By MarÃe-Pascale
This unique cafeteria in an exclusive setting offers service in Spanish, English and French! You'll have a choice of sweet or savory Brussels waffles, unless you prefer the little Liège waffle (the one with the pearl sugar inside) to accompany your hot or iced Belgian chocolate! And I'm not even talking about the Belgian chocolate crème brûlée..
An authentic Belgian experience that's a must-try, since the sugar comes from sugar beet, which is refined and exported directly by the family business in Belgium since 1847! Unique, as I said...
This stress-free business project between mother - Marie - and son - Paul - has taken on more and more meaning over the last few months. After just two years and three moves (that's the fate of growing businesses...), they've just settled into Casa Europa, an emblematic building in the heart of San Miguel de Allende.
A hotbed of European culture, with its many weekly events such as operas, concerts and exhibitions, Casa Europa is also historic, since Archduke Maximilian of Austria (husband of Archduchess Charlotte of Belgium) even stayed there for two nights in 1864. What a coincidence, given that Casa Europa's current president is Austrian and Wafflessence de Paul is Belgian (not to mention that Brussels is also the capital of the European Union...).
Casa Europa's renovations are not yet complete, but luckily the cafeteria is ready and waiting for you!
The decor is personalized, to say the least, with 500 French-language comic strips, a trunk full of board toys and a grocery store so that the youngest can have fun while their parents spend lavishly... It's all there to appeal to a public aged 7 to 77 (as Hergé, the author of the Tintin comic strip, would have said).
Vive la francophonie and vive Paul!
Wafflessence de Paul
Inside Casa Europa, San Francisco #23
Cash and cards
Monday-Thursday-Friday-Sunday: 9.30am-5.30pm*
Saturday: 9.30am-7.30pm*
Tuesday and Wednesday: closed
*The cafeteria remains open later for events organized by Casa Europa.
Menu in Spanish, English and French
