Cafe Hollander

Cafe Hollander

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2608 N Downer Avenue
Milwaukee, WI, 53211
United States

414-963-6366

Year Established: 2006

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Café Hollander is proud to be a grand café in the style of those found throughout the Low Countries, especially the “Benelux” region (Benelux is the region of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg). These European grand cafes are a comfortable place where neighbors can meet over a cup of espresso, a snack, a meal, or a strong ale – day after day. From bicycles to lion kings to waffles and mussels and frites in a paper cone, Café Hollander integrates some of our favorite elements of the Benelux region’s rich culture… and none more prominently than the love for Belgian bier. “The respect reserved for wine in most countries is in Belgium also accorded to beer. No country can match Belgium in the gastronomic interest of its beers. No country has so many distinct styles of beer (though several have more breweries). No country has beers that are so complex in character as the finest in Belgium. No country has so many individualistic brews, nor does any country have such a sophisticated beer cuisine (extending far beyond the dishes that are commonly associated with beer). The spontaneously fermenting "wild" lambic beers of the Senne valley represent a tradition unique to Belgium. So do the tart, acidic, "sour" beers of Flanders. In the production of top fermenting brews and wheat beers, Belgium is one of the world leaders. No country has as many "methode champenoise" beers, in which a second or even third fermentation is induced in the bottle either by a dosage of yeast or a blending of young and mature brews. No other country has so persisted with the use of fruits, herbs and spices in beer. Germany and Belgium are the only two countries to have kept alive on any scale the practice of brewing in monasteries; only Belgium and The Netherlands have Trappist beers.