Search locations or food
OR
Already have an account? Log in
OR
Mussel Dish
Moules-frites
at Aux Armes de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium
Recommended by Laila Gohar and 12 other food critics.
A.Pi
Recommendations
"For lunch, head to the Aux Armes de Bruxelles, which has operated near the Grand Place since the 1920s, for some of the freshest buckets of mussels in town, complete with frites and mayonnaise."
"The mussels are fawn coloured and sweet and the chips tread that grand line between an exterior that crunches and an inside as downy as a baby’s thigh. They’re very good smushed in mustard. They’re also excellent when swung through the tomatoey depths of the sauce."
"The touristy Rue Des Bouchers is lined with restaurant spruikers, but ignore them all, in favour of the venerable 97-year-old Aux Armes de Bruxelles."
"Locals and tourists are pampered with the best seafood available in this elegant eatery in the old town. Try the one of the many classic moules frites varieties."
"Aux Armes de Bruxelles was a favourite haunt of Brussels' most famous chanteur Jacques Brel. The mussels are top recommendation."
"Aux Armes de Bruxelles is one of the oldest restaurants in the city and the go-to place for Belgian classics like moules frites. Contrary to popular belief, Belgians hit up places like this to have their fix. “Mussels are not something we have at home,” a Belgian friend explained to me."
"Brussel's best Musses: Aux Armes de Bruxelles - King Leopold III was a regular customer (opting for sole meunière and a plate of mussels), so you’re in illustrious company in this Brussels institution, all starched napkins and stained glass."
"For the Moules, it is impossible to escape the Aux Armes de Bruxelles where in 1921. Calixte Veulemans invented how to serve them in individual pots."
"But if I am talking food here… I’m going to get mussels, I’m going to get frites and I’m going to dip my frites in mayo. They are old-as-shit (1921), so they probably know what they are doing. So, their THING is moules. I definitely want to take friends and tell them what to order so I can eat off their plates as well. (I’m a good friend, shut it.)."
"For lunch (from July 17, when it reopens), head to the 80-year-old Aux Armes de Bruxelles, near the Grand' Place, which has some of the freshest buckets of mussels, complete with French fries and mayonnaise."