La Ferme au Faubourg Restaurant is located in Quenast, a village of Rebecq commune, some 33 km from Brussels centre. Rebecq has become a wealthier place during the last ten to fifteen years. There are some rich farmers around as well as younger families of professionals who work in the Brussels area. It is also a place where one can find some well-off pensioners.
These pensioners have some money to enjoy good food and one of their eating places in that corner of Wallonia is La Ferme au Faubourg. It is actually a good place for people with lots of time to burn as the service can be desperately slow. Today, it took about three-and-a-half hours to go through a two course lunch, plus an initial ready-made starter. That's an eternity, particular when the room is full, as it was the case today. In the end, I decide to go for coffee and dessert elsewhere, just to feel released and move free off my chair.
This is no place to go with young kids, because of the long wait and the type of menus that are too classic for children's tastes and preferences.
The food is good -- but certainly not as fabulous as the owners would like it to be --, the quality of the produce seems high, but the menus are also on the high end of cost scale. This is no cheap place. The house wine is a good option, at a reasonable price, particularly if one takes into account that the wine list is on the expensive side. The house white wine option is certainly a good choice.
The noise level is acceptable taking into account the crowd and the confined atmosphere of these old rooms in a farm from another era.
The restaurant has its own parking. That's appreciated.
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