Chef Seppe Nobels gave up running a fashionable Antwerp restaurant to launch an experimental project in the docklands called Instroom (Inflow).
His aim was to offer training to refugees from all over the world to enable them to integrate into Belgium.
His restaurant moved recently to the Academy of Fine Arts where international fashion students study. The five-course menu is inspired by recipes from the trainees’ homelands, with a focus on fresh local ingredients.
Derek Blyth’s hidden secret of the day: Derek Blyth is the author of the bestselling “The 500 Hidden Secrets of Belgium”. He picks out one of his favourite hidden secrets for The Brussels Times every day.
