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Tried & enjoyed: Crab Club Brussels (B)

Hip is Crab Club without a doubt. But that’s not the reason we visited. I adore fresh crab. Reason enough? I think so. Owner Philippe Emanuelli has Breton-French roots and chose to focus on fresh, surprising and rare seafood. You enter on the side of the restaurant, and pass by the open kitchen where a bunch of cool young people under the lead of chef Yoth Ondara (chef from the South of France with Thai-Chinese roots) is preparing the food. Don’t expect a fancy expensive designed location. Crab Club looks more like a tiny school refter or a small wine cellar of a monastery. The entire deco is rough, concrete floors and stairs, wooden vintage tables with benches and subdued light. We visited Crab Club with friends and we all liked the no-fuzz vibe, the ‘je ne sais quoi’ service and the ‘I did not care’ deco which looks rather poetic and 100% right. The main idea is to share the food that comes randomly on the table presented on large ‘grandma-like’ plates. We started with a gin …

Tried & enjoyed: Restaurant Meliefste in Zeeland NL

Restaurant Me Liefste* has been on my wish list for quite a while. The restaurant just celebrated it’s first anniversary and when looking for an inspirational, quiet location for our annual strategy meeting at Stockmanverstraete, we knew that Me Liefste was thé ideal spot. *Meliefste means ‘my love’ in Dutch and once you hear the name you never forget it because it’s so romantic and pure. For the moment it is not difficult to book a table. Yet…. The star struck foodie army has not discovered this wonderful food paradise. Yet… But hurry, it’s a question of months until Meliefste will be much harder to get. The fact that the restaurant of Dutch chef Thijs Meliefste and his lovely wife Anuschka is totally hidden in the backyard of ‘Het Veerse Meer’ in Zeeland is also one of the reasons only dedicated foodlovers find the way to the marina of Wolphaartsdijk. Last week, we made the trip. Only one hour drive from Ghent my home town, so that was fine. The road to Wolphaartsdijk is so …