I just found 2 interesting and welcoming places for another get together.
The first one is called Café Mazette in the Marolles.
I have been once to this nice and friendly place called Mazette, for a board game event. It is a cooperative café-brewery located on the Place du Jeu de Balle in the heart of the Marolles district. It focuses on short-circuit, local, and seasonal products, featuring beer brewed in its own cellar and fresh bread baked on-site.
What I like about it is the fact that it operates as a cooperative, bringing together all different types of people to create a community-focused space.
Brewery & Food: The venue produces its own beer (including a Pilsner and various seasonal brews like “Suur”) and offers sourdough bread made on-site, along with dishes like focaccias and patatas bravas.
Atmosphere: Known as a friendly, bright, and rustic venue, it features a rear terrace and is considered a friendly spot in the Marolles.
Sustainability: The project emphasizes sustainability, such as using unsold bread for in-house food or beer production.
Accessibility: easy to access by public transports, very central.
The second one is Boom café in the city centre. Boom Café (7 rue Pletinckx) is a volunteer-run, self-managed, and socially engaged associative cafe offering, sustainable local products. Open Wednesday to Sunday, it serves as a community space for solidarity, hosting events like jams, workshops, and debates.
Key details about Boom Café include:
Mission: It focuses on being a welcoming space, often hosting charity events and supporting local initiatives.
Events: It hosts jam sessions, poetry nights, plant fairs, and workshops.
Offerings: The cafe provides local, sustainable, and quality products.
Solidarity: They offer “solidarity breakfasts” on Friday mornings, providing warmth, food, and amenities.
Community: The space is used for community meetings, such as those held by COOPBXL.
Atmosphere: It is known for its warm, non-profit, and volunteer-driven, friendly, and inclusive atmosphere.
Going bouldering in a climbing hall is also a really fun thing to do with a group. Especially because climbing halls usually have really nice café’s and hang-out spots for the ones who are not climbing. Arkose next to the canal, for example.
And it’s a really good team-activity (rooting for each other, figuring routes out together, etc…)
I had never heard about so-called craft cafés, cafés where you can do some creative stuff while having a coffee. I’d be interested to go an explore one.
I’d like to propose a Sunday hangout at our apartment block that sells itself as a ‘co-housing for young potentials’ We can hangout at the shared space which has a bar, and when the weather is nice, have a barbecue. It would also be a good occasion to discuss things we would copy from this concept, and which absolutely not. When are the Sunday hangouts in Spring scheduled?
The Joran Cidrothèque in Schaerbeek (near Place Dailly) has a chilled vibe and real cider for every taste. https://joran.bzh
There’s Irish music on Sundays (never been at music time so don’t know how busy it gets but I could take a look)
Les 1er et 3ème dimanches de chaque mois de 16h à 19h : Irish Music Session (Jam ouverte).
Le dernier dimanche de chaque mois de 16h à 19h : Old Time Music Session (Jam ouverte)
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Every 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, from 4pm until at least 7pm: Irish music session (open jam).
Every last Sunday of the month, from 4pm until at least 7pm: Old-time music session (open jam).*
Thanks everyone for the contributions! Great stuff!
Great! I’ll pencil these dates in to come back to you at that point then! Let us know if you already have a date that would fit you better, for the moment on our end, everything could work I think
(rooting for each other, figuring routes out together, etc…)
We can hangout at the shared space which has a bar, and when the weather is nice, have a barbecue. It would also be a good occasion to discuss things we would copy from this concept, and which absolutely not. When are the Sunday hangouts in Spring scheduled?