"Class and a half... An unlikely alliance is about to put some shine back into Adelaide's East End as well as forever change our attitudes to beer. Beer lovers, forget everything.  Publicans and bar staff, you are on notice.  All your serving habits - everything you knew about sanitary glassware and the proper delivery of beer - is blowing clean off the bar.  A highly unlikely alliance of people and place has brought this fresh breeze about." PHILIP WHITE - The Advertiser (Food & Wine section) 6 February 2002. ".....The crush at the bar was phenomenal.  Major reason seemed to be the fascination with staff pulling the frothy brews into huge goblets, and then plunging them into cold water and scraping off the frothy bits. It's a pleasant place where gentlewomen, pearls (and twinsets) or not, might safely meander alone and browse a pleasant tucker list." RUSSELL STARKE - City Messenger ('Ravings' Russell Starke column) 13 February 2002. "Show us your mussels... The new Belgian Beer Cafe in the East End has more going for it than superlative beer. It's hard to go past the Belgian staple, a steaming pot of mussels..... which is a hearty meal, with mussels galore and a broth to drink at the end." KYLIE FLEMING - City Messenger ('Food for Thought') 13 February 2002. "The Belgian Beer Cafe - check out their great and attractively priced bar snacks - mussels, herrings, pate etc - and while you're at it grab a pint (or two).  The Belgian Beer Cafe is situated in the East End." Rip It Up Magazine ('What's hot' column) 21 - 27 February 2002. "Beer that tastes like bitter cherries, beer that tastes like unsweet raspberries, the dunny identified by a picture of the late king and his wife - never have there been such times. The place is slick.  It looks part of that northern European ale axis which stretches from Belgium across to the Czech Republic. The gimmick is that they have beers the way everyone else has wines. It was - and this, I think, is the point of the Belgian Beer Cafes, now replicated across Europe to New York, Sydney and Melbourne - is that it was a jolly meal, right down to the puddings.Come to think of it, it was the first time I had a waffle with a gently sweet filling topped with mousse and washed down with a beer that tasted of cherries - or was it peaches?" TONY BAKER - Advertiser (Food & Wine section) 27 February 2002. "The BBC has high standards of cleanliness and quality.  Its staff are especially good - ready with a smile and a beer.  Clearly hospitality is a serious concern of the management.  The BBC is a welcome addition to the East End. This month's Red Rose is for Danny and the staff at the BBC.  The service is consistently courteous, efficient and well informed." The Adelaide Review March 2002. "Heady stuff at the Beer Cafe... To complement the range of Belgian beers - you can tell they're serious about their beers when they match food to the beverage rather than the other way around - is a mouth-watering menu featuring many traditional Belgian dishes." The Advertiser (City Living section) 2 March 2002. "Bless this bar... Lunch goers at the new Oostende Belgium Beer Cafe off Rundle St were stunned last week to see a priest blessing the bar. In Europe it is common practice to bless new places of business but it's a first for Rundle St. The Belgian ambassador Bernard Lauwaert was there, along with Catholic priest Father Chifley, who wasn't surprised when he was invited into the Ebenezer Place bar." Sunday Mail  3 March 2002.