Le Confessionnal

We ended up having lunch here almost by chance. Great atmosphere and food! There’s a great attention to details, from the food to the place itself. The service is amazing. It feels like a throwback to the past. Absolutely recommended 👍🏼

Truly superb. The food, setting and service were all a treat.

We were served drinks outside in the beautiful garden and a menu was brought to the table giving us time to translate everything!

Food was first rate, wine was quality and the price was very reasonable, certainly compared to London prices.

Would highly recommend to anybody staying near Dinant.

One of the best meals we have ever experienced. The menu is amazing. The dishes well prepared with fresh ingredients . It is so nice to enjoy a meal without a waiter pushing you between courses. The lamb was cooked to perfection with the meat soft as butter with a delicious crisp skin. The marrow, the mushrooms, green beans and a whipped and flash fried potatoes were extraordinary. The wine selection was solid as well as we code an Alsace Pinot Noir to accompany our meal. The restaurant is small seat Ii ng perhaps 24 people inside. The staff was kind and patient with our broken french. I find it amazing that some reviewers criticized the place for being all in french without any thought to how many places in the US would serve them solely in English. Besides I found the server very friendly and helpful. The place is amazing.

One of the most delicious meals we've ever had. The waitress was so lovely and the perfect host. I would highly recommend getting there as soon as they open because they get busy. Sit outside, have an aperitif and just ask and you may be lucky to get squeezed in like we did! So, so lucky.

My husband can speak a little French so we got by and there was an English speaking couple next to us. If you try to speak French it would be appreciated. A lot of native English speaking customers have this complex about restaurants not accommodating them or consider it's rude, it's not. Please don't expect that every place will speak English. You need to respect this whilst traveling and learn the language, even if it's just basic. You will be rewarded with a truly amazing dining experience!

We had two courses. Highly recommend the confit lamb shoulder. Simply, out of this world. Go here!

Very unique experience.. The food was amazing, set up was very authentic.. Hosts were very friendly and welcoming, but they don't speak English.

Overall totally recommend.

Make sure to make a reservation prior to your planned date by 3-5 days.. In our case dinner was fully booked for 2 weeks in advance..so we went for lunch reservations within 3 days.

I loved the ambiance of this small place, with a cow watching the world from the attic window. The service is very nice and helpful, when it started to rain everyone sitting in the outside could sit in a lovely vestibule - they brought us chairs. The vestibule is decorated in a way reminding of an old good country, with jars containing pickles, boxes full of apples, garlic hanging from the ceiling… Le Confessional has a real confessional in the yard and in general it is located next to the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Leffe, which was portrayed on the beer’s logo. The restaurant is in the Michelin guide.

Very nice restaurant. The food and the service was excellent! I can recommend it for everybody 😊

Very authentic restaurant, local food options and excellent atmosphere. Highly recommend.

Great for a quick lunch, Belgian cuisine, great quality. Friendly service. Next door to Leffe Abbey.
Has in&outdoor seating.
The interior has a lot if clutter, so it feels like grandma's house

Incredible place with amazing food!

Very nice restaurant with great traditional French food.

So I visited Le Confessionnal on a day trip to Dinant and let me say this, this restaurant was worth the walk from the town centre of Dinant. The service here was exceptional, they sat us outside for drinks before food and let us order from a menu (I wish I could speak French) and gave us a lot of time to Google translate the menu to English. Once our food was ready... well this is one of the best restaurant experiences of my life. The food was marvelous, good portioned, fresh and I felt was made with care from the chef. Also for what it was, the food wasn't expensive for what it was, in London one could spend this much and get half the quality and service.

I felt very much like I was invited to a dinner they were hosting and would love to come back.

Very cosy local restaurant serving quality food. Worth the walk from Town Centre.

We tried 2 entrees and 2 dishes which were amazing! The menu is frequently updated. The ambiance was nice and relaxing with friendly and happy waitress and chef. There were many beautiful and interesting pieces of decorations. We’ll come back!

The meals are genuine old-fashioned Belgian-French cuisine with a home-cooked touch to it. The flavours are a rare find. I had the rabbit with mustard ragout, and it was exquisite.

A mom and pop restaurant in Europe that may have irregular hours? I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you! [/s]

In other news, this is a GREAT restaurant. Super friendly service and delicious food. Everything we had was good, not a dud in sight. It is definitely at the more rustic (homey? traditional?) end of the restaurant spectrum and as that is clearly what they are aiming at, kudos.

And the decor? Wackadoodle in the best possible way.

All in all, a thoroughly charming restaurant.

Nice place but make sure you have reservation if you would like to eat 😊

It was wonderful experience! Great food! And very friendly stuff.. if you are in Dinant, you should eat here!

Small but very nice cafè - restaurant.
Everybody is very kind and friendly and very helpfull.
Near abbaye de Leffe, and serving the tasty Leffe beer.
When your in the surrounding, do visit!!
Recommended!!

Grandma’s kitchen. Respect for tradition and with great care for quality. Special respect for the waitress who managed the restaurant perfectly all by herself.