Gourmet products local specialties and wines Liège

One of our favorites. Homemade vanilla or orange crepes, traditional bouquettes, mini Liège wafers with butter and pearl sugar, madeleine... We want to try it all. The shop windows and street-side workshops are a real eye-opener. Opposite, bread takes pride of place. Eric, the owner, selects his own cereal crops from a farmer in Liège. Artisanal ice creams and sorbets (2019) and French fries and side dishes (2021) complete the offer.

Since 1983, it's easy to get the butter, the butter money and the creamer's smile as a bonus in this shop! Appetizing cheeses of all kinds awaken nostrils and taste buds. The interest is to taste the very rich palette of cheeses from Liège, or rather from the land of Hervé where the fat green grass feeds cows, sheep and goats. A real breakthrough. The house also offers a beautiful selection of wines to accompany its board, but also homemade beers, syrups and jams that go perfectly with local cheeses.

Brasseries de Liège is a collective concept where small professionals can create their own personalized beer using professional equipment. Upstairs, an impressive 46-pump bar offers a direct view of the tanks. With so much equipment on the zinc, there's plenty of room for everyone, including custom beer sponsors! You can also order a meal from one of the six food counters set up in the adjoining gourmet hall. Connoisseurs and the curious are welcome!

The {C} brewery already has a bit of bottle age, as do its two managers, François Dethier and Renaud Pirotte. The duo presented their microbrewery project to the cast of a TV show designed to support budding entrepreneurs. Their project was rewarded, along with Curtius (7% vol.), and it was an immediate success. Today, the former Saint-Esprit beguinage houses the brewery and is not only the brewers' laboratory, but also a brewpub. A vast tasting area, enhanced by a pleasant terraced garden, has been laid out.

Here, speculoos are king, and marzipan is emperor. As a guarantee of quality, ancestral recipes have been handed down from father to son for four generations. If there's a not-to-be-missed time of year to come here, it's around St. Nicholas' Day. Around two months before the holidays, several tons of marzipan take on the shape of the man with the long beard and red miter. The whole thing is baked from the inside out, with a thickness that retains its inimitable softness. An address not to be missed!

In her open studio that doubles as a boutique, Mélanie Lemmens offers 10 organic and/or fair-trade chocolates: the famous chocolate "moustache", the flower or the melocake and also the Miss Cara'mel tube (or jar, let's be crazy) (a real treat!). There are also 15 types of praline: violet black tea, homemade praline, orangette, ginger... You'll be spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting your assortment. For those with a sweet tooth, Mélanie regularly organizes workshops where you can learn all about the secrets of chocolate-making with your family.

We can't get enough of these filled chocolate sticks, dark mango-passion and the indestructible café liégeois. Other specialties include hot praline waffles and 70% dark chocolate ice cream. At the age of 16, Jean Galler watched his grandfather, a pastry chef since 1930, and realized that chocolate would be his life. He studied chocolate-making in Basel, then worked for Lenôtre in Paris, before setting up his own chocolate factory in Vaux-sous-Chèvremont in 1976. Supplier to the Belgian court since 1994, the company now has over 2,000 stores, including two in Liège.

Michèle Prunier is the mom who, urged on by her son Christophe, opened her chocolate shop in 2018 in Herstal. Christophe and his partner Coralline then left to train with top chefs, before returning to Liège to open a second boutique. Chocolates, macaroons and pastries compete for the counter space. The base is Valrhona fair-trade chocolate. Other ingredients are as local as possible (milk, fruit from local farmers...). Original chocolates are subtly combined with spices, herbs and fruit. A real success!