The best Belgian restaurants Mons

This Mons gastronomic mecca now has a new, more spacious setting. Lisa Calcus reigns supreme in the kitchen, Nicolas Campus in the dining room. From fish and game to fine poultry and choice meats, they offer a varied menu featuring grilled lobster. The cellar master knows perfectly how to accompany it with fine, exclusively European wines. The cheeses on offer are mature, and the gourmet desserts and fresh bread are homemade. The menu follows the seasons and is renewed every two weeks.

In this restaurant run by Agnès and Eric with a wooden frame, you feel at home. On the menu: salads mainly, but also soups, focaccia sandwiches. What is special here is the composition of the very hearty salads, such as the Mallard: smoked duck breast, caramelized apples with honey, salad, raw vegetables, dried fruit, balsamic cream. We enjoy homemade aperitifs such as dandelion wine, violet lemonade, rhubarb wine, but also speculoos coffee, cuberdon milkshake and homemade desserts.

The regulars go there with their eyes closed and probably don't even notice the splendid wood-clad façade anymore. One goes there alone, with family or friends for one of the many special beers (Saint-Feuillien on tap) or for the dish of the day. The big appetites will court the suggestions or specialties such as the pork chop " à l'berdouille ". The establishment is one of the favorites of the most famous Montois, Elio Di Rupo, former mayor of the city.

Looking for an introduction to Walloon gastronomy? Here's a warm, no-fuss place where you can eat well and locally. At Le Camerluche (which means "comrade" in slang), you'll receive a warm welcome (thanks to chef Loïc, the wood and the fireplace), and your belly will be filled with Chimay escabeche, beer-battered rabbit legs, horse fillet or pork chop à l'berdouille, a delicious local specialty with a sauce made from mustard, vinegar and chopped gherkins. The selection of craft beers is not to be outdone.