Het Goudblommeke, 2009
Interior
Mural inside the pub

Het Goudblommeke in Papier ("The Paper Marigold") or La Fleur en Papier doré ("The Gilt-Paper Flower") is a historic café/brasserie established in 1944 at 55, rue des Alexiens/Cellebroersstraat in Brussels, Belgium.[1]

The painter René Magritte, the novelist Louis Paul Boon, and the cartoonist Hergé were all at one time regulars.[2] It was a meeting place for artists in the CoBrA movement, and in 1955 the writer Hugo Claus held his wedding reception there.[2]

The café was registered as a protected monument in 1997.[1] The building is owned by the Public Centre for Social Welfare of the city of Brussels, and partially sublet by AB InBev to the association that runs the café.[2]

Since May 2011, the interior courtyard of the pub displays a comic strip fresco by the cartoonists De Marck and De Wulf (Stam et Pilou).[3]

In January 2021 it was reported that the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium had left the business's future precarious, which resulted in a bankruptcy in 2022.[2] As of May 2023, the café has reopened with a new manager.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Het Goudblommeke in Papier". Inventaris van het bouwkundig erfgoed. Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest. 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Jens Cardinaels (6 January 2021). "Legendarisch Brussels café vecht om te overleven". De Tijd.
  3. ↑ "La Fleur en Papier Doré / het Goudblommeke van Papier". visit.brussels. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  4. ↑ "Goudblommeke in Papier heropent na negen maanden". bruzz.be (in Dutch). 2023-05-25.

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