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07-27-2005, 04:22 PM
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Best Belgian cuisine in the DR
Restaurant 'Casa Belga' - Av. Independencia #368 - next to Jaragua Hotel - Gazcue - Santo Domingo - tel. 809-412-7970
Last week I visited this new restaurant with excellent belgian cuisine and beers. It's located where the former Mexican restaurant 'Frida' was. They have lots of Belgian specialties prepared by a Belgian cook:
Ghent Waterzooi, Sole meunière, Bacalao con asparragus, Asparragus a la flamande, Tiger mussels, Flemish 'stoverij', Steaks (bearnaise, pepper, mushroom sauce), Steak tartare, 'Dame blanche' ice-cream, Chocolate mousse, etc.
I really enjoyed these belgian dishes so far away from home.
Prices for main course: from 250 RD$ to 700 RD$ plus taxes.
Belgian beers include Duvel, Leffe, Hoegaarden and a couple of others.
mislarimar, El Belga, hugoke and other belgians: Casa Belga is definitely a place to visit when you are fed up with the daily rice or plantains diet and want to go to for some real belgian cuisine.
Bartolomeo
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07-27-2005, 06:12 PM
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Great news! So many of the Belgian restaurants in Santo Domingo are just mediocre. And forget about Santiago. The Belgian restaurants there don't know their sole meunière from their globes oculaires du porc cuit!  |
07-27-2005, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Bartolomeo67
Restaurant 'Casa Belga' - Av. Independencia #368 - next to Jaragua Hotel - Gazcue - Santo Domingo - tel. 809-412-7970
Last week I visited this new restaurant with excellent belgian cuisine and beers. It's located where the former Mexican restaurant 'Frida' was. They have lots of Belgian specialties prepared by a Belgian cook:
Ghent Waterzooi, Sole meunière, Bacalao con asparragus, Asparragus a la flamande, Tiger mussels, Flemish 'stoverij', Steaks (bearnaise, pepper, mushroom sauce), Steak tartare, 'Dame blanche' ice-cream, Chocolate mousse, etc.
I really enjoyed these belgian dishes so far away from home.
Prices for main course: from 250 RD$ to 700 RD$ plus taxes.
Belgian beers include Duvel, Leffe, Hoegaarden and a couple of others.
mislarimar, El Belga, hugoke and other belgians: Casa Belga is definitely a place to visit when you are fed up with the daily rice or plantains diet and want to go to for some real belgian cuisine.
Bartolomeo
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Gee. This looks soooo authentic. I bet you have nothing to do with the business.
A little too good, my friend. Tell the owner to shut the damn windows and doors when the AC is on, it was hot as hell in there on Sunday night. Personally, I give the place 3-6 months.
Scandalll
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07-27-2005, 06:58 PM
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Gee. This looks soooo authentic. I bet you have nothing to do with the business.
A little too good, my friend. Tell the owner to shut the damn windows and doors when the AC is on, it was hot as hell in there on Sunday night. Personally, I give the place 3-6 months.
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Hi Scandall,
no, I have absolutely nothing to do with the business. I was only holiday in SD and pleasantly surprised to read an article about this restaurant in the local newspaper so I decided to visit it. Actually I had never seen any other truly belgian restaurant in the DR before, as Porfio Rubirosa seems to know many of them.
You give the place 3-6 months, well ,the owners have been living there for almost 10 years they told me, and one of their sons runs a belgian snack bar on Gustavo Mejia Ricart, so, I think they know what they are doing.
Bartolomeo
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07-27-2005, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Bartolomeo67
Hi Scandall,
no, I have absolutely nothing to do with the business. I was only holiday in SD and pleasantly surprised to read an article about this restaurant in the local newspaper so I decided to visit it. Actually I had never seen any other truly belgian restaurant in the DR before, as Porfio Rubirosa seems to know many of them.
You give the place 3-6 months, well ,the owners have been living there for almost 10 years they told me, and one of their sons runs a belgian snack bar on Gustavo Mejia Ricart, so, I think they know what they are doing.
Bartolomeo
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I hope you're right. I honestly do. I "know" one of the owners (small talked with him over the last 3 years). He's a good guy.
Why did Frida's go out of business? It was the same location and you would think that Mexican food would do better with tourists than Belgian food. Who comes to the Caribbean to eat Belgian food? Just thinking out loud.
Best of luck to them but I still give it 3-6 months. A snack bar doesn't have much overhead, that place does and his prices are pretty low. I hope I'm wrong.
Scandall
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07-27-2005, 07:23 PM
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Sorry to hear that Frida's is no more... We used to go there when we had occasion to sleep over in Santo Domingo... Just the greatest pitcher of ice cold Sangria ever... We'll sure try the Belgian place as this is one of the few places that we know how to get to in Santo Domingo. One of these days we'll try to spend more than a flying visit there and figure out what is what...
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07-27-2005, 07:28 PM
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Do these SD restaurants really cater to tourists? I doubt it.
When I go for dinner to a nice restaurant in SD I never see many tourists, not in Vesuvio's, La Briciola, etc. Mainly dominican families, business people or expats.
Bartolomeo
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07-27-2005, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Bartolomeo67
Do these SD restaurants really cater to tourists? I doubt it.
When I go for dinner to a nice restaurant in SD I never see many tourists, not in Vesuvio's, La Briciola, etc. Mainly dominican families, business people or expats.
Bartolomeo
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Very true. I was referring to that particular location. It is right in the thick of things (Centenario, Jaragua etc.). I never saw expats/dominicans at Frida, maybe the Belgian guys can build a local following.
Chef Scandall
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07-28-2005, 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Porfio_Rubirosa
Great news! So many of the Belgian restaurants in Santo Domingo are just mediocre. And forget about Santiago. The Belgian restaurants there don't know their sole meunière from their globes oculaires du porc cuit! |
Actually, there is at least one other, on Gustavo Mejia Ricart between Lincoln and Lope de Vega.
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07-28-2005, 01:18 PM
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Yes, I've seen it - right next to the "Riga Vieja" Latvian cafe.
Chiri, I guess you're the last person I would want to make fun of small countries with - being from a rock as you are. |
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