MyGuide
Create your own trip.
The chef and his cuisine
© Michael DehaspeModern, contemporary, inventive and … artistic. Also works with herbs from his own herb garden.
Favourite regional product of the chef?
Asparagus from Rik Broux from Damme, produced with the utmost care from field to table.
Favourite beer?
Sint Bernardus Tripel, a real grown-up drink. An amber top fermentation beer with a floury, fruity aroma. 8% alcohol volume.
Your favourite restaurant?
Assiette Blanche and Het Zwaantje, both in Bruges. Cuisine based on authentic ingredients, friendly service and children are welcome.
What is your favourite place in Flanders?
The fields of Loca Labora, my herb supplier, in Beernem.
© Michael DehaspeZeno
Vlamingstraat 53
8000 Brugge
T. +32 50 68 09 93 - info@restaurantzeno.be
A progressive young chef displays his culinary skills in this magnificent mansion with a patio in the heart of Bruges. Zeno, the main character in Marguerite Yourcenar‘s historical novel “Zeno of Bruges”, is a physician, alchemist and traveller born and raised in 16th century Bruges. His character represents the emergence of free thinking. His Europe-wide quest for enlightenment, through alchemy in particular, exceeded the constraints of the norms of the time. The house itself represents a quest for flavour, products and presentation that transform the ordinary into the extraordinary by an alchemy-like process.
