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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: a walk around Brussels
From: "Stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:14:39 +0100
if ever one needs advice on restaurants in Brussels... ask me i'm local
(never go to the tourist trap...)

Stephan
Le 15-févr.-09 à 19:57, Chris Barker a écrit :

> Thanks for that information, Nathan.  Yes, there was a certain je ne
> sais quoi about the service at one of the seafood restaurants: we
> walked away after our meal not realising how it had all turned out so
> expensive!  :-)
>
> If we go back to Brussels (I have a photo of my wife's yellow Beetle
> on Grande Place) I shall look out 't Kelderkerke.
>
> And I am really glad that you and your son have managed to make
> something of the exchange rate: supporting a student in England is not
> a cheap enterprise now for most ...
>
> Chris
>
> On 15 Feb 2009, at 18:08, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
>> The street with the restaurants is a classic tourist trap, so I am  
>> now
>> surprised that you found it expensive. Few locals would ever eat in
>> those restaurants. One of the standard tricks they use is a classic
>> bait-and-switch method: on the menu board outside there is a great-
>> sounding special menu at a reasonable price, so you go in, sit down,
>> get your drinks, but when it is time to order the food, it invariably
>> turns out that the dish on special is no longer available because  
>> they
>> ran out of some critical ingredient. But of course you can simply
>> order a la carte ;-)
>>
>> On the Grand' Place itself there is a good restaurant, ´t Kelderke,
>> which servers all the traditional Belgian dishes like stoemp,
>> waterzooi etc., along with a great beer selection.
>>
>> Of course, with the pound only worth about € 1.10 now, travelling to
>> the Continent has become more expensive for UK folk--the same
>> phenomenon that has made it a lot cheaper for me to support my son at
>> university in England and that also has made it possible for me to  
>> buy
>> my M8 in Scotland at a saving of at least € 1000 compared to buying  
>> it
>> here.
>
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Stephan VAN DEN ZEGEL

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