Traffic in Brussels is the worst of any city I’ve ever been to. So that is 3 in a row now; 3 visits to 5th Avenue without doing anything. Andrea, oh Andrea. Andrea it is who I really fancied this time, but I was so hungry, so instead came down to De Brouckere Brussels Grill and now I wait to be served. Quite busy, for a change, it being Saturday night. Still so early, but I know when I finish this steak, I am going straight to bed. Andrea did look magnificent. At the end of the day, I find it is Andrea I fancy most, after all.
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It is no wonder the Rogier Brussels Grill is always absolutely packed out
It is no wonder the Rogier Brussels Grill is always absolutely packed out, surrounded as it is by massive hotels—Sheraton, Thon, Hilton, Crowne Plaza. The De Brouckere Brussels Grill in contrast is always three-quarters empty. A real pleasure. The staff I would say are a little more surly; they probably don’t make much in tips. I can’t even imagine how much the Rogier waiters & waitresses make in tips—it must be quite astronomical.
The De Brouckere Brussels Grill is so much smaller than the Rogier Brussels Grill
The De Brouckere Brussels Grill is so much smaller than the Rogier Brussels Grill but also seems more empty as well. Maybe that’s because the Rogier restaurant is bordered by so many large hotels—the Thon, the Sheraton, the Hilton, whereas Brouckere only really has the Metropol. Always interesting to remember that the Gare du Nord used to be here at Rogier, when it was the northern-most edge of Brussels; but as the city expanded, they had to move the Nord station a few hundred metres further north. I still like to imagine the Nord Station is here though. There we go. I like second hand bookshops more than new bookshops; I like old crackly classical music recordings from the 20s more than new ones; I like old 20s and 30s jazz more than the sleek new jazz; like old curtain-opening strip clubs more than the new private dancing men-as-cash machines new ones. I like old Victorian lush green river valleys filled with torrential rivers rather than the dessicated dried out dead riverbeds we have now. I was born 100 years too late.
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