Traditional food of Brussels Capital: 7 dishes

• Moules-frites mosselen-friet · Main dish · Brussels and the coast

  Mussels cooked in a covered pot with celery, onion and sometimes white wine or beer, served with a side of fries, are Belgium's best-known meal and are eaten in neighbouring northern France too.

• Kriek · Drink · Flemish Brabant and Brussels

  Kriek is a Belgian beer made by putting sour Morello cherries, stones and all, into lambic, the spontaneously fermented beer of Brussels and its surroundings, and leaving them for several months while the fruit sugar ferments.

• Mitraillette · Street food · Brussels

  A mitraillette, French for "submachine gun", is a Belgian sandwich made from half a baguette filled with fried meat, such as a sausage, burger or steak, then piled with chips and covered with sauce, mayonnaise, andalouse, garlic, béarnaise or others, sometimes with lettuce, tomato, grated carrot or cheese.

• Filet américain filet americain · Main dish · Brussels

  Filet américain, often just américain, is very finely minced raw lean beef, a close relative of steak tartare, and a fixture of Belgian brasseries and butchers.

• Brussels waffle Brusselse wafel · Dessert · Brussels

  The Brussels waffle is a large, rectangular, very light waffle with deep square pockets, fifteen, twenty or twenty-four of them, made from a soft batter of flour, yeast, milk, water, butter, salt and egg whites beaten stiff, and baked in an iron with very wide grids.

• Pain à la grecque · Dessert · Brussels

  Pain à la grecque is a Brussels speciality: a long rectangle of milk bread baked with brown sugar and cinnamon and covered with coarse crystal sugar.

• Stoemp · Main dish · Brussels

  Stoemp is a Brussels dish of mashed potatoes mixed with one or more vegetables, such as onions and carrots, leeks, spinach, peas, cabbage or endive, seasoned with thyme, bay or nutmeg.

Food by city in Belgium

• Traditional food of Brussels: 5 dishes

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