Judd mat Gaardebounen - smoked pork with broad beans (Luxembourg)

🇱🇺Luxembourg, Luxembourg

The Judd mat Gaardebounen Pilgrimage

Smoked pork collar, soft broad beans, a creamy sauce - the national dish of the country you keep flying over.

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Why this dish?

Judd mat Gaardebounen is collar of pork, brined and lightly smoked, simmered until tender and sliced thick, served with broad beans in a creamy, often bacon-flecked sauce and boiled potatoes. It's hearty, smoky and gently old-fashioned - the kind of dish a country keeps making because grandmothers insisted. Luxembourg has a national dish and almost no one outside the Grand Duchy has tried it.

That's the appeal. This isn't a queue-for-two-hours pilgrimage; it's a fly-in to one of Europe's smallest, strangest capitals - a fairy-tale fortress city built across a gorge - eat the thing the locals actually eat, and fly home having been somewhere genuinely few people go for lunch.

Our Picks

Brasserie Guillaume

Address: Place Guillaume II, Luxembourg City
What to order: Judd mat Gaardebounen with boiled potatoes and a glass of Luxembourgish Riesling or a local Bofferding beer.
Book ahead: Worth booking - central traditional spots are few.
Pro tip: Pair it with a Moselle wine from the Luxembourg side of the river; the country quietly makes very good Riesling.

Am Tiirmschen

Rue de l'Eau, Luxembourg City (Old Town)

Tucked in the Old Town near the Marché-aux-Poissons. Cosy, traditional, the place locals send visitors for Luxembourgish classics.

What to order: The Judd if it's on, or Bouneschlupp (green bean soup) and Gromperekichelcher (potato fritters).

Good to know

Luxembourg is small but not cheap, and direct flights are limited and pricier than elsewhere on this list - book early. The Old Town and the Bock casemates are walkable from the centre and worth the trip alone. Many traditional restaurants close Sunday/Monday; check before flying.

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