The best restaurants Zwevegem

The name says it all: here, the specialty is lobster. This noble animal is served on a 750 g plate in plain, grilled, thermidor, Armoricaine or waterzooi (a typical Ghent stew) versions. Other house specialties include shellfish platters (oysters, various shellfish, langoustine, crab, razor clams, gambas, shrimp, lobster, etc.), bouillabaisse (which can be garnished with crab or lobster), à la carte fish of the day (sole meunière, swimming halibut, etc.), and traditional Belgian mussels and French fries. The dining room is rather small, so book ahead.

For the great bite, this address near the Grand Place serves as a huge boeuf of beef, gambas and large ribs. The service is charming, and the summer is a pleasure to enjoy the terrace with views of the Draps and St Martin's Cathedral. Here is a family restaurant all for good eating (and in quantity) or for a small break in the afternoon.

Pieter and Salima have set up their restaurant in an old forge. And this authentic and rustic setting gives all its charm to this place full of warmth and conviviality. De Bralle offers a traditional and tasty cuisine. On the menu, you can enjoy a duck breast or a sirloin steak. In the afternoon, the restaurant is also a tea room. Hikers and cyclists will appreciate a little gourmet break. An address much appreciated for its quality cuisine and its conviviality!

This is the place to go for vegetarian and vegan cuisine, but it's not just salads filled with lettuce and vegetables! In this small restaurant, you can enjoy new flavors in the more substantial form of burgers, falafels, quiches, soups, salads and daily specials that vary according to the season. We particularly like the seitan salad, a plant-based meat made from wheat protein, full of color and flavor. All superbly presented. In short, a great address in Kortrijk!

You'll love this gastronomic restaurant with its classic setting, and especially the garden where you can enjoy lunch or dinner when the weather's fine. French and Belgian cuisine are perfectly balanced on a menu of refined seasonal dishes. Each month has its own unique menu. There's also a fine selection of beers and cocktails. Au Beau Jardin also offers a more economical brasserie side with more rustic, local cuisine. You can sample the daily suggestion or choose from a selection of salads and snacks.

This former brewery was once an annex of the town hall... hence its name. In July and August, the terrace is very popular. The interior, for its part, has kept its charm with its old stones. The food is simple, tasty, rather copious and, to say the least, original with, for example, the menu of dishes served only with beer, such as the cooked plaice fillet, white butter sauce flavoured with Hommel beer, tomato, mushrooms and shrimps, Flemish carbonade à la Trappiste Rochefort, endives salad and French fries.

Enter a universe where comfort and zenitude are the key words. After a few steps over a pool, you can sit down in the restaurant with its contemporary and natural decor or on the terrace. Chef Ivan Puystiens offers a fair and original cuisine based on fresh products with the aim of surprising (especially the Oh Experience Menu), in the marriage of flavours and presentation. As a starter, the truffle risotto was delicious, as was the grilled turbotin as a main course. Everything is homemade, the pastries, the macaroons and even the bread.

To the delight of regulars, La Table de Flavie has moved not far from the Kaai. Now in a larger, superbly decorated space, you can enjoy authentic, inventive and tasty cuisine. Of course, the focus is on seafood, and the presentation of dishes is always meticulous. Dare to try this sea bass cooked with semolina, grilled vegetables and red bell pepper coulis, seasoned with Moroccan herbs and served with a fresh herb salad. The warm welcome is a real plus for this charming Nieuwpoort address.

Wine bar and caviste at the front, high-flying restaurant at the back, Sans Cravate invites you into its chic country-style dining room. Both classic and inventive, it's clear to see that chef Henk Van Oudenhove is having fun in the kitchen with a champagne sauerkraut garnished with mortadella and confit pork cheek. How original! He's also a king of sauces (watercress with garlic cream to accompany white fish, for example). A real treat, of course, with a superb wine list and Véronique's warm welcome.

The Japanese restaurant par excellence! A few steps from the Kinepolis cinema. Before or after a session, there are ideas to dig, whether you are in two or in groups. Here, in any case, you'll be given a kimono to better immerse yourself in the atmosphere. For five years now the Sakura has opened its doors, and the least we can say is that this establishment has attracted a loyal clientele. A restaurant where you can get to the Japanese grill, the teppanyaki. To the sakura, remember that everything that is cooked is in your eyes, in the midst of great flames. But do not worry, no risk of seeing your order skeleton. The chef knows his job!

For lunch, the restaurant offers pasta, (the generous linguine, tomato, pesto and basil are to die for), but also pies and salads, not forgetting the excellent Flemish carbonnade (with homemade fries) or shrimp croquettes. But save room for sweet treats: apple pie on marzipan, raspberry clafoutis cheesecake style, crispy meringue with fresh cream and chocolate, divine hot chocolate (topped with marshmallows), homemade pancakes with warm cherries, vanilla ice cream and almonds.

Just a stone's throw from the sea wall, this is one of the most charming addresses on the coast! Open from breakfast to aperitif, t'Koethuis is famous for its waffles (they're always among the best on the coast), but its brasserie menu doesn't leave you indifferent either. You can enjoy pasta, salad or solettes. While the interior is warm and inviting in winter, it's the courtyard - all decked out in flowers and lit up at night - that steals the show. Little do we know that the restaurant's rather banal façade conceals this marvel.

An institution in De Panne! This quality brasserie offers its sunny terrace or a cosy interior. You can enjoy traditional dishes, improved tapas, accompanied by delicious cocktails or a beer from the large variety offered. The planks of assorted tapas, but also the salads with generous and copious compositions, the meats cooked to perfection. Add to this a smiling team, good advice and low prices, which makes it a very popular address. It is better to reserve.

If you're looking for a gastronomic interlude at a reasonable price, Jean-Philippe and Nele have just what you're looking for. Choose your formula and let yourself be regaled by these two restaurateurs who forged their name through renowned restaurants (De Tuilerieën in Bruges or De Savarin in Ostend to name but two) before embarking on their own adventure. Fine ingredients and hospitality are the order of the day. We recommend reserving a table on the bright and pleasant veranda! Reservations recommended.

First of all, the setting: a panoramic view of the beach and sea at the end of the sea wall. Enjoy the sunsets over a cup of coffee, pick from the selection of snacks: oysters, homemade shrimp croquettes or opt for refined cuisine. De Witte Berg or "White Mountain" specialties: noble local produce set with vegetables and fruit and cooked to perfection, such as bouillabaisse à l'ostendaise, back of cod on creamy leeks and white wine sauce, as well as a menu of grilled meats and salads.

Close to the dam, nestled between several other restaurants, La Goulue stands out by its Art Nouveau decoration. It is comfortably placed on a soft chair or a soft seat, under a reproduction of the painter Toulouse-Lautrec (to which the name of the place naturally pays tribute), whether one specialty of fish or meat. Generous plates that hold the body. Mussel lovers will not miss those called "La Goulue", whose sauce is raised by a small secret house secret… and a nice and friendly mansion that makes the show in the vortex of the service.

Welcome to the Cardinal de la mer specialist! Joost Nollet and his wife Françoise have been delighting their many loyal customers for over 35 years. The restaurant seats just 30 diners, inviting you to enjoy the intimacy. Lobster is Ostend's undisputed expert when it comes to sublimating seafood platters and lobster. Situated opposite the Kursaal, the pleasant restaurant is an invitation to indulge: lobster à l'armoricaine, or with green pepper, saffron or tarragon, lobster stew with asparagus, etc. A real treat!

This seaside Popeye brewery(Zeezotje in Flemish) has a good reputation. Here, you can enjoy local tapas (meatballs with Brugse Zot beer, scampi and lemongrass meatballs, herring fillets with Bismarck sauce)... or a more hearty bistro-style dish (meat, fish, salad or pasta...) or just a cheese board with wine. The Zeezotje salad with various smoked fish and horseradish sauce is a real treat. You get what you pay for, efficiently served, with a smile and Belgian humor to boot. We also like the flexible opening hours.

As close as you will get to finding the holy grail. This is the café attached to the Trappist abbey at Westvleteren and it is, along with the abbey, the only place where you can buy (officially) the three local beers.

If you like cycling and good cuisine, a step in this tavern is required. Cathy and Dirk have transformed this small bar into a good place to love the little queen! In the input platoon, fatty liver bowl with the onion jam stands out. In the core of the main group, eel, cheval tender, osso-buco and salads are to their advantage, without forgetting the huge salads that play the outsiders. By heating, the snack is offered. Rich and varied with bowl, shrimp, candied onions and other olives. Every day, the card reserves new surprises according to the market. A charming place where you don't have to be sure to leave the grand for your stomach.

After an adventure in the gastronomic restaurant business, chef David Selen now offers a bistronomic table. In his Improviste restaurant, with a superb view of the Waregem racecourse, you can enjoy a refined and precisely prepared cuisine. You can choose from a multi-course menu. We advise you to also choose the wine assortment, as they are well chosen. The chef comes by at the end of the service, creating a very friendly relationship with the customer. L'Improviste is really worth a visit!

The restaurant is located at the entrance of Nieuwpoort-Bad when you arrive from Nieuwpoort-Bad. So close to the fish auction, you can naturally enjoy seafood, but also one of the 10 carpaccios of beef or one of the 6 salmon carpaccios. Lobster is also one of the specialties, while the beef fillet, the calf of veal or the cute net represent the meat. The kitchen is contemporary and innovative: So don't hesitate to choose your dishes as an appetizer or a dish of resistance - the dishes change at least every six weeks. The wine list, with its little hundred references, does not have to blush. Special mention for discreet and attentive service.

One of the oldest family-run restaurants in town. Opened in 1918 by a family of fishermen, who started out as fishmongers, the house has endured, evolved and the whole town runs here. The menu changes daily and features only the freshest artisanal products of the day. The chef respects the tastes and flavors of market produce. Creative, fresh and delicious. The kitchen is open, so there's nothing to hide. Ah! de Mangerie means "moment of pleasure"; the tone is set. A second De Mangerie has recently opened along the Promenade Albert ^Ier.

A chairlift in the heart of Flanders is really unusual! Built in 1958, the year of the World Fair in Brussels, the chairlift links the Mont Noir to the Moulin du Mont Rouge. Once this unusual excursion is over, why not take a little gourmet break at the Cordoba brewery, where the chairlift starts? On the menu, croque-monsieur with country bread and vegetables, and other typical dishes of a good brasserie. As for desserts, pancakes and home-made waffles will delight the gourmets.

Three mills, but above all a pepper mill in this brasserie which opens its window to snack lovers. Inside, the tables show that it is always possible to enjoy the dishes on the menu, which are mostly steaks and other butchers' pieces served with great generosity, in every sense of the word. Here, it's "à la bonne franquette" and that's also why we like this small restaurant, very nice. Fries are obviously king here, cooked according to the rules.

This hotel-restaurant offers a bucolic setting for a meal that's both local and refined. Weather permitting, make the most of the pleasant shaded terrace. In the open kitchen, the team will prepare local dishes such as the chef's pâté or the famous "potjevleesch", accompanied of course by pâté, salad and, above all, French fries! Several vegetarian dishes are also on offer, including a successful vegetable curry. The beer list is very varied and beer lovers will be delighted. A very popular address!

Impossible to miss Rubens, this great restaurant, brasserie, tea room, with the imposing terrace (180 places) and with the majestic façade. Here, each one will find its happiness. That it is right to drink a drink and to eat a waffle the afternoon, or to appreciate a full meal, you will be welcome. Grilled meats, fish, croquettes with shrimps and mussels in season, a french cuisine of good level. Do not hesitate to taste the house speciality: the coast with the bone roasted on stone of lava, Béarnaise sauce, with a beautiful view released on the sea.

Facing the sea, the imposing building boasts a splendid view of the beach. The house specialties include cassolettes of North Sea fish and mussels in garlic cream sauce. Other fish, meat and lobster dishes are also available. For the suggestions of the month, a large blackboard sets the tone. What's sweet? Pancakes, fresh waffles, and to top it all off? A vast choice of wines, 7 beers on tap and 60 special bottled beers, to be enjoyed also in the afternoon on the sunny lounge terrace.

This seafront restaurant, with its ocean-facing terrace, offers contemporary, flexitarian cuisine. In other words, it moderates the quantities of meat and fish in favor of extreme quality (organic if possible) and freshness, and balances its dishes with a festival of vegetables, seeds and health-giving ingredients. The whole is tasty, light and easy to eat. The tuna, just seared, and the fish of the day, cooked to perfection, are undeniably his strong points.

Olivier Dewulf, a talented young chef, has developed his experience with renowned chefs, which has enabled him to deploy his talents today in a unique, refined and characterful setting. His cooking uses imagination, inventiveness, freshness and above all with a lot of flavours! Doing " à la Brabançonne ", turbot " Vérilhac ", lobster... The wines are also carefully chosen to be as harmonious as possible with the plate. A terrace in summer is the most pleasant place to enjoy these very refined dishes.

As its name suggests, this restaurant was born... in a former garage. The floor still bears the scars of this former occupation, the rough-and-ready spirit has been maintained and there's no lack of character. Fortunately, it doesn't smell of motor oil, but rather of grilled meat, because the specialty is the house steak. Matured meat, crusted just right, served with meat sauce. A real treat! Mussel and fish lovers are not forgotten, nor are vegetarians, with chef Tom Brys' famous veggie curry. A little gourmet tuning and you're on your way!

Koen and Marijke offer a rather short menu but work precisely in a short circuit. The grills, specialties of the house, feature an indigenous cattle breed, the West Flanders Red. Each dish is accompanied by a beer, on the advice of Marijke. The menu of beers is carefully elaborated, according to the flavors of the beverage (hopped, malted, roasted...). The price of some bottles is quite high.

Petrus Kurt offers both a brasserie and a refined restaurant. The menu is not very extensive, but the chef offers only quality dishes. You'll find the classics of traditional cuisine, prepared with respect for what's produced and in season: game, asparagus or strawberries and, depending on the fruit, peaches. The dessert menu is classic, with homemade ice creams. On the terrace, you can enjoy a panoramic view of the harbor and, above all, the sunshine, while the children play in the play area.

Take-away or eat on site, this bar with sandwiches with is especially young people. Relaxed design, one assoit or not. Wide choice of filled buns.

The Sparhoh restaurant, located on the edge of the hop fields, offers local cuisine and a fine beer menu. On the savory side, you will find a Norwegian salmon filet with southern vegetables, a marinated Ardennes pork filet or a rack of lamb in a crust. On the sweet side, you will find successful classics: tiramisu, chocolate cake, white lady or crème brûlée. For your children, the establishment adapts itself: fried eggs, fricadelles, steak... What to spend a successful gastronomic moment in family.