Matthieu Beudaert opens Chambres d'Amis in Kortrijk, à la carte
The Belgian chef has replaced Table d'Amis with a restaurant that drops the tasting menu, prices every dish separately and shares its rooms with works by Panamarenko.
Matthieu Beudaert opened Chambres d'Amis in Kortrijk on Friday 2 October, an à la carte restaurant on the first floor of the Oude Dekenij, the building where his Table d'Amis held a Michelin star.
The address is Sint-Maartenskerkhof 8, in the pedestrian zone beside St Martin's church. The restaurant's website states that there are no tasting menus: guests order dish by dish, and the menu changes with the day's produce. It is open from Friday to Monday, for lunch from 12:00 and for dinner from 19:00.
Prices posted by the restaurant in late September put starters at €29 to €34 and main courses at €42 to €65, with desserts from €15. Listed dishes include North Sea crab ravioli with stracciatella, Anjou pigeon with girolles and grilled turbot with vin jaune sabayon. The outlier is a Corne de Gatte potato with Oscietra caviar and shellfish jus, at €80.
The star went with the old name; the address, the chef and the kitchen stayed where they were.
Matthieu Beudaert swaps the tasting menu for a carte
Matthieu Beudaert, 48, started Table d'Amis in Kortrijk in 2009. He closed it for renovation on 1 December 2025 and, according to Made in West-Vlaanderen, the restaurant lost its star during the closure. On 5 June he announced that the name would not return. “The end of Table d'Amis is a considered decision, and it makes room for something new,” he said, as quoted by the regional business title.
The broadcaster Focus-WTV reported in June that the new dining room would seat 18 and that prices would sit somewhat below those of the former restaurant. The opening, first planned for the end of September, was set for 2 October, HLN reported.
His son Jef Beudaert runs the wine. According to the restaurant, he did internships at Nuance and Mondieu and spent six months at Domaine Georges Noëllat in Burgundy.
Panamarenko works hang in the dining rooms
The name comes from the exhibition that Jan Hoet organised in Ghent in 1986, De Tijd noted. The first show in the restaurant is a collaboration with the Panamarenko Foundation: curator Jo Coucke selected works and personal objects by the artist, among them the piece Panamarenko made for that 1986 exhibition. Some have not been shown publicly for almost forty years, the restaurant says.
A private room seats 6 to 14 around a table by designer Thomas Serruys. Matthieu Beudaert has a background in art history and is artist in residence at the KMSKA, the Antwerp fine arts museum, with which he produced the book Chef d'Oeuvre.
Belgium's Michelin selection changes through the year: Mero in Antwerp joined the Michelin Guide selection in September. For now Chambres d'Amis starts without a star, at an address that had one.
