Flanders: The mecca of cycling, the paradise of beer
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Six amazing restaurants
Restaurants of Ghent, Brussels and Mechelen during Flanders is a Festival. 3 days, 6 restaurants, 20,000 calories. Each restaurant was good, a couple very good, so here’s a rundown.
3 days, 6 restaurants, 20,000 calories. Here’s the rundown...
This is not a food blog, but as food has, in some way, influenced every dancer, musician, actor, and for that matter everyone else on the planet, I though I could squeeze it in. Food had a profound effect on rotund Gioachino Rossini, and I’m guessing that Mariinsky ballerina Ulyana Lopatkina is less of a foodie, but even so let’s give this a whirl.
The reason? Well, besides being in Ghent for a Jessye Norman concert, part of the extensive Flanders Festival, the excuse was to drink up some Belgian culture, along with some Belgian beer. And what better way to accompany Belgian beer but with Belgian food. It’s good. They know how to eat well, and so do I… as in too much. But hey, diets are for home, so back in Italy I’ll avoid the aperitivi for a bit.
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