These evenings would last well past midnight, with after dinner drinks and dessert. I must say, chocolate mousse, as pedestrian as it has become in the U.S., is stunning made with real Belgian chocolate. On our last night there we ate Waterzooie, a dish native to a neighboring town, Ghent. In Antwerp it never gets too warm in the summer and winters are often just rainy and gray. Waterzooie, a warm chicken stew, is the perfect comfort food for this climate.
Belgian restaurants are currently all the rage in New York City.
But there is more to Belgian cuisine than these offerings.