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    Chef

    Filip Claeys

    Chef and Owner, De Jonkman

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    Chef
    Based in
    Sint-Kruis, Belgium
    Portrait of Filip Claeys

    i. Biography

    Filip Claeys is the chef and owner of De Jonkman in Sint-Kruis, Bruges, where the restaurant is identified by Michelin as a creative dining address and by De Jonkman as his current base of operations. He is a founder of NorthSeaChefs, created in 2011, and the restaurant’s official site highlights his sustainability-focused approach and his work with North Sea fish. Michelin also notes that he is the grandson of a fisherman and that his work promotes lesser-known and accidentally caught fish.