Antwerp: it's city of beer not wine
Added: Wednesday, February 5th 2014
Letter to the Guardian, 5 February 2014: The Guardian's determination to ignore beer even extends to its travel and holiday offers. In the Review section (1 February) a travel offer to visit Lille and Antwerp includes "dinner with wine" in Antwerp. In case you haven't heard, Antwerp is in Belgium, arguably the greatest brewing nation on the planet with a vast portfolio of beers -- many of which can be enjoyed in Antwerp's bars and restaurants.
Just a few metres from Central Station, Bier Central is a spacious restaurant that stocks 300 Belgian beers and matches them with excellent food. The Cafe Pelgrim is attached to the city's major brewery, De Koninck, and also matches beer with food, including a range of Belgian cheeses. To recommend "wine with dinner" in Antwerp insults the locals.
It's worth noting that when the Guardian announced a Masterclass on how to become a micro-brewer, the event was sold out within days. Pardon the pun, but there's a thirst for beer knowledge among your readers and it's time you reflected this in your pages.
*Bier Central, 25 De Keyserlei; Cafe Pelgrim, 8 Boomgardstraat.
