Inflight Magazine of Brussels Airlines

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Eat like a local and dine at one of these snazzy restaurants on the Brussels Airlines’ network

Jazzownia Liberalna

WARSAW
ulica Jezuicka 1/3, tel. (22) 9, www.jazzownia.com

For all its vaunted dining diversity, Warsaw’s historic Old Town has had little to offer discerning foodies who also appreciate modernist décor and soulful music. Not anymore. With the arrival of Jazzownia Liberalna, the neighbourhood has gained a sophisticated and contemporary restaurant with Polish leaning global cuisine, fine wines and live jazz concerts on Thursday and Saturday nights.

The fashionable crisp white interior is offset by blond wood floors and charcoal-grey and silver accents at the bar, while long flowing curtains and bright splashes of artwork impart a real creative air to the place. This same innovative spirit carries over to the kitchen, which delivers richly flavoured, artfully presented dishes such as golden fried crayfish stewed in wine and sour cream sauce and backed wild duck with cranberries. There is also a captivating but aggressively priced wine selection covering old and new world bottles in equal measure. Expect to pay around €60 for three courses for two, without drinks.

Anna J Kutor

Le Rince Cochon

BRUSSELS
386 chée d’Alseemberg, tel. , www.rincecochon.be

For an unpretentious little place sitting on the border between the Brussels communes of Forest and Uccle, Le Rince Cochon has a lot going for it. Wine of course is the immediate draw – the place was one of the city’s first vinothèques specialising in vin nature, or wine that hasn’t been filtered or chemically altered. But serving the full hog has always been Rince Cochon’s aim – according to Jef, one of the founders, ‘Wine is not worth much without the food to go with it’.

Le Rince Cochon has carved out a niche for itself as an excellent neighbourhood restaurant where the quality of the ever-changing culinary preparations is a match for the excellent range of vin nature that’s served with the meal.

An 8-year-old Crozes Hermitage with a fillet of buffalo. A Cheverny white with a confit of duck. A powerful Sardinian red with a seared tuna in a Jerusalem artichoke sauce… the combinations of surprising wines and innovative haute cuisine prepared by chef extraordinaire Matthieu are endless.

But the place is also a wineshop with magnificent window and interior displays. Given the quality, the prices of take-out wines are far from expensive (starting at €7 for a bottle of excellent Petit Bellane chardonnay white), and the place has a flat corkage fee of just €7, irrespective of whether you’re accompanying your meal with an €11 Mas des Chimeres or a €70 magnum of Anjou.

If you’re interested in wine, you should drop in. But stay for lunch or dinner and allow ‘the food that goes with them’ to give those new wines a chance to really excel themselves. James Kevin Mac Goris

Celebrity snack attack

Elizabeth Hurley launches her organic food range

Actress, model, businesswoman, mother, farmer and now foodie, Elizabeth Hurley launches her exclusive snack range designed to be the healthy alternative for the 21st-century. Initially consisting of fruit bars, oat bars and beef jerky (a taste she acquired while living in California), the fruit bars and beef jerky will have no more than 100 calories per snack with no artificial ingredients. With a whole portion of fruit in every bar, and some of the ingredients coming direct from Elizabeth’s farm in the English countryside, you can be sure that this is a taste of the celebrity garden. www.elizabethhurleyfood.com

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