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Is there anywhere in central Brussels which sells really good, proper Belgian chips (fries)?
Normally when we go to Brussels we eat in Falstaff, but seeing as I'll be on my own in March, I won't be going in Falstaff.
We hear alot about these stalls in the street which sell chips and things, but are there any really good ones which sell the proper ones and not just frozen things?
(Maybe I should have put this in City Guide, but I thought it would get more reads in this bit of the forum )
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
Louise
There is a place that i like, but it is for take away fries (the one and only real fries in belgium! 8) )
It is actually pretty close to the Falstaff, if i remember correctly.
I don't know the name of the street, as i don't come there so often (during week i live in a student house at the side of brussels).
If you are at the backside of the stock exchange (the Beurs- Bourse) and you go towards the opera (the Munt) there is almost immediately at your right side a nice small place to order take away fries. It is even before you cross the first street. A big pack of fries cost 1,5 euro and 0,5 euro for the sause, which i think is very cheap! The fries are quite good, in my honest opinion (i'm speaking as someone who has a tendency to be addicted to them 8) )
I guess it isn't that easy to miss it, as it has pictures of fries painted on the window. Although you need a little bit of luck to come there when they are open! (last 3 times i came to there for nothing )
I'll look up the street if i have some time! Have a nice time eating fries!
The best place... is the Friterie de la Place Jourdain.
It is only a few minutes away from the EU parliament buildings. Look for "Place Jourdain" on a map.
The friterie is so popular that there are big queues at lunch and in the evenings.
So popular that they have newspaper articles and pictures of celebs who have eaten there. Bill Clinton is one of the prestigious customers who has been there.
No Bart, Noooooooooo Just 2 minutes that I wasn't thinking @ fries...
Btw: I guess every "Fritkot" in Brussels is nice, just see how the "fritkot" is: clean; good looking people; ... etc.. you know...
Thanks for the info! The one near Falstaff sounds interesting, I know the area of the Bourse and Falstaff, it would be handy if this place was open on a Wednesday.
I have to say that I don't know Place Jourdain, though the chip stand sounds nice Looking at a map, that looks to be nearer Schuman Station, and I don't know that area at all, I've only been past on the bus.
All the chip stands we saw in Brugge just sold the frozen variety of chips, and not the genuine Belgian ones we all know and enjoy!
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
Louise
As an Englishman in Belgium I would endorse the Place Jourdain "chippy". I was introduced to its delights in 1997 and have visited regularly ever since with all my visitors being treated to it's delights. An easy walk from Schumann Metro straight down rue Froissart, across rue Belliard, past the Borchette Centre (EU conference centre) and across the square - 3 mins walk.
If you are out in the "sticks" a great frituur near the 25L approach is in Erps-Kwerps by the church in Kwerps - aircraft fly almost overhead and the portions are gigantic. Still drive a few kms to get my meals from there.
Note of admin: Fons, would you please mind writing in Englisk in this forum? Thanks
Friet is het enige Nederlandse woord dat heel courant op drie manieren wordt geschreven. In de betere restaurants van België wordt over fritten, frieten of frites nooit gerept. Men geeft er de voorkeur aan bloemrijker benamingen als pommes frites, pommes allumettes, pommes paille en zelfs pommes pont-neuf. In de frietkotwereld daarentegen domineert fritten overtuigend, naast frites, frieten en varianten als pomfrit, pom-frits, pomme-frit, frittes, fritjes en zo meer.
Het frietkot.
Men kent in België diverse benamingen, die elkaar volkomen overlappen. In Wallonië gebruikt men afwisselend friture, baraque à frites en friterie, maar ook fritkot is alom gebruikelijk en dus wel een Belgicisme bij uitstek en par excellence. De Vlamingen hebben frituur, frietkraam, frietkar en frietkot. Tweemaal vier termen dus, aan weerszijden van de taalgrens, en in Brussel zijn ze alle acht goed. Op het frietvlak heersen in België volstrekte harmonie en taalpariteit.
Maar hoe verschijnt de friet in de literatuur? De meeste schrijvers verkiezen frites, behalve Gerard Reve, die friet of patatfriet schrijft, en ook wel eens Petiet Frat. Louis Paul Boon spelt gewoon fritten, maar Tom Lanoye schrijft heel onwennig patates frites, alsof hij vroeger nooit in een frituur gewerkt heeft en zijn vader geen beenhouwer was.
Tussen de soep en de patatten: de Hollanders noemen frietjes patat, maar in Belgie gieten we die af. En if you say : this not English, I say: Mijn oren zijn geen gebakken patatten. Alle, we geven er nog een goeie patat op...
De aardappel kwam uit Rome meegebracht door de pauselijke nuntius Bonomi naar Mons. In 1601 beschreef ene Clusius, die eigenlijk Karel de l'Ecluse heette, de plant in zijn kruidenboek 'Rarium Plantarum Historia', boek dat uitgegeven werd bij Plantin in Antwerpen. Clusius was een Vlaams botanicus, studeerde aan de universiteit te Leuven.
Al in 1862 stond er aan het Steen in Antwerpen een frietkot met de naam 'Max & Fritz'. "Bij Neleke" was een bekend Molenbeeks fritkot (1875) en Lisa Pattijn had haar frietkot op de Grote Markt te Brugge (1890).
Meer in het Fritkotmuseum.
Tijdens WO1 streden zoals u weet Engelsen in de Vlaamse loopgrachten. In Engeland, het land van 'Fisch and Chips', waren ze gewend dit te eten: het waren hompen vis met iets dat van verre op friet geleek en stonk naar een zoiets tussen zweetvoeten en verbrand vet. Toen de Engelsen Belgische frieten op hun bord kregen noemden ze die 'French fries' niet omdat ze Frans waren maar omdat de voertaal in het Belgisch leger Frans was. 'French fries' heeft dus niets met la France te maken.
Waarschijlijk hadden ze de aardappelen van de omliggende velden en het vet van de overleden paarden...
Maar hoe ga je dat aan een Engelsman vertellen?
Thanks for the directions to the "chip 'oil" Meerkat, I will try and get there some time because it sounds like just the kind of place we were looking for (I have always wanted to try a cone of Belgian chips, but have only had the proper chips in restaurants).
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
Louise
Ok I know this is a bad translation but it's made by babelfish , not me as I don't have the time, because i'm supposed to work
Hope it can help you nevertheless,
Fritery Antoine
Address : Place Jourdan
1040 Brussels Etterbeeck
Price of the package : 1,24-1,49-1,74 euro
Comments
- the tartare sauce is made house. Always many people.
- a Little expensive, many people, chips in brilliant horn.
- sauce americaine, it is the SIGNAL of this fritery!!!
It's a pity that it often has a long queue.
- This said, the personnel could learn how to smile!
It is true that waiting is sometimes long, but it is worth while has each time. Especially not to forget not a gouter their sauce 3 peppers, you will die idiotic in the contrary case....
Continuation of the comments at Antoine
Unfortunately I do not have any more the possibility of recommending a fritery in Belgium because it there A already 14 years that I live in Costa Rica.
If I allowed myself to forward to you this e-mail, it is that a little nostalgia entered in me as I met this site in Internet.
This fritery Antoine... I remember some still always.
It is good to smell the odor of good chips even if it is with the illustrated direction and via my computer!
Cheer!et........merci for this small Chip air!
beautiful size, perfect cooking, not too much salt, and a Tartar unforgettable house
Ben best chips of Brussels!! crusty and all and all
One can of patience, but quickly to reward by a delicious tasting!
Tartare sauce and Andalusian extra!
Fried crossed to the hand
very sympathetic reception
Large chips not fatty, crusty...
and in cornet!Et with that a Tartar house please!
It misses just a small blow of pepper of the mill...
I WILL EAT CHIPS SINCE ALWAYS AND THEY ARE ALWAYS EXCELLENT
Since 1948, the House Antoine offers to the Belgians and to its tourists of fried out of the commun run. To only pass, I want to eat their chips with much tartare sauce House or rich person each time. It is not good for the line but super to taste good in horn and on the spot because the framework is idyllic. The terraces of the coffees accomodate us with open arm.
Just a p' tit word moreover, the tenants are really sympas even if they are tired.
And to correct a small fault in a preceding comment the sauce "4 peppers" and not 3. Thank you dear Maison Antoine to touch all the generations of chip eater, my son to suck his (not dents)à the age of three months and if I did not retain it, it would eat tous.les.jours of it.
Thanks for the translation TriStar! I certainly hope I get chance to go there, but the ultra long queues could be a problem as I don't have very long in Brussels - my flight lands at 11:05 and my return flight home leaves at 18:35.
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
Louise
maybe you can take a bus straight from the airport to Schuman or Luxemburg station. I don't know which one is the closest to Place Jourdan. After your chips you can connect from there to the centre of Brussels.
Here is the link for the Airport Line http://www.stib.irisnet.be/FR/37000F.htm
OO-VEX - that bus sounds a good idea, thanks for the link. I am determined to try this "chip 'oil" because it sounds a gem. If I don't manage to get there on 31st March, then we shall head for it in September.
Anything for a nice cone of genuine Belgian chips...
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
Louise
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Looking at a map, that looks to be nearer Schuman Station, and I don't know that area at all, I've only been past on the bus.
http://www.stib.irisnet.be/FR/37000F.htm
