The restaurant is located in an exultant patrician’s house in the Sint Antoniusstraat. A summer terrace – which also serves as a winter garden – and a stylish salon make this a very special house. But the wine cellar is especially unique.

The cellar is impressive and with much character, exceptionally suitable for drinking an aperitif with owner/chef Patrick Van Herck. In his open kitchen you will smell, see and taste the flavours of foie grass, shellfish, fresh vegetables, cheeses and desserts. Tell the chef your wants and desires and he will work his magic to make your personal menu appear on your plate, adjusted for your taste, time and budget.

Discover and experience Huis De Colvenier. This will become a personal and surprising experience. Open, French kitchen – “We serve class and quality at an honest price.” Patrick Van Herck is a top chef. Just like his teachers (Bruneau, Scholteshof, ’t Laurierblad, Belle Epoque in Leuven and Robuchon in Paris) Patrick swears by a French kitchen, giving it an own identity using the creativity he was born with. His menu follows the seasons, but asparagus, scampi and lamb remain at the core of the house.

The menu features daily-fresh products like foie grass, exclusive kinds of fish, game and homemade desserts. Discuss your menu with the chef while sipping your aperitif in the wine cellar. You can shorten the proposed menu or make it longer, choose the wine you prefer, your preference for fish, etc. The chef and his employees fulfill your wishes.

“Clear a path through the maze of snug little underground cellars and niches.” Let yourself be spoiled in restaurant Huis de Colvenier and don’t forget to visit the wine cellar. Take the stairs or the elevator and enjoy your before-dinner drink underground, right next to hundreds of high-quality wines, representing the whole world.

The wine list was established by Danny Vanderschueren, sommelier and wine ambassador 2007 and also the owner of the star-rated restaurant Folliez in the Belgian town of Mechelen.

The stylish and charming wine cellars date from 1897. In 2007 Patrick expanded his cellars. No fewer than 150 people can enjoy world-class wines, classified by themes for each country. Wine radiates elegance, prestige and quality. That is why this unique wine cellar is eminently suitable to add that extra touch to your event.

Aperitif

Reception with a tour of the wine cellar Champagne and horse d’oeuvres

First course: cold appetizer

Enjoy foie gras, Belgian veal and mixed small pieces of salad Jonagold apples and salad with nuts, sprinkled with honey vinaigrette

Second course: warm appetizer

Spooning light-creamy asparagus cream soup, pieces of lobster, scampi and scallops, perfumed with curry

Third course: warm appetizer

Sea bass baked in the skin with celeriac, together with Ostend grey shrimp Freshen up Granité of red wine and orange sherbet

Main course

Crispy lamb pieces with Flemish grain mustard with potatoes gratin

Cheese

Assortment of ripened cheeses with grapes and nuts

Dessert

Soft Doyonné pears filled with anise liqueur, Marie-Brizard, vanilla icecream and raspberry sauce

Coffee

Coffee or tea with sweets and Belgian chocolate 

Patrick Van Herck has a good, personal and permanent collection of wall paintings, paintings and etchings. He chose southern colours and playful murals for the summer terrace. A Mastenbroek mural shows a red parrot. Patrick himself dared to put in two of his own oil paintings. He painted a lobster’s antennae and a lemon peel over the frame. The result is playful and surprising. A gigantic cabbage by Antoon Verbeeck decorates the salon. Patrick also owns about 10 hand-coloured etchings by Thomas Ross, but he also has a painting by 19th century animal painter Karel Verlat and a collection of replicas of Joseph Linnig, the Antwerp 19th century landscape painter.