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Cosma is a contemporary restaurant at Befferstraat 24 in Mechelen, listed as Michelin Recommended in 2026. The same year it earned 1 Radish from the We're Smart Green Guide.
The menu opens with small plates built for sharing: loaded hummus with paratha flat bread, a salmon tartare taco with furikake cucumber, grilled octopus with salsa and lime. Starters include roasted king crab with thyme butter, venison carpaccio with chestnut and walnut, and beef tataki with ponzu and sesame. Guest reviews single out the tataki.
Beef leads the mains. There is a hand-cut steak tartare of Piemontese beef, dry aged for six weeks, plus a Simmental entrecote and a tagliata with rocket and Parmesan. Cod with cauliflower cream and samphire sits beside venison fillet with celeriac cream and cherry gel, and a wild boar ragout. Sides are ordered separately, from sweet potato fries with honey-mustard mayo to cauliflower with Cape Malay curry.
Sweet things go from rhubarb crumble with vanilla ice cream to pavlova with pistachio cream and red fruit. A cheese plate is selected by Schockaert. By the glass, the dessert list includes Pedro Ximénez sherry and a ten-year-old port.
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