We arrived in the Grand Place and after a bit of sightseeing, started looking for lunch. Being rather tired, we took the easy way out and went for the tried and tested....Chez Leon, which despite its mainstream reputation, turned out to be a pretty good choice. Starting off with Belgian beer - I had the dark beer while the husband had the lager.
The husband had a mix of prawns, mussels, and calamari cooked together in a tomato concasse sauce, which was extremely flavourful. This was amazing! The sweetness of the fresh seafood coupled with the tomato-garlic-onion-parsely sauce was drink-worthy...we slurped up every last drop. This cost about 24 Euros or so.
I had the relatively more boring set lunch of mussels in white wine, which came with fries and a beer for around 12 Euros. The belgian mussels were sweet, tender and extremely succulent.
After lunch we spotted this rather exciting shop along one of the back alleys...unfortunately there was no space left in our tummies!
After a bit more sightseeing, we went to Wittamer for afternoon tea at the husband's request. This entailed walking about half an hour across town to another more quiet corner, away from the rather touristy Grand Place. We had a chocolate sundae and a hot chocolate which cost us about 17 Euros all in.
The hot chocolate was the best ever....better than Max Brenner and Hediard! Drinking it brought about memories of Roald Dahl's description of the chocolate waterfall in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...it was rich, sweet, and absolutely decadent and made us both very very happy.
Before leaving Belgium on the train back to Paris, we found Mort Subite - cherry beer! This was really yummy. Cost around 3 Euros.
Before leaving Belgium on the train back to Paris, we found Mort Subite - cherry beer! This was really yummy. Cost around 3 Euros.
Also ordered the trappist dunkel...but the cherry beer was more exciting.
The outdoor seats were packed....it was a lovely ending to a lovely 24 hrs.
The outdoor seats were packed....it was a lovely ending to a lovely 24 hrs.
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