Le Pot au Lait

Top choice in Liège


Liège’s wackiest pub-café lurks down a private cul-de-sac decorated with psychedelic murals and lamps resembling radioactive triffids. Watch UFOs landing while lobsters wear dentures and mannequins show off their scars in a colour-overloaded masterpiece. There's regular live music too: it's an alternative classic.


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1. Cathédrale St-Paul

0.09 MILES

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2. Trésor

0.09 MILES

Off the closed-in cloister of Cathédrale St-Paul, the slickly presented three-level Trésor guards many artworks, vestments and chalices rescued from St…

3. Institut Zoologique

0.24 MILES

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4. Église St-Jacques

0.28 MILES

Arguably Liège's most fascinating church, this architectural hotchpotch was founded in 1015 and retains a heavily patched-up 1170 west end whose…

5. Tchantchès Pilot Sculpture

0.32 MILES

Beside the St-Lambert bus stops is this cartoonesque figure piloting a little metal aeroplane: Liège’s mascot and oldest ‘citizen’, the big-nosed wooden…

6. Archéoforum

0.35 MILES

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7. Hôtel de Ville

0.37 MILES

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8. Outremeuse

0.38 MILES

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