Intellectual Ferment of a Different Kind
An Unassuming Street Beyond the bustle of the Grand Place and past the tourists trying to catch a glimpse of Manneken Pis doing his thing, the unassuming Rue des Alexiens slopes gently upward toward the heights of the Sablon district. It was on this …
If you’re in Brussels for more than a few days, the bustling multicultural neighbourhood of St. Gilles is a treat. And so is Brasserie Verschueren, an elegantly faded Art Deco beer cafe that evokes the Brussels of yesteryear. En Route to Verschueren Well …
Cantillon with its cobwebbed rafters sheltering rows of barrels. The cheerfully riotous Delirium Café. Moeder Lambic with its rare beers. The Morte Subite, elegantly attired in art nouveau. You could spend days or even weeks in Brussels without coming close to exhausting your possibilities …
~In Search of Belgium’s “Best” Beer Cafes~ Belgium is home to countless beer cafes ranging from hole-in-the-wall locales in the working-class districts of Brussels to beer pilgrimage destinations like In de Vrede, Westvleteren’s beer café in West Flanders. Many lovers of Belgian beer …
I was at Schloss Belvedere a few days back, the famous Viennese museum that houses the even more famous Kiss by Gustav Klimt. Alongside some of his other iconic works such as Judith und Holofernes hung several paintings dating from the year of Klimt’s death …
Cantillon needs no introduction. Even if you’re not yet a convinced imbiber of wild-fermented beers, chances are you’ve at least heard of Cantillon, that legendary Brussels brewery of mythic proportions and mystical imaginings. If lambic and gueuze producers in Flemish Brabant merit pilgrimages, Cantillon is …