charleroi restaurants

anybody know any?
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Mike

On 27 Feb., 16:56, Mike wrote:
anybody know any?
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theres at least one in the airport

michaelnewport the great help

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On 27 Feb., 16:56, Mike wrote:
anybody know any?
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theres at least one in the airport

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Mac Donald's, Avenue de Philippeville, 238, Charleroi, 6001, Belgium.
Phone: +32 (71) 473116

There was the crocodile, don't know if it's still there, anyway Belgium is
THE country for good food, difficult to go wrong.
Choose a brasserie and enjoy.

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anybody know any?
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500, Charlie wrote:

Mac Donald's, Avenue de Philippeville, 238, Charleroi, 6001, Belgium.

i noticed that too, worrying.
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You are a waste

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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:32:22 +0000, Mike wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500, Charlie wrote:

Mac Donald's, Avenue de Philippeville, 238, Charleroi, 6001, Belgium.

i noticed that too, worrying.

Something to do with Charleroi not being a tourist destination.
It is an industrial wasteland.
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Martin

On 28/02/2011 13:17, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:32:22 +0000, wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500, Charlie wrote:

Mac Donald's, Avenue de Philippeville, 238, Charleroi, 6001, Belgium.

i noticed that too, worrying.

Something to do with Charleroi not being a tourist destination.
It is an industrial wasteland.
Even so, people actually live there and occasionally eat out!

http://www.resto.be/ware/resultats.j...rigin=&origin=

If this breaks, just go to resto.be and type in Charleroi in the "city"
field of the search engine.

I can't recommend any, as I haven't been there in years.

M
http://cannes-or-bust.com/

On Mar 3, 9:03*am, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:14:40 +0100, Michael wrote:
On 28/02/2011 13:17, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:32:22 +0000, *wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500, Charlie wrote:

Mac Donald's, Avenue de Philippeville, 238, Charleroi, 6001, Belgium..

i noticed that too, worrying.

Something to do with Charleroi not being a tourist destination.
It is an industrial wasteland.
Even so, people actually live there and occasionally eat out!

http://www.resto.be/ware/resultats.j...me=&zip=&date=...

If this breaks, just go to resto.be and type in Charleroi in the "city"
field of the search engine.

I can't recommend any, as I haven't been there in years.

I haven't been there since 1967, when Charleroi still had active industry..
People lived there then too. It was the most horrible place I have ever been to
in Europe. As somebody I was working with said, even the food was bad.


http://news.scotsman.com/world/Welco...es.5151216..jp

Welcome to Charleroi: Tourism trebles in the world's ugliest town

Published Date: 08 April 2009
By IAN SPARKS

MAROONED in a sea of slagheaps, derelict factories and litter-strewn
wasteland, the Belgian city of Charleroi is one of Europe's most
unlikely tourist destinations.
The grim former coal-mining community is best known in Belgium for
having the highest suicide and unemployment rates in the country.

The southern blackspot is even warning it will become more run-down in
the current global financial crisis – having never really recovered
from the previous two recessions.

But now, following a poll voting it the world's ugliest city, it is
suddenly teeming with visitors willing to pay to see for themselves
how relentlessly bleak Charleroi really is.

Several businesses have sprung up since the survey, carried out in
neighbouring Holland, offering "urban safaris" around some of the
city's drabbest "attractions".

Tourists on the guided tours can climb a slagheap, inspect acres of
post-industrial wasteland and visit the now demolished home of
notorious child killer Marc Dutroux.

They can also see the apartment block of one of Charleroi's other
notorious former residents – the world's first white female suicide
bomber Muriel Degauque, who blew herself up in Baghdad in 2005, after
marrying an Islamic radical.

One tour operator, Nicolas Buissart bragged that trips around the town
– whose airport is a hub for low-cost airline Ryanair – were fully
booked for the next two months.

He said: "Visitors are genuinely appalled at the true hideousness of
our town. Even as they fly in, they are shocked at the landscape of
filth, slagheaps and wasteland.

"It looks like the very worst of the Russian communist era. It is a
truly grim spectacle to behold.

"We take people around in a fairly decrepit old coach, visiting all
the ugliest places – but the choice is actually endless because so
little of the town has anything to offer.

"Hopefully it makes visitors leaving feeling lucky about where they
live themselves."

Even locals complain socialist-run Charleroi, with a population of
200,000, is "a complete dump".

Shopkeeper Stephan Reignier said: "It is a monstrosity. The whole
place should be bulldozed and rebuilt from scratch."

In an attempt at positive spin smacking of desperation, the regional
tourism website could only say of the city: "Charleroi has fun and
does not take itself seriously."

Since Mr Buissart began tours of his home town, other rival firms have
now set up and tourism had tripled in the past three months,
Charleroi's town hall said.

A spokesman added: "It is not really anything to boast about, but in
the short term a huge boost in tourist revenue could help fund some
very badly needed regeneration of our town."

On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 07:39:11 -0800 (PST), Iceman wrote:

MAROONED in a sea of slagheaps, derelict factories and litter-strewn
wasteland, the Belgian city of Charleroi is one of Europe's most
unlikely tourist destinations.
The grim former coal-mining community is best known in Belgium for
having the highest suicide and unemployment rates in the country.

there was actually a good choice of good restaurants and the centre has
been rejuvenated. To the north of the main square was an area of *very*
poor housing, (judging by the synagogue once a jewish encave) but now
occupied by poor Maroccans - and not without signs of crime.
The locals were very friendly.

The slag heaps have been landscaped - the trees look at least 20 years old.
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Mike