Hi All
I am visting Brussels with my wife and a few friends and I hope to pop into the places listed below along with a smattering of sightseeing. Can anyone direct me to the most expeditious route to take and maybe slot in a great chocolate/coffee cafe and a spot for lunch. I will be staying in the Hilton, Boulevard de Waterloo. I would accept any top tips for genuine classic Belgian bars/Grand Cafes also.I have no interest whatsoever in Irish pubs etc and wish to avoid them like the plague so where should I go for a night out?
Bites
Maison Antoine, Place Jourdan
Drinks
Poechenellekelder, 5 Rue du Chêne
Mort Subite, 7 Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères
Delirium, 4a Impasse de la Fidélité
In %26#39;t Spinnekopke, 1 Place du Jardin aux Fleurs
Zageman, 116 Rue de Laeken
Bier Circus, 89 Rue de l%26#39;Enseignement
Restaurant
Restobières, 32 Rue des Renards
If any of these are bad choices or close on Friday or Saturday etc. let me know!
Thanks
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Hi,
I think a nibbling or yummy tour migth be interesting for you: a guide takes you to the nicest spots to taste the best Brussels has to offer, all this spiced up with historical information about the city and the history of food: vizit.be/english/E_BRUSSELS_individual.html
I used to guide similar tours in Ghent; I know these people and I%26#39;m quite confident. :-)
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Hello,
Nice choices you made!
Why don%26#39;t you have lunch at Maison Antoine than? You can buy your fries and accompanying bites and eat them on a café-terrace in front (or inside in case of bad weather). Maison Antoine is a bit out of the %26quot;common%26quot; route. You have to take the metro to Schuman (where you can have a look at the EU buildings you knoiw from television), and than go down Rue Froissart to Place Jourdan.
As regards %26quot;grand cafés%26quot; anb Belgian bars to have drinks at night, why don%26#39;t you go to the centre? Alongside the bourse you have on one side Falstaff, on the other side Cirio, both very nice typical Brussels-cafés. Or the bar of Hotel Metropole, place de Brouckère.
Previous posters%26#39; advice is nice, but personnaly I don%26#39;t like guided affairs. Up to you!
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Hilton is near Louise metro and not near any of the places you want to eat or drink at. However, you could take the metro to Madou for Bier Circus, which is near the Cirque Royal. From there, you can walk to the Congress Column and monument to unknown soldier - probably can%26#39;t miss it.
You can group the following together, and include visits to the Grand%26#39; Place, Galeries St. Hubert and Mannekin Pis:
- Mort Subite, near the Cathedral, just beyond the far (non-Grand%26#39; Place end) of the Galeries St. Hubert
- Delirium, off rue des Bouchers, not far from the Grand%26#39; Place/Galeries St. Hubert/Bourse (if you are interested, the Jeanneke Pis, Mannekin Pis%26#39; %26quot;little sister%26quot; is also here).
- Poechenellekelder, next to the Mannekin Pis
You could walk from the Congress column to the cathedral in about 10 minutes (I hope you have a map or can get one from the Hilton), once there take the street leading away from the front of the cathedral, going downhill, and take the first turning on the left, Mort Subite will be on your left. Entrance to the Galeries St. Hubert is straight ahead of you, halfway through that you will find rue des Bouchers opening out on your right, lined with restaurants (don%26#39;t eat here other than at, say, Chez Léon): follow it until you reach a cross street, and just before that the Impasse de la Fidélité is on your right. From there you should easily find the Grand%26#39; Place and the street (rue de l%26#39;Etuve) leading to the Mannekin Pis.
In %26#39;t Spinnekopke is on the other side of the Bd. Anspach from the Bourse. Take rue Orts to the first junction, take rue des Chartreux which goes off that junction at about %26quot;10 o%26#39;clock%26quot; and it%26#39;s in the square at the end of that street. You will pass by the Zinneke Pis, which completes Brussels%26#39; trio of %26quot;peeing%26quot; statues (not that this one has any water).
Restobières is in the Marolles, off rue Haute not far from the Place du Jeu de Balles where the flea market is. Coming out of the Hilton, turn right then right again just before the tramlines and head for the Palais de Justice and the panorama over the lower town. From here, take the lift down to the Marolles (Square Breughel), turn left into rue Haute and rue des Renards should be the 3rd street on the right.
Maison Antoine is in Place Jourdan, either a good 10-minute walk down the hill from Schuman metro station or you can take the no. 80 bus from Porte de Namur, to the stop called Etangs (which is the one after the Natural History Museum), from here you should see chip place straight ahead of you.
Le Zageman is closed according to Beeradvocate.com, last reviews date from 2004.
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Hey all
Thank you all for your prompt replies which I will take on board. I am a little apprehensive of guided tours and prefer to do a bit of groundwork on TA and hope for the best. I really appreciate the time put into the resonses, partucularly with directions as it can be vry tedious!
My trip is now confirmed for Mid Nov so my alfresco dining and drinking aspirations may have to be curtailed!
Thanks to you all again for the valuable insights.
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i would go to Aux Laboureurs, near MIDI then down Rue Blaes to the Skieven Arkitekt, this is a good place to get Westvleteren.
Cirios and the Falstaff are classic bourgeois Grand cafes, but i like the metropole better furhter down the street.
you could try the %26quot;fleur en papier d%26#39;oree%26quot; and the porte noir near the mannekin pis.
I don%26#39;t really like the poechenellekelder, a littl to deliberately wacky if you know what i mean a,d delirium is pretty awful but worth a short visist to leaf through the book.
Bier circus isn%26#39;t great as a bar pretty good for beer though.
Tim Webbs book should help you out a bit here is a
linkhttp://www.whitebeertravels.co.uk/webb.html
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