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Menu du jour swanky setting : 12 Recipes


  • Recipe Soul food
    Soul food
    We ended up at Soul last Sunday night, and although the experience was lovely and the food tasty, you really need some context first: For one, I had been trying to go to Soul for about two years. The problem is that they are only open from[...]
  • Recipe Pasta Party
    Pasta Party
    We are now part-way into the Jewish holiday of Passover - 8 breadless days. Modern interpretations actually prohibit anything that could remotely be perceived as "leavened", or even items that might have been physically close to something leavened[...]
  • Recipe St Job Soirée
    St Job Soirée
    In case you weren't aware, Place St Job is one heck of a dining bonanza. Avenue Jean et Pierre Carsoel, running down the hill into the square, is lined with restaurant after restaurant - every one that I've tried makes for a great night out. Prime[...]
  • Recipe Bizarro Bazaar
    Bizarro Bazaar
    Bazaar has been on my list for ages - since I was last there, actually. I visited the nightclub half of Bazaar on a Saturday night shortly after moving here. For some reason we ran upstairs to see the restaurant, which was packed with people and[...]
  • Recipe Trufflicious Bonanza
    Trufflicious Bonanza
    It was time for a dinner five years in the making: L?Atelier de la Truffe Noire. After strong recommendations by a friend when I first moved to Belgium, I promised my then-boyfriend that when I finally nailed down a job, I would treat him to a[...]
  • Recipe Mushrooms from heaven
    Mushrooms from heaven
    I admit, I have a big ol' soft spot in my heart for Cafe des Spores. For one, it was the first interesting restaurant that Gidon and I discovered in Brussels - just because we lived in the neighborhood at the time and walked past it late one[...]
  • Recipe Heeeeere fishy, fishy, fishy!
    Heeeeere fishy, fishy, fishy!
    I've spent four and a half years griping about not finding good, affordable sushi in Brussels. I've had good, expensive sushi; mediocre, expensive sushi; bad, expensive sushi; and occasionally, just for fun, bad moderately-priced sushi. Back in[...]
  • Recipe Sushi Galore
    Sushi Galore
    I gave myself a sushi assignment for my upcoming ?Bite? column: where to buy decent-priced sushi in Brussels (look for it next Wednesday on www.flanderstoday.eu ). This was a great excuse to get out and eat my way through the city?s maki rolls and[...]
  • Recipe Heading Up North
    Heading Up North
    It's been weeks since my last posting - but in my defense, I was on vacation, then there was a volcano delay... and then I was just plain lazy. As if that wasn't bad enough, today's post is a little bit of a cop-out, but I promise there are more[...]
  • Recipe Yum Yum chez Bon-Bon
    Yum Yum chez Bon-Bon
    You don't need me to tell you how good Bon-Bon is. Putting aside it's Michelin star, every review seems to be downright orgasmic when they start in on Bon-Bon's fresh market menu. But they have yet to answer the burning question: can they do[...]