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Unique, authentic, artistic

“Unique and authentic experience in an original, artistic setting. While the spectre of monotonous design and measured uniformity has disconcertingly taken hold of the Ostend hospitality industry with its soulless banality, at chef Els you will find a bold combination of artistic, musical and, above all, culinary taste: seemingly coincidental attributes and details in the interior betray the ambition to pay homage to Jean Brusselmans' colour palette, while jazz, blues and the better French song allude just as beautifully to what is the soul of Ostend. The Ensor menu also continued to amaze with highly inventive and daring ingredients (freshwater algae in a Pavlova?), served each time as picturesque pieces of art (did Ensor himself have a hand in that Pavlova exploding with colours and flavours?), accompanied by an interesting choice of wines, which left the clichés and snobbery of wine culture miles behind (a Greek rosé? to go with an exquisite bisque of Ostend shrimps, beautifully served in a red coffee pot). From start to finish, a breathtaking journey through Els' idiosyncratic palette, who drapes it all richly with a fine dose of humour in which, as by her culinary inventions, you're happy to be led astray. We will come back, including to the fine hotel room that also effortlessly leaves behind the platitudes of contemporary hotel decors.”