Klaproos
Pizza, good wine and dancing on a half-built Buiksloterham corner.
A pizza joint bolted to a corner of Buiksloterham where the streets are still half construction site, Klaproos does one evening arc extremely well: antipasti and a blistered pizza early, low-intervention wine as the light goes, then DJs and dancing between the tables until deep into Friday and Saturday night. It started as a pop-up, never bothered to become anything more polished, and is better for it, expect paper napkins, pasta for the pizza-averse, and a crowd that walks or cycles in from the new-build lofts nearby. The kitchen closes around ten; the room does not, running to 3:00 on weekends. It's the rare place that functions as dinner, bar and club without being bad at any of them. Cheap, loud and fun: bring a group, order too many pizzas, stay well past your bedtime.
Split a couple of antipasti first, then go classic with the margherita before the dough runs out.
What to order
Full menu- Sottobosco pizza€20.50
Mushroom, white truffle and parmesan, the wood-oven pizza reviewers rate for its crisp crust.
- Lucifera pizza
N'duja and spicy salami; the heat order before the DJs start.
- Ravioli Fritti€9
Fried spinach-ricotta ravioli, the snack that goes with natural wine.
- Rigatoni al ragù di guancia€19
Pork-cheek ragù with taggiasca olives; the pasta to anchor a long night.
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