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Fish, Mussels & Seafood Brussels
41 Reviews Rue del Bouchers is a centric street, parallel to Grassmarkt street. All the restaurants throughout the street offer mussels as a star dish. There is not much variation in price, but we realized that...
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General tips, no specific location Antwerp
35 Reviews Antwerp cuisine understandably focuses on fish, and although the classic Belgian waterzooi -- a rich stew of fish (or chicken), vegetables, herbs, egg yolks, cream, and butter -- can easily be found,...
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Frites/Waffles /other food Brugge
31 Reviews You just HAVE to try frites when in Belgium, there are a couple of theories as to how they got popularized as French fries but we should have renamed them Belgian fries a long time ago as the Belgians...
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Old Tom Ieper
3 Reviews We read about Old Tom in the Market Square in Ieper and were chuffed to find it easily. We didn't stay long however. The place smelt greasy and they didn't have any mussels. After a quite enjoyable...
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Chez Léon Brussels
31 Reviews Ok, the first thing is that Chez Leon is on Rue du Bouchors .... where you'll find all the tourist type of restaurants with tourist prices, Since mussels are in seasons we decided to try this place...
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Elfde Gebod - Eleventh Commandment Antwerp
13 Reviews An amazing place, right next to the Cathedral, always people in there. very good food. The place is full of religious artefacts, statues. Looks unreal, but loads of fun. Scampi van chef. This was just...
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De Vlaamsche Pot / Pancake house Brugge
9 Reviews This hidden-gem in the small street of Helmstraat,Bruges, I consider one of the best restuarants in Europe. Tasty Flamish dishes, magnificent ambience and very friendly stuff. You must try the rabbit...
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Den Anker, Restaurant. Ieper
1 Review This restaurant on the Grote Markt is located close to the Lakenhallen and Stadhuis with its nice floral decoration. It’s a house in the typical Flemish style with a large terrace where you can eat...
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Other Belgian Brussels
94 Reviews In Rue des Dominicains 30, Sebastiao Garcia, a (small) portugese guy with a big moustache runs the place for at least 20years. Southern hospitality and good food with a mediteranean touch ! Must be...
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Da Giovanni Antwerp
18 Reviews There pizzas are excellent. But the rest of the menu is good as well. It's good food for a good price: Pizza's start around 4.50 euro and students get 20% discount on the whole bill when showing their...
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Grote Markt restaurants Brugge
7 Reviews An unassuming seafood restaurant, just off Grote Markt, is a favourite of locals. It is named after Jan Breydel and Pieter de Coninck, two leaders of a Flemish uprising against the French. A...
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Cyper Restaurant/ Bistro/Tea room Ieper
1 Review All the restaurants close to the arcades in Grote Markt were very busy, the only vacant seats were in full sun and we did not see a simple lunch menu - all rather expensive main meals. The Cyper was...
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Vegetarian Brussels
14 Reviews because I'm a vegetarian, I was worried that I wouldn't find many options, but on the contrary I found so many delicious choices, also my husband who is not a vegetraian loved the food there. the...
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Amadeus - spare ribs a volonte Antwerp
5 Reviews This place is another great culinary experience you'll have in Antwerp. At a fixed price of about 15 Euro you will get the restaurant's specialty - Spareribs a volonte or simply "Ribbekes". Ribbekes...
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Arthies Brugge
22 Reviews Arthies is the kind of Bistro that you used to find in Paris. Full of charm, atmosphere, local patrons and that je ne sais pas.... Situated in the very heart of Bruges, Arthies is the kind of...
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De Leet Ieper
1 Review I stumbled across this little hide out while walking about town.....I walked into the restaurant and discovered the display as soon as I entered ....The items from the display could be cooked up in a...
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La Kasbah Brussels
10 Reviews This restaurant was a great experience. The food is absolutely delicious, the service very friendly and the setting is just wonderful. A bit of Morocco in the middle of Brussels. Tajine with prunes...
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't Pakhuis Antwerp
13 Reviews If you are looking for a special place to have a drink or something to eat in Antwerp, go to "Het Pakhuis" located on Vlaamse Kaai. You will not find any of the normal Belgian beers because they only...
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Tom's diner Brugge
5 Reviews We arrived around 7 PM without a reservation and the place was full. The waiter checked with Chef Tom and informed us that it would be OK to wait for the first table. Since we didn't have any other...
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Cafe "Gossip" Ieper
1 Review This tiny cafe is found across the street from Saint Martinus and Cathedral....they sell chocolate and most importantly they make GREAT Expresso.... The outside cafe is small but has a great views of...
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Estaminets & Belgian Beers Brussels
13 Reviews Café MONK was a stopover during one of our Brussels visits. It's a typical Belgian café with a bar at the entrance with some tabeles and chairs and long seats along the walls. In the back there's a...
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Little Buddha Antwerp
4 Reviews Once this place was a storehouse, later a garage, now it is a funky Thai restaurant. Except for the dragon on the ceiling and the chopsticks on your table, you won't find anything that gives you the...
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Den Dyver Brugge
7 Reviews We visited this restaurant for lunch and sat out in the courtyard. The decor and ambiance was very good. My wife ordered artichoke for starters. She found the vegetable very tough and unpleasant.She...
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't Klein Stadhuis Ieper
1 Review 't Klein Stadhuis (Little City Hall) is located in the corner of the market place, next to city hall. They serve excellent food and drinks at moderate prices. The interiors are decorated with...
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Aux Armes de Bruxelles Brussels
11 Reviews You will be rewarded with a nicely varied menu, attentive staff, understatedly elegant seating, excellent wines, and terrific desserts... it's the place worth going if you are in the area and can't...
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after 8 hours journey..we got hungry..and sat in this lovely place..The waitress was so helpfull.. so cherfull..and know turkish alittle bit :)) Quiche was great..but small..if you are hungry try other things.
Shrimp croquette: this is my favourite snack when I am at the Belgian Coast, because in most of the places at the coast they are fresh and home-made. It's a good snack for lunch or as an appetizer in the restaurants. The meal come with two croquettes filled with Northsea shrimps, served with fresh vegetables and some bread or Belgian fries. You can also combine one shrimp and one cheese croquette or for the veggies: two cheese croquettes.Dutch: garnalenkroketFrench: croquette de crevettes
Fries ... Belgians are very fond of it. In every town, you will at least find one place (frituur) where they will sell this golden food. You can buy the fries in mini, small, medium, large and extra large. Keep in mind that the quantity is much more than what you will find at a McDonalds. (The portion on the pic is a "small" and you can only see the top) Add some of the many delicious sauces, (our favourite one is mayonnaise) and some pieces of meat (too many to choose from).When you ask for fries "special", you will get fries with mayo, ketchup and fresh-cut onion.Dutch: frittenFrench: frites
Not about a restaurant in particular, rather about a special dish I like. Not that I like it immediately but I learnt to like it.I use to love beer cuisine: cuisine à la bière, that is very present on Belgian tables. But for some strange reason, I experienced my first Carbonnades à la flamande in a cantine at school and it was not love at first sight at all. Hard meet loaves, like not cooked enough. Tasteful sauce though.Then, I tried it some times in private diners. Well, since there were other dishes, I always had the other dishes. Carbonnades were left aside, except for 1 or 2 spoonfuls to be polite. :) Guiding Diageva through Brussels, wandering in the Marolles, it was my time of reconciliation with Carbonnades flamandes. This time (may 2004), I could taste it from Eva's dish: the meat was tender, like semi-sliced :)... a perfect balance for carbonnades. Yes, it was about time to...
May you be interested in my experiences within restaurants in Belgian cities, please check restaurants tips in the cities I covered.Funny enough, though some pages are in scaffold or not built at all, they may contain some reviews on restaurants and eateries. Did I say I love eating ? Plus, it doesn't have to be expensive.Some notes:- unless you are having diner in a nouvelle-cuisine-type restaurant, portions in restaurants in Belgium are rather on the generous side;- Belgian dishes are not always with mayonnaise, as some would assert here and there;- it's not only about chocolate, beer, mussels and fries. There is more than that;- it is easy to find authentique Belgian cuisine at a moderate price and it is certainly not in Rue des bouchers restaurants in Brussels that you would find them ;- also easy to find other types of cuisine here: from all continents. For that, you'd better check...
When you have your breakfast, try something that I should have listed first on my restaurant or food tips group. I am talking about this viennoiserie that resembles a lot pain aux raisins.Whilst pain aux raisins is a bit dry, a COUQUE SUISSE is a bit creamy. It's made with the same paste as pain aux raisins, with raisins and filled with cream in the middle.Though its name translates a swiss origin, I was told this is typically Belgian and discovered/created here. I will find the synopsis explaining it.Yummy!NB: Don't know about its name in Flemish but in Brusels and Wallonia, it is "couque suisse" (pron. "cook swiss"). It can be long or round.. My favourite is the long form: less bread with comparatively same quantity of cream. This gives it a good balance (less stodgy). And even the cream is not that greasy neither overbearing. A bit of cr?me patissi?re with raisins.. sometimes with...
In Belgium, tipping is not compulsory... not even regarding social etiquette. Let alone regarding rules and laws.The price you pay is enough. Yet, tipping is not forbidden. My rule, and others', you may tip if you are satisfied and don't tip if you are disappointed... as simple as that.The bill usually includes all you have to pay. However, in Leuven in February 2004, I had an unusual experience, with VT members irisbe, cadzand and suri. In a snack where we chose to grab a bite to have our sandwich, we were surprised when we went paying. We were charged more than what was on the board... because, said the waitress, she had to include VAT in the price, that obviously she hadn't added in the displayed price on the board...Anyways, just to advise about the VAT stuff... and above all, it's not a big difference (VAT rate is at 6%, I think.. if NOT, please advise me). Check the cardmenu to be...
Let's get rid of the biggest mistake about fries. Every where (especialy in USA) people call them French Fries. Why? The French don't eat them as we do. And besides we invented them.So from now on, you can call them "Belgian Fries" or "Frieten". And the best place to get them is from streetvendors or windowplaces you can find everywhere.These places are called "Frituur" or "Frietkot" They are greasy and so bad for your health, but soooo tasty. Take them with some mayonaise and fried meat. mmmmnjamie. This is the first thing a Belgian person misses when living abraod. Believe me, I've noticed it myself. Frfies are never better than in Belgium.
I'm saying for the kids as it is supposed to be for the students of the University, but as I'm passing my superrior degree after the University, I like teasing students by saying that LOLthis Le Cambridge restaurant is really the best to have a normal lunch and dinner, the prices still special low for everybody, not only the kids!:-P
The wonderful thing in Leuven la Neuf the University, is the superb low prices in a comparing with other prices, all is of good quality and really student price ;-)))) I took a good cafe au lait with croissant.
Conrad Brussels Brussels
11 Reviews and 322 Opinions Location, Building
Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce Brugge
4 Reviews and 299 Opinions The Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce is definitely the most romantic hotels in Brugges. Stunning location,...
Hilton Antwerp Antwerp
17 Reviews and 256 Opinions OK we´d been wanting to stay here for years, but was always too pricey. We managed to get a decent...
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