poechenellekelder

finally, the end of brussels blogging! our last main stop there (well, apart from dashing into pierre marcolini's right before we left) was a visit to the bar poechenellekelder our last night in town. it's the brick building on the right in the picture below -- right around the corner from brussels' famous manneken pis fountain (click on the photo to make it bigger; and while you're at it, i strongly recommend clicking on the link too. and to make this even more of a tangent, i gotta say, i guess the manneken pis is not just famous, but famous for being underwhelming, and that was right on -- it's so small and kinda cheap looking, in my opinion -- you get there and you're just like, huh? on the other hand, it was very enjoyable watching other tourists go nuts over it). aside from a lovely beer selection, the shtick at poechenellekelder is that, as a decorating motif, it's crammed full of all manner of puppetry and marionettes. for example, this upstanding gentleman joined us at our table.i guess we were pretty tired by that point, so we didn't take many more pictures. but it really was great (and our beers were terrrific!).afterwards the three of us went out for frites (= fries). i guess brussels is famous for them (i think because they typically double- or triple-fry them), but they were, you know, just fries, only we got them with tartar sauce or mayo or something like that. still, nothing like a little grease to top off the alcohol!