Thanks for that information, Nathan. Yes, there was a certain je ne
sais quoi about the service at one of the seafood restaurants: we
walked away after our meal not realising how it had all turned out so
expensive! :-)
If we go back to Brussels (I have a photo of my wife's yellow Beetle
on Grande Place) I shall look out 't Kelderkerke.
And I am really glad that you and your son have managed to make
something of the exchange rate: supporting a student in England is not
a cheap enterprise now for most ...
Chris
On 15 Feb 2009, at 18:08, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> The street with the restaurants is a classic tourist trap, so I am now
> surprised that you found it expensive. Few locals would ever eat in
> those restaurants. One of the standard tricks they use is a classic
> bait-and-switch method: on the menu board outside there is a great-
> sounding special menu at a reasonable price, so you go in, sit down,
> get your drinks, but when it is time to order the food, it invariably
> turns out that the dish on special is no longer available because they
> ran out of some critical ingredient. But of course you can simply
> order a la carte ;-)
>
> On the Grand' Place itself there is a good restaurant, ´t Kelderke,
> which servers all the traditional Belgian dishes like stoemp,
> waterzooi etc., along with a great beer selection.
>
> Of course, with the pound only worth about € 1.10 now, travelling to
> the Continent has become more expensive for UK folk--the same
> phenomenon that has made it a lot cheaper for me to support my son at
> university in England and that also has made it possible for me to buy
> my M8 in Scotland at a saving of at least € 1000 compared to buying it
> here.
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