restaurant review #425 – First time visit to this restaurant! Zwadderkotmolen is – well the name already gives it away – a restaurant located in an old ‘molen’ = mill. Although not really visible from the outside, one can still see remains from the mill inside the restaurant room!
It is in Oudenaarde, on the countryside, in between Kortrijk and Gent. We went here a couple of weeks ago, when we had to be in nearby Kortrijk. It’s not a vegan restaurant, but there’s a vegan menu standardly available (which is definitely a rarity in this region!).
The food was OK. It’s not really fine dining, but more like brasserie cuisine.
E.g. the main dish was potato mash with pieces of quorn* on top. Entree was rice with pieces of tofu on top.
The menu is very reasonably priced:
- 50 euro for 4-course menu
- 62 euro with drinks included (we had a bottle of sparkling water, a mocktail, a tonic and coffee/tea).
Which is very good value for money! (same price if you were to choose wine).
A very long wait though.
We arrived at noon and immediately ordered the vegan menu.
The entree came at 12.45, the soup at 1.30, the main at 2…)
We left at 3pm. (Very long, also considering the vegan menu is not that complicated or different from the non-vegan one, eg the main is practically the same with duck instead of quorn).
So that was a pity.
Very friendly service!
Accessibility: not accessible: steep stairs coming in, to reach the restaurant floor. No accessible toilet. Toilets clean.
One thing we found a bit ofputting: when we arrived on the parking, we were greeted by a half a dozen or so waste containers. Might want to consider a more out of sight place for those.
*yes, vegan quorn. Im no fan of quorn, and it had been years since I ate it. I was hoping of ordering a la carte, but the only vegan main I saw was this same dish. So my partner had most of my quorn too.
Zwadderkotmolen
Zwadderkotstraat 2
9700 Oudenaarde
website: https://www.zwadderkotmolen.be/
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