Belgian beer bars across Europe.
24 sanctuaries from Brussels and Bruges to London, Rome and Copenhagen, the cafés where Belgian beer is poured with reverence. Find one on your travels.
Planning a pilgrimage?
Belgium is the heart, but the faith has spread. Wherever you travel, there's likely a café pouring Trappist ales into the proper glass, these are the ones worth the detour.
Last orders
Some of the rooms that taught us this stuff have poured their last. They are not on the map any more, but they belong in the record.
- KulminatorAntwerp, Belgium · closed permanently
For decades the finest cellar in Belgium sat in an unassuming room on the Vleminckveld, where Dirk and Leen would disappear downstairs and return with a Trappist older than most of the drinkers. Dusty bottles, a handwritten list the size of a phone book, and absolutely no hurry. Nowhere else let you taste time.
- Lowlander Grand CafeLondon, United Kingdom · closed 2025
A grand Low Countries café off Covent Garden that poured Belgian and Dutch beer to theatre crowds for two decades. For a lot of Londoners it was the first place a gueuze ever made sense.
