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Les Potes au Feu is a modern French bistro at avenue de la Plante 4 in Namur, Belgium, and Gault&Millau gave it 14 in 2026. The card is written with four hands, and the chefs bring the plates to the table themselves.
Damien Gorjanec and François Schepens met as teenagers behind the stoves at La Plage d'Amée in Jambes. Today they run this bistro together. The kitchen works with local, seasonal produce and serves it at a leisurely pace.
Le Fooding praised a borscht with bacon foam and a veal tenderloin with shellfish sauce and a risotto tuile. The meal ends with a yogurt sorbet served with gingerbread and mango butter. Dishes leave the open kitchen one by one, so the stoves stay in view.
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Between the Meuse and the Route Merveilleuse a tale of friendship is woven, one that doesn’t come along very often. The friends in question? Damien Gorjanec and François Schepens, who met as teenagers behind the stoves at La Plage d’Amée in Jambes, and found themselves chef-proprietors of this refreshingly modern bistro 14 years later, whose gastronomic meals sure hit the jackpot. First to fire out of the open kitchen, two appetizers: a crazy parsnip and parsley root cream, and a clever gingery chicken bao bun with a honey-Sriracha glaze. Then followed, at a leisurely pace: a brilliant borscht with bacon foam; veal tenderloin with a shellfish sauce and a risotto tuile; finishing with a comforting yogurt sorbet flanked with gingerbread and mango butter, cream and jelly. Added bonus: the relaxed welcome and table service by the apron-clad chef’s themselves, all of which left us burning for more. // Jessica Fletcher
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