March 29, 2012
Three rooms, each different, yet very ’the same’. I have sat in each of them and the one with the bar is the best for me. This review is of a lunchtime to early evening session between Christmas and New year, December 2007. The guy behind the bar could cope, but the only waitress couldn’t, too many parties of people with children who were visiting the Christmas Markets. The poor lass was rushed off her feet. Draught Kwak is the reason I come here, not the sinister looking puppets that hang by their necks from the ceilling. Nor the weird middle room with its raised staged seating and little lit-up box thing/puppet stage. The third room is just a wooden square, so I don’t sit in there unless I have too. Day time, it seems full of people with children (not just this time), in the evening it changes. The children are taken away (by the puppets maybe?), as are their parents. A younger set arrive without kids and the whole place is transfixed, it becomes noisier and busier, luckily there are more staff too. If you like your bars down an alley then this is for you, otherwise use the mainstream bars in the city.

November 2, 2011
Very nicely decorated. It has a nice ambiance.

November 2, 2011
romantic hidden place in the center of brussels near the gourmet street! it is an old theater for puppets. very cosy, also has a quite terasse at the back entrance

August 6, 2011
Nice beer garden outside, woody and old inside. Not much of a selection, but a nice enough place.

August 2, 2011
Old-fashioned bar with a dusty garden and old puppets. No beers worth mentioning. Bad news.

May 29, 2011
Go there to see the original puppet theatre, if you are into such kind of things it is quite nice. Don’t go there for the beers though. As a positive note it is quite cosy and looks rather quaint and old-fashioned, but the selection is rather limited, even in lambic beers, and the prices are a bit on the high side for Belgium.

May 1, 2011
So nice place to expend lots of hours. Not the best beer bar but We liked it so much so we repeated everyday the days we stayed in Brussels

March 31, 2011
This place is incredibly hard to find, its a place you probably will enter only wandering into it. Packed EARLY on a Saturday night, I had very high hopes. The place looks old and has some character which is charming. However, the beer list is pretty short and full of regulars you can get at any beer. The place is smokey, loud, and there is really no reason to be here when you can be at quieter places that offer the same stuff. The location is cool because its down this alley and also doubles as a theater. Don’t seek out but if you’re walking the sides streets after dinner or coming from the market, stop in for a quick peak.

October 5, 2010
Not the best place for beers in Brussels, but sure a funny place where to go and drink something with friends

June 7, 2010
We went upstairs for the puppet show which was enlightening, but I don’t speak French and I wasn’t familiar with the play so after the first act I moved to the back and laid out on the empty benches. The beer selection was good but limited for Brussels. The atmosphere was great and loved watching all the cats run around.