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I'm heading to brussels next monday for 5 days and need some recommendations for good food and beer outlets. I have been told it's not a beer holiday by the wife(and i said it's not a shopping holiday either) so if anyone can point me towards any gems i would be grateful.

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Here is a thread here[/url:2hc3mkfp]

I also have a few if i can remember them

"silenus":23uw6dwk wrote: I have been told it's not a beer holiday by the wife[/quote:23uw6dwk]The great thing about Brussels is that so much of its proper tourism [i:23uw6dwk]is[/i:23uw6dwk] beer tourism. Le Cirio and A La Bécasse are both worth visiting even if you weren't drinking.

Do not miss Cantillon. It's a museum, honest.

Last tip: before going to a specialist beer shop check Spar and the like first: they tend have loads of great and unusual beers for a fraction of the price of the fancy places.

I second TBNs reccomendation on that thread; I have a special fondness for A l'Imaige de Nostre Dame. I think that was where I had my "St Paul on the road to Damascus" event and started drinking real beer. I have been annoying my friends in pubs since; just can't make up my mind whether to drink Guinness or Smithwicks - awkward fecker!
They had (and probably still have) Bourgogne des Flandres on tap (only 2 pubs in Brussels do). It's a Flanders sweet/sour ale.

The pub itself (opens at 4pm) is an oasis of quiet down an alley near enough to Bourse.

&amp;quot;DrJohn&amp;quot;:3sdsb2re wrote: The pub itself (opens at 4pm) is an oasis of quiet down an alley near enough to Bourse.[/quote:3sdsb2re]It opens at about noon on a Sunday, not that I've ever paced up and down Grasmarkt of a morning, desperate to be let into a pub, or anything <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt="" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: -->.

Last time I was there they were playing this weird coin-toss game in the little yard outside the front door.

&amp;quot;DrJohn&amp;quot;:3hxtrlfs wrote: Bourgogne des Flandres on tap[/quote:3hxtrlfs]
Now I'm jealous. When I think it used to be 3 hours frive from home. [sigh]