George
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
The read// why locals go
George is a breakfast and lunch bar on Vijfstraten, where the bakery next door supplies the bread that every dish is built on. Toon and Caroline run it themselves, a walk out from the centre of Sint-Niklaas, and the menu follows from that one advantage: butter croissants baked fresh, artisanal sandwiches, seasonal breakfast platters put together from pure products rather than a supplier's catalogue. Sundays bring a brunch buffet. It is a small, unhurried room in a residential street — the kind of address a neighbourhood keeps largely to itself rather than a destination you would stumble onto crossing the market square. Nothing is styled for a photograph here; the bread is simply good, and the rest is arranged around it.
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Vijfstraten 82, 9100 — Sint-Niklaas
The read// why locals go
George is a breakfast and lunch bar on Vijfstraten, where the bakery next door supplies the bread that every dish is built on. Toon and Caroline run it themselves, a walk out from the centre of Sint-Niklaas, and the menu follows from that one advantage: butter croissants baked fresh, artisanal sandwiches, seasonal breakfast platters put together from pure products rather than a supplier's catalogue. Sundays bring a brunch buffet. It is a small, unhurried room in a residential street — the kind of address a neighbourhood keeps largely to itself rather than a destination you would stumble onto crossing the market square. Nothing is styled for a photograph here; the bread is simply good, and the rest is arranged around it.