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Restaurant Tijdok: delicious fish cuisine The restaurant has been run by the Pauwaert family since 2008, so you can say that this is a family business. For example, mother Nicole is the hostess, assisted by her son Marino, who is responsible for the service in the room and daughter Marianne is the chef in the kitchen. Lifelong knowledge and experience in the fishing industry have prompted the family to establish a true fish restaurant at the Tijdok, the former fishing port where the historic heart of Zeebrugge fishing is located. It goes without saying that here you can taste the sea as we have always known it, full of delicacies that are often forgotten due to the contemporary influence of other continents. Why should we eat scampi when our shrimps are "the gold of the North Sea"? What's better than our North Sea crab? No king crab for us... In short, you should definitely come by and try it. Tijdok is located on the old fishermen's site and is also the ideal location for a beautiful walk or bike ride at the harbor.
"Always stood among the fishermen"
"Both my great-grandfathers, my grandfather and my father, were fishermen and shipowners, I have never known anything different. As a child, my brother and I would go on a boat fishing for shrimp." "As a child, I always wanted to be a chef. After high school, I trained as a chef in Ostend, but I worked for the shipping companies for a long time. At the age of 35, I finally decided to make my dream come true and I I started my restaurant here, at the Tijdok where all the shrimp fishermen used to be." "I work exclusively with fish supplied by Flemish fishermen. We do not receive fish from other continents. We are known for the fresh, self-peeled shrimps. What is on the menu in Tijdok follows the rhythm of the fishing." "If you respect yourself as a fish chef, you have to work according to the seasons. The delicious pure taste of fresh fish from our North Sea, a garden full of delicacies." fragment article the coast (2014) chef Marianne Pauwaert
