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l’Antichambre in Brussels: Custom Perfumes

Posted on December 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

You panic

not to find personalized gifts tow days of Christmas, don’t you? Here an exclusive adress in Brussels to keep confidential: l’Antichambre creates custom perfumes!

For this Chrismas, it’s a bit late, but you can choice between perfumes and candles already elaborated in Grasse (French capital of perfumes).

I do like the perfume in a leather-wrapped test tube to put in a bag, really refined! Don’t hesitate to ask Anne Pascale Mathy-Devalck for advice, she is the owner and a former photographer.

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Shop some luxury candles: click on the pictures below for more details (updated May 2015)

Garuda, THE Indonesian Restaurant of Brussels

Posted on November 28, 2011 | Leave a comment

You miss Bali, exotism… Welcome to the club! Before packing your (oops our) luggages, you must stop by Garuda, the unique Indonesian restaurant in Brussels! Yes, sounds exciting, isn’t it? The trip starts in the plate, to warm up our taste buds anesthetized by the cold. Honestly, I didn’t have any idea about the Indonesian food and even more the Sundanese food! After leaving my priori of food monomaniac, I’ve really enjoyed the Sate ayam (chicken sticks with peanuts sauce), very different than the Thai version and the Udang dabu-dabu (grilled scampi with fresh spices). Then I chose the Ikan bawal saus kecap (a fish called Pomfret – looks like a fossil, lol! – grilled with soya sauce): EXCELLENT (picture below)! I’ve also enjoyed the eggs with Balado sauce (picture 3). And surprisingly the food was not too spicy. I didn’t eat any dessert, but for ones addicted to sugar, there were donuts with fried banana flambé… See ya in Bali guys!

Garuda: 25 Avenue Adolphe Buyl, 1050 Brussels. Open from 12 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. Closed on Sunday. www.garudabrussels.eu

Brussels: Costermans by Gérald Watelet

Posted on November 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

Crazy rythm between Paris-Brussels and Antwerp.

Last friday I jumped in the Thalys (express train between Paris and Brussels) and guess who was sat next to me : Christian Lacroix himself! Wow…

Then I rush to the Grand Sablon, for the Costermans by Gérald Watelet‘s press presentation. For the second consecutive year, Gérald Watelet, the Belgian former couturier puts on the costume of an “assemblier” (a shopfitter) to collaborate with Costermans, the famous antique dealer. I’m late. Damned!

Gérald doesn’t remember our interview in the backstage of the TV program Sans Chichi, where he is playing a chef! He’s also a fantastic cooker. Here a quick sample of rooms decorated by Gérald Watelet, with the furniture mocked by Arnaud Jaspar-Costermans.

It’s open to the public for free. Picture above : the “wallpaper” that’s not a wallpaper, is an unique composition directly drawn on the walls by Julien Colombier, a French young artist who has already worked for Chanel.

Picture 2 : Gérald Watelet in the “70’s-80’s” room. Pictures 3 & 4 : the room with the great exotic wallpaper, next to the big window transformed in a lush conservatory. Awsome! Picture 5 : Arnaud Jaspar-Costermans.