Brussels. One bakery at a time.

A highly subjective and non-definitive guide to Brussels bakeries

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Today I want to talk about Brussels’ bakeries. When I first moved to Brussels (10 years ago this year!), I was dismayed that good bread, especially good sourdough bread, was hard to come by. So I had no other option but to learn how to bake sourdough bread myself. A course with Biggie Lemke at De Superette in Ghent taught me the basics, following which I baked many many more practice loaves at home by myself. A flour-dusted copy of Tartine never far from my side. I wasn’t a fast learner and unpredictable and long days in the office as a lawyer in a big international law firm were not co…