Monday, October 03, 2005


The Colors of fall in Anvers. This is De Kaai. By far my favorite restaurant in Antwerp. �Sharing� diner with the kitchen crew is thus a special honour. They really make the best of the limited menu the place offers at all hours of day and night. You should try their house salad that involves grilled honey and nuts covered apples and fresh goat cheese and ham, lettuce and several layers of mixed nuts, mango and melon with a delicate yoghurt sauce or even better their grilled tuna with vegetable tagliatele in basil and olive oil sauce. The mussels are in league of their own, as are the spare ribs.

I spent many hours after lunch or diner drinking their more then decent house red. I found out that all my friends enjoy sitting lazily on the terrace overlooking the estuary having really old simultaneously rustic and baroque ship loading cranes in the foreground and the apparently tiny shapes of giant contemporary dock cranes in the background. Watching the sun play hide and seek with furious clouds and having the time measured only by the constant stream of tugboats and yachts on the river has a calming effect.

Just the other weekend, after not going there for more then two month, the waitress not only remembered us but also the table we sat at. The staff is more then happy to share a joke and despite being rather busy we never failed to find a table.
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