Estaminet Les Tournaisiennes
Tournai, Belgium
The read// why locals go
Les Tournaisiennes is an estaminet in the old sense — a Tournai café where the food is simple, cheap and served all day to whoever turns up. Cheese tartines, vegetable soup, pâté gaumais: Walloon food at its most everyday, the sort that keeps workers and neighbours fed rather than impressing anyone. A meal costs about €11. The Walloon cheese plate and the genièvre are the two things worth going out of your way for, the latter a juniper spirit that belongs in this kind of room more than any other. The estaminet is a format Wallonia never let go of, and Rue Saint-Martin has a well-kept example.
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Rue Saint-Martin 22, 7500 — Tournai
The read// why locals go
Les Tournaisiennes is an estaminet in the old sense — a Tournai café where the food is simple, cheap and served all day to whoever turns up. Cheese tartines, vegetable soup, pâté gaumais: Walloon food at its most everyday, the sort that keeps workers and neighbours fed rather than impressing anyone. A meal costs about €11. The Walloon cheese plate and the genièvre are the two things worth going out of your way for, the latter a juniper spirit that belongs in this kind of room more than any other. The estaminet is a format Wallonia never let go of, and Rue Saint-Martin has a well-kept example.
