Come and see this beautiful Dior showcase for yourself.
Meanwhile you can relax in The Bar with a refreshment or a ‘Tea Time with Lovisa‘ package.
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Museum Night Fever 2014, Brussels
On Saturday 22 February, Brussels museums are back with a huge burst of creativity. No fewer than 24 museums are taking part in this seventh Museum Night Fever, the annual night of Brussels museums.
From 7.00 pm to 1.00 am, musicians, DJs, performers, dancers, actors, light sculptors and fashion students will be sharing with us how they see the museums’ collections. The intention of Museum Night Fever is to provide an alternative to the classic museum visit with an experimental and multidisciplinary programme.
Once again the programme is extremely varied – details will be available online at www.museumnightfever.be.
There will also be things to do outside the museums too, with all kinds of artistic interventions around the museums, plus performances and soundscapes inspired by the museums in the shuttle buses.
For the blind or partially sighted, bookings can be made for tailored support in the form of a ‘Blind Date’, a volunteer who will accompany them all evening to make the event accessible with the help of live and personalized audio description.
Special STIB shuttles will be operating between the various participating museums from 7.00 pm until 1.00 am. The shuttle service is included in the ticket price. New this year: your ticket will also allow you to use Noctis buses.
Finally, let’s keep up our good habits: once again Museum Night Fever will draw to a festive close with an afterparty from 1.00 am onwards.
Practical information:
1 Museum Night Fever pass = access to 24 museums + shuttle buses STIB + Noctis lines:
- 9.00 EUR in advance (3/2>21/2/2014),
- 14.00 EUR on the day itself (22/2/2014).
- A supplement of 5.00 EUR is due for the afterparty.
Discounts: Article 27 and Cultuurwaardebon / Paspartoe.
Tickets available on line + in all participating museums, Fnac, Brussels tourist offices and the ULB PointCulture.
Your pictures of Museum Night Fever On line?
- make your Museum Night Fever photo
- share it on Instagram with the hashtag #MNF14
- view it on museumnightfever.tumblr.com (15’ delay)
Cooking with Pierre Balthazar
Care to test your culinary know-how in Pierre Balthazar’s kitchen?
Sometimes cooking is half the fun of an enjoyable dinner together, so why not invite your friends to take a cooking class with one of the best?
Pierre Balthazar opens his kitchen to foodies and amateur cooks who’d like to hone their skills. Of course the other half of the fun is enjoying your own dinner afterwards.
This package includes:
- Stay in The Hotel (flexible rate, breakfast included)
- Cooking session with Pierre-Bathazar (6 persons maximum, Saturday only)
- Followed by lunch or dinner in The Restaurant
More information:
- Cooking session with Pierre-Balthazar
10h00 to 12h00, followed by lunch
or 15h00 to 17h00, followed by dinner - Lunch or dinner in The Restaurant
2 main courses and 1 dessert
A fashion lunch in The Restaurant by IT-GIRL
Let’s rewind to august, when I had the most amazing sleepover in The Hotel? No need to add, I wanna go back! Maybe I should give my Boyfriend the sad puppy-eyes-look along with the hint to book a room for Valentine’s Day. And please my dearest boyfriend, do include a breakfast + dinner in The Restaurant. In November I organized a fashion lunch with 5 lucky it-girl.be readers and now, two months later, I’m still craving the oh so delicious plates the chefs made for us. Yes, that’s right – I said ‘chefs’.
The restaurant, the concept
Did you already hear about the concept? First off you have Belgian chef Pierre Balthazar who created this amazing team around him with Italian chef Luigi Taglienti (chef Trussardi in Milan, 1 Michelin star), French chef Michaël Fulci (Les Terraillers in Biot-Cannes) and Thai chef Oth Sombath (Aus Trois Nagas in Paris).
The menu of The Restaurant is set together by these three chefs who propose their interpretations of nine basic ingredients like eggs, mushrooms, … And each chef has it’s classic and creative dish. It’s a very interesting and culinary high-end menu.
And please, do notice the amazing environment you’re in. The Restaurant’s look and feel is spot on. Maybe at first you’ll miss out on the breathtaking view you have on top of The Hotel, but instead you’re enjoying the view of this pretty green getaway in the heart of Brussels.
Our menu
I had the opportunity to choose our menu, but whatever you’re getting, I don’t think you can
go wrong at The Restaurant. Such an interesting choice and variety of ingrediënts and
preparations.
starter:
I choose the Italian Classic: Potato gnocchi with black truffle.
My favourite by far. This was so delicious. Everyone was ooh-ing and mmm-ing at every bite they took. Must-try!!
main-course:
A French classic which I loved, Meunière-style sole with bouchon potatoes and spinach shoots. As you can see, no ordinary plates, but nicely decorated and culinary high-end dishes.
dessert:
Tiramusi.
Everyone will agree, the most original tiramisu we ever had!
The Restaurant is the perfect new place to have your lunch while shopping in the fashionable neighbourhood. You have a lunch formula for only 25 euros. An it-girl must-visit!
This guest article was written by IT-GIRL and first appeared here.
Valentine Package
Want to discover if love really goes through the stomach?
What better way to show your loved one how much you care than taking them out to a romantic dinner? The Restaurant proposes a special menu for lovebirds, showcasing different cuisines through four courses, all accompanied by our sommelier’s wine selection.
The ‘Valentine’ package includes:
- Champagne apéritif
- Mise en bouche
- Thai course
- French course
- Italian course
- Dessert by Claudio Renzi
- Accompanying wines selected by our sommelier
- Coffee and water
Bookable for stays from 14/02/2014 – 15/02/2014 via The Hotel Brussels
Discover Brussels Ice Magic & spend a night in style at The Hotel.
Brussels Ice Magic from 20/12/2013 until 09/02/2014
For the first time the International Festival of Ice Sculptures “Ice Magic” is hosted in Brussels, in the sumptious setting of the Place des Palais. This year the theme or inspiration for the ice sculptures is comic strips. Though you will also discover a room of The Hotel entirely made out of ice.
About 20 artist-sculptors from across the globe have reproduced dozens of famous characters and scens taken from the world of comic strips, but set in a typically Brussels’ setting…
420 tonnes of natural ice have been transformed, creating the worlds of TinTin, Quick & Flupke, the Smurfs, Gaston Lagaffe, Asterix, Boule et Bill, Thor, Spiderman, Lucky Luke, Thorgal and many others. Some of the sculptures and scenes are up to six meters high!
Especially for this occasion The Hotel has created a special offer – the Brussels Ice Magic Package – wich includes your entry for the Ice Magic Festival as well as a stay in The Hotel for one night, breakfast included!
- Book a Night at The Hotel including entry ticket(s) for Brussels Ice Magic: http://www.thehotel-brussels.be/specialoffers-en.html
- Discover more about Brussels Ice Magic:
http://www.thehotel-brussels.be/specialoffers-en.html
Giveaway – BVLGARI Fashion Book
A beautiful BVLGARI Fashion Book can be yours …
All you need to do is enter our giveaway.
Entertaining and didactic at the same time, this book is the essential complement to any jewelry lover’s collection.
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A kaleidoscopic, colorful, and dazzlingly illustrated history of Bulgari jewelry, this engaging book showcases more than three hundred objects from the late-nineteenth century to the present day.
The color illustrations are of such high fidelity that one can almost caress the pieces that for more than one hundred years have emerged from the firm’s design workshops.
The catalogue highlights Bulgari’s signature use of gold coins and serpent motifs. And an entire section is devoted to Bulgari and the film industry of the fifties and sixties. Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren are among the house’s star-studded list of fans.
Living the High Life at The Hotel
“Well that was the best Check-In I’ve every experienced,” my husband stated as the elevator whisked us up to the twentieth floor of The Hotel and that was only the beginning.
We were fortunate enough to win a stay at The Hotel through my participation in a weekly #SeeTheWorld twitter chat and while we had already visited Brussels last year, I certainly am not one to turn down a stay in a luxury hotel. Upon arrival, being told we were staying in the Panorama Suite was the icing on the cake. From the moment we stepped foot in that suite, I knew we were in for something special.
I’ve been known to indulge in nice hotels from time to time but that didn’t stop my jaw from hitting the floor while wandering from window to bathroom to window to bar to window to couch letting all of the details seep in. As a whole, the room was stunning but it was clear that there was attention to detail. The ginormous shower invited us to spend a little extra time under the rainfall shower head; the numerous fashion books around the room had us ogling over luxury goods; the well-stocked bar made us wish we had friends in the area to entertain and the handheld telescope encouraged us to take a closer look the city from high above.
The 180 degree views are certainly a highlight and they kept drawing both my husband and I to the corner couch, pointing out different landmarks we had seen up close and drawing our attention to others we hoped to find later on in our exploration. While we had a city to discover, I couldn’t help but linger a little longer, make one more Nespresso or pour one more complimentary beer and gaze out over the land.
After a busy day pounding the Brussels’ pavement, we’d retreat to The Hotel, pour a nightcap and talk about our day eventually crawling between those luxurious, white sheets and nestling amongst the pillows drifting into a well-deserved and peaceful slumber. The best part – waking up, leaning over to the electronic keypad above the bedside table and raising the blinds just enough to catch a glimpse of the gold dome perched atop of the law courts of Brussels. If that isn’t bliss, I’m not sure what is.
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Jay is a Canadian expatriate who after spending two years in Gabon on the West coast of Africa, now calls Norway home. When she’s not traveling, she’s writing for her expat-travel blog, From There To Here.
Tea Time with Lovisa
Tea Time with Lovisa at The Hotel.
As of November 20, The Hotel. offers shoppers on the fashionable Waterloolaan in Brussels “Tea Time with Lovisa”- take your time to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee with a selection of homemade Cube Cakes by Claudio Renzi, The Hotel’s pastry chef.
Tea Time with Lovisa’s tea set
Lovisa Burfitt, the internationally renowned illustrator, has illustrated a unique porcelain Villeroy & Boch tea set for The Hotel’s “tea or coffee moment”. The Swedish artist has previously created illustrations for a.o. Guerlain, Selfridges and the Liberty Department Store in London as well as for magazines such as Vogue and ELLE.
Especially for The Hotel, Lovisa Burfitt created the “Tea Time with Lovisa” collection, which is a Villeroy & Boch tea set illustrated with details from a fashionista’s mysterious life.
“Heart-shaped keys, high-heeled shoes, open toe sandals, pastry boxes and pearl necklaces bring Holly Golighty’s ghost from Breakfast in Tiffany’s back to life. And who is this elegant gentleman with his hat and black tie who walks by in a carefree and irresistible way?” In Lovisa’s mind, The Hotel has been transformed into a wonderland in which the king and queen of hearts are preparing themselves for a special occasion.
Pastry chef Claudio Renzi’s signature Cube Cakes
Claudio Renzi, pastry chef at The Hotel, has created a selection of Cube Cakes for “Tea Time with Lovisa”. These cakes will be freshly baked every single day. The coloured Cube Cakes are cube-shaped, are made of cake or bavarois and will be stuffed with fresh fruits such as passion fruit, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, blood orange and green apple.
Claudio Renzi explains: “I have intentionally not made the cakes too big, so you can try more than one at the same time!”.
More information:
Tea-Time with Lovisa is served in the Lobby Lounge, every day from 11:00 to 18:00
Tea or coffee € 7
Cube Cakes € 3,5 each
Reservations for Tea Time with Lovisa +32 2 504 13 33
http://www.therestaurant.be/the-lounge
New Year Package at The Restaurant by Pierre Balthazar
Are you in for a gourmet start to the new year?
Nothing says ‘This will be a good year’ than a fantastic groumet experience, so that is exactly what The Restaurant has in store for you. Celebrate new beginnings with a five course meal that showcases the creative inspiration of our chefs, and kickstart the year on a culinary note.
The ‘New Year’ package includes:
- Champagne apéritif
- Mise en bouche
- Thai course
- French course
- Italian course
- Belgian course
- Dessert by Claudio Renzi
- Accompanying wines selected by our sommelier
- Coffee and water
- Breakfast is also included.
>> Book your stay at The Hotel including a New Year Package