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Our visual Identity

We have been thinking hard to create the best identity that will fit to our brand, our vision and our values. We wanted to keep it simple and at the same time we wanted our logos and pictos to be straight to the point.

Our logo is round just like a meatball. Our name “BALLEKES” means meatball in Belgium. We believe the name to be quite universal and can be easily pronounced in different languages. We use mainly 3 colours in our design : Black, Gold and White. We also made a serie of pictos representing the food that we serve and a few symbols of Belgium like the Manneken piss or the Atomium. Hope you will like it 🙂

Our graphic idenity was designed by Adrian Duchateau, a young graphic designer from Brussels. You can visit his website for more info : www.adrienduchateau.com

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BALLEKES UNDER CONSTRUCTION !

That’s it! After 4 months of hard work. We are pleased to announce the opening of BALLEKES.

Located on the corner of Jansson square in Saint-Gilles at the intersection of many lively neighbourhoods : Chatelaîn, Avenue Lousie, Parvis Saint-Gilles, Ma Campagne. The place was previously known as the SISISI, a cafe-bistro, well-known by all the Brusseleir in town looking for small bite or a drink late at night. The place was shut down for almost 3 years and an half and the building was totally abandonned. In other words, there was nothing left in the building. We had to rebuild everything from scratch (water pipes, electricity, gas installation, walls, roof, kitchen … ).

We really love the place beause the facade is a reminder of the art deco Brussels style. We renovated everything in a contemporary style but wanted to keep a traditional brasserie touch at the same time. We also managed to renovate the 100 years old stained glassed of the front window and kept the entrance as the orginial one.

We really hope that you will enjoy the new design of the place !

See you soon 🙂

Ballekes team

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Let’s get it started.

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Yes, the SISISI had a 1st floor room. We removed the steel stairs and closed the door in the middle of the wall.

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View from the future Kitchen / counter area.

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Let’s destroy the wall here and give some space for the light to come in.

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Better.

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Ok time to build a new ceiling and install air-conditioning.

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DESTROY AND ROCK’N’ROLL 🙂

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Let’s see… we need some new toilets here. The walls must go down!

 

Oh yeah now we have the space to think about the futur toilets design

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