No need to put on your rubber boots or bring your wicker basket or professional stick. We are not going to pick mushrooms, but we are going to a place in Brussels for the best taste. That's the Café des Spores for a mushroom starter, main course, and even dessert.
Breton by birth, Belgian by adoption, Philippe Emanuelli shares his passion for mushrooms in a place of industrial decor in the Saint-Gilles neighborhood. The atmosphere is warm and young: wood, zinc, craft paper tablecloths, the menu is enormous, posted on the wall in slate, tip-toe for those who are kings of "Darn, I forgot my glasses again" (you know who you are). Sautéed mushrooms sizzle in the fire and embalm the restaurant. Long live the rain and frogs! Well, may not the frogs. Long live cepes, chanterelles, black trumpets, truffles with black spores, sparkling and glowing oyster mushrooms, and many, many others.
The cuisine is tasty and seasonal according to the gathering around the master of ceremony, the magnificent mushroom: 3 starters, 3 courses - fish, meat or vegetarian - and 2 desserts, please.
And to perfect this palette, an eclectic wine list, with a bit of humor, little names attached to each bottle from the generous cellar. We can’t help but to award some of its excellent wines, like the Mourvèdre de Cordoue which is Olé!, a Cabernet to make you feel more than comfortable in your skin, for "flexion-extension" a Riesling, and for a good time, be careful, it’s good, we choose a 2010 Carmenet. You’ll take the entire program, right? In moderation, of course.
We hope that this little introduction will mushroom into a new appreciation of this transformative fungi. If not, take the Alsemberg Causeway, and head to Café des Spores immediately.
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