PORTRAIT. Nick Bril, became a cook thanks to a broken moped and now with ‘The Jane’ on 23 in the list of best restaurants in the world

The time has come: the Antwerp star restaurant The Jane rolled into the top 50 of ‘The world’s 50 best restaurants 2022’ for the first time, and that immediately in place 23. That was decided on Monday evening by more than a thousand culinary experts on the live broadcast of the same name. British award show. All credit to The Jane’s showrunner and star chef Nick Bril. But who is he exactly? How do you climb to the realm of star chefs as a fourteen-year-old dishwasher? And why did the break with Sergio Herman and Covid make him a better person and chef? We asked both Bril himself and his staff.

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