The Beer Tour & Tasting - "BEST OF BELGIAN BEERS"

Date: to agree
Duration: + - 2h – 2h1/2
Departure: between 10h00 and 19h30, to agree
Group: from 5 to 25 people
Possibility of organizing several groups at the same time.

We organize a themed walk with as subject ‘Beer’ in the city centre in interactive way and gustatory, of course!

- departure from your hotel or seminarcenter (towncentre)

- different (small) walks accompanied by a guide to Manneken-Pis, the Town square (Grand’Place) and the Royal Gallery Saint-Hubert.

- Halfway: tasting of 6 different beers with comment of our guide and accompanied with an assortment of Belgian cheese.

- return to your Hotel (centre town)

Languages: in French, English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Greek or in Dutch (to be defined at the time of the reservation).

VIP - Introduction to Brussels...

Discovering a lot of aspects of Brussels in 2 hours (morning or afternoon).

a) Welcome at the Royal Galleries in a surprising subterranean passage of the mid-19th-century arcade and discover with our guide a city that reveals itself:
From a mysterious iris field to an enchanting colourful parade of Manneken Pis statuettes.
Discover Brussels’ history, culture, gastronomy, cityscapes, architecture and institutions.

b) Walk to and visit of the Grande Place.

c) Discovery and tasting of pralines of 3 different Belgian chocolate makers.

d) Walk to Manneken Pis and discovering of famous Belgian beers (with tasting of 1 beer)
Or
Guided Visit of the Town Hall, and discover the gothic hall, 16th and 18th century tapestry, old paintings with views of Brussels and the Senne-river, etc

Total duration: +- 2h – 2 ½ h
Languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian or Japanese.
Maximum: 25 participants per group

Price: on request

ART NOUVEAU for VIP’s

L’ART NOUVEAU AU NIVEAU VIP :
Tour ‘art nouveau’ avec guide spécialisé, Dîner dans la seule maison située au centre ville de Victor Horta :
L’ Hôtel Frison, l’immeuble « oublié » de Victor Horta

Date & timing à convenir et sous réserve de disponibilité.
Exemple timing & scénario:
18.00 : nous vous attendons à votre hôtel ou bureau (Région Bruxelles-Capitale) avec notre autocar de luxe et vous emmènerons pour une courte excursion ‘art-nouveau’.
19.15 : Bienvenue à l’Hôtel Frison, un endroit – signé Victor Horta & courte visite de la maison. Construite par Victor Horta en 1894 pour son ami l’avocat Frison, cette maison comporte de magnifiques volumes dont un jardin d’hiver vitrée faisant pénétrer la lumière au cœur du bâtiment. La main du maître se retrouve dans de nombreux détails. Cet immeuble date de ses débuts mais on y trouve toutes les qualités d’élégance sobre, de style homogène et soutenu, de logique et de nouveauté qui en fit par la suite sa valeur artistique.
La maison n’est pas ouverte au publique!

Sterkmans Events a obtenu l’exclusivité d’y organiser des événements.
Quelle belle opportunité que de faire découvrir à vos invités une des plus belles maisons du 19ème siècle du centre de Bruxelles dans le cadre d’un dîner !

19h45: Apéritif (dans le jardin d’hiver + la salle à manger (rez-de-chaussée):

20.30 Au 1er étage (Grand et Petit Salon) : dîner

Propositions sur demande.
Fin prévue à 22h30 heures

Vins du menu à volonté

Matériel : Table, chaises, Napoléon ou Chaises Houssées écrues ou marrons,
Four, taques par nos soins
Nappage, argenterie, porcelaine, verrerie, glaçons… matériel, de table par nos soins

Personnel : 1 maître d’hôtel, 2 serveurs, 1 chef, 1 cuisinier, 1 homme d’office
Sur base de 35 personnes

Nappage : couleur : Ficelle, blanc, champagne, framboise, kaki, bleu marine, gris, chocolat, tabac, noir, selon votre désir

Prix : sur demande.

CHOCOLATE WORKSHOP with ACTIVE PARTICIPATION

Description and conditions

In addition to the standard visit lasting around sixty minutes, participants are invited to become apprentice chocolate makers, rubbing shoulders with the employees for another hour or so to make any chocolates they fancy. Participants pour the chocolate into the moulds of their choosing, add decoration and pack them.
The advantage of this type of visit is that participants are able to play an active role in the various stages of chocolate production at our workshop. Rather than spectators, they become chocolate makers, with a license to let their imagination roam free. Ideal for company seminars, team-building drives or for simply stimulating the curiosity of students and teaching them how we make one of Belgium's most famous products

Duration: 2-2.5 hours + time of bus transfer.
Number: 15-30 people per group (if more participants: price on request, capacity till 100 persons).
Days: on request.
Transport: Luxury minibus (max.33p) included (area Brussels Capital Region), with an introduction by our guide on the way to the chocolate maker.
Languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Greek

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Timetable:

1. Welcome and workshop presentation
2. From cocoa to couverture chocolate
3. Personalized chocolate and mould design
4. Demonstration of praline production
5. Group activity
6. Presentation of the various options open to the participants
7. Chocolate making by each group on the basis of the furnished ingredients

Budget: On request

ART NOUVEAU (visit and dinner)

Visit of the Victor Horta masterpiece "Hotel Solvay"
+ Art Nouveau dinner

The Hôtel Solvay (UNESCO world heritage site)

Everything in this building ready to be admired.

Here it’s unquestionably one of the most precious pearls of Art Nouveau in Europe, to which a good number of works have been devoted.

You said “Art Nouveau” ?

What is above all new, is the way you are going to be able to admire the most beautiful achievement of Victor Horta, the famous Hôtel Solvay.

A dream residence, built in times past along the prestigious avenue Louise in the full blossoming of Art Nouveau in Brussels. Its future owner – son of the great industrialist Ernest Solvay – put unlimited funds at the disposal of the architect, so as to possess an unequalled architectural jewel. Horta could henceforth envisage the whole building giving free rein to his imagination.

A fantastic and sculptural assembly of natural stone, wood panelling, ironwork and glass disposed around an immense French window and a monumental staircase topped by one of those astronomical glass canopies of which the artist held the secret.

Once having offered you, at the outset, this captivating plunge into the total magic of Art Nouveau, we will help you to share all the refinements during a delicious menu with “neo-artistically” fragrances in one of the oldest Belgian gastronomic restaurants in the city centre.

EXAMPLE OF TIMING & SCENARIO :

17.00 :
We await you at your hotel or office (Brussels-Capital Region) with our luxury minibus.

18.00 :
Welcome at the Hôtel Solvay (avenue Louise) by one of our best guides specializing in art nouveau, and guided visit to this marvellous family mansion.

19.00 :
Leave for the restaurant for an “Art Nouveau” dinner.

19.30 :
Dinner:

MENU :

Tartare de Crevettes Grises et Ecrevisses avec Fromage Blanc aux fines herbes
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Suprême de Lapereau à la Double Westmalle
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Poire Laquée au Chocolat – Coulis d’Advocat

+ Apéritif + ½ bottle wine + water + coffee or tea/pp

21.30 :
Return to your hotel or office (Brussels-Capital Region) and end of program.

Price: on demand.
Other conditions : on request

« CHRYSALIS »

Workshop in progress : Dance, acrobatics and contemporary juggling

Transformation is everywhere… our world, individuals, nature… Everything changes, evolves, regress, die and revive…
We know that, we discover it mainly by seeing final results of changes, but the process itself is rarely noticed and observed.

The goals are to make the space vibrate in a limited time combining the theatre and its travelling in the time, the circus and its travelling in the instant and the dance in its travelling in the dream. That will be creation of an “alive” performance in constant transformation.
The point of start of the project is “chrysalide”, because it is a metaphor of the process of transformation. We all know that caterpillar will become a butterfly, and that’s the result. But all what happens in between those two stadiums is less known, forces that are violent, delicate, slow rhythms and all other forms of this process which are very complex, but also very fascinating!

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