a'Muze — Restaurant in Opwijk

Sharing my feedback from my last visit on October 18th. Over the past 6 years aMuze used to be one of my top favorite restaurants, on each visit I was used to leave with great memories about aMuze : the exceptional service, great food, balanced taste and attention to details, but my last visit was a total disappointment from all points of view and this really made me to change my full perspective about this restaurant. Given was my husband birthday I wanted to spend an evening on a nice and elegant ambiance but this turned out to be our biggest disappointment:

1.First of all, I took a menu that I usually use to take: Menu of 5 courses. After I ordered my menu, on my table was forgotten the bread and butter, although on my neighbors tables there was already the bread and butter and some of them came after us. Finally the bread was brought at the same time as the first course. The waiters were walking lost around with plates and didn't know where to distribute the dishes..on my table they brought 2 times the Makreel dish no 2 , the blond young lady left my table with the double dishes .Actually I had to call and bring to her attentions that the Makreel dish no 2nd was brought the 2nd time , she apologized and walked lost around to find out to whom belongs the dishes 🙄 and it turned out it was for the table next to us. All night was a full circus 🤡with them walking around and didn't know where to put the dishes.

Used with the former old dishes présentation but this time the dishes were poorly presented, especially the Kalfswezerik was purely a joke. When I started to eat I was deeply disappointed with the presentation. Some cabbage and 2 olives sized cow meat. I asked the main restaurant manager to confirm if the dish was exactly what it was supposed to be? He asked if I wanted more food ?? I wanted to ensure that I didn't come to a fast food restaurant and my intention wasn't to leave with a full belly but basically on Saturday night the dishes were poorly presented and we're never in the same quantity/ quality.

The next dish where I was supposed to have the steak knife FAZANT my meat came very low cooked. In the past, each steak meat was super delicate, and with a velvety texture, when you ate it it really melted in your mouth. This time basically I saw the blood on the meat, the meat texture was tough and I personally couldn't eat it In my past visits I always used to take a bottle of wine along with the menu but this time given I am pregnant we opted for a version for a single good quality red wine glass only for my husband. I remained to drink water and non alcoholic aperols. At one point a young waitress asked my husband if he wishes another glass, and my husband mentioned that given he's driving will remain at one glass. At the moment of the bill we were surprised to see on our final bill some extra wine glasses. My husband went to the counter to find someone and ask for some explanation of the extra ones.The reaction of the blond lady with a sparkling top was défensive in the sense that made my husband feel like he was lying. She asked another colleague to confirm if our table 100 % has received only one glass. In the end of course it turned out that he took only one glass so the extras were removed. But I had to pass through this shameful situation. In the past visits while the restaurant was fully booked and it was managed previously only by 2 people ( before was the élégant, middle size guy, always wearing the jackets, with an excellent English , even the menus were presented in English) I never felt a problem, or bad service but this Saturday were 5 people and all of them walking like in circus party. I used to leave 20 €tips but this time I left with a big disappointment. I don't go out to restaurants every day, but when I go I like to frequent gastro restaurants that offer quality to their customers. I've always had the impression that aMuze falls into this category, but my last visit really left a bitter taste...

Excellent fine dining (photos with the comment are ordered from bottom to top) The modern look of the resto still did not forget important details (like a ceiling to decrease sounds, an elevator for those who need this, a kitchen with a window so you could see the cooking,...). We came across this resto with the special promotion of "dining with the stars". Every single dish was refined, even the bread was extra-ordinary, the butter was beautifully presented. There was toast with tzaidziki (but not as you know it, a really refined version), the appetizers (mussels, spicy soup with tomato & paprika nicely finished with a creamy spuma and taco's with smoked spicy chicken). The first course: mackerel was grilled with a crusty skin with sea salt and tomatos with apple capers. The second course was sea brass with clamps and rucola and zucchini's. The main course was perfectly cooked duck with a puree of pumpkin & carrots, the aspargus, carrots & parsnip had this perfect little bite, the slices of carrots & radish were marinated and slightly sour, this dish came with an oriental tasting quinoa and a sauce which was sooo good, we really adored the sauce. Nice touch is the possibility to order customized wines by glass or even by half glass. The dessert with "baba au rum" was infused with coconut, the mascarpone and the sourness of the mango & passion fruit with coconut ice made this a great dessert (although I am not so much for sweet tastes I really enjoyed this dessert). Definitely a place...

Kan beter. Geen kruiden gebruikt bijna door de kok.... Vis in combinatie met rood vlees (wild????) mooie borden maar dat is het zowat. Bediening oke maar als je zegt dat je geen rood vlees lust dan krijg je als antwoord van de bediening dat het zo hoort te worden gegeten.... Heb het bord teruggezonden en ze mochten het vlees er gewoon vanaf doen dan. Zonder vragen look gebruiken en 85 % van de wereldbevolking lust duit niet, kent dit niet of gebruikt dit gewoonweg niet. Ik heb niets tegen mensen die dit graag lusten maar dan moeten dit wel vragen en of vermelden aan hun klanten of dit mag of niet mag worden geserveerd.

Och ja: we hebben het dus ook meegenomen dit restaurant maar dit is niet voor herhaling vatbaar...