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[Travel] Brussels
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Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
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The beer is overrated. The fries and mussels aren’t.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I'd go to Brussels just to experience the Grand Place square, it's one of Europe's great town squares - I recommend sitting outside Le Roy D'Espagne with a beer.
Bruges and Ghent are superb as well, Charleroi not so much.
Bruges and Ghent are superb as well, Charleroi not so much.
- Jul 10, 2003
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vegster
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- May 5, 2008
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They seem to have cut back on their range since I last went.
bluenitsuj
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Yes. Go to Brugge instead.
Best stick with your Carling.
The Large One
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Suggest the Rene Magritte museum and Jacques Brel museum. No lack of bars with moules / frites / chocolat / bier.
Eggman
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Went to the Brussells jazz festival a few years back.
Stayed in Jette on the outskirts and found a superb cafe/bar. Le Central.
Great food (Best steak tartare I have had) and beer. Brilliant fun owners. Fantastic.
Stayed in Jette on the outskirts and found a superb cafe/bar. Le Central.
Great food (Best steak tartare I have had) and beer. Brilliant fun owners. Fantastic.
Had my first of the autumn / winter yesterday with a roast. Delicous chopped and stir fried in butter with shallots and crisp streaky bacon 
Iggle Piggle
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- Sep 3, 2010
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This. Done a lot of work in Brussels. It's shit. Delirium (sp) is well worth a visit. Nothing else is.
Leuven is only 16 miles from Brussels. You can visit the Stella brewery on Saturday or Sunday and enjoy the 'wreck the hoose juice'
I wouldn’t drink that crap if it was free.
Obviously that’s not really true but you get my drift.
Ghent is my favourite Belgium city. It’s got the lot and is pretty compact. Antwerp is not bad either. Brugge..... to twee.
Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
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Delirium.
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For beer will second recommendations for Moeder Lambic bars. Not only fantastic beer but very knowledgeable staff who will help you choose. It's worth the trip up the hill to St Gilles to visit Moeder Lambic original as it has a lot more buzz than Fontainas if not the sheer range of draft, but bear in mind it's open from 4pm, so if you want a daytime brew it has to be the Fontainas. Will also second Poechenellekelder as the best beer range you will get in tourist central and great interior. Only trouble can be finding a spare table, depending what time you hit it, it's not a vertical drinking place. When visiting Moeder Lambic Original also venture a little further up the hill to Dynamo-Bar de Soif.
For combining great food and beer, I will always recommend Les Brassins. This is a little out of the centre up the hill in Ixelles, but well worth the metro/bus ride or stroll. From personal experience I can recommend the Beef Carbonnades, Steak "Simple Face" - always rare and cooked on one side, rabbit cooked in kriek (traditional sour cherry beer) and duck breast in pepper sauce, although probably not all at once. In a tiny back street which also features Audrey Hepburn's birthplace. Also a five minute walk from the Ultime Atome bar mentioned upthread and a fifteen min walk from Beer Mania bottleshop - this also has a tasting bar with yard out the back.
Perhaps a little more pricey but beer and food nirvana is also found in Restobieres restaurant in the Marolles market area. This can be combined with a visit to the art deco market bar La Brocante just down the street.
Less authentically Brussels than the above or Cantillon, but must visit the Brussels Beer Project craft brewery taproom. You can sit in the backroom looking out across their brewery floor. Open 2pm to 10pm Thursday to Saturday only as well as being on the other side of town from most the other favoured beer venues, so a case of being in the right place at the right time.
For non-beer culture:
Magritte Museum and the adjacent fine art museum
Atomium
Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Koekelburg
Place du Grand Sablon is Belgian Chocolate central where you can find the original stores for Wittamer, Pierre Marcolini and a bunch of other chocolateries.
For combining great food and beer, I will always recommend Les Brassins. This is a little out of the centre up the hill in Ixelles, but well worth the metro/bus ride or stroll. From personal experience I can recommend the Beef Carbonnades, Steak "Simple Face" - always rare and cooked on one side, rabbit cooked in kriek (traditional sour cherry beer) and duck breast in pepper sauce, although probably not all at once. In a tiny back street which also features Audrey Hepburn's birthplace. Also a five minute walk from the Ultime Atome bar mentioned upthread and a fifteen min walk from Beer Mania bottleshop - this also has a tasting bar with yard out the back.
Perhaps a little more pricey but beer and food nirvana is also found in Restobieres restaurant in the Marolles market area. This can be combined with a visit to the art deco market bar La Brocante just down the street.
Less authentically Brussels than the above or Cantillon, but must visit the Brussels Beer Project craft brewery taproom. You can sit in the backroom looking out across their brewery floor. Open 2pm to 10pm Thursday to Saturday only as well as being on the other side of town from most the other favoured beer venues, so a case of being in the right place at the right time.
For non-beer culture:
Magritte Museum and the adjacent fine art museum
Atomium
Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Koekelburg
Place du Grand Sablon is Belgian Chocolate central where you can find the original stores for Wittamer, Pierre Marcolini and a bunch of other chocolateries.
maltaseagull
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Please report back when you have tried and rated these.
Also, you should enter this in the friday night drinking thread!
That would shut the craft beer snobs up for a while
- Aug 7, 2003
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Please report back when you have tried and rated these.
Also, you should enter this in the friday night drinking thread!
That would shut the craft beer snobs up for a while
The last time I went there, I thought I’d be clever and start by choosing those with the highest ABV. After about six I have no recollection of the evening.
When I ask for a beer and the Barman says whish one he or she always gets the same answer from me = '' The wet one '' !