Witloof

Top choice in Maastricht


A decade after hitting the New York Times' list of world's trendiest restaurant concepts, Witloof still cuts the mustard with top-quality Belgian traditional food, an astounding beer cellar (do take a look!) and a tongue-in-cheek humour with decor worthy of a 21st-century Magritte.

Locals might struggle more than foreigners (for whom there's an English version) in deciphering menus which use Flemish dialect rather than standard Dutch, to suitably comic effect.


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