When you’re googling the best fries in Brussels, Maison Antoine comes up quite frequently. I’m only in Brussels for a couple of days, so I should probably be trying stuff other than fries, but… Fries are delicious. They’re also cheap, which is a rarity in a city as expensive as Brussels.
So yeah, I went to Maison Antoine.
I tried a different sauce, at least, so I’m kinda trying different things?
I tried the andalouse sauce (two of most popular fry sauces in Belgium are andalouse and samurai sauce, which I had on my last order of fries), a mayo-based sauce made with tomato paste and peppers.
The sauce was fine. It was a bit too sweet, with an aggressively herby flavour that I found a bit overwhelming, but it wasn’t bad. Samurai sauce, however, is clearly the superior of the two.
As for the fries themselves, by any standards other than Belgium’s, they were quite good. But compared to the mind-blowing fries I just had at Frit Flagey, they were nothing special.
They didn’t quite have the crispiness you’re hoping for, and they were ever-so-slighty underdone. They were basically where they should have been, but the interior wasn’t quite as creamy as top-tier fries.
Location: Place Jourdan 1, 1040 Etterbeek, Belgium
How to find it: It’s in a self-contained little building across from several cafes (you can take your fries to one of the cafes and eat them there, though at that point you’d almost certainly have to buy a drink).