March 10 2014 saw the opening of the pop-up restaurant
Zomercafé Senses in the orangery of
Sorghvliedt Manor in Hoboken. The summer cafe will be open every day except
Tuesdays until the end of September. The venue is exploited by Sense, an
Antwerp bases firm with a social and inclusive community mission. Through a
variety of projects Sense provides people with difficulties in the jobs market
to acquire skills and working experience in a variety of venues including
neighbourhood restaurants, hotels, events and corporate canteens. The neigbourhood restaurants have a double
function as they offer cheap meals (€3,00 for soup and a main course) for people
of little means.
The pop-up summer cafe is located in the former
orangery of Sorghvliedt one of the historic pleasances that once circled the
city of Antwerp. Most of these have now vanished. Some however still remain as
public park or are part preserved with the manor house surviving and most of
the former park developed. Sorghvliedt Manor still stands in its own park with
the gate houses and orangery still intact. The name of this pleasance Sorghvliedt translates as (the place) where worries are fleeting,
and pleasant is certainly is!
The orangery stands to the north of the forecourt of
the manor house (left). The manor house (middle) was built in a restrained
rococo style between 1745 and 1750 at the site of a small summer house. The
building known to locals as a castle now houses the district council of
Hoboken. The pop-up restaurant consists of an insert containing a kitchen
block, two toilets and a bar that is placed within the space of the old
orangery building (right).
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