For two years the most common email we received began with the words “Do you have anything in Belgium?” The answer, as of this week, is yes. The Dry Shelf, a small place on Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat that keeps nothing with alcohol in it, has taken the whole range.
Why it took so long
We only work with places we can visit. Somebody from the workshop has stood in every café, restaurant and corner store on the stockist map, usually for longer than the owner would have liked. Ghent had to wait until one of us had a free week and a bicycle.
“We would rather be in forty places that care than four hundred that do not.”
What comes next
Two cafés, one in Patershol and one by the Vrijdagmarkt, will follow before winter. They will appear on the stockist page the day the first box is opened, and not a day before.
