Erik De Jaeger

Review of De Zeven Zaligheden

Although the name seems inviting, and the space wh...

Although the name seems inviting, and the space when entering appears to be much larger than you originally suspected, ... we have had our first negative experience here. We opted for the fish variant on the 8-beat menu. Barely started with the aperitif they were already ready with the starter (shrimp croquette). A lot of croquette and some (pieces of) shrimps. Again quite quickly followed by the eel in green (letdown: spinach from a pack and eel boiled in water). Dessert was not bad; but what do you want: sugars make a person happy (but it was too sweet, not finely finished ...). The fast train of serving, stopped as soon as the coffee was drunk ... And then there was no one asking if an extra was needed ... At checkout it even turned out that the table was already "closed" ... If we were already wanted to leave without paying, no one had noticed. We are left with mixed feelings: there will of course be very satisfied people who will gladly return here. We do not belong to that today. For a moment we even considered not to award a star, but then I could not write this down. Apart from all the rated or unrated restaurant / brasserie / ... visits that we already had in Ghent, this is indeed the least good experience in a long time ... There is oi potential present but we have that on our visit hardly experienced.