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An amazing restaurant in a great setting. This restaurant has been rated as best top restaurant summer terrace by Gault Millau in Belgium. And indeed we can confirm the atmosphere is just great. We had the chance to visit this restaurant during the Diningcity "restaurantweek" at a reduced menu price. The tasting menu was just great! Very nice starter, Carpaccio of Langoestines. All dishes were of top quality. Service very professional. For sure a place to come back and to watch in the future....

Be_Gusto Event was absolutely great. Our visit during the restaurantweek in December with the special menu and great atmosphere. We started with a tartare of langoestines and flan of lobster. The cabillaud with girolles and smoked foie gras was absolutely delicious. As a main course the pheasant with chestnut, jerusalem artichokes and celeriac. All this followed by a delicious chocolate parfait with nougat ice cream. Also the wine arrangement was very good...

Explanation with the bill about their splits in revenues....

Nice decoration, ideal for a romantic dinner for 2. Very nice cuisine made by Johan, can be surprising. Julie leads the restaurant service very well, good wine advise....

Very young chef with big potential. Located in the countryside about 20 minutes east from Antwerp. the interior was nice but for me too classic and not reflecting the young owners. We took the fix lenu and the starter was excellent with lobster, eel and celeriac. A bit truffeloil but not too much. The currysoup with broccoli was absolutely too spicy and killed all wine flavours. A bit too much in a gastronomic menu is my opinion as the taste stayed for hours. As a main course the veal was excellent again with correct cuisson. Also the citrus dessert was taste wise good. It only took far too long and we could only leave at 11.30PM. e had an excellent white portugese wine, donna Maria, amantis...

We prefer to choose one good bottle of wine instead of the wine selection that goes with the menu....

Timing, very young team in service. I missed an experience maitre....

We visited this restaurant for the first time during the famous "restaurant week". For a reduced menu price they offered an excellent show off from their quality. Fresh combinations of food and very stable service. The bbq grilled sardines with gazpacho and sellery were of very good quality. Also the cuisson of the Dorade was excellent....

chosen wines....

This restaurant recently re-opened with new owners. A chef who got twice a michelin star before so our expectations were high. I found the interior a little too cold and missed some good atmosphere. The menu serves nice dishes with also a lot of fish. I tasted the hamachi yellowtail, carpaccio wagyu beef, couteaux-mango-pomegranate. excellent dish! Afterwards i had a triology of Coquilles, grilled-mid cuit-carpaccio. Here i missed a bit power in the main course. Two colleagues had simmertal beef which was almost cold, a pitty. The dessert crepes soufllé with bourbon vanille creme was good balanced but not extraordinary. compliments to the sommelier he sugested us a nice scolha, minho vinho, quinto do Ameal from 2004. excellent portugese white....

Warmer interior....

The restaurant got very good feed back from various friends so it was about the time to finally visit them. We were a little unlucky that more than halve of the restaurant was used for a family dinner. Service wise off course this was noticed. We were nicely welcomed and the cold starter was excellent, agnus beef carpaccio with langoestines tartare, sorbet of mustard and quail egg. The sole with hot lettuce and champagne sabayon was also surprising and very tasty. Main course of beef tournedos, with potato gratin was a little to basic. Instead of dessert we were lucky having chosen the cheese chariot! Superb....

Service was slow, little lack of professionalism. We could only leave after midnight due to a slow service. Being informed this is not typical for them....

Very innovative kitchen, Good sommelier...

Tastes: very good....

Portions: to small....

very special location - great food - also good to visit with many people! This restaurant is also housed in the authentic 15th century cellars that initially were used by merchants as a storage place during the two major annual fairs of Antwerp. The medieval set-up of this restaurant is unique in Antwerp and is reproduced in a life-like way. In the restaurant of Breughellian days, you eat with a spoon and your hands. Obviously, you drink from a mug. Wine, beer and water are served out of jugs. The dishes will be prepared from a medieval recipe and the menu will take you back to the days of yore. The romantic candlelight goes with the soft renaissance dance music in the background, the same period from which the building dates. The costumes of the waiters and the decoration seem to have been taken directly from a painting of Breughel....

Nice atmosphere Professional maitre We enjoyed a good wine (New Zealand) Good selection of fine appetizers...

We had the fish menu @ 80 EUR pp, which was in the end, a bit overpiced. Grilled oysters with leek: very nice dish but 4 large oysters was a bit too much, 2 would have suited as well Langoustines and roasted pig: nice but too much Sorbet of champagne: very tasty Main dish lobster and riz de veau, pasta: way too uch and too heavy, the lobster was overcooked (a shame ...) Creme brulee was very nice as dessert Mignardises: ok nothing special...