Boozy Weekender - Brussels

[Barnet Seagull]

I'm off to Brussels in April with some mates.

Need tips for beer and food options and clubs which aren't to pricey but are stacked full of Belgian smut.

 

[Storer68]

Go to Amsterdam instead

 

[Man of Harveys]

There's a great little bar just off the Grand Place where they serve the usual Belgian strong fruit-flavoured beers etc and the waiting staff dress a bit like Flemish milkmaids, even the men. 8.1

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Sounds great, like the Tiroler Hut in London maybe? Now about this smut?

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Not a big fan of Brusselss go to Brugge, Ghent or antwerp instead.

As for beer most bars/restaurants have a beer menu of between 10 & 400 ( yes 400) beers to choose from

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Not a big fan of Brusselss go to Brugge, Ghent or antwerp instead.

As for beer most bars/restaurants have a beer menu of between 10 & 400 ( yes 400) beers to choose from

Not my choice unfortunately, been to Brugge before and it's decent.

 

[Trufflehound]

Can't guarantee smut, but if you want beer, the Delirium café (Impasse de la Fidelité 4a) has 2008 varieties. They add one every year. Enough to keep most people out of trouble for a while. It's down a side alley half way down the touristy restaurant street, right by the Mannekin Pis's little sister (yes, there's a little pissing girl as well - not a lot of poeple know that).

For a different experience, La Cerceuil (the coffin) is down a side street off the Grand Place on the opposite side to the town hall. Drink in the pitch dark out of skull-shaped mugs, sat at coffins and serenaded by funeral music. Worth going in to see the shocked faces of tourists walking off the street at random thinking they've found a normal Belgian bar.

Don't drink on the Grand Place. The only difference you'll find with any other bar is the bill will be twice as big.

 

[aftershavedave]

There's a great little bar just off the Grand Place where they serve the usual Belgian strong fruit-flavoured beers etc and the waiting staff dress a bit like Flemish milkmaids, even the men. 8.1

that's mort subite a brussels institution. go there, you'll enjoy

 

[Trufflehound]

The Cirio, Au Bon Vieux Temps, Toone and Mort Subite are all worth checking out (all just east of the Grand Place).

As is the Bier Circus, but that's a bit further away (north of the Cetnral Station). My favourite bar in the city is l'Ultime Atome, but that's a fair hike out of the centre in Ixelles.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Belgium is great, Its nowhere near the boring place its made out to be

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Awesome, cheers

 

[The Large One]

Belgium is great, Its nowhere near the boring place its made out to be

...once you've drunk the beer. By which time, everything seems great!

Plenty of places to eat in the Rue de Bouchers or Rue de Petit Bouchers, about three minutes walk from Grand Place.

 

[The Large One]

Go to Amsterdam instead

Hmm, it might be just me, but the Dutch beers you get here are, well, wee-wee.

Unless I have had a pretty comprehensive attack of amnesia, can anyone tell me a decent Dutch beer widely available here - or in Amsterdam for that matter.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Is Belgium still the correct name?

 

[Storer68]

Hmm, it might be just me, but the Dutch beers you get here are, well, wee-wee.

Unless I have had a pretty comprehensive attack of amnesia, can anyone tell me a decent Dutch beer widely available here - or in Amsterdam for that matter.

got better smut tho..........

 

[Storer68]

Hmm, it might be just me, but the Dutch beers you get here are, well, wee-wee.

Unless I have had a pretty comprehensive attack of amnesia, can anyone tell me a decent Dutch beer widely available here - or in Amsterdam for that matter.

cos they are all "BREWED" by huge multinational corporations (Heineken, Grolsch, Interbrew) rather than people who understand brewing to be an art

 

[Wozza]

Is Belgium still the correct name?

No. You'll look like an idiot if you call it that.

 

[house your seagull]

i liked brussels it was cool, there was some folk festival on in the main square and i saw a guy with an albion shirt on.

triple karmalet beer melted my brain but is very nice.

 

[H block]

Just stick to the weak ones like Chimay bruin which are only 7% and you`ll be fine.

Best beer in the world by a considerable distance methinks.

 

[Trufflehound]

...once you've drunk the beer. By which time, everything seems great!

Plenty of places to eat in the Rue de Bouchers or Rue de Petit Bouchers, about three minutes walk from Grand Place.

Bit touristy though. In 20 years of eating mussels in Brussels, this is the only street I know of an occurrence of someone coming away with food poisoning...

For decent non-touristy restaurants, Place Du Sablon is the place to look ( a few minutes southeast of the Grand Place.