I used to love the place - as you say, with a little bit of patience, you can have an amazing experience. However, they have recently introduced a fixed menu system for dinner which means that, for example, you cannot order only a starter and a main. It either has to be a starter, main and dessert or two mains and a starter or some complex third option - with the prices starting at 30 euro. Importantly, the menus cannot be shared. It effectively means that that your bill will be approximately twice as high as before (assuming you were a moderate eater).

I spoke to the management and they said that they were operating at a loss due to people ordering one dish to share among five (hard to imagine with the small portions but whatever...). We tried to explain that that's not fair towards their regular customers and that, as healthy eaters, we would love to order a starter and main each or share two 2 mains + a starter (35 euro each) menus between the three of us. The staff was completely rigid so we paid for our drinks and left the place.

I feel that it is a common thing around Brussels - if you have something great, go ahead and mess it up...