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 recently tried a place specializing in fries that was right around the corner from my Airbnb. It was quite good, but nothing about it knocked my socks off.
Frit Flagey, on the other hand, knocked my socks clean off. My feet? Totally bare. My socks? I don’t know, I can’t find them. I think they exploded.
There’s some debate about whether French fries were invented in France or Belgium, but the consensus seems to be that it was probably the latter.
I have a thing about people lining up for food. If I see a line, I feel a very strong compulsion to stop whatever I’m doing and get in it. Because what do those people know that I don’t know? Following the mob isn’t always the wisest of choices, but seriously, what’s at the front of that line and how do I eat it?
So when I saw a line for a place that specializes in fries called Las Fritas when I was walking around in Barcelona, I was in that line almost instantly. I had never heard of this place, and French fries don’t exactly scream authentic Spanish food, but look at that line. It must be good!