This has been my favorite hang out for well over 15 years now. I do not longer live in Oostende,…read morebut when I did I would come here at least weekly and take all visitors. They have an impressive and entertaining beer menu where you can read the flavour and pick what you like. I am not so much a beer drinker but the Lindemans Kriek (cherry beer) van 't vat is the best in the world. It just tastes better than anywhere else I had it, don't ask me why. Once I organised an event here and they were so nice to let us use the upper floor for this. Great variety jenevers also, and in the winter I find the hot chocolate with amaretto quite the bargain. Table service can take a while but then you just go up to the bar... This is my favorite bar in the world. Also just the right noise level to still be able to have good conversations. I miss it. I want to go NOW!

I am very determined to put Belgium on tbe international YELP food circuit!…read more Friends brought us here as their specialty and longtime favorite place to eat in the seaside city of Oostend on the North Sea. It is an old world style restaurant similar to a pub and beer is definitely the thing here. They have a beer menu to make your head spin and spew pea soup trying to decipher. But, it is all excellent. The meal started with an amuse bouche, a seafood and mayo delight. There are also so many food choices that it is hard to select. Our friends recommended a seafood salad. It's a large tomato cored open and stuffed with tiny shrimp. There's endive and a light sauce. These shrimp are a type of delicacy. They are taken from the sand by horses pulling them out with some type of catch basin. It takes a very long time to shell these tiny creatures. They don't look particularly appetizing on a plate but they do taste good. As with any dish it came with fries, these were perhaps the best I've had so far. Plump and fried just right. I tried a local dark beer and it was excellent. For dessert I just had a coffee. The service was excellent. Friendly and very helpful. There's a hotel here as well. We were here at an off hour for lunch but imagine it fills full with locals and tourists alike.

Every wannabe North Atlantic resort has a strip of restaurants along its docks or oceanfront…read moredesigned to lure in the sparse and unwary tourist trade. Most of the establishments are adequate, but not very good. A few are excellent, but indistinguishable in their faintly forlorn facades. In Oostende, the strip runs from Visserskaii around to Vindictivelaan (a foreboding name, if ever there was one, for a restaurant row). The last time we were here, on a bitterly cold January afternoon, all of the brasseries were empty, except for 't Waterhuis, which barely fit us in. Apparently, this fishing port's locals, when given the choice of meals out, favor pasta over seafood, and that is what they serve here. The sauces are more Flemish than Italian, with strange ingredients like curry powder and mountains of an indeterminate rough-ground cheese. The food is actually quite good, if not great. The house itself was another matter. Built a few centuries ago to sell that most precious of seafaring commodities - fresh water - to passing trawlers, it sits on a vast, empty cistern. The water taps have been converted into light fixtures. With its dark Flemish decor and pleasant, if hurried, staff, it makes a warm refuge from the ugly weather outside.

So this place is the one of the best places I've been to in Belgium. The food here was out of this…read moreworld. We all had the beef stew made with St. Bernardus Abt 12 along with excellent bread and table fries. There was a salad in there for good measure and it was all around 20€. While I'll go back again for the food, and I will, their beer selection is next level along with their knowledge of beer. It's easy to find a place with good beer but to find a place with perfect curation and the knowledge to tell you all about what they have is a rarity. If you like beer and you're not going here you're a bit dim. Also, the building is very old with tons of character along with every other place around there but they take the time to tell you about their history too. Go here.

Five stars! That is far over the top. This is a nice traditional location, with good local food,…read moregood service, many local beers (sorry, not for me at lunchtime) and good service, all at a decent price. The woman managing was very flexible, because I couldn't face a full shrimp salad, so I got the half one I asked for. My companion had a fish soup with rouille which was good. Definitely a place to go back to but no a 5 stars place..

This is probably one of my favourite restaurants in town. Very good location (fancy lunch getting…read morefrom the train: step right in). Second time I visit this place. What's most important: the dishes are superbe! Maybe a bit expensive, but everything home made: every sauce, the fries, the ice cream, ...... Very fresh seafood, prepared with local ingredients....just divine! Excellent wine list: the Macon Fuissée is definitely worth a try! Next time I go there I will make pictures to top of this review.

We visited Barcelo yesterday( on a wednesday evening), and were very positively surprised…read more We went for the "Festival Tapas": Cold Tapas to start, Soup and Warm Tapas after. All food was very fresh, tasty and of the highest quality. Very Recommendable