Brussels Reporter
  • Home
  • Brussels
  • Europe
    • Europe

      Protests, tear gas in Myanmar after UN envoy…

      March 6, 2021March 6, 2021

      Europe

      British citizens living abroad set to reclaim right…

      March 5, 2021March 6, 2021

      Europe

      Amazon directs customers to vaccine misinformation, study finds

      March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

      Europe

      US and EU suspend Airbus-Boeing tariffs for four…

      March 5, 2021

      Europe

      Dakar disorder after arrest of Senegal’s main opposition…

      March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

  • Globe
  • Lifestyle
  • Business

Brussels Reporter

  • Home
  • Brussels
  • Europe
    • Europe

      Protests, tear gas in Myanmar after UN envoy…

      March 6, 2021March 6, 2021

      Europe

      British citizens living abroad set to reclaim right…

      March 5, 2021March 6, 2021

      Europe

      Amazon directs customers to vaccine misinformation, study finds

      March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

      Europe

      US and EU suspend Airbus-Boeing tariffs for four…

      March 5, 2021

      Europe

      Dakar disorder after arrest of Senegal’s main opposition…

      March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

  • Globe
  • Lifestyle
  • Business
Home Featured Le Wine Bar des Marolles – Feasting life à la Bruxelloise
Featured

Le Wine Bar des Marolles – Feasting life à la Bruxelloise

by editor April 25, 2019
April 25, 2019

Be it day or night, Le Wine Bar des Marolles is buzzing with life. Every night you can find great wines being poured into the glasses of a lively clientele, who are enjoying elegant comfort food in a traditional setting. The restaurant is something that food lovers in Brussels cannot miss and wine lovers even more so.

Le Wine Bar des Marolles got its name in 2007, when it moved just a few hundred metres from Sablon to Rue Haute. It’s here where Vincent Thomaes, the warm and friendly owner of the restaurant, speaks passionately to his guests while walking energetically in and out of the kitchen. Before opening the restaurant, he worked together with his brothers at their star restaurant South of Brussels. He has trained famous sommeliers around the world and Vincent’s knowledge of wines permeates the entire experience.

 

 

On two floors, dark wooden tables take up most of the space in the large dining rooms. The tables are placed close together, but just far enough so you avoid overhearing the conversations of your neighbours. The warm, dark orange lamps hanging from the ceiling, illuminate the place just enough to shed light on the old, golden-framed paintings that decorate the walls.

Vincent opens the restaurant only from Thursday until Sunday with lunch being served on weekends exclusively. This timetable allows for him to travel through Belgium and France to look for high quality produce, as the ingredients used at the restaurant are mainly locally sourced and carefully picked by Vincent himself. The meat and seafood served come from well-treated animals that were held under good conditions and most of the vegetables grow in proximity to Brussels.

 

 

On the menu you’ll find a lot of traditional recipes that belong to Vincent’s family, like the very soft, intensively-tasting butter that’s been cooked several times. There’s a lot of comforting food, like the homemade Foie Gras with an apple reduction and apple slices cooked in syrup made from the peels; or the Joue de Boeuf, slow cooked beef cheek that is served with a puree of seasonal vegetables and grilled roots. It’s so soft that you could easily tear it apart with a spoon in one hand while holding a glass of one of the marvelous wines in the other. Recommended dishes are also the creamy, soft burrata, served with seasonal grilled vegetables or any type of terrines, sausages or the tastefully prepared seafood like oysters, mackerel or scallops.

 

 

Price: A bottle of wine is around 25-200+€ (extraordinary wines), starters around 11-20€ and mains 18-35€

Address: Rue Haute 198, 1000 Brussels

previous post
Refugees in Brussels and Lebanon take the #TrashTag Challenge
next post
Getting the most from the few

Related Posts

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Max Verstappen claims second...

December 13, 2020

Coronavirus: New Zealand locks down Auckland after cases...

August 12, 2020

Ivory Coast elections: Voters go to the polls...

October 31, 2020

Melikan Kucam’s Grand Jury hearing postponed

February 12, 2019

Molenbeek seeks to open temporary slaughterhouse for Muslim...

May 17, 2019

Additional compensation for dismissed Deutsche Bank staff

March 5, 2019

China warns Taiwan independence 'means war' as US...

January 29, 2021

What’s going on with abstention in Europe?

May 22, 2019

Charles Michel says EU could invoke ‘urgent measures’...

January 28, 2021

Ostend Airport satisfied with its 2018 performance

January 4, 2019
Promotion Image

Recent Posts

  • Microsoft hack: White House warns of ‘active threat’ of email attack
  • Protests, tear gas in Myanmar after UN envoy urges action
  • Pope Francis meets powerful Shia cleric in Iraq
  • Amanpour: Harry and Megan Oprah interview ‘won’t be an easy ride’
  • British citizens living abroad set to reclaim right to vote in UK elections
Promotion Image

GO!

Lifestyle

  • Scientists are using satellites to count elephants from space for the first time

  • France: Hospital workers demand more resources to fight COVID-19

  • Alexei Navalny: Millions watch jailed critic's 'Putin palace' film

  • Covid vaccine: WHO warns of ‘catastrophic moral failure’

  • Belgium looks good in white

Popular Posts

  • 1

    Covid: Italy ‘blocks’ AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia

    March 4, 2021
  • 2

    ‘Unacceptable’: Ukraine slams Slovak PM over territory swap ‘joke’

    March 4, 2021
  • 3

    Picnic time! Belgium begins easing coronavirus restrictions

    March 5, 2021

Editor’s Choices

  • European Parliament will set up vaccination centers for MEPs, staff and locals

    January 21, 2021
  • Why ‘equal access’ to coronavirus vaccines is failing poor countries

    January 20, 2021
  • Merkel era may only just be beginning

    January 16, 2021

Opinions

  • Picnic time! Belgium begins easing coronavirus restrictions

    March 5, 2021
  • US and EU suspend Airbus-Boeing tariffs for four months

    March 5, 2021
  • UK’s new Brexit man makes his mark with Northern Ireland row

    March 4, 2021

@2018-2021 - Brussels Reporter (www.brusselsreporter.com). All Right Reserved.