Since 2017
The story so far.
How a small kitchen on Muntstraat became a table for the whole city.
It started with a stone oven and a lot of opinions about pizza.
La Favola opened in 2017 on Muntstraat, a short walk from the Oude Markt, with one non-negotiable: a real wood-fired stone oven. Everything else — the blossom trees, the tufted banquettes, the stone walls — grew around that oven, one dinner service at a time.
Leuven is a student city. We built the menu around that.
It's an easy assumption: candlelight and stone walls must mean expensive. We priced the menu the other way around — pizza from €12, a full plate of pasta from €21 — so that a Tuesday dinner with friends doesn't need a special occasion to justify it. Professors, first-years, and everyone's parents visiting for the weekend end up at the same tables.
A kitchen that still cooks like a family kitchen.
Dough is stretched by hand, sauces are built from scratch, and the pasta list still leaves room for the classics — ask for a carbonara or a bolognese even if you don't see it printed. We keep gluten-free pasta on hand, too.
What matters to us
Cooked to order
Nothing sits under a heat lamp. Your pizza goes in the oven when you order it.
Priced to return to
A great table shouldn't be a once-a-year splurge. We built the menu so you can come back next week.
Open to everyone
Students, staff, families, first dates — La Favola was built with all of Leuven in mind, not a slice of it.
Come see the room for yourself.
We're two minutes from the Oude Markt — walk-ins welcome, or book ahead for the busy nights.