Koers kaffees of the Ronde
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Flanders has a category of café that exists nowhere else. A koers kaffee is not a café with a bicycle theme: it is a village bar where racing is the standing subject, where the walls carry framed jerseys and somebody's grandfather's tubulars, and where once a year the whole building becomes part of the Ronde van Vlaanderen.
't Juiste Verzet sits on the lower slope of the Oude Kwaremont, where Annie has been pouring for twenty-two years and the meadow beside the terrace fills with the entire world on race day. D'Oude Hoeve is at the top of the same climb, on a street named Ronde Van Vlaanderenstraat. De Karper in Ghent is the Keisse family's brown café beside the Kuipke, which is where the Six Days goes to sit down.
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- 't Juiste VerzetA cycling café built into a farmhouse on the Oude Kwaremont, run for over two decades by Annie Vermeulen.
- Café BoutiqueCafé Boutique is a cyclists' bar at the foot of the Kemmelberg, run by former amateur racer Pieter and home to the local cycling club De Vlammers.
- Café d'Oude HoeveAn authentic mid-19th-century café on the Ronde van Vlaanderenstraat in Kwaremont, close to the top of the Oude Kwaremont climb on the Tour of Flanders course.
- Café De KarperCafé De Karper is a traditional brown café on Gent's inner ring, a short ride from Het Kuipke where the Zesdaagse van Vlaanderen is raced.
- Cycling HubA cycling café, bike shop and training centre a few hundred metres from the Muur van Geraardsbergen, opened in 2024 by four cycling enthusiasts.
- Flandrien Hotel ClubhouseThe Clubhouse is the social heart of Flandrien Hotel, a boutique cycling-themed hotel in the Flemish Ardennes near Brakel.
- Grava PalsGrava Pals is a bike café and restaurant in the village of Pals, built around the local cycling community.
- KOERSkaffeeThe café of KOERS.
- Peloton CaféThe house café of the Centrum Ronde van Vlaanderen, the Tour of Flanders museum on Oudenaarde's Markt, in the modern race's finish town.
For thirty-five years the best of them was Taverne 't Hemelryck, in the last building before the chapel on the Muur van Geraardsbergen, in a property that had stood empty and squatted. Every language in cycling was spoken at its tables, pros and team managers included. It closed on 31 August 2025 with a farewell feast during the town's festival weekend, after a renovation standoff with the building's owner, AB InBev.