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On the lash with Baudelaire // A literary pub crawl through Brussels, Act Two
On the lash with Baudelaire // A literary pub crawl through Brussels, Act Two

I set off on a tour, in Baudelaire’s and others footsteps, of what remains of Brussels’ literary haunts. Part one is here.

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Cuisine and Culture, Breweries and BarsEoghan Walshhistory, literature, victor hugo, Charles baudelaire, vincent van gogh, a la mort subite, Muntpunt, Cafe les trois suisses, John Dos Passos, Karl Marx, Grand Place, L'Imaige de Notre Dame, Theatre Royal de Toone, Boon, La Chaloupe d'Or, Maison de Cygnes, WH Auden, Place de la Monnaie
From famine to feast // Nüetnigenough, La Tana, and the rise of Brussels' beer restaurants
From famine to feast // Nüetnigenough, La Tana, and the rise of Brussels' beer restaurants

A decade on from the opening of Nuetnigenough, and five years on from La Tana, the relationship between brussels restaurants and beer has been revolutionised. If you’d told Nuetnigenough’s Olivier Desmet that five years ago, he wouldn’t have believed you.

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Cuisine and CultureEoghan WalshLa Tana, Nuetnigenough, Alvinne, Les Brigittines, Restobieres, food, beer and food pairing, Marollen, Brasserie de la Senne, BXLbeerfest, Moeder Lambic, Jean Hummler, Dirk Myny
On the lash with Baudelaire // A literary pub crawl through Brussels, Act One
On the lash with Baudelaire // A literary pub crawl through Brussels, Act One

I set off on a tour, in Baudelaire’s and others footsteps, of what remains of Brussels’ literary haunts.

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Cuisine and CultureEoghan Walshhistory, literature, victor hugo, Charles baudelaire, vincent van gogh, a la mort subite, Muntpunt, Cafe les trois suisses, John Dos Passos, Karl Marx, Grand Place, L'Imaige de Notre Dame, Theatre Royal de Toone, Boon, La Chaloupe d'Or, Maison de Cygnes, WH Auden, Place de la Monnaie
"Monsieur Brasserie de la Senne" // Jean Goovaerts and the art of beer labels
"Monsieur Brasserie de la Senne" // Jean Goovaerts and the art of beer labels

You may never have heard of Jean Goovaerts, but if you have gotten drunk in Brussels in the last decade, then you will know his works. On beer bottles, pump clips, and posters, his artwork for Brasserie de la Senne is all over the city. Even sitting in Cafe Le Coq, nursing a Bruxellensis and waiting for him to arrive, his Brasserie de la Senne sunrise logo is plastered on my glass. His blocky, colourful, and idiosyncratic designs are central to Brasserie de la Senne’s identity, its rise to prominence, and the brewery’s success abroad.

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Cuisine and CultureEoghan Walsh