In the heart of the five star boutique Stanhope Hotel is located the Brighton Restaurant. The walls of the restaurant are embellished with frescos of figures in Chinese apparel of…
How can a place producing such quality food remain relatively unknown? I must admit to making a journalistic error in not mentioning before now a discreet little restaurant called Magenta…
Le Fruit Défendu is clearly a restaurant that stands out from the gourmet mass of the Châtelain district. With decor that is delicate, playing on the warmth of natural wood,…
We like Thierry Bedeur – largely because his Enoteca has now been serving impeccable Mediterranean cuisine for nearly 20 years and, as a true taste craftsman, Bedeur pays due respect…
We can only rejoice at meeting a man like Alex Hanbuckers – he radiates enthusiasm and his joy clearly has an effect on his cooking. He is a happy man,…
A resolutely modern brasserie – Happy's has immaculate decor that’s set around a majestic bar, with fireplace and piano to one side, a restaurant on one floor, with a 50-seat…
Our last visit to Michel Tosar’s place only confirmed what we already knew: the change in direction has been a great success. Abandoning so called ‘gastronomy’ for the grill and…
It’s a peculiar, almost comical name, ‘Orphyse Chaussette’. There is a part-explanation – Orphyse was the name of one of patron Philipe Renoux’s ancestors but, as for the ‘chaussette’ (socks),…
Brussels and beyond. The setting, an old tool shop built around 1900 in the footsteps of Victor Horta, is just part of the attraction in this unmissable establishment on the…
For the record, Lipsius gets its name from the Flemish humanist Joost Lips (Justus Lipsius in Latin), a brilliant scholar who was born in Overijse. Coming back to the…
L’Alban Chambon is the restaurant housed in one of the most prestigious hotels in Brussels, the Hotel Métropole. Christened Alban Chambon after the French architect who designed the hotel at…
In the centre of the village of Eprave, a stone's throw from Rochefort, the Auberge du Vieux Moulin restaurant plays with contrasts, and brilliantly so. In the kitchen, the gastronomic…
