Ief Stuyvaert was a TV producer before he decided to open Bookz & Booze in a quiet Ghent backstreet. His aim is to persuade you to buy a book along with an appropriate bottle of booze.
It’s an original concept that leads to some quirky combinations, like the novel Ordinary Monsters displayed next to a bottle of The Peat Monster malt whisky, and a History of London sold with a London dry gin. ‘You enjoy a book more with a good glass of wine,’ Stuyvaert claims. We can maybe drink to that.
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