This is the kind of place you’ll be tempted to keep all to yourself: a peaceful townhouse with all-white interiors, tucked away in a small Flemish Brabant town and surrounded by fields. Ring the bell and you’re welcomed in as if you were an old friend. Inside a dining room with the effortless elegance of a bouquet of wildflowers, sisters Judith and Astrid Van Snick provide radiant, attentive and impeccably warm service. Meanwhile, chef Tom Van Nieuwenhuyzen (a pastry chef by training) casts his quiet magic in the windowed kitchen. And what arrives on the blond-wood tables are delicate, self-assured plates that get straight to the point: corn falafel with creamy tahini sauce and a quintessential Flemish egg salad, to open the show; invigorating Irish oysters served with a rather pronounced seaweed butter; perfectly pink lamb fillet served with tender glazed carrots and new potatoes, all jolted awake by a mint and coriander chimichurri that lights up the whole plate; and for the sweet finale, a rich white chocolate mousse paired with freshly churned avocado ice cream. · Cléo Popina

FEELING THIRSTY? An Armand et Gaston oude gueuze from the 3 Fonteinen brewery (€17 for 375 ml) and a selection of high-brow wines at equally high-brow prices, like a Bourgogne aligoté from Sylvain Pataille (€65 a bottle) and a 2020 Barolo from Elio Altare (€125).
PRICE: Appetizers €22-29, mains €34-60.