God Save The Cream
I have literally no idea what would possess someone to open an English café in Brussels, but they have and it is rather lovely. Just behind Place Stéphanie, God Save the Cream has William Morris...
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Maru is that cat that jumps in and out of boxes, isn’t it? It’s also a new Korean restaurant in Brussels and arguably the first real one. There’s Hana on St Boniface, but it rather spookily does...
View ArticleKeep on Toasting
Because, as you know, I am totally down with the kids (actually, right now on my fourth day of enforced solitary confinement with my youngest and Mario 3D Land, I am more down on the kids, but we’ll...
View ArticleNeptune
Neptune in Metropolitan (the last sentence is missing from the English version, sigh). Love this place. As a bonus you get a hideous picture of me looking like a hamster and talking about female run...
View ArticleMidi market
I love Midi market, loud and busy and joyful and gloriously cheap. It reminds me a tiny bit of Brick Lane on a Sunday. Here’s what I bought today, quite restrained: Four mangoes for €2, a giant lump of...
View ArticleKokuban
OH HAI neglected Belgian blog. I have so much to tell you but I have been horribly, unusually busy. I haven’t even had time to sit around watching my favourite owl webcam. Tsk. Anyway, one of the...
View ArticleBia Mara
Bia Mara – much beloved Irish chippie with sustainable fish – in Metropolitan this month. They’re now open 7 days a week! Bia Mara, Rue du Marché aux Poulets 41
View ArticleDinner in the Sky
On Friday under a gloweringly grey Brussels ‘summer’ sky I joined 21 others to dangle off a giant crane at 50 metres altitude on the Mont des Arts to eat Michelin starred food whilst tightly strapped...
View ArticleArs Vinorum
Here’s Ars Vinorum from May’s Metropolitan. This is sadly the last long form review: the mag has moved to much shorter resto recs, which I’m still writing, but with less space to salivate and rant and...
View ArticleRutabaga
I’ve just been to test the newly-opened Rutabaga, on the Chausée de Waterloo, because my plaintive* (*lazy) requests for info on the Internet came to nothing and I wanted to put it in a Brussels...
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