8 Days in Belgium - Suggestions?

I don't hate Delirium. Go early and have a good time. You will love the selection. In paris I would eat lunch at chez Denise. Tel: 33 1 42 36 21 82 They open at 12, call for a reservation. After that you can check out this place

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/4482/?view=ratings


The red rose in Brugge is a good place for a beer. For dinner I would recommend Vino Vino if you want casual or the park restaurant for more formal. The park is closed on Monday and Thursday. Vino Vino is open every day except sunday and Monday.

http://www.parkrestaurant.be/index.htm

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attracti...-Vino_Vino-Bruges_West_Flanders_Province.html

If you want to visit an off the wall place in Gent, check out this "bar"

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/7457/?view=ratings

Have a good trip, I'll be there a few weeks after you

 

Nick, moules-frittes you find in a lot of restaurants, just look arround and you'll find it easy.
A lot of information about beer in Flanders you find here

http://www.vlaanderenlekkerland.be/fb111bqvf1061ziab1ziab243.aspx

Have a nice trip!

 

Delirium is usually hated on for being overly crowded and full of tourists. I personally don't mind it, and during the early afternoon, it is not a bad lace to go and enjoy a beer or two. However, if I am in that area during the hours I don't mind going to Delirium, i would much rather be Moeder Lambic or Cantillon.

 

Forget Liege, there's nothing to see there.
If you have to choose, go Antwerp.

 

It's worth the trip to Antwerp for a visit to Kulminator all by itself.

 

I second Kulminator, Their hours are Mon 8-12, Tues - Sat 4-12, closed on Sunday.

 

And Antwerp is a nice city to have a walk.
(this can't be said for Liege)

 

Is this the best time to visit? I'm over in a few weeks and did fancy going, but had kinda been put off by some negative reviews.

 

Weekdays before 5pm, for Delirium, to avoid being overrun by students, who aren't (universally) badly behaved but soak up most of the pace and bar throughput capacity.

Re les moules, it's not as easy as late summer, when there's a certain counterintuitive suggestion to eat them in places that don't have them most of the year. But anyway, they're often available in a few of the classics downtown, like Aux Armes de Bruxelles and La Roue d'Or. Pré Salé or La Villette in St. Catherine when they have them.

 

You can eat moulles almost all year trough nowadays but the better quality is mostly in season. Not that they aren't good now. One big tip: avoid all places surrounding the Delirium to have seafood, moulles and other shellfood. Actually, just avoid eating there at all if you don't want your night to end bend over the toilet or returning home with a new friend named Salmonella. Apart from 2 places, Aux Armes de Bruxelles(not cheap and varying quality) and Chez Leon all these restos are tourist death traps and very low quality. There's a reason Belgians never eat there.....

 

Every month with a R in it are the best months for eating mussels .... so get your ass over here and eat as much as you can .. places with signs of dutch mussels are the places to be.....

 

That saying about the months with an r is not true. The local Zeeuwse mosselen are available from July to April so basicslly there's only 2 months you can't eat them, May and June. If you find some then it's most likely imported

 

You can eat them every month but in june there were not mussels yet and in july still small ones... thats why every local soccerteam has his musselevent in.september... :-) and now back to beers

 

I thought this topic was about mussels.....