Succulente Brussels

100% vegan bakery

Davy from Brussels

"As you enter you can immediately smell the sweetness. You name it, they have it. My favourite? Do try the popcorn and caramel cookie!"

If it looks like a normal bakery, smells like a normal bakery and sells products like a normal bakery, it is probably a normal bakery.

Yet, Succulente is not a normal bakery.

Back in 2018, Victoria and Damien were the first to start a 100% vegan bakery in Brussels. This means they don’t use any animal products. No butter. No eggs. No milk. No gelatine. Yet, no difference.

When I enter their lovely shop in Anderlecht, I can see the open baking atelier in the back and immediately smell the sweetness: many types of bread, croissants, cookies, pastries with chocolate or pudding, pies, macarons, cinnamon rolls, cheese snacks, Christmas and birthday cakes. You name it, they have it. My favourite? Do try the popcorn and caramel cookie!

Over the years, Succulente has made a real name for itself. People come from far outside of Brussels to visit this bakery. And Succulente also supplies other nice spots in Brussels such as restaurant Lucifer Lives in Brussels, coffee bar l’Alchimiste in Sint-Gillis and bakery Chanson in Anderlecht and in Jette.

Fun fact nr. 1: In Flemish, ‘Succulente’ translates as ‘a grease plant’. Rather funny, considering all that plant grease, no?

Fun fact nr. 2: Symbolically, Anderlecht is the perfect location for Succulente. It was in Anderlecht that the Belgian animal rights pioneer Jules Rühl (1864-1936) lived. In 1897, he founded the first Belgian animal rights organization. If still alive, I think I know where Jules would have gotten his Sunday croissants.

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Brussels Spotter Davy

About me I adore all things past, so I studied History in Ghent. I also like to read books, so I came to Brussels to study English literature. I stuck around. I can now read books in Brussels’ historical centre. I take my bike to go to concerts, museums, the theatre, parks and bars. I love being in a bathrobe. I try to write short stories and travel the world. Why Brussels? Although Brussels has some big and ugly skyscrapers, people are mostly down-to-earth. I can buy and eat snails on the street. I can go to the bakery dressed in...

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