La Fleur en Papier Doré

The faded, cream-colored facade of La Fleur en Papier Doré is hidden behind a simple brown door on Rue des Alexiens. Inside, the walls are covered in thousands of yellowing business cards, framed sketches, and erratic scribbles left by decades of visitors. In the nineteen forties, the poet Geert van Bruaene opened this spot as a tavern for artists and writers. Rene Magritte became a regular, often settling into the dark wooden benches to sketch ideas on the back of his napkins.