Belgium

🇧🇪Belgium

Kriek

A Belgian cherry lambic beer, tart and fruity.

🇧🇪Ghent, Belgium

Kroakemandels

Kroakemandels are Ghent roasted almonds coated in a crisp, seasoned shell.

🇧🇪Liège, Belgium

Lacquemant wafel

Lacquemant

Lacquemant is a thin Liège waffle sandwich filled with dark syrup and warm spices.

🇧🇪Brussels, Belgium

Lambic

Lambiek

Wild-fermented Brussels wheat beer aged in oak, the ancestor of gueuze and fruit beers.

🇧🇪Belgium

Lapin à la Kriek

Konijn met kriek

Lapin à la Kriek braises rabbit in tart cherry lambic until the meat is tender.

🇧🇪Tournai, Belgium

Lapin à la Tournaisienne

Lapin à la Tournaisienne is a Tournai rabbit stew with browned meat and a savoury beer-and-onion sauce.

🇧🇪Lier, Belgium

Liers vlaaike

Liers vlaaike is a small Lier pastry with a chewy spiced filling inside crisp dough.

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Liège Spice Bread

Pain d'Épices Liégeois

Dense honey-and-spice bread from Liège, baked with rye flour and gingerbread spices.

🇧🇪Liège, Belgium

Liège Waffle

Gaufre de Liège / Luikse wafel

A Belgian dense, sweet yeast waffle with caramelized sugar pearls, a national and street icon.

🇧🇪Ghent, Belgium

Mastel

Mastel is a round Ghent spice bread with a dense crumb, traditionally split and toasted.

🇧🇪Geraardsbergen, Belgium

Mattentaart

A Belgian small puff pastry with sweet curd filling from Geraardsbergen, a regional and festive classic

🇧🇪Brussels, Belgium

Merveilleux

Meringue and whipped-cream cake dusted in chocolate shavings, a Brussels patisserie star.

🇧🇪Belgium

Mitraillette

A mitraillette is a Belgian baguette sandwich filled with fries, a cooked meat or sausage, and sauce.

🇧🇪Brussels, Belgium

Moules parquées

Moules parquées are raw half-shell mussels served cold with lemon in Brussels.

🇧🇪Belgium

Moules-Frites

Moules-frites / Mosselen-friet

Belgium's national dish: mussels steamed in white wine, celery, onion, and herbs, served with Belgian fries and mayonnaise.

🇫🇷France

Mousse Au Chocolat

Mousse au chocolat is a whipped chocolate dessert whose texture comes from aerated eggs or cream.

🇧🇪Flanders, Belgium

Oud Bruin

Flanders brown ale with a gentle sourness from mixed fermentation.

🇧🇪Brussels, Belgium

Pain à la Grecque

A Belgian rectangular caramelized bread with sugar and cinnamon from Brussels, a daily and tea classic

🇧🇪Belgium

Paling in 't Groen

Paling in 't groen is Belgian eel stewed in a vivid herb sauce of sorrel, chervil, parsley, and other greens.

🇧🇪Flanders, Belgium

Passendale

Passendale is a traditional cheese from Belgium.

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Pistolet

Small, crusty round bread roll, the everyday Walloon lunch bread.

🇧🇪Flanders, Belgium

Potjesvlees uit de Westhoek

Potjesvlees uit de Westhoek is a West Flemish terrine of chicken, rabbit, and veal set in clear aspic and served cold.

🇫🇷France

Potjevleesch

Potjevleesch is a Flemish mixed-meat terrine of chicken, rabbit, veal, and pork set in clear aspic.

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Pâté ardennais

Pâté ardennais is a coarse Ardennes meat pâté, often made with seasoned pork or game.

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Pâté Gaumais

Pork marinated in wine, vinegar, shallot and thyme, then sealed in a pastry case and baked, eaten cold in slices.

🇧🇪Brussels, Belgium

Pêcheresse

Peach lambic, one of the classic Brussels fruit-beer flavors.

🇧🇪Flanders, Belgium

Rabbit with Prunes

Konijn met Pruimen

Braised rabbit in beer with prunes and mustard, a classic Flemish Sunday dish.

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Rombosse

Rombosse is a whole apple wrapped in thin pastry and baked until the fruit softens.

🇧🇪Liège, Belgium

Salade liégeoise

Salade liégeoise combines warm potatoes, green beans, bacon, and onion in a tangy dressing.

🇧🇪Belgium

Samurai Sauce

Sauce samouraï

Spicy orange curry-mayonnaise frites sauce created in Belgium in the 1980s.

🇧🇪Belgium

Sauce Andalouse

A Belgian creamy sauce with tomatoes, peppers, and mayonnaise, a frites and daily classic

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Saucisson d’Ardenne

Saucisson d'Ardenne

Saucisson d’Ardenne is a smoked, air-dried Ardennes pork sausage with a coarse grind and a firm, savoury slice.

🇧🇪Liège, Belgium

Sirop de Liège

A Belgian thick apple and pear syrup spread, a daily and essential staple.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Skinless Sausage

Frikandel

Skinless deep-fried minced-meat sausage, served plain or as frikandel speciaal with mayo, curry ketchup, and onions.

🇧🇪Flanders, Belgium

Smoutebollen

Carnival doughnuts fried in beef dripping and dusted with sugar.

🇧🇪Ghent, Belgium

Sneeuwballen

Sneeuwballen are fried Belgian dough balls dusted with sugar and eaten fresh from a stall.