Resto 71 Brasserie de la Gare, Brussels
Dinky croques, clean bogs and a friendly welcome at the B de la G in Brussels.
Resto 67 La Table du Midi, Brussels
En route to Cologne we had a pause for lunch in Brussels. We didn’t want to wander too far so La T du M was ideal. While Bazza the Gooner made friends with the locals we took a look at the menu. A cheese sandwich at 3 euros seemed unfeasibly cheap but I ordered it…
Bram Bogart at Vigo Gallery
A quick post and for once not about food! A quick visit to see the Bram Bogart show at Vigo Gallery is a must if you're around Oxford Circus.
Review #6 Café Den Turk, Ghent
Good beer, top snacks and a star for a barman. The Café Den Turk is much better than it needs to be.
Resto #5 Belga Queen, Ghent
For a romantic evening this was a good find and the evening got even better once we'd found the Hot Club de Gent where they were playing some seriously good jazz.
Review #7 A La Mort Subite, Brussels
Like the Café Den Turk À La Mort Subite is the kind of historical location that could, if it chose, go down the route of celebrating its own celebrity by going easy on what made it good in the first place and turn itself into a Belgian theme park. And like the CDN it is…
Review #8 Mub’Art, Ghent
The last of our eating places of a very high quality weekend was the surprise package. To borrow from Rumsfeld (who seems strangely less crazy than once he did, that’s the power of 2016) Mort Subite was a known known, Belga Queen was a known unknown and Den Turk was an unknown known. Mub’Art, however,…
James Ensor at the RA
Much more interesting and surprising than the overblown yanks below, who seem the most humourless bunch of po-faced canvas wasters set against the deftly humorous savagery of Ensor and his confrères.
Cris Brodahl
Cris Brodahl's show at the Approach. Noirish Belgian surrealism in Bethnal Green.
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