“If Freddy Thielemans had seen that, he would have turned around. He loved the neighborhood”notes the boss of Delirium Tremens, a direct neighbor of Chez Léon. “We were very close, we got along very well. Rudy was the best neighbor we could have”. Like Alain De Laet, the Îlot Sacré paid a last tribute to Rudy Vanlancker, this Tuesday morning, just opposite the Chez Léon restaurant and Les Armes des Bruxelles.
Former employees, chefs, friends, neighbors, restaurant owners, etc., a good hundred people slipped under the improvised funeral parlor at the foot of Chez Léon, opposite the Armes de Bruxelles, to say a last goodbye to one of the pillars of the Brussels Horeca. Another illustrious neighbour: José Géal, alias Toone VI. “For the neighborhood, losing Rudy is a disaster”he is moved. “Fortunately, his son is there. He’s courageous.”