De Roopoorte — Restaurant in Bruges

Do not go here. Let’s start with the overall summary. We asked for extra plates to help share our food, and we got 4. We were surprised to find a 10 euro charge. They did not tell us they will charge you 2.50 per plate. Also, Ketchup and Mayo is 1.50 each. Let’s be real here, what Belgian doesn’t give you mayo with their fries? No Belgian is eating plain fries. It took 35+ minutes to recieve the food. Lastly, he offered to waive half the cost of the plates if I didn’t write a bad review? We ended up paying it after a long argument.

I am committed to truth. I promise you, I even risked the ire of my own father by arguing him about honesty. Let’s zoom in on the incident in question We asked for an extra plate to share, and he was like “how many?” My mom then asked for four. Why didn’t he think to tell us it would be 10 euros? I understand it says 2.50 per plate in the menu. One, who is scanning the menu for exactly how much everything is. Two, why wouldn’t he tell us? 4 plates is arguably too many plates to have, so shouldn’t alarm bells ring in his head louder than the carillon bells ring throughout Bruges? Finally he offered to waive half the cost of the plates if I promised not to write a bad review. Ay, there’s the rub. He doesn’t even care about his own policies. He would rather compromise his own morals if his reputation be saved. My integrity as a food critic will not be compromised by 5 euros. You can trust my honesty considering the fact that my father claimed he never asked for four plates, but then I corrected him, resulting in him yelling at me too. The guy at restaurant looked at me sympathetically, as if I would save him from my angry father. Unfortunately, he was wrong. He will be attacked by my pen and power as a critic.

It was a cloudy and drizzly day in Bruges. It appears that if honesty rained down, he would be holding an umbrella. Come here and expect to be served a plate of food full of flavor and...

We had the lunch set menu which was acceptable but not great. We were sitting outside and after waiting a while I had to go I to tell them we were ready to order as it appeared we had been forgotten. We ordered starter and main and while I was nearly certain no dish had nuts (as l'm allergic) I checked and he confirmed that was correct. We asked what the dessert of the day was that goes with the daily set menu and he said chocolate mousse. He returned to ask how I wanted my steak done (he ran off quickly the first time he took the order). He returned a 3rd time to ask if I would like mushroom sauce. I asked if there was another sauce and he said pepper sauce. I had pepper sauce -there may have been other sauces as well but he seemed reluctant to mention more than one sauce. After main meal he came back to day we couldn't have chocolate mousse as there were nuts in the mousse. I expressed my surprise as l've never heard of nuts in a chocolate mousse and I said ok but I said but my partner isn't allergic so she'll have the mousse. He then said there was no mousse left so she couldn't have it (it seems like he lied to us about the nuts being the reason I couldn't have the mousse). He gave us a waffle instead which was of a lesser quality compared to the one we had from elsewhere the day before. P.S. the signage makes a point of the restaurant being decades old yet I heard him ask an older to post a review as the restaurant was new. Interesting that he didn't ask us to...

I have no idea how this place has 4-star reviews. Terrible food and service; the waiter was also rude! We could tell he didn’t like people of colour, as evidenced by his behaviour and rolling his eyes at us. Pure racism! My friend and I were visiting Bruges for the first time, and we were so excited to have our dinner. We went to this restaurant, we ordered a starter and OMG! We were shocked, disgusted, but also laughing at the same time because of what he served us! Do they even know what Bruschetta is?? Their menu says, “ Crispy toasted bread topped with fresh tomatoes, basil, garlic and olive oil” Please have a look at the picture and tell me if you can say, ‘ yes, that’s bruschetta!’ When did basil start looking like lettuce? 😂 Now we laugh about it, but at the time, we were extremely annoyed and disappointed. We got ready for this? To pay €14 for what? To eat Bread straight from the packet with tomatoes and lettuce on top?!!! If the owner is reading this review, please speak with your chef and instruct your staff to be more polite, friendly, and respectful, and to refrain from any racist...