Available at the bar are special beer menus that you can add your own personal 'Like/Dislike' score on the beers that you buy. Each time you buy a different beer you can ask the bar staff to stamp your menu. Collect these stamps to earn FREE drinks, ask at the bar for details.
(subject to availability)
Take home the experience
We offer a large selection of gift packs, and we can even make up beer hampers to your specification. Or you can purchase individual bottles to take home.
A large range of glassware can also be purchased.
Please call for details.
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 6pm – Close
Thursday: 6pm - Close
Friday: 5:30pm – Close
Saturday: 3:30pm – Close
Sunday: 7pm - Close
Situated on Greenwood Street in Altrincham next to the market, Le Trappiste operates as an authentic Belgian cafe bar.
Set over two levels, the decor is sophisticated yet relaxing - pale yellow walls, exposed brickwork and open fires for the colder days. Throughout are references to Belgian heroes including Tintin, Poirot and Jacques Brel.
In true Belgian fashion table service prevails with no standing permitted. A comprehensive beer menu lists and describes all the beers with new guest beers being available on a weekly basis, and of course all beers are served in their appropriate glasses.
In the summer tables are available outside - very popular on those warm summer evenings.
Booking is recommended at the weekend if you want to savour the experience as the congenial atmosphere attracts a regular clientele.
'The wonderfully civilised drinking culture of Belgium was undoubtedly the main inspiration for Le Trappiste, coupled with the incomparable range and quality of Belgian beers it makes for the most perfect enviroment in which to indulge oneself'
Belgium has to be the worlds most exotic beer country creating more styles and flavours than anywhere else.
Michael Jackson remarked 'No country has so many distinct styles of beer, no country has beers that are so complex in character, no country has so many individualistic brews... The respect reserved for wine in most countries is in Belgium accorded to beer'.
Fortunately but not by accident the diversity of Belgium's beer is matched by that of it's many wonderful bars such as A La Becasse in Brussels where waiters dressed in Monks' aprons serve the establishments own sweetish, slightly bitter Lambic in earthenware jugs to the table.
WHAT'S ON!
'Come and have a drink on us'
Join us for a drink - spend 12.00 or more per person on drinks and have the next drink on us! Offer available Tuesday to Thursday, drinks subject to availability (restrictions apply).
'Fancy a nibble on us'
Come and have a drink between 6pm - 8pm Tuesday to Thursday and we'll supplement your drink with some continental nibbles, on the house.
Offer subject to availability.
RECOMMENDED BEERS
Light Blonde Beer Ultra Soiffe
Brewery: Ecaussínes
Strength: 5% ABV
This beer pours a pale yellow colour with a foamy head. The aroma of sweet summer fruits and delicate blending result in a light summer beer that is light and hoppy perfect for those warm evenings.
Light Brown Beer Dolle Brouwers Oerbier
Brewery: de Dolle Brouwers
Strength: 7.0% ABV
A light ruddy brown ale. After a couple of years Oerbier tastes like it has been blended with wine… Oerbier has been refermented in the bottle and contains a layer of yeast and vitamins, to help with you daily allowance. Perfect!
Abbey Beer Het Kappitel Abt Tripel
Brewery: Van Eecke
Strength:10.0% ABV
Unlike other Abbey premium beers, typically potent and dark, Het Kappitel Abt is produced in the tripel style. Light golden in colour but strong in flavour this deceptive beer is full-bodied with a bitter hop aftertaste.
Fruit Beer Mort Subite Kriek
Brewery: Keersmaeker
Strength:4.5% ABV
From the famous Mort Subite café in Brussels. This kriek has a striking reddish pink colour. The taste itself is quite sweet with an elusive sharp citrus note. At the sweeter end of the kriek spectrum.!
Gueuze Girardin Gueuze
(black label)
Brewery: Girardin
Strength: 5.0% ABV
Arguably the best gueuze currently available – very dry & acidic. The palate is complex with an abundance of aromatic notes. This Gueuze has a long finish, rich with grapefruit and sour apple flavours.
Unique Beer Saison Dupont
Brewery: Dupont
Strength: 6.5% ABV
This beer was originally produced for the end of harvest, the farmers would sit in the fields after a hard days toil enjoying this wonderfully refreshing beer. It is golden oak in colour with a dry, herbal consistency, packed with hops. When poured it gives off a huge aroma and delivers a lingering after burn. The archetypal modern saison..
On the facade of the Maison des Brasseurs, in Brussels' Grand Place, you'll see the words:
It is by the grace of Saint Arnold and the experience of mankind that Heaven and Earth spawned that divine drink, Beer.
A statement which perhaps characterises the passion for beer in a country which produces 600+ of them.
At Le Trappiste, we offer a taste of this diversity and passion for Belgium's most prized possession.
Le Trappiste currently stocks 12 draught Belgian beers including Westmalle, La Chouffe and Liefmans Frambozen. (No draft Leffe Blonde, Hoegaarden or the 'S' word guaranteed).These are supplemented by an extensive range of bottled beers (100+) including all the Trappist beers, the famously sour and acidic lambic beers from Cantillon and other specialities, all served in the appropriate glass. In common with the best Belgian bars the beers are presented for the customer to pour personally.
Le Trappiste is committed to provide a constantly changing and increasing range of the very best Belgian beers!
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Access your e-mails or surf the internet.Le Trappiste is now linked to the internet via WiFi. Ask at the bar for connection details.
SAD NEWS
We have the sad news of the closure of the Liefmans Brewery, famous for their outstanding fruit beers Kriek and Frambozen. There are a few companies interested in taking the brewery over, and hopefully they will start brewing again. We will keep you posted of any developments in this area. For the moment though, we have increased our stock of fruit beers to compensate, for those of you that adore the 'fruit' beers, and there are many of you.
'The wonderfully civilised drinking culture of Belgium
was undoubtedly
the main inspiration for
Le Trappiste, coupled
with the incomparable range and quality of
Belgian beers
it makes for the
most perfect enviroment
in which
to indulge oneself'
How to find us.
Approaching along Manchester Road from Sale/ Timperley continue into Altrincham.
Pass the Cresta Court Hotel on the left and contine to the bend. The Old Market Tavern (large black and white pub) on the right.
Take the left turn after Church Street Antiques into Market Street (one way
- careful of the give
way junctions!)
Continue to the end of Market Street then turn left into Regent Road then first left into Greenwood Street
(one way).
Le Trappiste is two thirds of the way down on the right. Parking on the single lines
and loading bays is allowed after 6pm.
