While a friend of mine thinks very little of Brussels, I’ve found a few convivial places to go, while I’ve been out there. This place is one of them.

The last time I went to Brussels, I wandered over to Le Greenwich, a lovely place with a decent bottled beer selection and a multitude of chess players: and discovered it was closed. I thought this was sad, since it looked pretty permanent: the place has certainly been rather crumbling recently.

Anyway, luckily, the website brusselnieuws used my photograph to illustrate a piece of information which has gladdened the heart: they’ll open again in November. We’ll be able to go into the back room again (which has been closed and in, seemingly, an unsafe condition for a while), and it’ll look newer and spanglier from the outside.

It’s proabably not the best place to go in Brussels, but it’s close to the Grand Place, and therefore nice to spend a bit of time in. When it opens again, make sure you pop in.

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