Brussels Restaurants

L’Idiot du Village

#494 of 496 things to do in Brussels

#19 of 20 belgian restaurants in Brussels

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Not good for: food, service

  • Address
    • Rue Notre Seigneur 19
  • Transport
    • Louise
  • Phone
    • 02 502 55 82
  • Hours
    • noon-2pm & 7.30-11pm Mon-Fri

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Lonely Planet review for L’Idiot du Village

Booking ahead is essential to secure a table at this colourful, cosy place secluded on a little side street near the Place du Jeu-de-Balle flea market. Dishes are rich and aromatic (lots of herbs) and portions plentiful considering the cachet of this place.

 

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    To be scrupolously avoided

    apalmero does not recommend this,

    I have been in quite a few restaurants in my life – I have reviewed more than 300 restaurants in the last 3 years – and among them there were several gourmet restaurants. I am outraged by the shocking food and service I got in this one. I started asking for a flute of champagne for aperitif and they served me a glass of bubbles that did not quite tasted like one (I am trained as a professional sommelier and am certainly capable of recognizing champagne). I asked which champagne it was and I was told it was a glass of Cremant de Bourgogne… we start with the wrong foot here: this is not only inadmissible but close to fraud. We then had frogs’ legs which were just acceptable and a fois gras which was barely OK. They then served our order of sea bass and scallops and my scallops come plunged into a sea of butter sauce. Now, I am intolerant to lactose and when ordering scallops I would not imagine they would cook them with butter, which is something I have never seen in my whole life. When I told the waiter – a guy who probably lives down wisteria lane – that I could not eat that, he told me that I should have known and that they cook all their dishes with butter as If this were the most natural thing on earth and I were the stupid here. He didn’t even offer to change the dish or to help with something else and even passing by tried to make fun of me. When I complained with another waiter, the reply I received was “This is not my business” forget this place: food is very, very short of being good and the service is probably the worst I have ever had. The mix of arrogance and incompetence is the worst thing you can face. Truth be told, the interiors are not bad, though a bit overcharged for me.

    Not good for: food, service

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