Crudo di spigola
Sea bass crudo, blood orange & Sicilian olive oil
Line-caught bass sliced thin, dressed with citrus, wild fennel pollen and cold-pressed Sicilian oil.
Ristorante & aperitivo bar — Piushaven 20B, Tilburg
Sicilian hands,Brabant produce,water at the door.
Chef Thomas cooks one small menu a week from whatever the morning brings in — an open kitchen at the bar, seafood off the boats, and limoncello made from his family’s Sicilian recipe.
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Rated
4.8 ★
293 Google reviews
TripAdvisor
#8 of 470
restaurants in Tilburg
On the
Piushaven
waterfront terrace
Open
Wed–Sun
late Fri & Sat
The kitchen
One chef, one small menu, cooked the way his family taught him.
Pulcinos is Sicilian at heart and Brabant on the plate. Chef Thomas draws on his family’s cooking from Sicily and builds a compact menu around what’s good that week — line-caught fish, hand-rolled pasta, vegetables from close to home. Nothing sits still: the fish board changes daily, the pasta is made each morning in front of you.
The house limoncello comes from an uncle’s recipe — lemon peel rested slowly, no shortcuts. It’s the reason a lot of tables order one more.
Read our storyThis week’s table
A short menu, changed weekly, meant to be shared.
Busiate alla trapanese
Busiate, almond pesto & bottarga
Hand-twisted busiate with basil, almond and tomato pesto from Trapani, finished with grated bottarga.
Polpo alla brace
Charcoal octopus with potato & salmoriglio
Braised for two hours, then charred hard. Crushed potato, oregano, lemon, plenty of oil.
Two rooms, one address
Sit down to dinner, or pull up at the bar for a borrel.
The restaurant
Dinner by the water
The back room looks out over the moored boats — a calm, low-lit space for the full weekly menu. Best booked ahead, especially Friday and Saturday.
The aperitivo bar
A drink, a few plates, the open kitchen
Up front: a lounge and bar with a view straight into the kitchen. Limoncello spritz, small plates, no reservation needed — walk in and stay a while.
4.8
out of 5 on Google
293 reviews · #8 of 470 restaurants in Tilburg
“Ate here twice in one week. The busiate with almond pesto is the best plate of pasta in Tilburg, full stop.”
“The chef came out to explain the fish. You feel like a guest in someone’s home, not a customer.”
“We came for a borrel at the bar and stayed four hours. That house limoncello is dangerous.”
“Small menu, changes every week, everything on it tasted like it was thought about. Sat by the water at sunset.”
“Sicilian cooking with Brabant produce. Sounds odd, works completely. Booked again before we left.”
“Right on the Piushaven, water at the door, and the octopus was cooked perfectly. A real find.”
“Ate here twice in one week. The busiate with almond pesto is the best plate of pasta in Tilburg, full stop.”
“The chef came out to explain the fish. You feel like a guest in someone’s home, not a customer.”
“We came for a borrel at the bar and stayed four hours. That house limoncello is dangerous.”
“Small menu, changes every week, everything on it tasted like it was thought about. Sat by the water at sunset.”
“Sicilian cooking with Brabant produce. Sounds odd, works completely. Booked again before we left.”
“Right on the Piushaven, water at the door, and the octopus was cooked perfectly. A real find.”
Find us on the Piushaven
Piushaven 20B, water at the door.
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