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the trip advisor reviews seem to suggest categories food drink tags beer factory brussels place lux 1 comment le pain bénit posted on november 24 2012 by welcometobrussels considering how much time i spend complaining to colleagues about how boring the food options near our office are i don t actually get out and explore new places in my spare time very often i m usually too knackered to go out and eat in the evenings and i have a tendency to hibernate at weekends i was actually recently described as the laziest sleepiest weekend sloth a hyperactive friend of mine had ever met he d phoned me twice to try and arrange something on the spur of the moment and found me asleep both times but that s just really bad luck on his part i am almost never asleep although not exactly planned i have been visiting a few new places recently in the evenings at lunchtimes during the weekend you name a time i ve probably been eating something as i m a little ashamed of the lack of effort i ve put into this blog of late i ve decided to spend some time doing my least favourite kind of blog post the restaurant review maybe i can find a way to make this a little less of the living hell it usually seems to be do you also die a little bit inside when i talk about food first attempt not really talking so much about the food as my day a couple of weekends ago we decided to do some much needed christmas shopping along rue du bailli and around place du chatelain this is probably my favourite area of brussels i think because it reminds me of brighton and it s a nice place to hang out if i feel a bit homesick after buying about one present for family and a new coat for myself i decided it might be time for lunch as the rain started we slipped into le pain bénit rue du bailli 12 from the outside it seemed like it was just a takeaway sandwich bar but we were relieved to find quite a big seating area out the back as the waitress told us that if we wanted to eat in we could just take a seat and someone would take our order i realised that i d had one of my occasional breakthroughs with french and that i was no longer translating things into english to understand them sadly i d got quite quick at translating but it takes me a long time to think all the words through in french so i tend to stand like an idiot for ten seconds processing things ten seconds later we took our seats we started ordering the pizza baguettes they serve there a baguette with pizza topping if that wasn t obvious when the lights went out it seemed that someone had turned the oven on which had tripped the fuse because this was belgium and belgian people are lovely and helpful the waitress was soon standing at the fusebox surrounded by the rest of the clientele eager to help her fix the problem cheerfully shouting out possible solutions as the one before failed eventually the lights came back on our pizzas were cooked we ate them and we left feeling full and satisfied i d definitely stop here again if i fancied something sandwichey while in the area i can t remember if they had anything more substantial on the menu but the sandwich selection was great categories food drink tags brussels eating pain benit rue du bailli 2 comments belgians of the week 08 10 12 posted on october 8 2012 by welcometobrussels my boyfriend took these shot on his phone for added sneakiness please excuse the quality i didn t even have to tell him to take this one he just knew i think zeeman is my dutch word of the day ah dutch how i wish i spoke you i like the juxtaposition between this guys bald head and fluffy mohair jumper he reminds me of characters from a children s tv show set in scotland where they all wore big jumpers with huge necks covering their mouths it wasn t the family ness i think it was on in the 90s aaargh what was it categories belgians of the week tags belgians of the week zeeman leave a comment fixed working hours posted on october 7 2012 by welcometobrussels a 2010 article in the economist mentioned the findings of a eurobarometer opinion poll concerned with finding a correlation between entrepreneurialism and age or nationality the survey found belgians especially keen on fixed working hours a finding that rings true for anyone needing a brussels plumber at the weekend this reminded me of our first trip to get registered at the town hall my boyfriend had taken along his contract and the fonctionnaire read through it with interest wow 37 5 hours per week that is a lot of hours maybe you can negotiate to work less next time wow we resisted the temptation to ask how many hours she worked it would only have upset us categories work tags the economist working hours 1 comment dinner on a tram why not posted on april 29 2012 by welcometobrussels for my birthday the boyf bought tickets for the tram experience although not especially clear from the title this is a meal concocted by a michelin starred chef and served on a two hour tram journey around brussels organised by the guys at brusselicious and sponsored by electrolux as it happened our trip coincided with the recent week long tram strike so we had the added novelty of being the only tram on the tracks that night the evening started strangely due to the fact that we were going to be be the only tram on the tracks and we had to take a taxi to get to the tram stop at first the taxi driver couldn t understand that we wanted to be dropped at place poelaert and then once he understood that we wanted to be dropped there just couldn t understand why to add to his confusion we had to turn back half way after forgetting the tickets somewhere around this point he started screeching at us asking if we wanted cash as we could stop at a bank after reassurances that we d just forgotten something and needed to go home before we headed to yes yes to the palais de justice that s right we got back en route on arrival he drove round the roundabout a couple of times just to make sure finally stopping in front of the courts with a quizzical look on his face we were early so we decided to check out the view while we waited the tram eventually turned up a big 15 minutes later and we were off our menu was created by bart de pooter who runs de pastorale good luck with the link it won t work for me which is somewhere near ghent interestingly he d chosen to serve a different belgian beer with each course well i suppose catching a futuristic tram for dinner wasn t strange and belgian enough the first beer which i thought was going to be champagne was quite shocking but when i got into the swing of things it was actually pretty nice just a shame i d fancied a glass of wine all day no pictures of the food i m afraid i was starving and tucked straight into each course much to the disgust of the waiter who was trying to explain what things were this also backfired since they stopped the tram for you to eat the first two courses both of which i finished with some difficulty while still moving here s the menu with my descriptions in italics amuses bouches crème brûlée fois gras the single most amazing thing i ve ever tasted a cold soup thing and a piece of bread on a stick starter calzone of wild samon and green asparagus chorizo vinaigrette fresh herbs the chorizo vinaigrette was probably the second most amazing thing i ve ever tasted main course braised oxtail creamed potatoes and carpaccio of goose foie gras dessert pineapple ice cream and coconut colombo this was a little disappointing after the other courses seriously a lump of pineapple and some coconut ice cream the most boring flavour ever the boyf enjoyed this a lot more than i did but mine still had a bit of skin or something on the pineapple which made it impossible to cut the route was an odd choice i was expecting to go through the city centre rather than some suburbs which i struggled to name on the plus side i did get to see some areas i didn t really know seriously judging by this map i thought we went in the opposite direction our first course was eaten at montgomery and the main course was eaten under the hermann debroux viaduct which is not the prettiest place in the world but at least i now know it s a place the route would probably have been more enjoyable in the summer on a lighter evening i thought this was a super cool thing to do it was very fun and novel and i d jump at the chance to do it again i believe at one point i looked up at the boyf mid nom and said i love eating the thing has been a run away success and looks fully booked for most of the year so i hope they continue it in future years more information can be found on the brusselicious website i believe the tickets were 75 eur each categories food drink 3 comments belgians of the week 06 02 12 posted on february 6 2012 by welcometobrussels a drunk stumbles out of a bar by porte de hal metro station and walks up to the boyf drunk can i have a cigarette boyf i don t have any drunk what you can t even give me a cigarette boyf no i don t have any drunk i ll kill you the drunk is led away by a friend as he leaves he turns and shouts drunk look out everyone he s a cop categories belgians of the week tags brussels cigarettes cops drunks porte de hal leave a comment w2b vs french posted on february 5 2012 by welcometobrussels i foolishly started my first french lesson of the year by telling my teacher that i want to be fluent by the end of the year possibly by august admittedly i m aiming for a very basic level of fluent i just want to understand what people are saying to me and not feel like crying when i can t reply when i manage to reply they normally understand so that s pretty good going i think so anyway the teacher thinks this is possible assuming i actually do some homework and maybe push the boat out and try actually talking to people rather than panicking it s strange how i m so shy in french out and about if i stumble across my words in french people are very quick to switch to english i m trying to be better about just continuing in french when this happens but shy remember i also have a lot of friends who really really like talking in any language who seem quite keen to take over from me when i get stuck one of the francophones has been known to take over in english on occasion i work in an english speaking office where if spoken to in a different language it s usually someone who forgot i wasn t scandinavian when my colleagues do talk in french i can follow the conversation although sometimes missing the point and laughing at the wrong things if i join in i usually do it in english to avoid missing the small window of opportunity to say something meaningful or just something really colleagues have an annoying tendency to continue in english when i do this i ve managed to get past my old problem of focussing on the words that i don t understand and completely missing vast chunks of conversation while trying to translate something which usually turns out to be utterly useless deciding whether they were going to or from somewhere for example now it s all about piecing together some meaning from what i do understand yay another old issue was that i couldn t remember a word unless i knew how it was spelt which was a total nightmare this is also loads better current game listen to people speak english as a foreign language then work out how i would say their sentence in french not really a game but good practise i suppose categories language tags french language resolutions leave a comment a side street order of chips please posted on february 5 2012 by welcometobrussels google launched it s street view service in belgium a few months back which is pleasing enough in itself however they ve gone one step further and added a cone of frites chips fries to the little search dude i can t even begin to tell you how happy this makes me google honorary belgians categories belgium tags chips fries frites google parc royale leave a comment national day 2011 a very delayed report posted on september 8 2011 by welcometobrussels picture the scene it is 21st july the belgian national day and you are enjoying your first ever proper experience of a national day being british you don t really know when your day is you are lazy and forget to post this on your blog for a looooong time you ve cunningly avoided a heavy storm by staying in your office for a while sadly this means you also missed the parade well you saw the end of the parade but it could just have been a bunch of ambulances pootling along rue de la loi you ve followed the soggy crowds into the park where you ve enjoyed a glass of cava and peered over a fence at the royal palace wondering if anything is going to happen no apparently not after a burger you ve made your way to sablon where people are giving out bags of water which look like they should contain goldfish they do not more s the pity they may actually contain rain water sitting with friends you enjoy some 7 euro glasses of wine served by the surliest waiter you ve ever had the misfortune to meet then a group of people dressed as asterix characters walk by you are confused isn t he french next in a more traditional display of patriotism a marching band head past followed by a drunk woman marching along behind belgium i salute you categories belgium tags drunks national day patriotism 1 comment ing lions voles donkeys bears posted on june 27 2011 by welcometobrussels i m not normally one to advertise on behalf of a bank but i do have a bit of a soft spot for the ing lion rawr look at him how could you not have a soft spot for him he s so stern and orange and dutch apparently during a recent trip to the uk i noticed that ing seem to have taken over there they re like the new santander i don t really disapprove check out the cute adverts categories other tags ing lion videos 1 comment older posts categories belgians of the week belgium food drink language other work tags bag beer factory belgians of the week boar 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