[02] Harvest log — Thursday 02 Oct
Cut when you order,
not before.
Each plate names the rack, tier and cell its leaves came from. Point at a dish to find it on the rack — the cell lights where the cook will cut.
- 0114
Butterhead, warm
Whole head cut at the table rack, brown butter, smoked eel, sorrel salt.
R03 · T1 · C06 - 0216
Red oak & beetroot
Oak leaf from tier two, beetroot cured in its own juice, hazelnut, buttermilk.
R03 · T2 · C03 - 0312
Basil, three ages
Microleaf, day-18 and day-26 Genovese — the same plant tasted at three points in its life.
R03 · T3 · C05 - 0426
Mizuna & langoustine
Raw langoustine, mizuna cut on order, yuzu kosho, cold dashi poured at the counter.
R03 · T4 · C02 - 0522
Pea shoot risotto
Carnaroli, pea-shoot juice, shoots cut eleven minutes before the plate leaves.
R07 · T2 · C06 - 0613
Strawberry, root & leaf
Alpine strawberries from the cellar wall, fermented leaves, sheep yoghurt ice.
R11 · T1 · C01
Seven-course rack menu €78 · counter seats only · changes nightly with the racks
CAB 02 · GERMINATIONDAY 5 · 24.0 °C · DARK“We stopped buying salad in 2024. The racks taught us what a leaf tastes like on day nineteen and how different it is on day twenty-six.”
Ines Verhaegen — head grower & sous-chef[03] Grow room — technical parameters
A kitchen garden, specified.
Nutrient recipe · leafy
- Nitrogen
- 150 ppm
- Phosphorus
- 50 ppm
- Potassium
- 210 ppm
- Calcium
- 180 ppm
- Magnesium
- 48 ppm
- Iron (chelated)
- 3 ppm
Light · 16 h photoperiod
- Blue 450 nm
- 18 %
- White 3000 K
- 10 %
- Red 660 nm
- 64 %
- Far red 730 nm
- 8 %
Water
- Recirculated
- 96 %
- Film depth
- 4 mm
- Day 0Sown in rockwool cubesGermination cabinet, 24 °C, dark.
- Day 7Moved to the racksNutrient film starts; 16 h light, 8 h night.
- Day 21–35Cut to orderOnly when a ticket names the plant. Nothing is pre-picked.
- Day 36Roots to the compostSpent cubes and roots feed the strawberry wall.
[04] Reservations — 28 covers, 8 at the rack
Sit by the racks.
[05] Visit — the cellar door left of the chapel
- Address
- Kloosterstraat 9, cellar door
2000 Antwerp, Belgium - Hours
- Wed – Sat · 18:30 – 23:00
Sunday lunch · 12:30 – 15:00 - Grow room tours
- Saturday 16:00, 40 minutes, free with a booking.
- Allergies
- Tell us when booking — the racks can be adjusted with three weeks' notice.