restaurant review #571 – Some room for improvement here..
This is currently the only place in Bruges where you can have vegan vol-au-vent, a traditional Belgian dish.
The focus is dishes with chicken, and there is one vegan dish: vol-au-vegan.
So we both chose to have the ‘Belgian classic’ at 20.80€. You need to choose it with salad or fries. Which I find very strange (why not both? Like we traditionally eat it!).
We took the fries. They were confirmed to be baked in plantbased oil, the mayo was said to be vegan.
It took about 20 minutes for food. A seperate pot with fries & a pot with vol-au-vegan & a pastry on the side.
I immediately asked whether the puff pastry was also plantbased (because that is not so easy to find), and the waiter seemed a bit surprised and said he was going to check with the kitchen.
About one minute later he came and said there had been a mistake & apologised & took our plates away, saying it was not vegan (not only the pastry, but the whole dish). Luckily we hadn’t started eating yet …
So we were left with the fries and snacked on those for a while.
Then a while later, two new pots arrived, confirmed to be vegan. No pastry on the side though. We also didn’t get mayonaise with the fries (I suspect they don’t have veganaise – didn’t bother asking at this point).
The vol-au-vegan was nice enough. We highly suspect it is the vegan vol-au-vent from supplier stuff’d (have eaten it before at home and eating out).
The interior is very nice, spacious & relaxed. And accessible with accessible toilet (a rarity in Bruges). Toilets were clean & tidy. Service friendly.
Do take in mind it is a ‘chicken’ focused resto, which can be uncomfortable being vegan (chicken dishes, artwork, jokes, …)
At nearly 21€ I would love to have a vol-au-vegan with a salad AND fries AND pastry AND vegan mayonaise.
In sum:
- It can be an option if you are in mixed company (a family gathering, a business lunch), but I wouldn’t return just for this one dish.
- I hope they will increase their vegan offer and prevent mix-ups like we had.
~visit September 2025
Poule & Poulette
Simon Stevinplein 3, 8000 Brugge
website: https://poulepoulette.com/
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