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 In De Wulf in Dranouter, Belgium (2015 review)Rating: 94. His restaurant is at the top of its game, yet on Friday the 23rd of October chef Kobe Desramaults announced that he'll be closing In De Wulf in December 2016. This news does not mean that he is retiring however. Desramaults on his decision: "I'm 35 years old and for 12 years I given everything for my restaurant; now it's time for reflection".
Kobe Desramaults was 23 y... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Belgium - Dranouter - 25-10-2015READ MORE  Hof Van Cleve in Kruishoutem - 3 Michelin starsRating: 100. Once a simple brasserie serving traditional Belgian food, Hof van Cleve is now widely recognised as one of Belgium's gastronomic greats. Chef-owner Peter Goossens (b. 1964) started his career at a Belgian catering college in Koksijde, after which he continued this training in Paris, working in a number of Michelin-starred kitchens, including the then two-starred Le Pré Catelan. When he ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, Belgium - 20-03-2015READ MORE  Hertog Jan in Zedelgem (near Bruges) - 3 Michelin starsRating: 97. Hertog Jan is a restaurant co-owned by chef Gert de Mangeleer (b. 1977) and maitre d'hôtel / sommelier Joachim Boudens. The duo met when they were working at Danny Horseele's then two Michelin-starred restaurant 't Molentje in Zeebrugge. Later on they moved on to Hertog Jan and in 2005 they took over the restaurant together. Michelin awarded Hertog Jan its first star in 2007, the... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, Belgium - 01-10-2014READ MORE  De Karmeliet in Bruges - 3 Michelin starsRating: 92. Belgium currently counts 3 three-star restaurants: De Karmeliet in Bruges, Hof Van Cleve in Kruishoutem and Hertog Jan in Zedelgem (near Bruges). De Karmeliet has held this honour since 1996, making it the longest running three-star restaurant in Belgium at present. Chef-patron is Geert Van Hecke (b. 1956), who started the restaurant, with his wife Mireille, in 1983 on the corner of the Jeruzalems... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, Belgium - 28-09-2014READ MORE  Sea Grill in Brussels - 2 Michelin starsRating: 92. Sea Grill is a two Michelin starred restaurant situated on the ground floor of the Radisson Blu hotel in Brussels. Chef and owner of the restaurant is Yves Mattagne (b. 1963), who has been at the helm of the kitchen since 1990. Mattagne received his training at the Hilton Hotel in Brussels and later on in Gatwick, at the Michelin starred l'Orangeraie in Zaventem (now defunct) and he did an 8-month... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Belgium - Brussels - 17-09-2014READ MORE  Comme Chez Soi in Brussels - 2 Michelin starsRating: 90. In the early nineties the Belgian capital boasted no fewer than 3 restaurants with three Michelin-stars. They were Bruneau, Romeyer and Comme Chez Soi. Furthermore, Brussels was the home of 4 two-star restaurants and 18 one-star restaurants. Things have changed much since then: chefs retired or moved on to other ventures, and sometimes the restaurants simply closed. The numbers dwindled and in the... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Belgium - Brussels - 12-09-2014READ MORE  Restaurant Bon-Bon in Brussels - 2 Michelin starsRating: 93. In 2011 chef Christophe Hardiquest moved his restaurant from the Brussels municipality of Uccle to the leafy and wealthy municipality of Woluwe Saint-Pierre. Bon-Bon was awarded a second star in November 2013 (2014 guide), ten years after the restaurant had got its first star. Christophe Hardiquest has trained at some of Brussels' most iconic restaurants, such as Sea Grill and Villa Lorraine (... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Belgium - Brussels - 03-09-2014READ MORE .jpg) De Jonkman in Bruges - 2 Michelin starsRating: 93. The beautiful, medieval market town of Bruges was the cultural capital of Europe in 2002, but it can also lay claim to being one of the culinary capitals of Belgium. In the Michelin guide 2013 it sports no fewer than two 3-star restaurants, two 2-star establishments, five places with 1 star and seven Bib Gourmands. Quite impressive for a relatively small city with some 117,000 inhabitants. On... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Belgium - Bruges - 09-09-2013READ MORE  't Zilte in Antwerp - 2 Michelin starsRating: 93. It would be stating the obvious to say that the Belgians, both in Flanders and in Wallonia, are Burgundian people. Food and drink are very important, even essential, aspects of life here. Historically they are Burgundian too however; in the 15th century, large parts of what is today the Kingdom of Belgium became part of the Duchy of Burgundy. After the death of Charles le Téméra... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Belgium - Antwerp - 07-08-2013READ MORE  In De Wulf in Dranouter, Belgium - 1 Michelin starRating: 93. Dranouter in Belgium is a small village with some 700 inhabitants in the fields of Flanders, just southwest of Ypres at less than 1 mile from the French border. It would perhaps be slightly uncharitable to say that it is in the middle of nowhere, but it is certainly a peaceful place. It is peaceful now; almost a century ago it was in Flanders Fields, just a few miles behind the fron... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Belgium - Dranouter - 02-08-2013READ MORE  Hof van Cleve in Kruishoutem - three Michelin stars in BelgiumRating: 96. Peter Goossens, the patron-cuisinier at Hof van Cleve in Kruishoutem, is often referred to as one of the godfathers of modern Belgian cuisine and he is one of Belgium's most respected chefs. After his education at a Belgian catering college Peter Goossens spent several years in France were he trained in e.g. the Paris kitchens of Le Pré Catalan and Robuchon. When he ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: Belgium, 3 stars - 07-03-2012READ MORE .jpg) Nuance restaurant in Duffel (near Antwerp)Rating: 95. Flemish chef Thierry Theys has been taking Belgium by storm. After having trained at Ducasse in Monaco and at Hans van Wolde's two-star Beluga restaurant in Maastricht, Thierry and his partner Sofie Willemarck opened Nuance restaurant in Duffel (some 20 minutes from Antwerp) in 2008. The next year the restaurant was already awarded its first Michelin star and the second star fol... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Belgium - Other - 03-03-2012READ MORE  Hertog Jan in Bruges - Belgium's new three star restaurantRating: 98.
It was only last November that Hertog Jan restaurant in Sint-Michiels near Bruges was awarded a third Michelin star, the first restaurant in Belgium to gain a third star since Peter Goossens' Hof van Cleve in 2005. Head-chef of Hertog Jan is 33 year old Gert de Mangeleer, which makes this young Flemish chef one of the youngest three-star chefs in Europe.
During his training at restaura... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, Belgium - 02-01-2012READ MORE |
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