For those of you that haven't come across it yet, Belgo is a chain of four London restaurants that claim to bring Belgium to you; specialising in mussels, monk-brewed beers and frites - and I love it!
I've eaten at Belgo Centraal (Covent Garden) twice now, once for an evening meal and once for a lunch; both times I've had the same thing and it's always absolutely delicious. I hate seafood, so choosing a restaurant where mussels make up most of the menu might seem an odd choice, but I'm simply potty about something on the Belgian Classics menu: the crisp pork belly.
The pork belly is served with creamed mash, Belgo apple sauce and buttered spinach; it's cooked to perfection, leaving a crunchy crackling top sitting a top a beautiful soft, moist belly. It's just scrumptious and it'd be a crying shame if more people didn't know about it.
If you're not a pork fan, Belgo's menu offers a multitude of non-mussely options: beef carbonnade, posh sausages, fish and chips, sea bass, a mushroom bouchee, burgers and steak frites, to mention a few; however, I have it on the trusted opinion of my, very particular, partner that the Snob mussels are also utterly "delish".
Belgo has restaurants in Bromley, Covent Garden, Kingsway and Chalk Farm. To book a table or to see the menu, visit http://www.belgo-restaurants.co.uk/
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