Jordy's Bakery Noordplein

Jordy's Bakery Noordplein is one of four Rotterdam shops of a sourdough bakery founded in 2009, which specialises in desem (sourdough) bread made over 48 hours.

Their website says the bread is made from natural ingredients without unnecessary additives and that the dough is given the time it needs, which is where the 48 hours comes from. Alongside the bread the shops sell viennoiserie, pastries, cakes, lunch and coffee, and the bakery also supplies more than 100 cafés and restaurants.

The Noordplein shop is open Monday to Thursday from 8:00 to 16:00 and Friday to Sunday from 8:00 to 18:00. You can also order online and collect in the shop. The other branches are on the Delistraat, the Nieuwe Binnenweg and the Vlietlaan, and a fifth is due to open on the Bergse Dorpsstraat.

Every loaf still starts from one starter, which the founder was given by a teacher while training at the French Culinary Institute in New York and has fed every day since.