1/5 A L. 7 years ago on Google • 15 reviews
Stay
away
from
Saint
Laurent
In
a
late
summer
afternoon,
while
enjoying
the
nice
warm
weather,
strolling
down
the
ally
way
in
Brussels
Central
area,
we
were
flanked
by
multiple
hard
selling
pan-handlers
type
street
side
cafe,
all
of
them
try
to
pull
us
into
their
establishment
with
pictorial
filled
menu
in
multiple
languages,
well,
that
should
have
been
the
alarm
that
we
needed
to
adhere
to,
however,
we
have
had
many
great
experiences
with
other
street
side
cafe
in
our
travel
in
other
parts
of
the
world,
and
we
were
getting
a
bit
hungry
as
its
was
near
dinner
hours.
So
we
gave
in,
we
sat
down
at
the
Saint
Laurent
.
They
made
sure
we
sat
at
the
most
outer
table
by
the
street,
so
they
can
use
us
to
parade
to
other
passerby
tourists.
We
were
served
with
cheap
house
wine
and
it
gave
me
a
headache,
and
some
sort
of
beer
that
tasted
like
some
home
brew
that
had
gone
bad.
We
kept
our
thoughts
to
ourselves,
but
as
minutes
gone
by,
no
food,
no
sight
of
our
starter
dish.
So
we
broke
silence
and
asked
the
waiters
that
were
busying
stalking
other
tourists
walking
by.
Eventually
we
were
able
to
get
someone's
attention,
he
said
'yes,
I
will
bring
you
some
garlic
bread
soon'.
We
thought
that
was
part
of
the
dinner
package,
well,
we
thought
wrong.
The
few
pieces
of
staled
bread
sprinkled
with
some
tomato
sauce,
garlic
powder
and
quickly
heated
in
the
speed-oven,
and
some
of
the
slices
were
still
cold
when
we
got
it.
Next
the
starter
dish,
the
shrimp
scampi
was
like
chewing
on
shoe
leather,
and
the
salad
under
the
smoked
salmon
was
still
soaked
in
water.
Oh,
please
wait
for
the
main
course.
Lastly,
the
main
course;
mixed
fish
dish
was
like
the
size
of
a
starter,
we
would
have
done
much
better
with
frozen
fish
fillet,
and
the
Paella
dish
was
missing
many
main
ingredient
like
shrimp,
chorizo,
clams,...etc.
I
guess
we
were
lucky
that
we
got
a
handful
of
mussel
and
two
calamari
rings.
Well,
we
know
this
is
supposed
to
be
cafe
style
food
and
should
not
expect
as
much
as
from
a
gourmet
restaurant,
but
we
were
surprised
with
the
4
euro
charge
for
the
horrific
garlic
bread.
And
the
store
owner
/
manager
played
the
'I
don't
speak
English'
game,
funny
things
is
that
he
totally
understood
our
English
when
he
took
our
order,
aye!?
Needless
to
say,
we
did
not
bother
with
the
so
called
'desert,
included'.
Lesson
learned...
never,
never,
never,
let
your
guard
down
when
you
are
in
Brussels,
to
allow
these
sweet
talking
bandits
ruining
your
wonderfully
planned
holiday
with
a
bad
experience!
So,
stay
away
from
side
ally
cafe's,
there
is
a
reason
that
they
are
stuffed
in
the
side
ally,
not
able
to
make
it
to
the
main
concourse,
mainly
because
they
have
something
to
hide.
I
would
have
give
this
joint
a
negative
rating
if
it
was
possible!
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