Culinary facts

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Culinary favorites

I am a flexitarian gourmet, a 'hobby chef', but I don't have a sweet tooth and therefore I'm not a dessert person...

My preferred kitchen concept is all gastronomic, creatively conceived dishes with natural and preferably local (!) (picked) ingredients.

Authentic, honest, and eco-local are very important. I absolutely hate any form of fast food or "tourist menus"! I encourage fusion food.

Scroll down for my favorite cuisines, drinks, and restaurants.

Kitchens: Thai, Italian, Belgian. But also French, Mexican, Greek…
Soups: Tom Kha Kai, my gazpacho Andaluz, my minestrone
Pastas: aglio-olio-peperoncino, crudaiola, arrabiata, linguini con le vongole, canelloni della moglie, the real Bolognese. Every honest ! Italian pasta actually.
Salads: Caesar salad, Greek salad, my leftover salad of the day with mayo + fine Pugliese olive oil
Vegetables: The tomato. A day without a tomato is a day not lived. Spring onions. All kinds of lettuce. All kinds of mushrooms and snow peas… Every vegetable, really.
Herbs: Garlic, coriander, lemongrass, galangal, chili (and other spices)
Meat: all free-range poultry, game and game
Fish: it doesn't really matter. Fresh. North Sea fish, and especially our gray shrimp, oysters, and mussels. Crab and lobster. Red snapper. Grilled cuttlefish. Caviar.
Favorite Fruit : Everything, berries especially, lime, Granny Smiths
Special treats from the woman: Her mayonnaise, pasta and Cannelloni al Forno

Wine: As a "Burgundian" and wine lover, I cherish a cellar with over 420 bottles. These come from 60 different French wineries and estates for red wine, 23 for white, 60 for Italian red, and 10 for white. And also from 16 Spanish wineries for red and even more in various other wine countries. Who's helping me drink it?
Beer: As a beer lover, I especially like Duvel, Omer, and Brugse Zot. For summer thirst: a simple, perfectly tapped, fresh Jupiler.
Cocktails: Margarita, Bloody Mary, Manhattan
Special aperitifs (according to the mood and the weather) : ouzo, rum or similar based drinks (mojito, caiperinha, rum punch)
Liquors: don't ring a bell anymore. Previously: whisky + ginger ale, gin and tonic. Now, occasionally, a real Italian amaro. And exceptionally: Baileys (original salted caramel) when you want to snack instead of drink.

Restaurants/bistros Bruges:

Bruut (top-notch), Patrick Devos, Chez Raymond

and so many others