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Something for everyone.

Listen well crowd 🔊

Our biggest sales might be hot dogs & pulled pork buns this year but we would like to remind you that we also serve other wholesome dishes all throughout the summer, such as:

Pic #1:
Platters with a selection of dry cured meats (or veg sausage), hummus, pickled veg, almonds, olives, sourdough bread & Timilia crackers

Pic #2:
No waste colourful totopos tortilla chips with our house salsa

Pic #3:
Quinoa salad with burrata (instead of halloumi), peach & tarragon dressing

See you at the counter(s) 🤩

Shot!
Our pepper steak & mushroom pie beautifully captured by thank you!

Lots of work goes into making this pie - shortcrust pastry bottom, pâte brisée top, long and slow braising beef with plenty of aromatics.

Enjoy it while it’s around during the shows.

SUMMER JOB OPPORTUNITY

Our team is almost complete for the 3 month long catering, however…

We would like to welcome one more awesome person who can be supervising some of the food preparations during the daytime but also assist the students with the service on concert days.

This is a rare opportunity to try yourself out in a fast paced environment while putting some extra money in your pocket and at the same time have a peek into the concerts.

Are you a team player and a person that enjoys the rush? Then let us know!

Ps. Sharing is caring!

This Sunday it’s Mother’s Day brunch .lier!

We’re looking forward to a sunny side up 🍳 kind of day! (Chances are pretty good!)

Let’s cheer all mamas, grandma’s & mamas-to-be.

Swipe to find out how to reserve a table.

See you then ☀️

Here is the menu that we’ll be cooking up on Mother’s Day (Sunday May 12).

While most of Flanders might be celebrating Mother’s Day in August, we thought of the ones wanting to treat the mums to a little New Zealand brunch vibes. And let’s be honest, Lier needs a little international flair. Any expats coming?

This event is ideal for families and friends who just want to spend a lazy day together with an overload of hearty food and drinks, lots of nice European small scale natural wines and friendly service.

We highly recommend taking a stroll around Lier as well. The little canal ways and architecture are truly jaw-dropping (we used to live there!).

Reservations via .lier

Our beautiful brand new logo of our soft serve adventure is here!
Excellent sketch work (as always) by multitalented top farmer & artist Pepijn Cuypers.
Colouring done by .make, oh so pretty we think.

See us next pumping out the creamiest ‘De Donkenhoeve sheep’s milk’ ice cream at the Tuinkriebels plant festival in Ranst (Oelegem) in the garden of the Vrieselhof castle.

May 4-5, 10-18h!
Early bird tickets for €5, or on the day €6. Bargain.

Come hungry. And thirsty.

We consider ourselves very lucky and you should too!

We will have the most gorgeous eggs from happy and healthy chickens featured on our brunch menu on May 12.

Our friends Emma, Bas and Wannes from .pakketten often have a limited supply and they’re usually sold out due to their busy weekly veg and egg packages. So it was time to expand the chix biz!

For bookings, head to .lier (link in bio) or phone 0479 17 48 72.

May 12
10-17h (kitchen closes at 15h)
Cafe Normal, Berlaarsestraat 31, Lier

***Please note, the menu is designed ‘a la carte’, and dishes are encouraged to be shared.
No buffet, sorry - not sorry!***

Nice collab event coming up on Sunday, May 12 with the guys behind .lier and their project called .number.4

Room #4 has created a space for chefs and food artisans to express their creativity and passion resulting in memorable dining experiences.

They asked us to join their culinary journey and we were instantly happy with the vision.

Feel free to bring kids along, this is a family friendly event.

Bookings are open via the reservation link on cafenormal.be or phone 0479 17 48 72

Some of you guessed right!
See you in May in the garden of the beautiful Vrieselhof for drinks, street food & lots of plants.
Crossing our fingers for a mint day 🤞🏻
Save the date!

Quite an important step in the whole pie making process is preparing our broths.
This one has lots of lovely veg from the folks and chicken meat and carcass from Kathy .forestree

Full flavour, zero shortcuts

We are lucky to have as our long term pie retailer.
It truly feels like a privilege having them sit next to so many other beautiful handmade products.

FYI: we deliver a fresh batch on Thursdays midday at the latest and they usually sell out by Saturday.

For bigger orders (min. 12 pies) you can email us directly.

We are filling up nicely for this Friday’s hot dog event too

If you haven’t booked a spot yet, you still have a chance!

Friday, November 17
Shift #1 - 18h00-19h30
Shift #2 - 20h00-21h30

Bookings via [email protected]

Same place. Same concept. A week later.

Felt bad that some of you wanted to come to this event but missed out.

So here you go - our friends agreed on having us in their gorgeous bakery once again a week later.

Bookings are now open.

P.s. There won’t be a 3rd, so you need to be quick grabbing a spot.

Friday November 10
Hotdogs and wine is now fully booked.

For the ones that reserved a table:
we will be featuring our absolute favourite winemaker and friend Florian Weingart’s delicious late harvest rieslings from the 2016 vintage and some younger ones too. Mainly dry but a few with higher residual fruit sugars to show all possibilities of this extremely characteristic grape variety we respect so much!
We can’t wait for you to try them!

Serving hotdogs to those Beerlovers too!

On Friday November 10, hop into and grab a hotdog to take to . Ben and his team will make sure you have a cold beer in your other hand.

Available from 5pm.

Warm smokey hot dogs (pork & veg too), Rhine valley wines, sticky toffee pudding & soft serve🍦!

After the success at serving hotdogs throughout the summer we decided to keep ’em coming!

This time we wrap them in their autumn coats aka sourdough buns and top them with… ha, surprise!

It’ll be sharing dishes, fig leaf soft serve🍦& wines that have been carefully ageing in our cellar.

This is a seated event with reservations but you are welcome to swing by for takeaway dogs too.

Who’s in?! Spaces are limited.

Reservations
[email protected]
18h-19h30 or 20h-21h30

Address
Muizenstraat 9

Snippets of our biggest job this year - catering the public at the

We’ve been having heaps of fun serving you fresh food with focus on provenance, small scale production and quality, thanks to our wonderful partners:




stadsboeren

lof




vandenberghe.75




and our dedicated prep team , you know who you are!

We have only 3 weeks left before the doors of the OLT close for the cold months, so let’s make the most of it!

Pride week!
Our rainbow 🌈 dog is available until the end of this week

100% organic smoked pork sausage from La bouch’bio
Fontal & Parmesan cheese sauce
Plum ketchup
Caramelised onion
Rainbow pickles
Encased in a brioche bun from