How to Eat: Ragoût
Ragoût is a pastry filled with meat, fish or vegetables covered with a delightful sauce. A perfect dish during the colder Autumn and Winter months
Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp in Belgium has everything you want to experience in one weekend – stunning architecture, great shopping, fabulous food, and many beers for you to taste.
‘Tis the Season for Cookie Cutters
From a straightforward star shape to an intricately detailed snowflake, your holiday cookie creations are bound only by your imagination.
Hotel: The Dominican – Brussels, Belgium
The moment I know that I need to travel to Brussels, Belgium’s capital city and the chocolate capital of the world, the first thing I do, without any hesitation, is make a reservation at The Dominican. My train tickets can wait, my dinner plans are often a last-minute affair, but in Brussels I will lay my […]
eat! BRUSSELS, drink!
September 11th to 14th, 2014 Brussels, Belgium www.visitbrussels.be/bitc/BE_en/minisite_eatbrussels
Food Postcard: Dr. Sweety
If sweets are just what the doctor ordered then Dr. Sweety, the happy candy clinic in Ghent, Belgium, has everything needed to fill your prescription. Clear cases of sweet, sour, and colourful candy line the walls of Dr. Sweety and their vibrant rainbow hues offset the stark white interior of the shop. Colour, texture, and […]
Belgian Heverlee Beer Crosses Paths with Scotland
Belgian beer brand, Heverlee, selected Scotland to launch its traditional beer back in November. Nothing too exciting about that until you learn how they did it. Popping up at barber shops across Glasgow, visitors were able to sit back and relax while getting a trim with a beer. Heverlee’s barmen served pints from a bespoke […]
How to Eat: Kroakemandels
There are an estimated 650 cafes in the Belgian city of Ghent. But there is one that is more special than the rest – Cafe Folklore. Neither big nor modern, this homely beer cafe is a place where regulars sing along to the jukebox, beer paraphernalia adorns the walls and the owner and his family […]
Food Postcard: La Chouffe’s Friendly Elf
He certainly looks mischievous but this red-capped, long-bearded little elf has only good intentions. He’s responsible for gathering the barley and hops used to brew La Chouffe Blonde Ale, which with an 8% alc./vol content, is a fresh, crisp beer with light notes of citrus and coriander. He’s a hard worker and is kept quite […]
The Best Beers in the Most Unexpected Places
Beer is brewed, in varying degrees of quality, in countries across the globe. It brings colleagues together when they close the working week with a cold one at the pub, friends together as they support their favourite sports teams, throw a steak on the backyard barbeque, or celebrate milestones in their lives, and leads aficionados […]
