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What others wrote about Restaurant Bisque in Groningen
Three guides and a magazine have written about Bisque in recent years, each at a different moment and with different people at the table. Their words, with score and year.
MICHELIN Guide 2025Gault&Millau 14/20Lekker500 2024, 2025 and 2026White Star from Star Wine List
What the MICHELIN Guide writes
Bisque is listed as a recommendation in the MICHELIN Guide 2025. The inspector wrote:
At Bisque everything is finely balanced: the understated luxury of the interior, the precision of the kitchen and the warmth of Sabrina, who welcomes every guest with natural ease. At the back, chef Niels Schievink steers his kitchen with a steady hand. Understated in style, precise in execution. A dish built around langoustine shows his signature at once: a perfectly cooked tail combined with carrot, yuzu and a soft bisque with fine notes of citrus. And whether you finish with a classic soufflé or his own interpretation of tiramisu, this less-is-more approach to French cuisine and ode to beautiful produce will stay with you.
MICHELIN Guide · 2025
In 2023 Bisque was new to the selection of the MICHELIN Guide. On 26 November that year the guide’s chief inspector wrote, after an evening at the table:
The soufflé with chocolate, hazelnut and vanilla ice cream at #Bisque in #Groningen. Already one of my best desserts of the year!
The MICHELIN Guide’s post, 26 November 2023.
Gault&Millau: 14 out of 20 points
In Gault&Millau 2025 we hold 14 out of 20 points. The inspector wrote:
[…] Niels Schievink and Sabrina Mans run their restaurant with visible enthusiasm. We open with a powerful, creamy langoustine bisque that immediately sets the standard. Then comes brill with al dente white asparagus, crisp potato crackling, parsley mousse and a spiced morel jus. The ravioli filled with braised oxtail follows on nicely: soft in texture, precisely seasoned and accompanied by a frothy cep sauce.
Gault&Millau · 2025
The bisque the review opens with is the sauce for the Langoustine Royale.
Lekker500, three years running
Bisque is in the Lekker500 of 2024, 2025 and 2026. The texts are on lekker.nl.
- 2024
In 2024, the first year after the takeover, the editors described the kitchen like this:
Niels works with fresh daily produce and cooks a pure cuisine cast in the French mould.
- 2025
In 2025 the verdict ended with a single word:
Chapeau.
- 2026
In 2026 the editors came to eat again. They mention the Langoustine Royale and the soufflé, and close with:
On the threshold of the Top 100.
Lekker500 · 2024, 2025 and 2026
Star Wine List
Since 2023 our wine list has carried a White Star from Star Wine List, the international guide to restaurant wine lists.
Star Wine List · White Star since 2023
In the press
Quote wrote about Bisque in December 2025 and gave five stars for service and for value for money:
Like a well-oiled team, Schievink and Mans prepare and serve fine dishes.
Quote · December 2025
On Google Reviews we score 4.9
as of September 2026
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