18 July 2007

You think you know all our special venues...I don't think so...

Brussels has this particularity the offer quiet unusual places to hold an event.
Did you know you could rent on of the balls of our famous Atomium? Not only the one on top in the Restaurant, they go by the name Prigogine...
K-nal : In a former warehouse facing the Canal of Brussels.
The building is a mixture of industrial material and canadian beachwood.
When the weather is nice you can also extend your event to the terrace in front or roll-up the windows of the first floor, to have a open air dinner.

Hotels with a special déco


The Royal Windsor Hotel, 5 Rue Duquesnoy, 1000 Brussels, offer a nice surprise for the visitors that would stay in on of his "designer rooms".
This hotel took the challenge, being in a Fashion Designers Capital to ask Belgian
Designers to redecorate in their style some of his hotel rooms.
Regularly new rooms are added to the ones already present. They already count 12 of them.
Some names
that may sound familiar to the fashion victims among you Jean-Paul Knott Gerald Watelet Marina Yee Mademoiselle LucienNicolas Woit Kaat Tilley Pascale Kervan Romy Smits Nina Meert Haider Ackermann


A new comer in Brussels with a resolute "vintage style" is the BE Manos, 23 square de l’aviation. Brussels.
Dominant colours are apple green, black and white, surprising deco for a hotel, but it really offers a change.
You can pick apples in the corridors from the walls…on the way to your meeting room.






















Some of our favority places to eat out

Here are some restaurants of all type and prices where we like to go with friends or colleagues...

Our first "coup de coeur" ;


L’Estrille du vieux Bruxelles, rue de Rollebeek, 7 Roolebeekstraat – 1000 Brussels

What I appreciate a lot about this place, beside the location, as it is really like a hidden place behind a small passage, is the special dish of the house.
This dish is present on a large plate with 6 different typical Belgian dishes, so you get to discover 6 different preparations in just one dish.
In the summer I like to eat outside on the terrace, it offers an intimate feeling in centre of the city. In the winter the open fire gives you the felling to go back in time, you can see them preparing the Crêpe flambé grand Marnier with mandarins…mhum a real pleasure!


When the weather is nice and we want to enjoy a nice terrace for a business lunch, I like to take my guests to La Manufacture, Rue N-D du Sommeil 13, besides the fact that it’s the former Delvaux manufacture, they have a great Bambou terrace, and there business lunch during the week is always a good choice, I like to way they prepare things in an unexpected way…Herbs and sweet sour associations are very much appreciated here.

Viva Boma! Vlaamsesteenweg 17 Chssée de Flandre. A typical Belgian name for a typical Belgian restaurant. What’s funny about it is that in the first part of this house you can find fantastic sandwiches where you will always see people queuing and behind a Boucher’s door you will find the entrance for the restaurant. In a very Brussels’s ambiance you can order a “boulette sauce tomate” or américain and do not miss the Dame Blanche for dessert with the warm chocolate sauce!
Again an unexpected place in an unexpected location
When I feel like eating salad there a several good addresses in Brussels, the first one is 2 steps away from my office: Crazy Salad Spoormakersstraat 54 rue des Eperonniers. 1000 Brussels. My favourite salad there is the one with chicken and quinoa the present there salads in a crispy baked bread tulip and I always.


17 July 2007

Special Places for Tea Time




Here are some of our favourites places to enjoy tea time.
What is special about Belgium when you order a coffee or tea is that you always get some sweets with it...chocolates or biscuits.

Our first place is held by a nice couple and a famous dog " Cezanne" ; My friend Gisèle had there her best Latte she ever tried




AM Sweet, Kartuizersstraat 4 rue des Chartreux. 1000 Brussels



Our second place is a quite new one, it opened last month, I enjoyed there a fantastic green tea ( tea pearls) with home made biscuit, a relaxing moment in a feminine but taste full décor.

L’arrière cuisine, rue des Grands Carmes 11 Lievevrouwbroerstraat.1000 Brussels