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The Belgian tennis star Kim Clijsters visited Lombardia this week! She dropped by with a friend for a vegetarian daily special and a hot, foamy GingerLove tea.

Alain and his family are big fans of Kim and were delighted to welcome her to their vegetarian restaurant in Antwerp. Alain’s mother, co-founder of Lombardia, even revealed her favorite GingerLove recipe to Kim!

Kim had heard of Lombardia and GingerLove before but hadn’t visited us yet. We were happy to serve her her very first cup of our wonderful ginger tea in Lombardia. While eating our healthy daily special and sipping GingerLove Kim noticed the pictures on our walls.

“Did all these stars really visit Lombardia and drink GingerLove?”, she asked. Yes, they sure did. We promptly got out our camera, took this wonderful picture of Kim at Lombardia drinking GingerLove and added a very special Belgian star to our collection! We’re very happy to have a picture of Kim on our walls and it seems like Kim was happy at Lombardia too: a couple of days later, she returned with her husband and daughter.

Kim Clijsters is a famous professional tennis player, born and raised in Belgium. She won four Grand Slam singles titles: three at the US Open and one at the Australian Open. Kim retired for a couple of years and became a mother of a beautiful daughter. Her spectacular come back afterwards made her even more popular. In June 2011, TIME magazine named her one of the “30 Legends of Women’s Tennis: Past, Present and Future”

Designer Stephen Jones

On 8 September the exhibition of British milliner Stephen Jones has opened in Antwerp. This Brittish designer has been working for over 30 years with the biggest names in the international fashion scene: Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Comme des Garcons, Claude Montana, John Galliano, Christian Dior and Walter Van Beirendonck. Read the rest of this entry »