Belga & Co Grand-Place

Hotspots are slowly starting to take over our downtown neighborhood, and we couldn’t be happier. It’s not that we don’t like strawberries dipped in chocolate or anything, but we had to admit that the Grand-Place, and all the streets around it, weren’t really what you could call an area for foodies.
Well today it’s all about the Grand-Place. And Charly and Loïc, who we’ve been following for a while now.

But it’s not just about their coffee. We’ve come to like running into them while shopping at the antique fair in Waterloo – back when it still existed -, or chatting about custom-made wooden benches with Charly. These two have taste, do things with style, and always put all of their heart into any of their projects. In this third venue, we directly fell in love with the old paintings, revealed when their started the renovations works – reminding us of the spirit of typical cafés from Brussels.

Who would have thought they’d open a café right in the middle of Grand-Place? Not them, that’s for sure. If you would have told them six years ago they’d have three coffee bars by now, they would have merely smiled. Well today we’re the ones smiling, and we know exactly where we’ll be picking up our coffee to go next time we’re headed to Noordzee for shrimp croquettes.