Supermarkt Mittal on the Paul Krugerlaan carries more than 1,700 products and over 300 spices, and has been doing it for more than 32 years.
That is the shape of food retail in this city: not a handful of tourist delicatessens but working shops in working streets, most of them a long way from the Grote Marktstraat, several of them older than the people shopping in them.
Two warnings before the list.
Food shops close and the internet does not notice, so several of the names in older guides are gone.
And the Haagse Markt on the Herman Costerstraat, four days a week, will out-stock most of the shops below for fresh produce and spices, which is why so many of them cluster within a few hundred metres of it.
Chinatown and the Asian shops
Wah Nam Hong is the serious one.
Its city shop is at Gedempte Burgwal 8, round the corner from the Wagenstraat, and it runs a separate cash and carry out at the Forepark, Vlist 23.
Do not plan a trip on published hours: the company’s own branches page carries a standing note that its opening times are currently adjusted, so telephone first on 085 043 67 62.
Amazing Oriental has three Hague branches and is the easier option for most people.
The Spuimarkt shop is in the basement of the Grote Marktstraat at number 113, open Monday to Wednesday and Friday to Saturday 09.00 to 19.00, Thursday to 20.00 and Sunday 11.00 to 18.00.
The Kerkplein branch at number 6 runs the same pattern from 10.00.
There is a third in Ypenburg.
What Amazing Oriental is for, in its own words, is “honderden smaken aan ready-to-eat noedels” and frozen dim sum.
The chain claims more than 10,000 Asian A-brands and over 200 varieties of instant noodle across its shops.
Wah Nam Hong is where you go for fresh produce, live fish and a proper butchery counter; Amazing Oriental is where you go for the store cupboard.
Chinatown itself is the Wagenstraat and Gedempte Burgwal, under two Chinese gates, and it holds the Asian supermarkets, the restaurants and a scattering of shops selling porcelain, silk and furniture.
It is a three-minute walk from the Passage, which most visitors never make.
See Centrum and the shopping streets and what each is for.
Asian supermarkets in The Hague are concentrated in these few streets and in Ypenburg, and that is genuinely the whole picture for the large ones.
The Paul Krugerlaan and the Transvaalkwartier
The city’s own description of the Paul Krugerlaan is the honest one: a shopping street in the heart of the Transvaalkwartier, close to the Haagse Markt, where “shopping is surprisingly multicultural” and the trade runs to Islamic butchers, mini-marts and bakeries.
Supermarkt Mittal at Paul Krugerlaan 50 is Indian, Surinamese and Asian in one shop: basmati and jasmine rice, pulses, sauces, snacks, cookware and cosmetics alongside the 300-odd spices.
Its own site gives Monday 12.00 to 18.00, Tuesday to Saturday 09.00 to 19.00 and Sunday 09.00 to 18.00, though the shop’s own social posts give different hours, so treat those as indicative.
Orders over 75 euro ship free nationally, next day if placed before noon.
Tanger Markt at Hoefkade 301 to 307 is the North African and Middle Eastern answer, and it sits directly on one of the Haagse Markt’s main entrances.
It describes itself as an international supermarket carrying goods from more than 100 countries with a 100 per cent halal butchery, and it has branches in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Its opening hours are not published on its own site.
Cheese, charcuterie and fish
Kroon Kaashandel at Van Hoytemastraat 31 in Benoordenhout has been trading since 1946 and is the best cheese counter in the city.
Noord-Hollandse kaas from Lutjewinkel and Stolwijkse boerenkaas at several ages, plus Belgian, French, Italian, Spanish and Swiss cheeses, and a charcuterie counter running to Prosciutto di Parma, Jamon Serrano and Bundnerfleisch.
It imports directly from France.
Open Monday to Friday 08.00 to 18.00 and Saturday 07.30 to 17.00, closed Sunday.
That half-past-seven Saturday opening is unusual and useful.
Kalkman Kaas at Frederik Hendriklaan 149 in the Statenkwartier does cheese, nuts, wine and delicatessen, and roasts its nuts in-house daily in peanut oil.
It does not publish its opening hours anywhere, which on the Fred means roughly shop hours.
Delicatessens and gourmet grocers in The Hague are concentrated on the Fred, the Van Hoytemastraat and the Reinkenstraat rather than in the centre.
Simonis is the fish, and it is much larger than the herring cart people picture.
Six fixed sites, all running the same hours, shop 07.00 to 19.00 and restaurant 10.00 to 20.00: Visafslagweg 20 and 99 and Dr. Lelykade 5 to 15 and 43 in the harbour, Strandweg 77 to 79 on the boulevard, and Gedempte Gracht 405H in the city centre, two minutes from Wah Nam Hong.
It also runs three market stalls, which is the part nobody mentions: the Leyweg market every Tuesday 09.00 to 17.00, Delft market every Thursday, and the Ypenburg market on the Paradeplein in Nootdorp every Friday, all 09.00 to 17.00.
One correction worth having: Simonis op de Hoek no longer exists.
Beach House Scheveningen stands on the site, and Simonis says a new harbour shop and restaurant is opening shortly.
Guides still sending readers to op de Hoek are out of date.
More on that stretch is in Scheveningen and the coast.
British, Irish and American
Kelly’s Expat Shopping at Zoutmanstraat 22a is the one, and the domain most people are given is wrong.
The live site is kellys-expat-shopping.nl; kellysexpatshop.nl does not resolve at all.
Open Monday to Saturday 10.00 to 18.00 and Sunday 10.00 to 17.00, with bank holidays 10.00 to 17.00 except Christmas and New Year.
The range is British and American with Irish, Scottish, Australian, Canadian, Mexican and South African lines alongside.
The Hague branch is one of six, the others being two in Amsterdam plus Rotterdam, Utrecht and Wassenaar.
Organic
Odin has three Hague shops, all confirmed on the cooperative’s own list: Aert van der Goesstraat 35 to 37 in the Statenkwartier, Bankastraat 16 to 18 in the Archipelbuurt, and Fahrenheitstraat 656.
Odin is a cooperative and members are co-owners, which translates into a lower price at the till rather than a loyalty card.
Ekoplaza has several branches in the city including one on the Grote Marktstraat, but its store pages move and at least one address circulating online now returns a 404 on Ekoplaza’s own site.
Use the store finder on ekoplaza.nl rather than a list from a blog.
The organic farmers’ market on the Lange Voorhout every Wednesday from 10.00 to 18.00 is described in the markets.
Polish and Eastern European
Thin, and the sources are thin with it.
Kropka at Leyweg 1076 is listed by Winkelcentrum Leyweg itself, which is the strongest evidence available.
Malinka on the Rijswijkseweg has a broken security certificate on its own website, which is not proof it has closed but is a reason to telephone before travelling.
Beyond that, the Haagse Markt carries Polish and Balkan produce on individual stalls.
Four things that are not there any more
Kokoro, the Korean and Japanese food market on the St. Jacobstraat, has been closed since the end of 2022 and is still listed by food blogs and recipe sites.
There is no verified dedicated Japanese or Korean grocer in The Hague; the pan-Asian range at Wah Nam Hong or Amazing Oriental is the honest answer.
Toko Ramee is in Amsterdam and Delft, not here.
Dun Yong is Amsterdam only, and the similarly named Yongda in The Hague is an unrelated business.
And Toko Frederik at Frederikstraat 225 is a rijsttafel restaurant rather than a grocery, which catches out people looking for an Indonesian toko.
On kosher: no kosher grocer in The Hague could be confirmed on its own live website in September 2026.
The city had around twenty Jewish grocers before the war and a Mouwes branch on the Gedempte Gracht from 1949 until 1993, which is now Chinatown.
Where to start
If you are new and want one afternoon that covers most of it: the Haagse Markt on a Monday morning, the Paul Krugerlaan on the way out, then the Gedempte Burgwal and Gedempte Gracht for Wah Nam Hong and Simonis.
Everything on that route is within two kilometres.
International food shops in The Hague sit almost entirely in that corridor.
For the ordinary weekly shop, the Dutch chains are compared in Dutch supermarkets compared, and what all of it costs a household is in the cost of living in The Hague.
Supermarkets in The Hague are the baseline; the shops above are where the baseline stops being enough.
Sources
- Supermarkt Mittal (supermarktmittal.nl), read 11 September 2026: Paul Krugerlaan 50, 2571 HL Den Haag; Monday 12.00 to 18.00, Tuesday to Saturday 09.00 to 19.00, Sunday 09.00 to 18.00; serving families for “more than 32 years”; over 1,700 products and more than 300 spices; free shipping on orders over 75 euro with next-day delivery if ordered before 12.00. The shop’s own social posts give different hours, so the website figures are used here
- Wah Nam Hong (wahnamhong.nl/filialen): “WNH Den Haag, Gedempte Burgwal 8, 2512 BT Den Haag”, 085 043 67 62, and “WNH Den Haag Cash & Carry, Forepark, Vlist 23, 2491 CC Den Haag”, 085 043 67 63; the branches page states that opening hours are currently adjusted and asks visitors to check
- Amazing Oriental (amazingoriental.com): Den Haag Spuimarkt, “Grote Marktstraat 113, 2511 BJ Den Haag (Souterrain Spuimarkt)”, Monday to Wednesday 09.00 to 19.00, Thursday 09.00 to 20.00, Friday and Saturday 09.00 to 19.00, Sunday 11.00 to 18.00; Den Haag Kerkplein, “Kerkplein 6, 2513 AZ Den Haag”, Monday to Wednesday 10.00 to 19.00, Thursday to 20.00, Friday and Saturday to 19.00, Sunday 11.00 to 18.00; a third branch in Ypenburg; “honderden smaken aan ready-to-eat noedels en de heerlijke gevarieerde Dim Sum hapjes”; the chain describing itself as the largest Asian supermarket chain in the Netherlands with more than 10,000 Asian A-brands and over 200 instant noodle varieties
- Chinatown Den Haag (chinatowndenhaag.com): “talloze Aziatische toko’s en eethuisjes, Chinese restaurants en supermarkten”, plus shops selling “Chinese zijden kleding, porselein, antiek en meubels”
- Den Haag Marketing, Paul Krugerlaan (denhaag.com/en/paul-krugerlaan): “Paul Krugerlaan is a unique shopping street in the heart of the Transvaalkwartier, close to the Hague Market”; “Shopping on Paul Krugerlaan is surprisingly multicultural”; “Islamic butchers, mini-marts and bakeries”; “evening dresses from the Middle East to festival items from India”
- Tanger Markt (tangermarkt.nl/winkels/ and tangermarkt.nl): “Den Haag Hoefkade: Hoefkade 301-307, 2526 BT Den Haag”, the only Hague branch on the list; “an international supermarket formula with branches in the Netherlands, Belgium and France”; “a broad and varied assortment for daily groceries, with products from more than 100 countries”; “craftsmanship 100% Halal butchery”. Opening hours are not published on the site
- Kroon Kaashandel (kroonkaas.nl): Van Hoytemastraat 31, 2596 EN Den Haag, 070 3249214; Monday to Friday 08.00 to 18.00, Saturday 07.30 to 17.00, closed Sunday; trading since 1946; “Noord Hollandse kaas (Lutjewinkel) en Stolwijkse boerenkaas in diverse leeftijden”; “Ambachtelijke vleeswaren uit Nederland en het buitenland. Zoals bijvoorbeeld Proscuito di Parma, Jamon Serrano, Bundnerfleisch”; the shop imports directly from France
- Kalkman Kaas (kalkmankaas.nl): Frederik Hendriklaan 149, 2582 BZ Den Haag; “De specialist in kaas, noten, wijnen en delicatessen”; nuts roasted daily in 100% peanut oil. No opening hours are published on the site
- Simonis (simonisvis.nl/vestigingen): six sites, all “Restaurant 10:00-20:00, Winkel 7:00-19:00”, at Visafslagweg 20 and 99, Dr. Lelykade 5-15 and 43, Strandweg 77-79 and Gedempte Gracht 405H; market stalls “Markt Leyweg, elke dinsdag 09:00-17:00”, “Markt Delft, elke donderdag 09:00-17:00” and “Markt Ypenburg, Paradeplein, 2632 GJ Nootdorp, elke vrijdag 09:00-17:00”. On the harbour: “Binnenkort geopend: onze nieuwe locatie aan de haven” and “Op de plek van het oude ‘Simonis op de Hoek’ verrijst nu Beach House Scheveningen”
- Kelly’s Expat Shopping (kellys-expat-shopping.nl/en/shops-11361429/the-hague/): “Zoutmanstraat 22a, 2518 GP, Den Haag”, +31625305786; “Monday-Friday 10:00-18:00”, “Saturday 10:00-18:00”, “Sunday 10:00-17:00”, bank holidays 10.00 to 17.00; six shops in total, in Amsterdam De Pijp, Amsterdam Oud West, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague and Wassenaar. The domain kellysexpatshop.nl does not resolve
- Odin (odin.nl/over-odin/winkels/): “Aert van der Goesstraat 35-37, 2582 AJ Den Haag”, “Bankastraat 16-18, 2585 EN Den Haag” and “Fahrenheitstraat 656, 2561 DL Den Haag”; Odin members are co-owners and pay a lower price at the checkout
- Kokoro Korean-Japanese Food Market, St. Jacobstraat 19: reported closed since the end of 2022 by aziatische-ingredienten.nl, while still listed by recipe and food sites
- Toko Ramee (tokoramee.com and tokoramee-delft.nl): Amsterdam and Delft only. Dun Yong: Stormsteeg 9, Amsterdam. Toko Frederik, Frederikstraat 225, 2514 LC Den Haag, is a rijsttafel restaurant and is listed as such on denhaag.com
- Kosher history: joodserfgoeddenhaag.nl on the Mouwes branch opened in 1949 on the Gedempte Gracht and closed in 1993, and on the roughly twenty Jewish grocers in the pre-war Jewish quarter. No currently trading kosher grocer in The Hague could be verified on its own live site in September 2026, so none is named
- Kropka, Leyweg 1076, listed by Winkelcentrum Leyweg on leyweg.nl. Malinka, Rijswijkseweg 704: the shop’s own site malinkadenhaag.nl serves a security certificate issued for a different domain and could not be read
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