rican flavors — folded by hand, fried to order, served wherever the city is hungry today.

BROOKLYN EMPANADAS · ROTTERDAM · EST. 2024 · HAND FOLDED · FOLDED · FRIED · FRESH
Fresh
Batch
Daily
Est. 2024
Rotterdam
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◉ Next Stop
Oogstmarkt
Sat · 14:00 — 19:00
◇ Where to find us ◇

Catch us
next at…

We move with the city. Markets, festivals, popups — every week a new postcode, every weekend a new line out the door.

STOP 01SAT
14
Coming Saturday
Oogstmarkt Rotterdam
Noordplein, Rotterdam Noord
3035 EA
14:00 — 19:00
STOP 02SUN
22
Sunday after
Rotterdamse Oogst
Hofbogen — Heer Bokelweg
3032 AD Rotterdam
12:00 — 18:00
STOP 03FRI
28
Late June
Foodhallen Pop-up
Wilhelminapier, Rotterdam Zuid
3072 AP
17:00 — 22:00
STOP 04SAT
05
Next month
Swan Market Rotterdam
Het Park, Rotterdam Centrum
3016 AA
11:00 — 18:00
◇ The crossing ◇

From a Brooklyn block
to a Rotterdam square.

The recipe started on Knickerbocker Avenue — a grandmother's hand-folded picadillo empanadas, sold from a fold-up table outside a Bushwick bodega. Three thousand miles and two decades later, that same fold lands on Dutch market stones.

We carry the brown-paper bag, the smell of frying dough through summer air, the impatient queue. We just swapped the F train for a tram down Mathenesserplein.

Every empanada is folded by hand. The crimp is the signature — eleven pinches along the rim, no machine, no shortcut. Like our grandmothers did. Like we'll keep doing.

Diner enjoying a hand-folded meal at a market table
Folded
by Hand
Since 2024
◇ The craft ◇

Hand-folded.
Every edge.

No factory dough. No frozen shells. Just flour, water, oil — and a thumb that learned the crimp on Knickerbocker Avenue.

Golden hand-folded pastry showing crimped edge
Fresh dough rounds resting before folding
Latin American food bowls served family-style
Layered hand-made pastry close-up
Hand-held street food close-up
Hand-folded street food with lime and herbs
Crusty hand-cut savory pastry on wooden board
01

Mix the masa

Flour from a Brabant mill, sea salt, ice water. Rested overnight so the gluten relaxes the way it should.

02

Fill with story

Picadillo of beef and sofrito. Pollo guisado with sazón. Vegetariana with black beans and queso fresco.

03

Fold the half-moon

Eleven crimps along the seam. Every one a fingerprint. No two are exactly the same.

04

Fry to order

Into 180°C sunflower oil, three and a half minutes. Out onto brown paper. Into your hand, still hot.

◇ Book us ◇

Weddings.
Block parties.
Office lunches.

We bring the whole operation — folding station, fryer, brown-paper bags, the works — to your door. Anywhere within an hour of Rotterdam Centraal, any day of the week.

Minimum 40 empanadas. Maximum… we've done 800 for a Hofbogen launch, no problem.

  • Weddings
  • Birthdays
  • Corporate lunch
  • Festival booth
  • Private dinners
  • Block parties
Plated savory pastry with side at a private event