A dream come true for San Degeimbre as renovation of L’Air du Temps is close to completion
Apr 9, 2018
Six years after opening L’Air du Temps in its current idyllic location, in the middle of the Belgian countryside in Liernu, Sang-Hoon Degeimbre is set to embark on a new journey as he reopens the newly refurbished restaurant which will open the doors to many new possibilities. With a new dining room that is between the kitchen and the garden, clients are expected to get a completely new experience when they visit the restaurant next time.
“It is what we wanted to do from the start,” San told Food and Wine Gazette in an interview. “When we moved six years ago, we wanted to have the dining room that was connected to the garden but unfortunately, we did not have the budget to carry out that project. We wanted the guests to be connected to the garden.”
The project includes five new rooms which will bring the number of guest rooms in the farmhouse to 11.
The new space means that the guests will get a completely new experience when they go to L’Air du Temps. “Our idea was not just to change the dining room and making it central to the garden but also to be able to use all the space for clients to be able to move from one place to another also making use of the garden which is part and parcel of the restaurant,” he said. While the restaurant grows in space, it is not the intention of San and his team to increase the number of covers. They will continue to serve a maximum of 40 to 50 covers.
San will be working in an open kitchen, something that he had already done in his old location. “We have nothing to hide. We’ve had a camera in our kitchen for guests to see what was happening in the kitchen. But it is also interesting for us to see our clients and to be able to interact with them.”
San is also ready to start working more with vegetables also at the dinner table. “At the moment we may cut the meat at table but this is not done with vegetables and we want to change this,” he said.
