L'Acacia

The Ardennes


L'Acacia's staff are vocational-training students attempting top-notch cuisine and learming to serve it…with mixed success, hence remarkably low prices for what can at times be a superb meal.

It's hidden away in an unlikely side road 200m west of Château Cockerill.


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1. Val St-Lambert

1.87 MILES

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2. Liège-Guillemins Train Station

2.62 MILES

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3. Tour Paradis

2.9 MILES

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4. Église St-Jacques

3.1 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. La Boverie

3.14 MILES

South of Liège's centre, this excellent gallery hosts many high-profile temporary exhibitions but always shows elements of its own fabulous art collection…

6. Trésor

3.27 MILES

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7. Cathédrale St-Paul

3.29 MILES

Cathédrale St-Paul's highlights include a big 19th-century painting depicting the legend of St-Lambert's assassination, and the saint's ornate silver…

8. Institut Zoologique

3.49 MILES

Built in 1888, this palatial building has a deep-eyed bust of Darwin on its central pediment, best spotted from the river-ferry as it approaches the Pôle…