As a restaurant, we only work with seasonal ingredients and join the research team in fermentation and other food-related experiments in the Clean Lab. Our venue has an abundance of herbs growing on its grounds. We follow the growth of these herbs and even harvest a certain part of our vegetables and herbs in the Mediamatic Aquaponic garden.
Doudouce cutting the peppers in the aquaponics garden - 
We do our best to ensure a thriving garden, but seasonal means a limited amount of time. So we're currently fascinated by ways of prolonging the use of certain plants. We do this by using different techniques: fermenting, drying, pickeling... These will then be used up and coming months in our ever changing menus. We are also experimenting in creating different herbal oils: from watercress to mint, and syrup making.
We are dehydrating the big amount of herbs and leaves we grow in the Aquaponic garden. Once dehydrated we use the herbs to make tea that we serve in our restaurant (Malva, Pineapple sage, Lemon Verbena), or we make powders that give a finishing touch to our courses.
