BeerLovers’ Café

Too crowded and a very slow service.

L'accueil est sympathique, la carte relativement bien fournie mais le café en lui-même est plutôt vieillot et le mobilier très sommaire.

Visited the day after New Year's Day on a cold but bright afternoon, this place, which is seemingly oblivious to the fact that Antwerp has an even more famous craft beer pub with the same name, felt welcoming and cosy, with not too many people inside; we had ample room to sit and chose a low bench near the exit. Bottle list is traditionally Belgian and a lot more standard than I had been hoping for (Dubuisson, Dupont, De Ranke etc.) but the - apparently rotating - tap list did have some surprises, mostly unknown beers from small local producers, at reasonable prices. Friendly and efficient service, too, we were being served at the small table where we sat. Has a kind of 'brown' atmosphere which becomes all the more apparent when you go downstairs to the toilet: the further I penetrated in this pub's dark bowels, the more sleezy and dirty it became. I would definitely not recommend the toilet here for either ladies or children, but other than that, a pleasant enough experience with several ticks for me, too bad the shop wasn't open to take some bottles home, though. Will probably revisit whenever I'm back in the "Cité Ardente".

What a huge disappointment, what a contrast with the very professional website and the dirty reality we encountered! The place is not cosy at all. Ikea furniture, all very generic and soulless. Menu was dirty and sticky with beer and dirt. The whole place smelled like the day after a huge party, like stale spilled beer. Upon arrival we asked if we could eat something there, to which they replied positively. We knew from the website, that the only real meal-item was a croque (grilled cheese sandwich), all other stuff was finger food (wings, olives, cheese plate with crackers). But when we ordered, they told us they were out of croques and the only thing they had left was nachos and cheese plate. How the F can you be out of croques, when your business has only just opened up for lunch? How do you expect to make it through the day, if you can’t serve your signature dish? A huge let down, it was... Don’t think I’ll be back any time soon.

Nice place, with an outstanding selection of mainly Belgian beers. Friendly helpfull service, although not too much knowledge A placee to my liking, and recommended.