April 11, 2012
Went there for dinner to eat and offcourse looked at the beermenu and tried som beers. the beer list goes from standard every day stuff to the little bit more refined beers and beers from smaller brewerys, some to name, De Ryck, Boon, 3 fonteinen, etc ... just the every day good stuff !! doesn’t always have to be extremly special !!
Anyway , the waiters were very friendly and very fast, food was also served fresh , hot very fast and it was surprisingly good ! it’s not a haute cuisine restaurant , but more like a speciality brasserie/tavern restaurant, bit more class than some regular brasseries/taverns, allot of beer or beer related found in the ingrdients of the platters, i for example had Orval Cheese Croquette, and a Stew made with De Koninck beer , really delicious and a serious bite too ! you wont leave this restaurant with an empty stomach.
Restaurant itself is main flour and upper flour pretty big with lots of seatings and a nice patio right at the entrance/main gate. Prices are very cheap when you know you get allot , i myself had a Mariage parfait, starter, main course and dessert and payed little over 30€ so that’s pretty damn good !
This is a place i’m going to visit again for sure , and if anyone out there who comes visiting Antwerp wants to know a place for eating typical Belgian Special Cuisine / Beer Cuisine , then this is the place to be !

April 3, 2012
As you walk in from the street you enter a small courtyard. On our visit, on a very cold Sunday evening in March 2010 the only thing in the courtyard was a huge gas torch flame for smokers to warm up on, the tables and chairs were stashed away for the winter. The far righthand corner hosts a small chapel, the entrance to the actual bar is in the far left corner. Once inside you see an almost square room set out like a restaurant and most people seemed to be eating on our visit, we had already had a Shwarma in an Iranian joint by the station. It was no problem just wanting a beer though, others were doing the same. Mixed crowd of customers, mostly British, with three Americans behind our table (it was the ZBF weekend). Beer selection and service were both fine, we were joined by a couple of British guys we’d met on the Friday in the ’Oud Arsenaal’ and crossed the road with them to finish off our drinking in the ’Vagant’, as did many others who had been in ’The Great White Eagle’.

March 25, 2012
Good restaurant located in a old nice building. We sat inside and enjoyed both food and beer.

February 5, 2012
Slightly upper-class restaurant with a decent enough amount of beers including a handful middling Proef-stuff that you have probably never had. Nice lounge-like & classier second floor where you sit, relaxed, not a bad place overall… Haven’t tried the food yet. Probably warrants a visit if you want to eat somewhere more beer-centric in Antwerp (although as I have mentioned before, I haven’t tried the food), do a couple of ticks or search a relaxed place which has actually room to breath which you wont find at the Kulminator or other more beergeek interesting bars in Antwerp except for “t Waagstuk most of the time, this is a touch more calmer but not in a bad “empty” kind of way, there are definitely more than plenty of costumers here. Friendly peopele - usually out of quite a few sours, no whales obviously.

February 1, 2012
Maybe a bit neglected by the beer afficionados, and that is definitely a wrong thing. First: Groote Witte Arend -as the opposite corner Vagantbar - is one of the very first places in Antwerpen ever to have intentionally served special beers at the dawn of the beerrenaissance - the first to serve Hoegaarden wit from Pierre Celis in the town centre, even. Second: they have always served some good beers, and even when they went through some lesser periods, Ronald Ferket and son Tim have taken reins seriously into their hands again, and it shows. Premium is that beercuisine is very highly regarded here, and the menu has always plenty of possibilities for the foodpairing adepts. The food has always been prime quality. Seen Ronalds’ past, Belgian traditional jenevers (gin) are very much to the fore, too.

October 11, 2011
A very nice location (had it’s own chapel).Decent aount of beers, good food. My waitress wasn’t that knowledgeable, but this may be a coincidence

September 27, 2011
Nice place, good selection of beers and very nice food. When the sun is out, the courtyard is just amazing with nice athmosphere and great (classical) music

June 26, 2011
One of my favourite places to eat in Antwerp with quite a decent selection of beers including their own kriek and blond and also 6 month old Orval.

May 21, 2011 [ Updated April 21, 2012 ]
Back on track after a decade in the doldrums. Used to come here 20 years ago as it was one of the few places to drink Westvleten - they no longer have that but the beer list is better than it has been for years and the ambiance is lovely. The food’s not bad either. Back to being one of Antwerp’s essential visits.

May 17, 2011 [ Updated July 3, 2011 ]
City central place located close to the Gothic cathedral. We passed the cosy beer garden and found our seats in a rather spacious room at the rear of the bar. With the classical music, including psalmody, white church candles and the bible we soon went into a kind of consecrated and relaxing state of well being. The beers we ordered from tap, Arend Blond and Moeder Overste, contributed to the laid back feeling. They had seven beers on tap and a very decent list of bottled beers (visited with Finn, 29.04.2011).