L’ Auberge de Poteaupré

The Chimay experience is here. Nice enough location to drink chimay all from tap (excl the green one). Good beers (all Chimay beers are excellent imho) and also good food, the steak was well made (medium rare as ordered) and the cheese plate was also very good with only one mediocre cheese. We had multiple electricity outages during our stay but other than that, solid place.

The famous inn located near the Chimay abbey. Although it was rebuilt a number of years ago & modernised with a larger restaurant and modest museum & gift shop dedicated to the Chimay beer and monastery, its still a fairly small place. The museum costs around 5 euros i think and is worth it to learn a little more about the history or Chimay and its charitable efforts that wikipedia wont tell you. The gift shop has all the usual tack plus a few jeroboams if you desire. The restaurant has a nice outside seating area, not as huge as Westvleteren but a lovely place to enjoy a beer and a tartine (open-topped sandwich) like we did. Worth a detour for an hour, and the abbey is a few minutes drive away

First it should be noted that there is no Chimay stuff sold on the abbey, only religious icons, books etc. So this is the place where you should look for the beer related stuff. The place is actually 2 connected places: shop and restaurant. Since I was hurrying to the airpport I didn’t have time to visit the restaurant. Hence the rating is for the shop only. The shop had the usual Chimay beers for a nice price and also seem to have new version of oak aged Chimay for ~17 euros (not yet in ratebeer nor their webpage, unfortuantley I couldn’t pick it up). Addition to the beers, the shop had nice selection of Chimay groceries (including cheese and patte of course) and a lot of memorabilia with Chimay logos (including pens, t-shirts, bottle openers etc.). Service was friendly and the guy behind the counter spoke enough English that the transaction went smoothly. Overall: decent shop, but not worth the special trip unless you happen to be in the area or are a really big fan of Chimay.

visite din the afternoon, ok selection isnt large ofcourse since they only serve their own beer, or i must have missed something, Food was delecious had the steak in beer sause and it was superb. service was friendly only downside where the flies in the restaurant but well with all doors and windows open that tends to happen. Overall a nice place to visit and dont forge to visit the monastery itself

Stopped by on the way back from France to the airport in Brussels as it was not to far out of the way. Split a taster and had a Doree. Tried a cheese sampler that came with bread, not too generous with the servings, and the bread after almost three weeks of traveling in France and Belgium was a huge disappointment. Nice gift shop with the opportunity to spend a lot of Euros! The place was packed on a Monday afternoon, so the monks are doing something right.

The official inn of Chimay Trappist Brewery. Bar, restaurant, lodgings, shop and a nice collection of Chimay stuff.

Been in 11/2014. Nice atmosphere where enjoy Chimay beers and cheese. The rooms upside are decent and necessary if you want to live fully the Chimay experience

Well, it’s been on my todo list for a while, finally made the trip. The Tripel on tap couldn’t really please me. Probably way too fresh. The food was a joke. I had the cheese croquettes. I could tell they were home made, but it’s not because something is home made, that is necessarily is good. Tasted a bit dull and the outside was greasy and soggy instead of crunchy crispy. The salad on each plate was the same uninspirational composition of lettuce, a piece of tomato, slice of cucumber, grated carrots from a jar, grated celeriac and something else. With a plastic cup of dressing. It felt like a school cafeteria. The grilled cheese ham sandwich was ok, but just one small one, instead of the regular two in Belgium. That’s a bit cheap. I guess the only reason you want to come here is for the Chimay Dorée, but as they will start selling bottles from now on, you might as well go after that. Come to think of it, they didn’t even have any Chimay Cent Cinquante (150) on the menu. Tsss.... Oh yeah, the nicest thing was actually the shop, where they have a really nice cheese selection. Took home a couple of pieces, they were delicious.

Quite a nice place to visit, though a bit secluded. Nice atmosphere, better decorated, less simple, than the places of Westmalle or Westvleteren. The beers (Chimay, naturally) are nice, though not my favourite Trappist beers. And obviously there is the Spéciale du Poteaupré (formerly Doreé).

The food is quite good and inexpensive, except for the soup of the day, which was in a rather small cup and quite bland. The soft specialty cheeses (Poteaupré and Mont de Secours) are really nice, and the stars of the visit for me.