Belgium, its beers & cheeses…

Beer is the proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy »
(Benjamin Franklin, inventor of lightening conductor and author of this phrase)

Belgian beers and cheeses are numerous.
Mostly monks have contributed to the Belgian cheese specificity.

On the current territory of Belgium more than seventy abbeys existed in the order of the Cistercians alone. Several of these have continued the tradition of pure artisan production. Not only of cheese, but "everything that goes with it"...: bread, artisanal syrups and especially the famous abbey beers which are making of Belgium "the"country of beers.

Example of scenario & timing:

Welcome & introduction from our ‘monk in charge’ concerning our 4 artisanal beers selection. Glasses 16cl + an assortment of 4 Belgian cheeses (duration 1h).

Menu ‘Belgian beer & cheese’ :
Escargots Petits gris de Namur, sauce aux fines herbes, gratinés au fromage d'Herve
Veau aux champignons, sauce à la bière Jambe de Bois
Beignets au fromage de chèvre frais, confiture de myrtilles
+ two glasses of wine, beer or soft/pp + mineral water + coffee or tea after the dessert (duration 2h)

Minimum 10p, maximum 24p

Language: English, French, Dutch, Spanish

Price: on request

DINNER WITH A VIEW

We organize a classy & musical evening for your group with view of the Grand'place. Venue: a privatized floor of a very popular restaurant.

Our musical trio plays 3 x 45' nice soft music, jazz, gypsy or international.

Menu (proposal)
Dinner: MENU (same menu for the whole group) :

Shrimps croquette
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The tradional Chicken vol au vent with meatballs
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Traditional chocolate mousse

Incl : 2 verres de vin ou bière (pils or whitbeer)/pp + 1 coffee or tea after the dessert.

Minimum 40p/ maximum 120p.

Total duration: +- 3h
Date & hour: to agree.

Can be preceded by a guided walk in the city center.
Price on demand.

A PRIVATE CASINO EVENING

In every of our venues in Brussels (in function of the size of the group) we create a typical casino atmosphere with authentic material and professional, multilingual croupiers.

The guests get a fictional budget in fake personalised dollars (possibility to have your company logo or photograph on it).

The winner will obtain a bottle of champagne.

For even greater atmosphere, we can bring Jackpots (slot machines).

-For 25 -30 participants: (or less) we install an American roulette open during the aperitif and between the courses of the gastronomical diner.

-For 30 to 100 participants: We install an American roulette and Blackjack with all the necessary accessories + cold & warm buffet.

-For 200 to 400 participants: a complete casino with 1 French Roulette, 1 American Roulette, 1 Craps, 1 Blackjack, 1 Texas Hold’em Poker and a wheel of fortune + cold & warm buffet.

Choice from several play tables - for example: Blackjack, baccarat, Caribbean Stud play poker, American Roulette, Craps or Chuck A Luck, jackpots…

Croupiers: multilingual Dutch, French and/or English.
Price and proposal on request

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DISCO & KARAOKE EVENING, IN THE HEART OF the MAROLLES District

Location: a trendy restaurant in Brussels Marolles district, privatized for your group

A disco & karaoke evening (that's our work) packaged in a glamorous atmosphere with a lot of fun (that will be your mission):

Example scenario & timing:

19h00 - 19h45: Arrival of guests, with drinks & appetizers

19h45 - 20h00: a practical presentation of the evening and distribution of music books

20h00 – 20h45 : buffet: cold and warm starters.

20h45 – 21h15 : Karaoke!

21h15 – 22h00 : buffet: main dishes.

22h00 – 23h00 : Karaoke! & desserts (buffet)

23h30 – 1h00 : dancing with our DJ

Minimum: 70 participants.
Maximum 120 participants!
Date and timing: to be agreed
Languages: French, English or Dutch.

Price: on request

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Cosmopolitan Brussels - a gastronomic (networking) lunch or dinner…

The international 'networking' lunch or dinner from Sterkmans Events…
You would like to have a nice & original dinner
with the opportunity for everybody to talk to each and every one? So this means not the traditional dinner where you can only talk the whole evening to the people sitting next to you.

The formula: we go to 3 different venues (each +- 5 minutes walking distance from each other & our ceremony master co-ordinates and escorts the group).

Itinerary 1: Grand'Place & surrounding
Itinerary 2: Place de la Liberté & neighbourhood Cirque Royal
Itinerary 3: Dansaert & Fish market area
Itinerary 4: Sablon & Marolles
Itinerary 5: Parvis St-Gilles & surrounding

On the 'menu':
-aperitif is a special Belgian beer (individual choice) + cheese,
-the starter: a Corean, Greek, Japanese, Indian, or... course + glass of wine, beer, soft or water
-Main course with one glass of wine, beer, soft or water + coffee or tea to end the evening: in a Greek, Italian, Thai, Romanian, Lebanese, Portuguese, Ethiopian, or.. restaurant

Date (not on Friday or Saturday evening or on Sundays), starting point and timing to agree.
Languages: in English, French, German or Dutch.
Duration: +- 2.5 h

Maximum is 25 p and one group

Price: on request

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"SING A SONG" DINNER

We organize a pleasant evening in a privatized gourmet restaurant (minimum 20 people) in the city center at 3’ minutes walk from the Grand Place.
A young - very promising - chef rules the kitchen.

SCENARIO:
Welcome by the choir leader / conductor/ master of ceremonies and aperitif: 1 glass of wine, beer or juice + 3 zakouskis / person.

Dinner: MENU (same menu for the whole group) :

Croquettes with grey shrimps from the North sea
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Waterzooi of the chef, with 1/2 cockerel/pp
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Grandmothers dessert with ice cream & cherries

Incl : 1/2 bottle of wine/pp + mineral water + coffee or tea after the dessert

Between the courses and after the dessert, our 'master of ceremonies' conducts the choir (which is made from members of your company!) and is assisted by our musician, an accordionist or pianist.

A booklet will be provided (one per two people) with a large number of evergreens from Belgium, France, England and the United States (+ Christmas carols during the month of December). The booklet should make it easier to sing along...
Maximum 25p in this venue (more participants: bigger venue available)
Total duration: 3h
Date & hour: to agree.
Price: on demand

SHOOTING WITH THE CROSS BOW & DINNER
(Marolles/Sablon)

Date & timing: to agree (total duration +- 3h/3,5h).

The program is composed of 2 elements:

SHOOTING WITH THE CROSS-BOW (1h)
We will welcome you at one of the oldest belgian corporations, officially recognised in 1213 by the Duke of Brabant and is intimately linked with the earliest history of the town of Brussels.

It acquired a social position, that grew throughout the “Ancien Régime”, in particular because of its founding of the church of Notre-dame au Sablon.
The martial role of the Guild diminished little by little, to give way to peaceful tests of skill, to which important notabilities were invited.
Charles V, the Count of Egmont and the Infanta Isabella came to be installed as ‘Kings of the Shoot’.
In 1853, the Belgian King Leopold the first, donated the Guild a banner and a collar for the King of the Shoot. Since then, the Guild added ‘Royal et Noble’ to its name.
King Albert I, King Leopold III, King Bauduin and King Albert II visited the Guild or accepted the Grand Mastership. King Philip accepted recently.

Program: welcome, introduction, initiation & drink (one beer, coffee, tea or soft drink), contest (in team or individual).
The best shooter receives a souvenir offered by the President of the Guild.

The Dinner (+- 2h) in a classy restaurant,
5'-10' walk from the Guild:

Starter

Main course

Dessert

White & red wine/ Water/ Coffee or tea

MENU details: on demand
Languages: Dutch, French or English.

Price: on demand

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A memorable drink at the Grand'Place !

We organize a special drink in one of the most prestigious houses of the Brussels' Grand'Place.

Our caricaturist is working during the whole duration of the reception and makes quickly ‘portraits’ of the guests.

Drawing after drawing are exposed, commented and admired by the participants.

At the end of the event, the lucky models can take their caricature home, an original and unexpected ‘souvenir’!

Duration: max. 2 hours

During this time, we will serve:

1 Portion Homemade chicken nuggets/pp
1 Belgian fries (one portion/pp)
3 warm appetizers/pp
3 cold appetizers/pp
+ 3 glasses of artisan beer, wine, soft, water, coffee or tea (3 tickets)/pp

This program can be organized with or without guided city walk (duration 1h)

Date & hour: to agree.
Minimum 15 participants.

Price: on demand

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“Beer, Food & Music in the city”

Date: to agree.
Duration: + - 3 hours

Departure: Monday till Friday, between 19h00 and 20h00, to agree
Group: from 5 to 25 people.

Possibility of organizing several groups at the same time.

We organize a ‘beer walk & dinner’ with live music during the ‘starter’, the main course and the ‘dessert’ in 3 different places in the city center.

- departure from your hotel, the Central Station or your seminar center (town centre)

- Visited area: Manneken-Pis, the Town square (Grand’Place), the Ilot Sacré and the Royal Galleries Saint-Hubert.

- First stop: 1 Special Belgian Beer + cheese (starter) + live music

- Second Stop: 1 Special Belgian Beer + a main course prepared with beer + live music

- Third Stop in a tavern to drink another artisan Belgian beer + Live music & end of our program.


Languages: French, English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Greek or in Dutch (to be defined at the time of the reservation).

Price: on request.


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GUIDED WALK CITY CENTER + gastronomic LUNCH or DINNER…

A new exclusive program from Sterkmans Events:

Discover by walking the city center (Grande Place/ Manneken Pis/ Royal Galleries St-Hubert/ Ilot Sacré, the Sablon or the former harbor).

A guided walk (1 h minimum, 3 h maximum), followed by a lunch or dinner in a gastronomic restaurant in the city center (starter, main course, dessert + 2 glasses of wine or beer + 1 coffee or tea with the dessert/pp)

Groups of max. 25p.

Date & point of departure : to agree

Final number of participants to communicate 5 days before event date.

Languages: French, English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Italian or in Dutch (to be defined at the time of the reservation).

Menu example:

La Cassolette de Moules de Zélande et Fruits de Mer
Or
La Bouquetière de Légumes du marché
Or
Le Jambon de nos Ardennes, crudités
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Le Saumon d'Ecosse, sauce dijonnaise, pommes Duchesse
Or
Le Poulet de ferme au jeune Curry, pâtes fraiches
Or
La Carbonnade de Boeuf à la Leffe brune, pommes frites
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La Coupe Mikado
(ice cream, chocolate mousse, cream...)

Price: on demand

Brussels, city of Tintin and many other heroes!

We organize a cozy evening in a privatized gourmet restaurant (max. 25 people) in the city center at 3’ minutes walk from the Grand Place.
A young - very promising - chef rules the kitchen.

Our caricaturist is working very discrete and makes quickly ‘portraits’ of the guests. Drawing after drawing are exposed and commented/admired by the participants. At the end of the evening, the lucky models can take their caricatures at home: a original and unexpected ‘souvenir’ !

MENU (same menu for the whole group) :
aperitif: 1 glass of wine, beer or juice + 3 zakouskis / person.

Croquettes with grey shrimps from the North sea
***
Waterzooi of the chef, with 1/2 cockerel/pp
***
Grandmothers dessert with ice cream & cherries
Incl : 1/2 bottle of wine/pp + mineral water + coffee or tea after the dessert

Maximum 25p in this venue (more participants: bigger venue available)
Total duration: 3h
Date & hour: to agree.

Price: on demand