A new Belgian Fries franchise was recently launched. It is named Friitz (with double i, pronounce as
[/' f r i: t s /]), inspired by Fritz, the first man known to have opened a fry …
Belgian Fries and fry shops around the world: an overview of what is happening with Belgian Fries on our planet.
Thinking of starting your own Belgian Fry business. Check here for more details.
Every day more disappear from the Belgian landscape: the “frietkot” or “fritkot”. Information and lots of pictures of the typical fry shacks.
My aim is to make this website the most complete resource on (Belgian) Fries … but I need your help for more information and pictures! So if you have any news, please let me know.
About me travelling the world as the Missionary of the Belgian Fry.
well, new … apparently it was published in 2006 but I just found out about it on this website. I hope to receive it soon and publish my review here.
An interview (in French) with the …
On the left is a unique photo on a glass plate, picturing “les marchands de pommes de terre frites à la foire, Caen 1902″ (vendors selling fried potatoes at the fair in Caen (France), 1902).
Apart …
People all over the world ask me how a fry shop looks like in my country. A picture says more than a thousand words, so I post some photos of fry shop interiors below in a first …
Received news of a new shop opening in the USA today. No more information except a link to their website.
Bruges Waffles and Frites
336 West Broadway (300 South)
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Get your FREE fries with mayo! (in BE and NL only, sorry)
Vanaf 25 april 2009 (tot 10 mei!) organiseert fritkotactie.be opnieuw een heerlijk initiatief: gratis friet met mayonaise!!
I received an email this morning from Het Frituurtje in Cape Town (S-A) with the sad news that they want to sell their business … hopefully they will find an interested party to take over.
Many have tried to copy the Belgian Fries concept all over the world, sadly a lot have not succeeded or just misused the name and fame of our national product.
Latest gossip has it people are …
Although I was in Singapore 2 times the last half year, I never heard of this new fry shop … found it on the internet during my daily search for Belgian Fries.
Open at basement 1 …
The famous Belgian/Dutch/German snack sausage “frikandel” (also known as curryworst) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Some doubt has rissen about this “anniversary”. It is not clear who actually invented the popular sausage. Snack producer …
Een leuk en vooral nuttig initiatief: zoek een frituur in je buurt (uiteraard ken je ze wel, maar je weet maar nooit dat je hier iets nieuws ontdekt).
No information on this fry shop. Just found these pictures on Flickr.
Looking at the pictures I can see a lot of very typical Belgian stuff (snacks, sauces). In my opinion the owners must have Belgian …
Some French guy had the brilliant idea to run the Dakar race in a mobile “frietkot”!
More on this story later …. or better, check their website (in French I’m afraid)
Another shameless copy of Belgian Fries, doomed to vanish, as the people behind it did not understand the concept.
Their website is dead too …
Not really a specialised fry shop, but they did make a lot of noice about their “fresh cut, Belgian style fries”. Their concept was “slow fast food” in a designer environment.
Established in 2003, they seem …
Found this great movie today on YouTube! The Belgian Emission Impossible team makes Belgian Fries in the streets of Tripoli, celebrating the start of the “Week van de Friet” in Belgium.
Frying perfect fries without oil (or just a little bit)? Foodtube.nl put the Tefal Actifri frying pan to the test in this video. More info on this new type of deep fryer on the Tefal …
This morning, Google News Alert brought my attention to a recently published column in the Philippine Star.
OIL-SOAKED: “French fries” brings me to a more serious topic, which is food and monosodium glutamate (MSG) which is more popularly …
On of the nicest picture I ever received!
This is Albert Tratsaert with his “frietkarre” (fry cart). He sold fries on the Groentenmarkt in Ostend for about 50 years.
(thanks to the Makelberge-Tratsaert family – I hope …
Another mysterious fry shop in the US that seems to have not enough success and had to close.
All I found about them is an old email (Jan. 27, 2006):
I want to invite you to visit …
I read somewhere a fry shop opened (in 2007?) in Japan … all I can find is some blog locating it in Shibuya, Tokyo. It was also shown in a documentary (still have to convert …
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While browsing the Internet, I stumbled upon a page describing an old fry shop I never heard of.
Curiously, the shop’s name is Ray’s Candy Shop . No reference to (Belgian) Fries at all, but looking …
On the left is one of his more recent paintings of a Frietkot, painted on a Michelin map.
If you are interested in buying his stuff, please contact me and I will forward your message.
Overview of popular snacks in Belgian and Dutch fry shops. More details will be posted in this category.
249 days after the last election, Belgium still has no government (or no new government to be exact, the old one is still in place as an interim-government). Thus, on Feb. 17th 2011, Belgium broke …
I’m still compiling this page and need your help: let me know how you call Fries in your language, if possible with the phonetic transcription. My email address: webmaster@belgianfries.com.
Soundsamples (WAV or other formats) are welcome …
U bent veertien dagen op reis geweest naar den vreemde. U landt op Zaventem, neemt de trein naar Gent-Sint-Pieters en u stapt de koude Belgische lucht weer in. Wat is het eerste dat u doet? …
