Il Café Pelikaan in Antwerp it is located in the historic center of the Belgian city, but despite everything no one enters it. It is not recommended in the most famous guides, it offers plain Belgian beer without too much pretense but inside my friends, you will find the best of Antwerp. I'm not talking about trendy young people or kids, I'm talking about the classics "older than the place“, Those who by definition go always at the usual bar… And there you will understand that you are in a real pub in Antwerp.
It probably comes dodged from most tourists looking for a more welcoming place but I liked Café Pelikaan very much. The red-haired waitress is definitely grumpy, this you must know before entering. Who knows, maybe he immediately understood that we were tourists and treated us a bit like that, but never mind, it is for us also liked.
Among the gentlemen next to us, one with the laundry socks, one who drank his beer reading the newspaper and the other that charged the phone (a classic nokia). In short, one everyday that we were missing and that you will want to see again if you like to savor the life of the places passing not only through the places "with more beers" but also the real ones. The advice is to try this place. In the warmer months there is also a part outside with wooden tables, but if possible you stay inside, yes, outside the elderly I have not noticed them;)
