Skievelat - Brussels

Always a pleasure ... tasty dishes, card humor, bad weather or not, they always have fishing ..... I love it.

Very good atmosphere, very good meals and attention to the detail of the staff... We had a great time!

After a very good night. The chicken scampis spit and the sauce that accompanies it was a treat!

Very kind people! Good beers, good food, good time!!

So, my sister says, Everyone says I have to get the mussels if I 'm in Brussels . So I 'm like, Ok so lemme call Jean-Claude Van Damme real quick....*commence frantic search on cell phone for JCVD 's home number* Then I remembered I had to take his number out of my phone after...well....I don 't want to talk about it. Anyway, after recognizing my sister meant the bivalve mollusk and not human tissue we headed over to Skievelat. It was just up the street from where we were staying. I had already ate a Chipotle burrito I brought over from England, so I was looking for dessert. The place was pretty full on a Friday night which was great for the ambiance. Both floors seemed pretty busy. The waiters looked stressed out though as it seemed to be only 2-3 of them for the whole two floors. We ordered our adult beverages and waited since the waiter forgot to give us menus. Now, my sister ordered a large beer and it was much bigger than she thought so I had to help her finish it later on, but be aware that large is actually huge. It wasn 't quite Oktoberfest stein huge, but it was pretty big. I ordered crème brulee and my sister got the pot of mussels which came with frites (fries). So the waiter comes out like 10-15 mins later (yes..they 're quick) with this medium pot of mussels but honestly two people can probably share a pot. I actually think you 're supposed to share them but since I 'm vegetarian I told my sister that was all on her. And....she still had that big glass of beer to slam. Anyway, the crème brulee was ok. Not the best I 've had and really nothing overly special. My sister fully gorged herself on the mussels pot and felt bad for leaving a few in the pot. I told her that to just let go and let god because I could see that over-stuffed miserable wince in her face and she didn 't seem to like the painful reminder that her big beer was only half gone. So...she tapped out but got her money 's worth. It 's a great restaurant and the people that sat nearby were sociable. It wasn 't too touristy either so it seemed like actual locals eat there.