I made it down to Chambar last night to aid in the award-winning restaurant’s celebration of National Belgian Day (Leopold the 1st became the first King of Belgium on July 21st, 1831).

We arrived to find two hissing and wondrously stinky pigs on rotisseries outside the doors and both Chambar and Medina packed with people awaiting a special dinner billed as a “Medieval Feast”.

Oh, and check the fine print of the invitation:

NOTE: Vegetarian options will not be available. Due to the Medieval nature of this feast, no cutlery will be provided.

It was fabulously savage with otherwise polite and well mannered people ripping loaves of bread apart and smearing the bits in troughs of rillette, tearing into whole prawns, sucking the parmesan butter off mountains of grilled corn, coating faces with pork fat, drinking copious amounts of Belgian beer and laughing maliciously at whatever vegetables were very much mistakenly served to us.

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Happy Belgian Day!

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