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Elixir D'Anvers

Elixir d'Anvers is a sweet, anise-flavoured herbal digestif from Antwerp, Belgium, traditionally sipped after a Flemish meal.

Belgium · Antwerp (Flemish Region) + nationwide Belgian digestif tradition + Dutch-speaking cafés

Desserts & Sweets

Antwerpse Handjes

Almond-butter shortbread biscuits shaped like outstretched hands, sold on Antwerp's Grote Markt and named for the legend of Brabo.

Belgium · Antwerp / Flemish Region (Antwerpen, Mechelen)

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Cheese & Dairy

Fromage de Maredsous

Fromage de Maredsous is the Belgian abbey cheese made in collaboration with Maredsous Benedictine Abbey in Wallonia, in three styles.

Belgium · Maredsous Abbey (Denée, Molignée valley, Namur province, Wallonia) + Belgian abbey cheese tradition

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Fruit Lambic

Fruit Lambic is a tart Belgian farmhouse beer brewed with whole fresh cherries, raspberries, or peaches in the Senne valley south of Brussels.

Belgium · Pajottenland / Senne valley (Brussels, Lembeek, Beersel, Dworp) + Belgian beer café tradition

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Faro

Brussels-style sweetened lambic blended with dark candy sugar - the everyday café beer of the Pajottenland, easy to drink with a soft caramel edge.

Belgium · Pajottenland and Brussels (Senne valley)

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Fromage de Nazareth

A semi-hard, washed-rind cow's-milk cheese from Nazareth in the Flemish Ardennes - earthy, slightly barny, and aged into a flat wheel with a sticky orange coat.

Belgium · Nazareth and the Flemish Ardennes, East Flanders

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