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Many of the vegetables and herbs come from the owners' own gardens, more than one and a half hectares of them, and the shrimp on the carte are hand peeled North Sea grey shrimp. The set menus change month by month: winter plates draw on vegetables from the winter garden, while autumn brings partridge, wild duck, pumpkin and girolles. The gardens carry around 30 tomato varieties, green and white asparagus, uncommon cabbages and oriental vegetables, and a separate sheet of vegetarian suggestions runs alongside the main carte.
Potiron is listed in the We're Smart Green Guide, which singles out its range of vegetarian suggestions.
The impact dimensions
Low waste & circular practices
Sustainable animal products
Own vegetable gardens supply the kitchen; meat and fish are sourced regionally and internationally.
More than one and a half hectares of the owners' own vegetable and herb gardens supply the kitchen. The Michelin Guide listing corroborates the garden independently, and the We're Smart Green Guide entry details its range, around 30 tomato varieties, uncommon cabbages, several lettuces, green and white asparagus and oriental vegetables. The carte adds two regional products: hand peeled North Sea grey shrimp and polder potatoes. A regional guide reports close collaboration with local farmers and suppliers who share the same values, without naming any of them.
The beef is named by producer (Txogitxu, Xavoria, Carima, Alpenrund) but sourced outside the region, and several fish lines, among them yellowfin tuna and snow crab, are imported. One key category, vegetables and herbs, is fully traceable and grown on site, while meat and fish origin is largely non regional.
Monthly set menus rotate with seasons; a la carte carries year-round classics.
The Gault&Millau Belgium entry lists the house menus as monthly menus at three, four and five courses, so the set menu rotates at least twelve times a year. Seasonal composition is visible across the published menus: partridge, wild duck, butternut pumpkin, girolles and rhubarb on the autumn carte, and a festive menu built on venison with vegetables from the winter garden. The restaurant states that it always works with day fresh vegetables and herbs, many of them from its own garden, which ties supply to the harvest.
Own vegetable gardens and in-house preservation; electric vehicle charging.
The kitchen grows its own produce across more than one and a half hectares of vegetable and herb gardens, a self supply practice that sits inside this dimension's regenerative scope and is corroborated by the Michelin Guide and the We're Smart Green Guide. Preservation is part of the kitchen's working method, with salmon smoked in house in a wood oven, and the Gault&Millau facilities entry lists an electric vehicle charging point.
Named beef producers with ageing; hand-peeled North Sea shrimp; unqualified imported fish.
The carte names its beef by producer and ageing, including Txogitxu Extra, Xavoria, Carima and an Alpenrund entrecote salted and aged for 21 days, and it uses hand peeled North Sea grey shrimp, a regional species with a traditional handling method. Salmon is smoked in house, though its origin is not stated. The same menus also carry yellowfin tuna, snow crab, lobster, turbot and Dover sole with no qualification attached.
Family-run 25 years; 2009 vegetable-restaurant award; gardens open by appointment.
Potiron is presented as a long running family business. The house passed through three generations on the same site, from a village cafe with one of the first jukeboxes in the village, to a fish restaurant, to the present restaurant since 1999, and the owners describe a close and talented team and 25 years of running it together. The vegetable gardens can be visited by appointment. The We're Smart Green Guide entry records a 2009 award as best vegetable children's restaurant, given for child friendliness and vegetable based children's cooking.
Seven dedicated vegetarian dishes, vegetables in every course; main carte meat-centred.
Potiron is listed in the We're Smart Green Guide, which describes the gardens' range, around 30 tomato varieties, uncommon cabbages, several lettuces, green and white asparagus and oriental vegetables, and states that the choice of vegetarian suggestions is worth the detour on its own. The restaurant publishes a dedicated vegetarian page carrying seven dishes, among them cauliflower pizza with cheese and rocket, celeriac soup with hazelnut and caramelised chicory, carrot labne with fried tofu, pumpkin risotto and a soya and spinach stew, with the chef stating that vegetarian food is no longer the wallflower of the restaurant menu. Vegetables are also written into the animal dishes, from roasted cauliflower with ginger and soya to a nettle and wild garlic mash.
The main carte is structured as nine meat and seven fish mains with no vegetarian section, animal proteins remain the more prominent half of the offer, and vegan dishes are not documented.
Sourcing signals
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Direct named-farm sourcing
Own 1.5-hectare garden with 30+ tomato varieties, uncommon cabbages and oriental vegetables, visitable by appointment.
Named beef producers Txogitxu Extra, Xavoria, Carima and Alpenrund with ageing periods.
Bread baked daily, salmon smoked in house wood oven, pastry and ice cream made on site.
