Tuesday, September 1, 2026

The Top 100 Restaurants Near Les Abris

  1. You ring a doorbell to get in, which sets the tone for a modern tasting-menu restaurant that feels more like a chef's home than a destination. Guests settle into the sitting room for an aperitif while eyeing a garden that earns its keep through the window. The chef and sommelier run the room together, cooking everything to order and explaining each course with the kind of detail that stops just short of a lecture.




  2. Rank 4. Alexandre

    Modern French

    The dining room sits inside an old doctor's house in a quiet Flemish village, all snug interior and a terrace that makes you want to linger. This is a set-menu restaurant where the chef leans hard into Modern French cooking, then cheerfully ignores the genre's guardrails. Flavors are bold and the combinations are unexpected in the way that makes you stop mid-bite. Tamara runs the front of house like she knows exactly why you came.


  3. The Josper wood-fired oven is the heart of this unfussy French brasserie in Gavere, where hand-chopped beef tartare and vol-au-vent arrive in portions that mean business. A made-to-order dame blanche closes things out the old-fashioned way. The room is tidily contemporary, and a terrace looks out over fields and a kitchen garden, which is either charming or deeply on-brand depending on your mood.


  4. Rank 6. Atelier Gist

    Barbecue Japanese

    Fire and fermentation run the show at this converted barn outside Geraardsbergen, where picture windows frame open countryside and a counter seats you directly in front of the charcoal oven. The cooking pulls Japanese seasoning and citrus into big barbecue flavors, with fermented touches adding a quiet, persistent depth. Natural wines and house-made kombucha complete the picture. A Michelin Selected restaurant that smells like woodsmoke before you even sit down.


  5. Rank 7. De Bakermat

    Modern French

    A white villa set back from a busy boulevard, with a glazed wine cellar that stops people mid-sentence. De Bakermat is a Michelin-starred modern French restaurant where the chef's instinct runs toward contrast: lobster with nori, foie gras pushed somewhere richer than you expected. The sommelier clearly enjoys their job, and the wine list is long enough to make the decision feel consequential.


  6. Olly Ceulenaere's Michelin-starred bistro in Ghent looks like an artist's living room, because that's essentially what it is: vintage finds mixed with designer pieces from friends, the original beer pump still behind the bar. The chef frequently brings the main course out himself, and the menu follows his mood rather than a calendar. Expect little-known vegetables over luxury ingredients, and natural wine pairings that lean toward the unusual.


  7. Named for the district it anchors, this Michelin-starred modern French restaurant wraps gilded details around a casually warm room where you can watch the kitchen work through a glass partition. The menu moves between big-boned classical cooking and quieter technique, pigeon aged and sauced with the kind of seriousness that suggests the chef has thought about little else. A place that earns its star without seeming to try.


  8. The Art Deco light fixtures inside this family-run modern French restaurant in Brakel set the tone: elegant, but grounded in something real. Brother, sister, and dad cook while mum and daughter-in-law run the room, and the menu leans hard on foraged Flemish Ardennes herbs and vegetables pulled from nearby fields. The cooking is seasonal and ingredient-driven, with fermented flavors and careful vegetable work doing most of the heavy lifting.


  9. The chef's Italian-Brazilian roots and a kitchen team assembled from across the map give this Michelin-starred Ghent restaurant its restless, globe-spanning menu. North Sea clams turn up alongside Amazonian manioc, and the cooking chases a tension between sharp acidity and silky comfort that shouldn't work as often as it does. The setting is a 17th-century townhouse in the old city, dressed up with contemporary art, which at least gives you something to stare at between courses.


  10. A Michelin-starred villa restaurant outside Ghent where the garden alone does half the work, setting a summer-holiday mood before the food arrives. The chef's style is quiet and precise, leaning on vegetables and spices to build flavors that take a moment to reveal themselves. The room pairs rustic warmth with soft pastels, and the whole operation has a calm, unhurried quality that feels genuinely considered rather than merely slow.


  11. An Art Nouveau townhouse in Ghent where the chef's obsession with vegetables gets its own dedicated tasting menu, though the kitchen ranges from Flemish pheasant to white truffles he'll carry to the table himself. The cooking fuses French technique with fermentation and global influences in ways that feel considered rather than busy. Two Michelin stars. The sommelier leans toward the surprising, which fits the room.


  12. A Michelin-starred fine dining room inside a period mansion on the edge of Ghent, where the renovation kept the historic bones and layered in enough contemporary polish to feel considered rather than cold. The chef draws on Zeeland roots and a restless technical range, running small plates through unusual combinations and international inflections. The sommelier runs the floor with the kind of ease that makes the wine pairings feel inevitable.


  13. A converted farmstead in the Flemish countryside, this two-Michelin-star restaurant carries the weight of being a culinary landmark with impressive ease. Floris Van Der Veken took over from his celebrated mentor and kept the elegant codes intact, from the composed welcome to the dessert trolley that regulars plan around. The kitchen treats a leek and a turbot with equal seriousness, which tells you most of what you need to know.


  14. A pintxos bar on the edge of Ghent that doesn't take reservations, so arrive early or embrace the wait. The menu runs through small Spanish plates with a modern lean, the kind of cooking where good produce does most of the talking. The vintage interior nods to Basque tapas bars, the room buzzes accordingly, and a Michelin Bib Gourmand suggests the kitchen is earning its keep. Sister spot to Bar Bask, and worth the trek out to Ledeberg.


  15. Rank 17. Sir Kwinten

    Modern French

    Wine gets its own display case before you've even found your seat at this two-Michelin-starred fine dining room in a grand mansion outside Brussels. The sommelier pairs local Pajottenland producers and sake alongside the classics, while the chef's French-leaning menu leans on extraordinary sauces and hyper-fresh ingredients. The food and wine matching is the point here, less an afterthought than the whole architecture of the meal.




  16. A moat bridge and a heavy oak door greet you before you've even seen a menu, which sets the tone nicely. Inside, timber ceilings meet a light, contemporary room, and a glazed extension opens onto countryside views. The cooking at this Michelin-starred restaurant ranges from street food bites to pheasant on the bone, and the vegetarian menu is equally serious. A bread trolley makes the rounds; the focaccia draws attention.


  17. Rank 21. Cécile

    Modern French



  18. A creative restaurant in Gent where the minimalist Japanese decor and leafy terrace lend the whole room a monastic calm, right up until the food arrives and demands your full attention. The chef works through fermentation, open-flame cooking, and sharp acidic sauces, with natural wines chosen by a sommelier who clearly has opinions. The kind of place where quiet surroundings and quietly ambitious cooking end up in an interesting argument.


  19. Rank 24. DOOR73

    Modern New American

    Vintage floor tiles and an open kitchen firing a Josper oven set the tone at this share-plates restaurant in Ghent. The cooking runs international and deliberately unorthodox, with bold combinations that have no interest in playing it safe. The mood is loose and unstuffy, the kind of place where the food takes itself seriously so the room doesn't have to. It's connected to the Michelin-starred OAK, though it has clearly stopped caring about the comparison.


  20. Rank 25. DEBRA

    Contemporary French

    The name comes from a Beck song, and the vintage turntable spinning in the corner means you'll figure that out before anyone tells you. DEBRA is a contemporary French restaurant where the cooking slaloms between classical technique and global instinct, whole roasts alongside sauces that arrive from unexpected directions. The room is warm and a little hip without trying too hard, which, in Ghent, is exactly the right register.


  21. A former linen factory in Zele that now turns out Michelin-starred modern cuisine, the kind where every vegetable arrives as though it was measured with a ruler. The chef's cooking is classical at its core, with quiet creative detours that keep things interesting. Dishes favor a few strong ingredients and let them do the arguing, which takes more confidence than it looks. Small, spare room; the food is doing the decorating.


  22. Rank 27. Rizoom

    Modern Japanese

    Koji fermentation and dry-ageing drive the menu at this creative restaurant in Ghent, where the chef's Japanese technique shapes dishes built around umami and seasonal produce. The room is a post-industrial loft that somehow feels cosy, and the open kitchen puts the whole process on display. The wine and sake list is serious enough that ordering a glass takes a quiet minute. A place for people who think about where sauces come from.


  23. Rank 28. Elders

    Modern Vegetarian




  24. Rank 31. Agnes

    Modern French

    A former presbytery beside a village church, Agnes is a Michelin-starred modern French restaurant where the room still feels like someone's home and the cooking leans hard into classical sauces and impeccable sourcing. The chef's style is generous rather than showy, hop shoots and hare sitting comfortably alongside Burgundy wine pours. A crowd of knowing diners tends to fill this kind of place and never look at the clock.


  25. The cobblestone alley off Dendermonde's Grand-Place looks like a period drama forgot to wrap. Inside this creative seasonal restaurant, the kitchen runs on live fire, with the chef coaxing smoke and char into scallops, grilled fruit, and vegetables in combinations that keep you guessing course to course. The menu reads as playful without being precious, which is a harder balance than it sounds.













  26. Rank 44. Le Julien

    Modern French

    Chefs still wear starched toques here, which tells you something about the tone. This Michelin-starred French fine dining restaurant occupies a restored farmstead in a small Flemish village, and the setting is genuinely lovely, all warm colors and countryside quiet. The cooking leans into classic French technique, rich sauces, top-drawer ingredients, with the occasional exotic note slipped in to keep things honest. The sommelier actually knows what they're talking about.




  27. Rank 47. Sense

    Modern French

    A Michelin-starred fine dining room in a quiet Flemish town, where the pared-back elegance of the space lets the cooking do the talking. The chef's approach is minimalist in spirit but classical in technique, running from spit-roasting to Binchotan grilling, with the kind of food-and-wine pairings that make you want to take notes. Dress well and expect a long, unhurried evening.




  28. Rank 50. Alard

    Palestinian Middle Eastern





  29. Rank 54. Oltra

    Modern French

    Old church stone tiles and wrought-iron details set the mood at this modern French restaurant in the Flemish countryside, where the room feels lived-in and the cooking is anything but. The chef pulls market produce in unexpected directions, reaching for lemongrass, vinegar, or horseradish ice cream where another kitchen might play it safe. The front-of-house keeps wine flowing and the energy loose, which helps when the food gets ambitious.



  30. Rank 56. Ferri

    Vegetarian Italian




  31. Rank 59. Kraz Gand

    Breton French




  32. Rank 62. Amour

    Vegetarian



  33. Rank 64. À Table

    Modern French



  34. Rank 66. Castor

    Modern French

    The building looks like a concrete cube dropped on a Flemish roadside, which makes the precision cooking inside feel like a deliberate provocation. This is modern French fine dining with two Michelin stars, where the sauces do most of the talking. The chef trained with serious people and it shows in every reduction. Desserts arrive almost too composed to disturb. Come dressed for the room; the front of house keeps things properly elegant.


  35. Rank 67. La Paix

    French Fusion Japanese

    A two-Michelin-star restaurant that has traded its old corner spot opposite the Anderlecht slaughterhouses for a grand Belle Époque hotel, La Paix is mid-move and temporarily closed. The kitchen's signature territory is French technique pulled toward Japanese restraint, with serious seafood running through most of it. A destination fine dining room, the kind where you dress up and clear your afternoon.


  36. The FOX runs no reservations and serves everything to share, which either sounds liberating or mildly stressful depending on who you came with. The room leans casual and buzzy, with a Los Angeles fixation that feels less like a theme and more like a personality. The kitchen turns seasonal produce into inventive small plates with enough going on to keep the table talking. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.


  37. A Michelin-starred corner restaurant near the Brussels fish market where the menu is a surprise and the philosophy is not. The chef builds tasting menus around local, seasonal produce, then quietly pivots to something like wasabi sorbet without breaking a sweat. The room is deliberately unpolished, the wine list leans natural, and every decision on the plate seems to have been argued over before it arrived.


  38. A walled courtyard in the Patershol and high ceilings inside make this Thai restaurant feel like a minor discovery every time. The kitchen leans traditional, with tom kha kai and massaman curry that smell like they've been thought about carefully. Portions are generous without being theatrical about it. The Michelin Bib Gourmand is about right for a neighbourhood spot that's been quietly doing its thing since forever.


  39. Rank 71. BORIS & MAURICE

    Bistro French



  40. Rank 73. Zicht

    Franco-Belgian French

    Floor-to-ceiling picture windows frame a sweeping panorama of the Flemish Ardennes, which tells you immediately what kind of place this is: a Franco-Belgian restaurant where the view and the cooking compete for your attention. A veteran couple runs the room with practiced ease, she in the dining room and he in the kitchen, turning out seasonal set menus that lean classical without feeling stuck in the past. The terrace, when the weather cooperates, makes the whole thing harder to leave.


  41. Tuscan cooking with a Ghent postcode, parked between a Holiday Inn and a Marriott on the ring road in a setup that sounds unlikely until the food arrives. This is a proper Italian restaurant where the kitchen threads Florentine tradition through genuinely playful combinations, bagna cauda and sea urchin showing up where you least expect them. Set menus and à la carte both lean into the soul of the thing rather than performing it.


  42. Kobe Desramaults, who made his name at In De Wulf and Chambre Séparée, runs this Michelin-starred creative dining room in central Brussels with a lounge soundtrack and an open kitchen counter at its heart. The set menu changes daily, which keeps the chef honest and the regulars guessing. Expect bold, ingredient-focused cooking where the produce does most of the talking, and service polished enough to feel made-to-measure without being stiff about it.


  43. Rank 76. L'Envie

    Modern French

    A single ingredient prepared two or three ways across the same plate is the chef's signature move at this Michelin-starred fine dining room in the Flemish countryside. David Grosdent's cooking leans classical but keeps a playful edge, built around sourcing that borders on obsessive. His partner runs the wine list, a thick tome weighted toward Corsica and Jura, with champagne selections that border on their own argument.


  44. Rank 77. Bozar Restaurant

    Modern French

    Karen Torosyan's pâté en croûte, made by reservation only and shown to you unbaked before it goes into the oven, is the kind of production that makes you sit very still. This two-Michelin-star modern French restaurant occupies a Victor Horta Art Nouveau building, so the room is already doing a lot. The kitchen revives ancestral French and Belgian technique with a precision that borders on meditative, puff pastry very much included.


  45. An open kitchen and a chef's table sit at the heart of this Michelin-starred modern restaurant in Grimbergen, where the team has been running a genuinely personal operation for a long time. The chef's classical training holds firm underneath techniques that lean quietly toward Asia, producing combinations that sound eccentric on paper and make complete sense on the plate. The vegetarian menu gets the same serious attention as everything else.


  46. A church belltower looms over the terrace at this bright, elegant modern French restaurant in a quiet Flemish village, which makes the summertime outdoor tables feel vaguely ceremonial. The cooking is precise and delicate, built around high-end produce handled with care, the kind of place where a scallop carpaccio arrives dressed in fermented asparagus and lovage oil. Hushed, polished, and a little special.


  47. The Art Nouveau interior by Horta, all stained glass and sinuous ironwork, sets the scene before anyone's opened a menu. This is classic fine dining in the old Brussels sense, the kind of room where sauces are taken seriously and the fourth generation of the same family is still running the pass. A Michelin star. The wine cellar doubles as a private dining room for those who want something a shade more contemporary.


  48. Rank 81. Kamo

    Japanese

    A wood-lined counter in Ixelles where chef Kamo runs a quietly rigorous Japanese restaurant, Michelin-starred, with evenings given over to surprise tasting menus and lunches anchored by made-to-order sushi. The cooking is deceptively spare, built on the quality of raw fish rather than trophy ingredients. Minimal presentation, maximal attention to what's actually on the plate, which is the kind of restraint that takes years to pull off convincingly.



  49. Brutalist concrete and a casual room that makes no apologies for either. Kline is a modern neighborhood restaurant where the menu leans on local sourcing, vegetables, and seasonal instincts, with global flavors folded in wherever they fit. The à la carte lineup skews well toward vegetarian and is designed to share. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place where the food does the talking without the room dressing up for it.


  50. Tucked near the old fish market, this Greek taverna runs through a long modern corridor before opening into a brick-walled, wood-tabled room that feels lifted from a quieter part of Athens. The menu leans into mezzes and the kind of full-flavored cooking that makes a meal stretch pleasantly long. The wine list pulls from Greece and skews affordable. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.


  51. A cottage restaurant in the Flemish Ardennes where the terrace looks out over rolling hillsides and the room is small enough that someone actually controls the covers to keep quality from slipping. The kitchen plays familiar flavors against unexpected international notes, and the front of house will open a bottle for you to taste before you commit, a gesture rarer than it should be.


  52. Soft lighting and an open kitchen set the mood at this cozy modern restaurant in Ghent, where seasonal vegetables and punchy sauces do most of the talking. The chef folds in the occasional Asian note with enough precision that it feels like a choice rather than a flourish. Front of house knows the menu cold and will steer you through it without making you feel slow for asking.


  53. San Degeimbre's contemporary brasserie sits inside Brussels' converted rail freight terminus, a post-industrial complex that still feels faintly surprised to be hosting dinner. The menu roams Belgium, Peru, and Asia without asking permission, so waterzooi turns up with a jolt of yuzu and duck magret finds itself alongside soy and garlic in an orange sauce. The mezzanine counter overlooking the open kitchen is the seat to ask for.


  54. Rank 88. Henri

    Modern French

    A cobbled terrace on one of Brussels' cooler streets sets the tone for this laid-back bistro. The menu roams freely, landing somewhere between classic French technique and Mediterranean ease, with the occasional Thai detour just to keep things interesting. The wine list and local beers get as much attention as the food. Regulars seem to treat the place as a neighborhood right rather than a reservation.


  55. Rank 89. La Charcuterie

    Mediterranean

    The vintage tiles and butcher's wainscoting are still intact, which tells you this was once a charcuterie and is now a snug sharing bistro in Saint-Gilles. Walk past the deli counter and wine bottles on your way to a table, then order things meant to be passed around: rustic country cooking with a Mediterranean turn that nobody saw coming. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the price point matches the unpretentious mood.


  56. Rank 90. BASK

    Contemporary Basque

    A refrigerated counter piled with raw seafood greets you at the door, and most of it ends up on the wood-fired asador grill. BASK is a Basque-inspired sharing-plates restaurant with the bones of a vintage dive and the energy of a concert venue. Pintxos come with your aperitif, then things get serious: grilled turbot, aged guinea fowl, sauces that make you slow down. Walk-ins can usually grab a bar stool near the kitchen, which is the best consolation prize in Ghent.


  57. Rank 91. Jayu

    Contemporary Korean

    Twelve stools around a counter, one table, three bells to signal the start of service, and a two-hour tasting menu in twelve courses that Sang Hoon Degeimbre shapes around Korean fermentation, fruit, and spice. The room reads like a speakeasy, all theatrical hush, and the food leans into doenjang, umami, and smoke rather than the usual European fine-dining playbook. A Michelin Selected restaurant tucked behind the noise of Rue de Flandre.


  58. Rank 92. Alley Mian

    Lanzhou Noodles

    A cook pulls and folds noodles to order in full view of the dining room, which sets the tone for everything at this small, no-reservations noodle shop near the Théâtre de la Monnaie. The broth is Lanzhou-style, built deep and left unadorned. Michelin gave it a Bib Gourmand, and the lunch queue most days makes the argument more plainly. Go early, go hungry, and don't expect to linger.


  59. Rank 93. Lys d'Or

    Modern French

    Black marble, gilding, and a grand piano set the mood in this fine dining room tucked inside a Gent townhouse. The cooking is modern French with serious ambition, the kind where crab and Wagyu share a plate without anyone flinching. The wine list leans heavily into Château Pétrus, which tells you most of what you need to know about who fills these seats and what they expect to spend.


  60. Rank 94. Bruun

    Contemporary French

    The open kitchen is the first thing you see at this contemporary French restaurant outside Ghent, and it sets the tone: nothing is being hidden here. The team's cooking is clean and unfussy, built on French technique but leaning toward something quieter and more modern. Lunch runs straightforward; dinner stretches into more ambitious territory. The kind of place where the restraint on the plate is clearly deliberate, not accidental.


  61. Rank 95. Nova

    Basque

    A Basque barbecue grill anchors the open kitchen of this calm, stylish townhouse tucked into a working-class neighborhood near the Grand Place. The surprise menu follows whatever the market brought that morning, with the chef working closely with local producers and running a low-waste kitchen. Counter seats let you watch it all come together. Selected by the Michelin Guide.



  62. The vol-au-vent and onglet à l'échalote are classic brasserie fare, but the izakaya-style decor and lounge terrace hint at something slightly off-script. This stylish brasserie on the Kortrijksesteenweg keeps its menu firmly rooted in French classics, cooked generously and without apology, while a sashimi option or bento box surfaces here and there for those who go looking. The cigar lounge and extensive wine list suggest nobody is in a hurry, which feels about right.



  63. Rank 99. ANJU

    Contemporary Korean

    Sang Hoon Degeimbre, the chef behind L'Air du Temps, strips things back here to explore his Korean roots. In a minimalist room in Saint-Gilles, the kitchen puts out sharing plates built around hotpots, kimchi, and slow-cooked meats, the kind of food that reads as generous rather than studied. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the sort of contemporary Korean spot where the bill won't send you outside to quietly recalibrate.


  64. Rank 100. Nénu

    Contemporary Vietnamese

    The organizing idea at this contemporary Vietnamese restaurant in Saint-Gilles is anh nhau, a tradition of sharing food and drink with people you like, which turns out to be a fine excuse to order three dishes minimum. The kitchen takes classical Vietnamese flavors somewhere quieter and stranger, lamb wontons and duck's tongues landing alongside smart cocktails. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place that makes a Tuesday feel considered.


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