Charli — Restaurant in Brussels

Pros

Quality Pastries Tasty, Rounded coffee Cozy Lighting

Cons

Expensive Service can be hectic Bacon tastes strange Advertises Brunch but there is no true brunch formula. You'd have to get so many extra's and seperate dishes to enjoy a true brunch and you can if you don't mind spending a small fortune.

Food:

around € 15 or more, for:

Scrambled eggs: The texture was good, not perfect, could have been a bit more liquid, but was served very hot which I like and the seasoning of chives was a nice touch. Portion was a bit poor.

three strips of bacon: It tasted like lots of salt and fat on dried wood but no bacon flavor to be found. Texture was off too. Wouldn't come back for the bacon.

A coffee: Decent, subtle taste and rounded.

1 orange juice: Fresh, not alot though.

and a pain au chocolat (chocolate bread): Delicious. Crunchy outside, moist and buttery dough on the inside and of course great chocolate.

Overall a nice place to stay for half an hour with a delicious pastry and a good coffee though the quality of the brunch is not worth the price in my opinion. Either it's good but the portion is poor or it's just off.

Food: 3,5/5 Drinks: 3,5/5 Price/Value Ratio: 2,5/5 Atmosphere &...

Downgrading based on the recent horrifying experience of finding a giant cockroach (or something similar) and its worms inside a bag of flour. The flour had that stringy damaged/eaten texture. I informed the bakery and was advised to bring the flour back. I will do that next time I am in the area. Hopefully won't be an issue that I do not have a receipt. (This is the first issue of this type with their flour, which I've been buying for years, so I didn't think to take a receipt.) Other points: staff needs customer service training: the guy today almost barked at us when we asked for 1 napkin each with our sandwiches (and they got the majority of my online order wrong) - croissants just okay; during Covid they did not follow the hygiene rules. I had to cut off half of the individual cake I bought because the sales person had touched it with her fingers repeatedly. There are always tongs or some other way to touch other people's food without getting your fingers all over it (or maybe sanitizing them before touching food is the way to go). very small space to eat inside and limited drink choices (and no...

Food is really good that's not the problem.

I've been going more frequently to Charlie to buy the choco almond croissant, absolutely tasty.

The problem is i go to Charli 3 times/week just for that croissant and i notice 70 percent of their merchandise is already sold by 12:30pm. The rest of the products are uninteresting after that period and are often continuously repeated items.

They make like 80 percent of their daily winnings by 1pm and the rest is sold until like 5pm or so. It's incredibly annoying to go here multiple times per week and they never have what you want. Why don't you : just make more products that are sold first close the shop at 1pm, save up on employee hours rates while retaining most turnover make less unwanted products and more sellable products

It's very dissapointing to pass by the shop and see the same products that don't sell daily. Optimising required. Business is booming too much, new strategy required.

I just want my choco almond croissant without having to call...