Restaurant in Brasschaat, Belgium
Michelin-recognised lunch, four days only.
A Michelin Plate French contemporary bakery-café operating Wednesday to Saturday, lunch only, at the €€€ tier. Maurice holds OAD Cheap Eats recognition across three consecutive years and a Pearl Recommended designation for 2025. The strongest lunch proposition in Brasschaat for serious cooking without a €€€€ dinner commitment — book directly, walk-ins are plausible but the limited hours make advance planning sensible.
At the €€€ price tier, Maurice is one of the more interesting lunch propositions in Brasschaat: a French contemporary bakery-café that holds a Michelin Plate (2025) and a Pearl Recommended Restaurant designation for the same year, while ranking #231 on the Opinionated About Dining Cheap Eats in North America list. Those credentials suggest real technical ambition at a price point that doesn't ask you to commit to a full tasting-menu evening. If you want to eat well in Brasschaat without the ceremony and cost of a €€€€ dinner, this is where to look first.
Maurice operates Wednesday through Saturday, 11am to 3pm only. That's the entire operational window: four days a week, lunch service, full stop. There is no dinner, no Sunday brunch, no extended evening format. For a special occasion, that constraint is worth internalising before you plan. This is not an evening restaurant; it's a daytime destination with the kind of recognition usually reserved for places that serve dinner. The Michelin Plate and OAD rankings arrived against that narrow operating window, which suggests the kitchen is producing food that warrants attention regardless of the hour.
The French contemporary and bakery framing matters here. This isn't a bistro where you drop in for a quick croque-monsieur. The food sits somewhere between refined lunch and patisserie-level craft, and the €€€ pricing reflects that positioning. You are paying for technique and ingredient quality rather than tablecloth formality. For a celebration lunch, a business meal, or a date where you want serious cooking without the full theatre of a Michelin dinner service, Maurice delivers a format that is genuinely hard to replicate in Brasschaat at this price tier.
Google reviews sit at 4.7 from 78 ratings, which is a narrow but consistent signal of quality. A small review count can cut both ways, but combined with the OAD recognition across three consecutive years (Recommended in 2023, #233 in 2024, #231 in 2025) and the Michelin Plate held across two cycles, it indicates a kitchen that isn't coasting. The OAD trajectory is a modest upward move, but consistent presence on that list at a cheap-eats tier for a venue operating four lunch services a week is noteworthy.
Because Maurice doesn't serve dinner, the editorial comparison between daytime and evening experience is resolved for you: lunch is the full experience. That changes how you should approach a special occasion here. If you're planning a celebration dinner, Maurice is not your venue. If you're open to a long, considered lunch as the occasion itself, the format works well. A Wednesday-to-Saturday window with a 3pm close means you need to book with intent. Walk-in availability is plausible given the 4.7 rating and modest review count suggesting it hasn't yet hit peak demand, but given the limited days and hours, booking ahead is the sensible move. No booking method is listed in our database, so check the venue directly for reservations.
The address is Bredabaan 662, 2930 Brasschaat. Chef Kristen D. Murray leads the kitchen, bringing a French contemporary sensibility to a format that also incorporates bakery work. That combination of pastry craft and French technique is part of what makes Maurice a distinct proposition in this part of Belgium. For context on the broader Brasschaat dining scene, see our full Brasschaat restaurants guide. For Italian in the area, Sardis is worth considering as an alternative if you need a dinner option.
To calibrate expectations: Maurice earns its recognition at a price point and format that puts it in a different category from Belgium's headline restaurants. Boury in Roeselare, Zilte in Antwerp, and Hof van Cleve in Kruishoutem operate at a different scale of ambition and price. Willem Hiele in Oudenburg and Bartholomeus in Heist represent the kind of destination dining that warrants a longer journey. Maurice's OAD Cheap Eats placement is not a consolation prize: it signals that the kitchen is cooking at a level that earns recognition relative to price, which is exactly what you want when the bill is lower. For international reference points at the leading of French contemporary cooking, Le Bernardin in New York shows where that tradition peaks; Maurice is operating in a very different register but with genuine craft.
If you're staying in the area and want to plan around Maurice's lunch format, our Brasschaat hotels guide, bars guide, and experiences guide can help build a fuller itinerary. The Brasschaat wineries guide is also available if you want to extend the day.
Book Maurice if you want a Michelin-recognised lunch in Brasschaat at a price tier below the area's €€€€ dinner restaurants, and you're happy to plan around a Wednesday-to-Saturday, 11am-3pm window. It's a stronger fit for a celebratory lunch, a business meal that doesn't require evening availability, or solo dining where you want quality without a long tasting-menu commitment. If you need dinner, or you need a venue open on Monday, Tuesday, or Sunday, look elsewhere. But for what it does — French contemporary cooking with bakery craft, in a format that earns consistent critical recognition , Maurice is one of Brasschaat's clearest lunch recommendations. Also see nearby venues Castor in Beveren, Cuchara in Lommel, De Jonkman in Sint-Kruis, and d'Eugénie à Emilie in Baudour if you want to compare French contemporary options across Belgium. For a broader creative-cooking reference, Atomix in New York and Bozar Restaurant in Brussels sit at the leading of their respective categories and offer useful benchmarks for what serious lunch cooking can achieve at higher price tiers.
| Venue | Cuisine | Awards | Booking Difficulty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice | Bakery, French Contemporary | Opinionated About Dining Cheap Eats in North America Ranked #231 (2025); Michelin Plate (2025); Pearl Recommended Restaurant (2025); Opinionated About Dining Cheap Eats in North America Ranked #233 (2024); Michelin Plate (2024); Opinionated About Dining Cheap Eats in North America in Recommended (2023) | Easy | — |
| Boury | Modern Frlemish, Creative French | Michelin 3 Star | Unknown | — |
| Comme chez Soi | French - Belgian, Classic Cuisine | Michelin 1 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| Castor | Modern European, Modern French | Michelin 2 Star | Unknown | — |
| Cuchara | Modern European, Creative | Michelin 2 Star | Unknown | — |
| De Jonkman | Modern Flemish, Creative | Michelin 2 Star | Unknown | — |
Side-by-side comparison to help you decide where to book.
Menu specifics are not published in advance, which is typical for French contemporary formats at the €€€ tier. Maurice holds a Michelin Plate and OAD Cheap Eats ranking, so the kitchen earns its recognition on execution rather than novelty. Arrive ready to eat whatever is on that day — this is not a venue for picky eaters or dietary inflexibility.
Yes. A bakery-café format at lunch is one of the more comfortable solo settings in Belgian dining: no theatre-booking pressure, no odd-numbered seating problem. The Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–3pm window is easy to slot into a solo day in Brasschaat, and the €€€ price tier is manageable without a group to split costs.
It depends on what the occasion calls for. Maurice is Michelin Plate-recognised and Pearl Recommended, so it carries real culinary credibility — but it is a lunch-only bakery-café, not a dinner restaurant with tableside service and a wine list. For a milestone dinner, look elsewhere. For a deliberate, quality-focused weekday lunch to mark something low-key, it works well.
No group booking details are on record, and the bakery-café format typically means limited seating capacity. If you are planning for four or more, check the venue's official channels before assuming availability. The four-day, 11am–3pm window narrows your options if a booking can change.
For dinner or a broader Belgian fine dining comparison, Boury and De Jonkman operate at higher price tiers with full evening service. Castor and Cuchara offer alternatives worth checking if format or hours are a constraint. Maurice is specifically worth choosing when you want Michelin-level recognition at a lunch-only, bakery-café price point in Brasschaat.
At €€€ with a Michelin Plate, OAD Cheap Eats Top 250 placement in both 2024 and 2025, and a Pearl Recommended rating, Maurice delivers recognised quality at a price tier below Belgium's top-end dinner restaurants. The four-day lunch-only schedule is the real ask — if the hours work for you, the value case is solid. If you need evening availability, it does not work at all.
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