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Five Guys restaurant to open in Brussels in July

Admin BE — Mon, 27 May 2019 06:43:03 +0000

Five Guys, the American fast food giant, will be opening its first restaurant in Brussels on July 1st.

The new restaurant will be the chain’s second restaurant in Belgium – its first is in Antwerp – and will be located in the food court of the shopping mall City 2 in the centre of town, with direct access onto Rue Neuve.

Five Guys is famous for its customisable burger menu, its use of fresh ingredients, and (especially) its fries. It has more than 1,500 restaurants worldwide, and has an annual turnover of more than $1.6 billion.

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New app offers restaurant leftovers up to 50% off

Admin BE — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 10:30:09 +0000

Brussels’ foodie scene welcomes its newest addition, and it’s sure to please. Too Good to Go is an app that offers customers leftovers from restaurants at major discounts. All food offered is guaranteed edible but sold due to a variety of reasons: cannot be used the next day due to change of menu or because the restaurant isn’t open the following day. The amount of the discount varies between retailers, but it is often 50% or more.

The app is already available in seven other countries – including the UK and Germany – but just broke into Belgium a few months ago and only recently arriving in Brussels.

Fifty restaurants have signed up for the app so far and offer food to-go. Some participating restaurants like Exki and Foodmaker have pre-packaged food that must be sold by the expiration date; whereas others like l’Atelier in the Schuman area or Boco on Avenue Louise are trying to reduce their wastage.

Customers log in to check what’s on offer and for how much and then arrange to pick up the meal from the restaurant. Users must bring their own packaging – to keep in line with the spirit of the app in reducing waste

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Fries before Guys – Bintje shows you why

Kaja Hengstenberg — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 09:23:07 +0000

There’s two kind of people; those who prefer the thicker fries, those that are still soft and potato-y in the middle but have a nicely golden brown fried crust, and those who prefer the rather French kind of fries; thinner and just perfectly crispy, but not too much, sometimes a bit wobbly, but the good kind. The second one is what you can find at Bintje.

Bintje is a simple, fancy “fast food” restaurant, with a very nice and light interior, a lot of wooden details plants and beer. Yes, they have a fairly big selection of different local and artisan beers, which aren’t super cheap but definitely super tasty.

I went to Bintje on one of the 340 rainy days in Belgium for a small afternoon snack, before cooking a nice lamb shoulder with mint sauce at my place in the evening. The order was simple: 1 portion of fries with their homemade ketchup, a halloumi burger and of course, their pulled pork burger. Oh?! No, no, not just for myself, we were three people. The fries were indeed very delicious and along with the incredibly tasty tomato ketchup a definite match. The burgers were overall delicious, served in brioche buns (a favourite of mine!!). The halloumi burger was crispy but still gooey with peppers and a delicious sauce, the pulled pork one with red cabbage was also good, but could’ve been a bit juicier with a bit more sauce.

The place is perfect for a quick lunch, snack or whenever you’re craving a good portion of fries and a nice burger.

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Rue Simonis 62, 1050 – Brussels
Price: around 7-8€ for a burger and 4€ for fries

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