De Ruyffelaer

Top choice in Ypres


Traditional local dishes are served in an adorable wood-panelled interior with old chequerboard floors and brocante (vintage) decor including dried flowers, old radios and antique biscuit tins.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Ypres attractions

1. In Flanders Fields Museum

0.21 MILES

No museum gives a more balanced yet moving and user-friendly introduction to WWI history. It’s a multisensory experience combining soundscapes, videos,…

2. Lakenhalle

0.22 MILES

Dominating the Grote Markt, the enormous reconstructed Lakenhalle is one of Belgium’s most impressive buildings. Its 70m-high belfry has the vague…

3. St-Maarten en St-Niklasskerk

0.22 MILES

Directly behind the Lakenhalle, this vast church was a cathedral until 1797 and was almost totally destroyed in WWI. Reconstruction has beautifully…

4. Museum Godshuis Belle

0.24 MILES

A single small chapel room featuring some unexpectedly high-quality medieval art, mostly religious.

5. Merghelynck Museum

0.3 MILES

Unrelated to WWI, this museum faithfully reproduces a French manor house dating from 1774 and is filled with period antiques and artworks. The catch: it's…

6. Gateway to Ypres

0.42 MILES

This excellent visitors centre should be your first port of call if you're a Commonwealth citizen looking for information about a family member who died…

7. Menin Gate

0.46 MILES

A block east of Grote Markt, the famous Menin Gate is a huge stone gateway straddling the main road at the city moat. It's inscribed with the names of 54…

8. The Last Post

0.47 MILES

Every night at 8pm, traffic through the Menin Gate is halted while buglers sound the Last Post in remembrance of the WWI dead, a moving tradition started…