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At Elders on Edmond Van Beverenplein, the kitchen drives the experience. The restaurant works with a seasonal 6-course menu for dinner (€72 per person) and a 3-course lunch inspired by it (€42 per person). The setting is lively, with an open kitchen that puts the chefs at the center of the room.
The cooking is precise and ingredient-led. A typical dinner might start with beet tartare on morgen toast, followed by onion consommé with coffee, then scallop with winter radish and verjus. Mains include options like Holstein veal loin with salsify and a wine merchant sauce, or skrei with pointed cabbage and shrimp jus. Desserts range from poire belle Hélène to a melted Saint-Félicien cheese course.
Lunch offers a shorter format but the same sensibility: dishes such as chicory with kumquat and lardo, or beef onglet with potatoes and wild garlic. The kitchen also accommodates dietary preferences, marking vegetarian options clearly.
Elders operates a wine bar open Wednesday to Saturday from 18:00, where guests can drop in without a reservation for natural wine, local beer, or à la carte dishes. On Sundays, the restaurant opens from 10:30 for coffee and aperitifs, with the kitchen serving the full 6-course menu from 12:00.
The restaurant has earned a Michelin recommendation, reflecting its consistent quality and clear, seasonal cooking. The address is Edmond Van Beverenplein 16, 9000 Gent, Belgium.
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When we die, we dream of being reincarnated as Tom Pauwelyn’s Brussels waffle with langoustine, raw cream andshellfish jus. The chef behind Elders (ex-In De Wulf, Alberte), who has a slight air of Carmy Berzatto about him, and his sommelier partner Romy Deconinck, have swapped Alberte for this old pharmacy with a small garden on Van Beverenplein. With a blue-tiled facade and higgledy-piggledy letters as its sign, inside you’ll find Birkin on a record cover, a roast chicken-shaped vase, and a print declaring Let’s drink the sea and dance… Here, everything’s cool, but not forced – the dream spot! It’s the place to go for some all-day Sunday love: a poached egg drizzled in hollandaise sauce, served with leeks and brioche toast; dried/salted cod with sour blood orange and chili-spiced chard; and spring chicken with white asparagus and croquettes. And then there’s the lip-smacking lunchtime fare: chicory braised to perfection, breadcrumbed and doused in hollandaise sauce, pickled wild garlic blossoms and capers; an orgy of various roasted cabbages to make you go gaga for veg; masterful fresh pappardelle weaved with scallops and their coral; and the aforementioned langoustine waffle… ah! Goodbye, cruel world! // Romy Van Helden
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