The 21 best restaurants in Bruges
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Chef Bernard Bonte creates haute-cuisine dishes with disarmingly simple titles: asparagus and Zeebrugge brown shrimps, truffle linguine with beech mushrooms, molten chocolate cake with yogurt sorbet and caramel – names that say little of their inspired combinations of flavours and artful presentation. The restaurant, in a grand old townhouse, is stylish and spacious, with elegantly simple Swedish design and wooden floors – the perfect foil for the subtle complexity of the dishes served.
Area: Steenstraat Quarter
Website: restaurantbonteb.be
Prices: £££
Reservations: Recommended
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- North Wales Live
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