Restaurant in Wéris, Belgium
Game-focused Michelin star worth the drive.
Le Cor de Chasse holds a Michelin star and an OAD Classical in Europe ranking (422nd, 2025) for creative, Ardennes-rooted cooking under chef Mario Elias. At €€€ it delivers game, regional produce, and technically considered plates in a quiet country setting with on-site hotel rooms. Book well ahead — tables are hard to secure.
Picture a quiet Ardennes village where the pace drops, the forested hills close in, and a hunting horn above the door signals that dinner here will be structured around the land outside. Le Cor de Chasse earns its Michelin star not by importing a metropolitan playbook into the countryside, but by building its menu around what the Ardennes actually produces: game, regional breeders' meat, local duck liver, foraged roots, and seasonal fruit and vegetables that chef Mario Elias rotates throughout the year. If you are willing to drive to Wéris, this is a creative tasting-menu restaurant that justifies the trip on its own merits. If you need a flagship city address or a well-known dining room to justify the spend, look elsewhere.
Le Cor de Chasse sits at Rue des Combattants 16 in Wéris, a hamlet within the municipality of Durbuy in the Belgian Ardennes. The setting matters here more than it would at a Brussels address: guests are not just booking a dinner table, they are choosing to spend an evening in one of Belgium's quietest pockets of countryside. The restaurant also offers hotel rooms with personalised decoration and an outdoor swimming pool, which makes an overnight stay the natural way to approach a visit. Booking just for dinner is an option, but arriving the day before and staying the night after turns a single meal into a considered getaway.
The atmosphere is composed rather than animated. This is not a loud urban dining room where energy carries the evening. The mood is controlled, the room measured, and the experience is designed for guests who want to focus on what is on the plate. Sound levels stay low; conversation carries without effort. For food-focused travellers who find the ambient noise of city restaurants genuinely disruptive, the quiet here is a feature, not a limitation. It sits closer to a country house dining room than a destination restaurant making a statement with its interior.
Chef Mario Elias works within a framework that is regional by design. The name references the hunting season directly, and the menu reflects that honestly: game features when the season allows, but the kitchen's real signature is in how it frames the Ardennes larder at every point of the year. Local duck liver and bacon meet beetroot baked in a spruce crust alongside Jerusalem artichoke. Fish arrives with celery and truffle. Spelt risotto is built around dates, parsnip, and roasted buckwheat. A dessert takes its inspiration from the Guerlain Homme fragrance, working mojito, bergamot, and green tea into a course that reads as an intellectual exercise with a clear sensory result. This is creative cooking that stays accountable to its geography rather than using regionality as a marketing note while the plate goes elsewhere.
The Opinionated About Dining Classical in Europe ranking (422nd in 2025) and a consecutive Michelin star for 2024 and 2025 place this firmly in the tier of Belgian addresses worth planning around. A Google rating of 4.6 from 452 reviews suggests that the experience translates consistently to guests with varied expectations, not only to the specialist crowd that follows OAD rankings. That breadth of positive response is worth noting for guests who are travelling with companions less focused on the fine-dining circuit.
Belgium has a well-documented concentration of Michelin-starred restaurants at the €€€€ tier, with addresses like Boury in Roeselare, Zilte in Antwerp, and Hof van Cleve in Kruishoutem all operating at higher price points. Le Cor de Chasse at €€€ positions itself as the thoughtful Ardennes alternative: a starred creative tasting menu without the capital-city premium. For guests exploring the region around Durbuy, combining a meal here with the broader Wéris restaurant scene and an overnight stay makes practical and financial sense. The Wéris hotel options are limited, which makes the on-site rooms more strategically useful than they might be in a city.
For travellers building a wider Belgian fine-dining itinerary, L'air du Temps in Liernu offers a comparable countryside-rooted creative approach. Bozar Restaurant in Brussels serves as the urban counterpoint for those splitting time between city and country. If the Ardennes format appeals but you want to extend the trip further, Bartholomeus in Heist and Willem Hiele in Oudenburg are worth adding to the map for a coastal-to-countryside Belgian tour, while Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen and Arpège in Paris anchor the higher end if this meal opens an appetite for more ambitious creative cooking.
Weekend timing is the recommended approach for first-time visitors. The hotel rooms and outdoor swimming pool are most useful when you are not driving back the same evening, and the rhythm of the Ardennes region generally rewards staying two nights rather than one. Booking difficulty is rated Hard: this is a small-capacity country restaurant with a Michelin star, and it does not have the walk-in flexibility of a larger city address. Securing a table several weeks in advance is standard practice, and peak game season will tighten availability further. Check the Wéris experiences guide and Wéris wineries guide to build the surrounding day, and consult the Wéris bars guide if you are staying the night and want somewhere to go before or after dinner.
| Venue | Cuisine | Awards | Booking Difficulty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Cor de Chasse | Creative | With a name like that, it is obvious that the hunting season here is all about game. But also that you will find a nice piece of meat from a regional breeder. The chef makes sure that fruit and vegetables are available in all seasons. Local duck liver and bacon are carefully combined with beetroot baked in a crust of spruce and Jerusalem artichoke; fish with celery and truffle; spelt risotto with dates, parsnip and roasted buckwheat or also with a dessert inspired by the fragrance Guerlain Homme: mojito, bergamot and green tea. The restaurant also has some hotel rooms with personalised decoration and an outdoor swimming pool for a pleasant stay in the heart of the Ardennes.; Opinionated About Dining Classical in Europe Ranked #422 (2025); Michelin 1 Star (2025); Michelin 1 Star (2024) | Hard | — |
| 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 | — |
What to weigh when choosing between Le Cor de Chasse and alternatives.
Yes, and the venue is set up for it. A Michelin star since at least 2024, hotel rooms with personalised decoration, and an outdoor pool make this a viable overnight occasion trip rather than a dinner-only outing. The Ardennes setting adds seclusion that a city restaurant cannot replicate. For a milestone dinner where atmosphere and distance from daily life both matter, this works well.
Game is the through-line here — the restaurant name signals as much, and Chef Mario Elias leans into regional game and meat from local breeders. The kitchen also works duck liver and bacon with beetroot baked in a spruce crust, fish with celery and truffle, and a dessert built around Guerlain Homme's fragrance profile of mojito, bergamot and green tea. If you visit during hunting season, that is the moment to lean fully into the game-focused dishes.
Wéris itself has no direct Michelin-starred competitors, so the real comparison is regional or national. For a broader Belgian fine-dining benchmark, Comme chez Soi in Brussels carries significantly more historical weight. De Jonkman in Bruges and Boury in Roeselare are both strong creative-cuisine options at a comparable or higher level. If you are already in the Ardennes specifically, Le Cor de Chasse is the anchor destination.
At €€€ pricing with a current Michelin star and an OAD Top 500 ranking (ranked #422 in 2025), the tasting menu sits at a fair price-to-credential ratio for Belgian fine dining. The kitchen's range — from game and cured meats to spelt risotto and creative desserts — is broad enough that a multi-course format makes sense here rather than à la carte. If you are driving out specifically from Brussels or Liège, the full menu is the reason to make the trip.
Bar seating is not documented in the available venue data. Given the scale of the property — a country restaurant with hotel rooms in a small Ardennes hamlet — a full bar-counter dining option in the style of an urban restaurant is unlikely, but confirm directly before visiting. The better question for casual visits may be whether a shorter menu or walk-in table is available.
This is a destination restaurant in a genuine sense: Wéris is a hamlet, not a town, and there is no urban fallback if the booking does not work out. Book ahead, consider staying in one of the hotel rooms to remove the long drive back, and time a visit around hunting season if game is the draw. The cooking spans game, local duck liver, fish, and creative vegetable work, so it is not exclusively a meat-focused menu.
For €€€ pricing, a Michelin star, and an OAD ranking of #422 in Europe (2025), Le Cor de Chasse offers solid value relative to comparably awarded restaurants in Belgium's cities. The location means no urban convenience premium is baked into the price, and the hotel option lets you spread the cost across an overnight stay. The case for value is strongest if you are combining dinner with a stay — the drive alone at €€€ for dinner-only is a harder sell.
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