Tuesday 13 November 2018

HET MOMENT

Walking around in town for about an hour was long enough to start thinking about where to have a hot drink. My three American friends gave me "carte blanche" to choose the barista bar. And I tought about the awesome hours I spent last summer on the terrace of "Het Moment". About two hundred meters away from the castle in the city center you can find this beautiful restored former auctioneering firm. From the corner of the street you can already see that the bar is open as the chairs and parasols are visible from far away.
Not that the sun is shining! When the Gent six day race is on, usually the weather gets colder and wetter too. Let this be the two reasons why my American friends are in town. The cycling race and .... coffee.
 
Walking through the curtain at the entrance (keeping the cold out, even with an open front door) of the bar you enter a little shop with the counter to order your drinks.








Valentine always welcomes you with a big smile.
This young lady was the great winner of the "Venuez Awards" 2017, the Belgian "Oscar for hotel/restaurant/café". She won the price of the finest coffee making, but more important also awarded the best new coffee concept. And I admit that the capuccino prepared by the champion barista tastes delightful.
For Valentine is "Het Moment" a highly hoped dream that comes thru after working hard to realise this plan. After working at Simon Says, Mariott, Labath and De Superette this Dutch girl had the best learning schools. She opened her place May 2017.

The well chosen boudoir style gives the coffee table room a classy touch and invites for a chat between friends. Walking through this room you can find a more quiet place, the library, to enjoy your drink whilest reading a book or magazine. And like we mentioned in the beginning, if the sun is out you can sit at the street site, but also in the little garden in the back.










Breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, a glass of red, a whisky cola. Everything is possible as long as you want to enjoy the moment at a quiet place in the middle of the city where you are served by someone who chases the perfection all the time.

(GENIET VAN ) HET MOMENT - BURGSTRAAT 20 9000 GENT
www.genietvanhetmoment.be  - gesloten op dinsdag





 



                         

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