The Brick | Rouen.fr
Collect a basket of fresh produce, a locally brewed beer and a homemade pizza, all while being able to repair your bike, welcome to La Brique!
Originally, there was Franck Lequien’s micro-brewery. First installed in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, its “brick” had to be relocated to Rouen. Direction the southern tip of the city, at 128 bis Avenue des Martyrs de la Resistance. The 150 m2 room – not counting upstairs storage space and a small shop at the front – now houses barrels and rooms from the brewer who produces the “231”, “in homage to the famous locomotive”.
Franck Lequien brews Anglo-Saxon beers nearby. Pale Ale, Porter, Scottish Ale or Irish Red Ale and is in the process of thinking about an upcoming IPA. After having sold the rest of his production carried out at the old Sottevillaise address, the customer can now enjoy his bottle – in 33 or 75 ml – brewed in Rouen!
The encounters he made – a bit at random, he admits – today allow his “little” Brick to become big. The premises welcome Paul Simon and his Bicicletta. The pizza maker by bike who scours the markets on the south shore of the town is a restaurateur to take away on Friday evenings at La Brique. And even on Wednesday evening, since the Radis joined the adventure. This network of food basket orders, also born in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, organizes its weekly distribution within La Brique, thus giving this place one more reason to open up to the general public. The racing bike hanging from the ceiling gives a clue about the last occupant: the bicycle repair shop Pignon sur Rouen completes the band.
If La Brique opens its doors two evenings a week, that’s just the start. “We want to have activity all the time, with the shop and an associative café”, specifies Cyrielle Grosjean, of the Radis association Tables and chairs are already enthroned in the heart of the places and welcome regulars and curious during events of all kinds. “We had a photo exhibition and its opening, and we would like to develop workshops or conferences in the long term,” continues Franck Lequien.
La Brique reshuffles the maps of living together on a neighborhood scale… more practical, more convivial, more local, La Brique rolls and collects the foam.
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The brick
128 bis rue des Martyrs de la Resistance