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Chef’s table Manon Schenck revels in surprise award as Michelin Young Chef of the Year By Sarah Crew
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a Table de Manon may currently be restricted to serving takeaway – ahead of the restaurant’s reopening in May – but Manon Schenck and partner David Delmas are celebrating two prestigious awards from the Michelin Guide Belgium & Luxembourg 2021.
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The stylish restaurant, in a charming village near Wallonia’s top tourist destination Durbuy, picked up a Bib Gourmand in December, followed by Schenck being named Young Chef of the Year in January. The latter came as a complete surprise, she says. “We were invited to join by video and told that journalists would arrive at the restaurants of the winning chefs. We looked around and there was nobody there. Within moments of the prize being announced a couple of cars turned up. I turned to David and said ‘I can’t stand up’.”
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