Simple, honest and good dishes. Top service in a nice surounding. For sure a come back bistro / restaurant.

Excellent location to be in the city and quickly on the beach. Top staff and management team, extremely flexible and helpful with a friendly personal touch. Great breakfast and very stylish rooms. The restaurant also offers excellent quality and each menu was of excellent taste....1a * - we will come back.More

The interior is promising, so artistic and beautiful. The food is good, nicely assembled dishes, much more creative and modern than the other Ostend restaurants. What ruined it twice now for us was the young waiter who’s heart is nowhere near serving customers... The idea...might be non-nonsense which is fine but this is plain arrogance and a ‘couldn’t care less’ attitude, shadowing our experience. We used to like the previous location which was more simple but definitely had more heart in it. Shame as it could be uplifted easily by employing someone kind...More

We came to this pearl of a restaurant for the simple reason that most restaurants in Oostende are closed on Sunday nights, Mondays and Tuesdays (sic). Belle de Jour was open on Tuesday and that's how we decided to come. Great idea. The art deco...style restaurant with discrete sophisticated jazz background music is a gem. Loved the food. Had the vitello tonnato, cod fish roasted with sweet potatoes, and the Irish ribeye with "minute" bearnaise. Loved every mouthful The restaurant design is made after celebrity local painter Jean Brusselmans.More

We visited this restaurant but it was at Madridstraat 9-11. We were in a hurry but the chef managed to knock out some inventive veggie meals of lentils, sweet potato and goats cheese. Not cheap but good quality. I'd like to go back with more...time!More

Tacked away in a not so inviting street at the back of the former main Post Office in Ostend, Belle de Jour is a genuine bistro with great food and a very decent selection of wines (although fairly expensive). The selection of dishes is somehow...restricted, but covers the whole spectrum (maybe not vegan though !!!). The flavours are excellent and the quantities are generous. Better have a starter to save a long wait before main courses are served, esp on a busy evening. Staff are friendly and helpful translating Flemish to English. Value for money. a bit on the expensive side but very much within Belgian standards.More