Pocket Cafe

 

Went to Pocket Cafe for breakfast this morning after getting my Record Store Day - The Killers & Bruce Springsteen - Encore at the Garden vinyl! Bit of a stressful morning and not sleeping last night but it was a success and I managed to get it from Rough Trade. Got into town for 7:15am on a Saturday morning was a killer but it was worth it in the end to go with my collection of vinyl's I'm probably never going to play...

Would have been a really rubbish day if I didn't get this but all good.

After securing my vinyl I went to Pocket Cafe for breakfast

Cappuccino

Matcha Latte

The matcha was bad - it wasn't mixed properly and tasted really bitter and nothing like a matcha.

Pocket Breakfast - Cumberland sausage, streaky bacon, rosti, beans, roasted tomato, fried egg & sourdough toast - £13.95

Scandi Breakfast - Smoked salmon, rosti, dill yoghurt, gherkins & avocado - £13.95

Breakfast looked crap especially for the price of it. Mine was not worth the price at all - it was meant to come with rocket which I hate and should have asked without gherkins too as I didn't eat it. The only thing that was nice was the rosti. It's meant to a be a wellness healthy cafe but the bacon was just fat.

It was so disappointing and this came to just under £40 - £37.60. They guy gave me £2.40 change all in 10ps... And defo over charged me as well. At least it's ticked off the list now and won't be going back and was surprised at how busy it was. It's a really nice place but the food was rubbish and expensive.

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Ghent

On our second day after going to The Atomium we got the metro back to Brussels Midi Station and got the train to Ghent. The train took 28 minutes.

We walked to the centre

€5 Belgian waffle with ice cream. I got pistachio ice cream and Jo got speculoos. It was nice but the waffle wasn't heated long enough.

The inside of this cathedral was freezing. Was colder inside that it was outside. Could see your breath!

Very similar architecture to Amsterdam. 

We stopped off at Maccies for an ice cream - €2.20

The pubs along here were really busy as there was football and rugby on and the weather was actually nice.

We had to try Belgium fries and this place was super busy. This was €5 and you got a choice of 2 dips - we got tomato sauce and house mayo.

They were really salty. Chips/fries really aren't my thing but I had to try them. We were going to go more adventurous and get one of the specials but we didn't know if we would like it so played it safe.

Poke bowls from Hawaiian Poke. We actually had these before the ones we had in Brussels but the posts are backwards.

I got pretty much the exact same - just tuna instead of salmon as they ran out of salmon!

Medium - Base - Sushi rice

5 mix ins - Avocado, corn, mango, seaweed salad & cucumber

Protein - Tuna

3 toppings - Nachos, pickled ginger & sesame mix - €14.95

Jo got:

Medium - Base - Sushi rice

5 mix ins - Avocado, corn, mango, seaweed salad & cucumber

Protein - Steak

3 toppings - Crispy onion, pickled ginger & wasabi peas

Dressing - sweet chilli

Was a nice little trip to Ghent which was a lot more successful than to Bruges. We there for a few hours and it was enough time. We got the 7:03pm train and made it back to the hotel for just after 8pm. 

There's a castle which I didn't realise till I wrote this post which would have been good to see!

This is finally the end of the Brussels trip with Jo from the end of February. Very much ready for the next holiday...


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