Belgian restaurants are quiet the experience – they’re quiet, intimate, and very classy. But Cook & Book in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert is a little different – it’s a bookstore with 9 restaurants in it…each with a different theme matching the books sold in that area.
Front of Cook & Book
The rooms are decorated to the nines – the travel room has an airstream camper you can eat in, the gardening room has a greenhouse inside and garden gnomes hidden all over the walls.
The Travel Room
There was also a 60s diner room where the cookbooks were sold. You could watch the chefs working here while you wait.
60s Diner Room
The British room, with a nice selection of English books and plush leather seats, would be a great one to sit and browse for a while. There were also rooms for comic books, children, art, and music.
The British Room
My favorite was the fiction room, where books were suspended from the ceiling. My friends and I had lunch here – soups, salads, sandwiches, and pasta.
The Fiction Room
If you’re in the area and looking for a unique dining experience, or a huge bookstore that is just fun to browse, check it out. I’ve posted more photos on PicasaWeb:
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What a great idea, sounds like the sort of place you would have to visit at least 9 times before you got bored of it! I would like to try the ‘British room’ just to see what the Belgians think of British food.
I should have explained better – there are only two menu options depending on the room you’re in – soups, salads, and sandwiches, or Italian/pasta. It would have been much cooler if the menus were themed as well.
Wow, that looks awesome! :D
That is most interesting. I’m remembering the Booknook restaurant where you took me. I think it was Chapel Hill. That was fun.
That’s very cool looking.
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wow- thats pretty neat!
that would be a great place to hang out many times over!
that is such a cool place. I think I would want to eat in the airstream.
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that is just cool.
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That is so my sorta place. I wish someone would open one here; I’d eat there once a week.