BOB - a.k.a. "Best of Brussels"

Friterie w/ a twist

The Friterie Pitta de la Chapelle is located just outside the church and near the Chapelle train station, which is a short distance from the Sablon.

This friterie is like most friteries but they did add "Pitta" to the name. If you're alive today...

A little late for Carnival

but in Brussels it doesn't matter. This was about a week late but the people in the Marolles section of the city are working class and said to be "special"anyway so they can get away with it!

This section of town is overlooked by the gigantic...

More Carnival

The Carnival parade that day in the Marolles district was small but those taking part were certainly enjoying their little, loud parade.

And the band played on...

A small carnival parade in the Marolles area of Brussels. The working class citizens who live just below the Palais de Justice (there is a glass elevator that takes you up there and down again) love life and celebrating.

Beer like wine

The beers at the Cantillon Brewery are unique, with a lack of carbonation and a foamy head. Do try the lambics and geuzes, but do so with an open mind.

Unique Brussels Beer

The Cantillon Brewery is one of the few that still makes the unique gueze and lambic beers. The brewery was started by a family and four generations later, that same family still runs the place and brews the beer.

You can tour the place and even...

Waiting for beer

Inside the Cantillon Brewery, in the Anderlecht area of Brussels, the beer spends quite a bit of time inside the barrels before its ready to drink.

You can tour the brewery and see how and where the gueze and lambics are brewed.

A slice of Belgian art nouveau

Thanks in part to Baron Victor Horta, Brussels was a leading center of the art nouveau movement starting in the 1890s and ending just before the Great War.

This private house, which is opened to the public once a month, wasn't a Horta creation but...

Art nouveau eating in Brussels

Built in 1886 as a couple of houses, the buildings were bought and then refurbished by Mr. Houbbion, who often worked with Victor Horta.
The building is full of art nouveau motifs and the front windows are what first catches your eye as they are...