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Re: price level in brussels Posted: Sat August 21, 2004 12:56 AM UTC
In fact, Brussels is not an expensive city.
Certainly not if you compare it to Paris *yikes*.
For the price of a Big Mac, can't help you. I never go to McDonalds and Belgium has the particularity to have its own burger chain called Quick. It was really well established before McDonalds showed up. But I haven't been to a Quick for years so...
As a whole though, Scandinavian countries are more expensive than their southern neighbours. If you check in my journal, I have some cheap restaurants where you and your friends can go when you visit.
I'm sure you'll have a blast and don't forget to let us know of it went.
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| Brussels |
Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Sat August 21, 2004 04:37 AM UTC
I agree.
Brussels isn't expensive compared to london or Paris.
You can eat quit cheap and they don't charge you 4 euro to see a church like they do in Florence.
A coffe 1.5 up to 2,2 euro. (and that is a large one)
That is because I don't like MC-do either.
Mac isn't doing to well in Belgium because we like real fries. Just try them at a frietkot. :-)
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Sat August 21, 2004 04:46 AM UTC
I would kill for some real Belgian fries. A big, greasy mitraillette-brochette ardennaise (for those who don't know, fries+meat and bacon kebab inside half a baguette). I haven't eaten one in years.
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Re: price level in brussels Posted: Sat August 21, 2004 07:39 PM UTC
I'm not a huge Mc Do fan (go there about once a year...) but i know that the menus are at Eur 5.50
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Sat August 21, 2004 09:30 PM UTC
hi!!!! tell me where do you find this spéciality ?in any friteries? bye
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Sat August 21, 2004 09:32 PM UTC
hi!!!! tell me where do you find this spéciality ?in any friteries? byeoops! was talking aout the mitrailette bread!! thanks
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Sat August 21, 2004 09:58 PM UTC
You know the funny thing, I never had those in Brussels. Ialways had them at the Friterie in my hometown in the Hainaut province because it was kind of a "tradition" when I would go back home from college every Friday night, we would all go there and get our mitraillette (by the way, you can add any kind of meat you want: fricadelle, kebabs...).
Maybe someone else can help?
The best fries in Brussels though are at Maison Antoine, located on Place Jourdan.
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Sun August 22, 2004 09:07 PM UTC
merci mélissa:D la maison antoine sur la place jourdan? meeeerrrrci hugue
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Sun August 22, 2004 09:18 PM UTC
compared to other cities the price level in Brussels is quite good.
Going out for a drink, have a beer or glass of wine, is cheaper than in Frankfurt.
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Mon August 23, 2004 09:32 AM UTC
Haha, a mitralliette...how Brussels, you got me nostalgic there!....they can be found all over the city.
Since moving back to Sweden from Brussels, I have to say things aren't that much more expensive here BUT then I live in Malmö. Just across the straight in Copenhagen where I work, things are much more expensive and they certainly are in Oslo! Brussels isn't Europe's cheapest city by any means but there are plenty of cities much more expensive, such as most Italian ones, Paris, London...
I don't do McDonald's either. Firstly I'm a veggie these days (since the food scandals in Belgium actually) and secondly, in Belgium, I always went to the fritkots. Why eat tiny burger fries when the real thing was invented in Belgium :-) Maison Antoine is indeed the best, but another one I like is the one in tiny rue de Tabora (a small part of the street behind the Bourse, on the way to Grand Place). It's run by a Portuguese and has thinner fries than most Belgian but just as tasty! Mitraillettes in abundance too :-)))
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Mon August 23, 2004 12:16 PM UTC
thanks for the good tip for the fritkoet behind the Bourse. Have to keep that in mind for my next visit to Brussels, whenever it will be :-))
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Mon August 23, 2004 12:31 PM UTC
It's not really a "kot", more a "hole in the wall" sort of a place.
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Mon August 23, 2004 01:48 PM UTC
According to this survey, Oslo is 20% more expensive than Brussels
http://www.finfacts.com/costofliving4.htm
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Mon August 23, 2004 02:39 PM UTC
I don't like the one behind the beurs..
But that is all a matter of personal taste.
If you found that one and your standing in front of it take the street on the left. Walk down and on the left side there is one open till late in the morning.
I don't know the nationality of the owners , lol , but they sure make good mitraillets.
It is on a corner of the street and has two floors.
Have a great time in Brussels.
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Mon August 23, 2004 02:56 PM UTC
You mean the one practically next to the Bourse and with a huge orange board with their name in some sort of grafitti?
Yuk! They had really greasy and tasteless frites in my opinion :-))) What a difference people have in taste. :-)
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Mon August 23, 2004 03:20 PM UTC
No , I think it is a little more down the street.
I like my fries quit thick , but not greasy.
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Mon August 23, 2004 03:25 PM UTC
Frank and Charlotta,
I think it's "Patapouf", it has a big mural painting inside, right?
In my opinion, both Fritland and Patapouf are not that great, decent, but not great. You have to go to St-Gilles or at Maison Antoine to get real good fries!
But if you want to find a frikot, go to: http://www.frites.be/fritkots_expo1.cfm?SubsectionID=86
It's in French, with no alternate version, unfortunately but you can take the address.
And for those who can read French, you'll probably have a blast, this site is funny... in a real Belgian way.
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Mon August 23, 2004 03:44 PM UTC
But I see the one Charlotta mean on rue de Tabora... yes, they are quite good (but I prefer them thick-cut too).
The one with the big orange "graffitti-like" sign, it's Fritland, it has the advantage of being open all-night.
And yes, in case anybody noticed, we take fries seriously in Belgium.
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Mon August 23, 2004 04:07 PM UTC
Very seriously. lol.
The taste all depends on the grease they bake the fries in.
And if you go in a star restaurant , they sometime bake them 3 times. Different temperatures. And the last one is in oil with salt and pepper added and some onions.
hmmmmm....
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Re: Re: price level in brussels Posted: Tue August 24, 2004 08:37 AM UTC
Haha, yes Fritland, that's it - yuk. Glad it was the other one (I know which one then and that too is good). I also find the Tabora ones too thin but I like the taste :-)))
Having said all this, my favourite fritkot is the one in the Fridagmarkt in Gent! :-)
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