6th June 2008
Heaven can wait...I'm double booked !
Just recently, when I called at short notice to enquire about a table at this Michelin 2 Star Deity I expected more luck at winning the European Lottery 36th rollover draw !!! That they had a cancellation that very night meant that I went frantically searching to see if in fact there was a 36th rollover draw happening that weekend...alas not but no matter...
The restaurants title - "Just Like Home" is designed to comfort you but given the standard of food that leaves the pass, if you could eat like this at home you'd become a recluse.
Pierre Wynants’s cooking delivers depths of flavours you didn't think possible. It's not molecular alchemy like Blumenthal, but no less impressive because it's not avant garde. I had "Rack of lamb in a basil crust with asparagus from Mechelen,fried St George's mushrooms and crispy potatoes" and I can assure you it was the best prepared Lamb I've tasted to date. There was Nile Perch or Beef with black truffle or Breast of Cuckoo all accompianed by the most exquisite of ingredients to ensure total satisfaction.
The A la Cart Menu is uncluttered but I defy anyone to find something that doesn't send a frisson through their very being.
The surroundings are a wood dominated Art Nouveau homage to Victor Horta and the welcome relaxed and friendly.
I've eaten some Oscar winning food on my travels - Roux, Bourdain, Pierre White, Blumenthal, Ramsey and the rest of the Harlem Globe Trotters have all had me in raptures (El Bulli eludes me though) but this guy gives them all a run for their money. Budget at the very minimum for €150 per person and anything up to €300 per person if you want Cavier and Black Truffles on your plate at varying times of the night.
The only problem - where's your next destination when you've visited Paradise...! El Bulli?
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