Hillside: Latest Restaurant Review with No Passport Options, or Belgium Owned

I took that second dose of me last night, and today my thoughts are pounding, everything hurts and it’s not very easy to write, so you already forgive me. I think the pain is not accidental. Here’s my karma for poking fun at traditional family advocates and anti-vaccines and other vinegar vaporizers.

Am I looking forward to the passport of opportunity? Of course, although I don’t like documents, I do like opportunities. And yet, I like to go somewhere others won’t let in. In my youth, I felt so good buying bananas inaccessible to others in a currency store and eating them demonstratively on Didžioji and Vokiečių streets. Trauma, you say. Maybe, but how cute. Then I experienced how good it is to sit in a business or first class seat on an airplane while others watch, envy and think about what you are doing here. Oh well yeah. Because I am special. Now he will be on tour together with that passport.

Now it’s about that panorama of the restaurant, which I visited without having a passport yet, on a rainy day, sitting outside under the heaters where there was no longer a Žalgiris football stadium. The restaurant is called “Brussels Mussels”, and I have already written about the origin of its name on the portal. Delphi, after visiting in 2019 read, everything is written about actor Jean-Claude van Damme.

It was a long time ago, and now is the time to see how that restaurant weathered the quarantine and horrors of a very new year (there is a lot of beer inside it, and while there are no banned ads, sober ones should still be awkward and can be banned by such a happy image). I would like to take this opportunity to remind the ruling coalition that the months are running out and that the draconian restrictions on alcohol imposed by the peasants and the harmful ban on its advertising have not yet been lifted, I do not quite understand what we are waiting for. for?

When spring is like now and it was still snowing in early May, I have to say that the Brussels Mussels umbrellas and warmers are some of the best I’ve ever seen. Both the umbrella and the heater must be powerful, and the heat must be as if a small nuclear charge has exploded somewhere nearby. There is nothing worse than a heater from which you heat up, like a 40 watt light bulb.

We ordered a small portion of geldel; when I brought it in, I asked if it was really small here because the size of the pot and the generosity of the portion raised suspicions. No, they say, it’s very small here, and the big one is in the same pot, just adding more gels and more liquid. We couldn’t eat the liquid at all – while both options were inhumanly delicious, there are limits somewhere. You can’t swallow that much.

The gels (also called mussels, € 13 per small serving) in the beer, cream and bacon sauce were fuller due to the thickness and fat of the sauce, while the choric choric sauce was spicier but moderately spicy but not spicy thai when you no longer feel what you eat. The geldings also brought in perfectly Belgian potatoes, double fried, giving them the external freshness and internal softness that every diner’s heart desires. In Brussels, people wait in line for those potatoes, I have seen it myself: it is a great injustice that Americans call French fries, French fries, when everyone knows that the capital of potatoes is Brussels. Meanwhile, in the name of Brussels, you named those little cabbages that kids hate so much (if your kids like them, it means you raised them well and everything is fine with you anyway).

The meatballs in a cream and bacon sauce, with mashed potatoes, cucumbers and radishes (10.50 EUR) were very Lithuanian, they tasted like the most wonderful and smooth mother chops. This is the kind of food that comes from the best childhood memories. I think maybe Belgian mothers produce similarly to the best Lithuanian mothers. Maybe French mashed potatoes taste richer than this (because the French don’t skimp on butter), but Belgians aren’t French (well, they’re part French, part Dutch, I had to read a political scientist’s opinion English maybe Twenty-five years ago that Belgium, as a country, there is a general misunderstanding without clear signs of national identity, then I was struck by how to insult people in this way, and then I myself learned to speak similarly about everyone and I felt very good).

The perch (€ 18) was absolutely like a textbook, crisp-skinned, tender, with tender potatoes and pea puree, known in England as “mushy peas” or “beggar’s guamamole”. There was a story many years ago when a very honored British minister, one of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s closest people, Peter Mandelson, drove north to the working-class areas of the country and, when he went to where he was bringing food for Take out, ordered chips and “sweets.” “. Not only were there no sweets in that city, no one had heard of them, and it was explained to him that peas were rubbed here anyway. He denied the story himself, but the story was too good not to stay, especially since that minister was known for his refined taste and even had to resign when it became clear that he had obtained a cash luxury home loan from a millionaire. . whose business was to be investigated by a department headed by Mandelson.

The daily dessert (panna cotta beer, 6 EUR) was probably, if I’m not mistaken, the first dessert made with beer in my life, but if there was a dark caramel malt, that’s probably why it worked. Very rarely do I say about desserts to order again.
All of our lunches, which were hard to come by and had no inaccurate or mediocre dishes, cost € 79.50 and we left a tip of ten euros more.

Do you know what came to me? That this restaurant now, in difficult conditions, turned out even better than before all the quarantines (although it was very impressive then). Firmly, without compromises or lapses. Abundant, generous, much less cheap, but for every euro it opens like two.

Five geese out of five and I hope he returns with a passport of opportunity.

Brussels mussels, Rinktinės st. 5, Vilnius. Tel. +370 617 93777.

Website: https://www.brusselsmussels.lt

Monday to Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., Thursday 11:00 a.m. to midnight, Friday 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., Saturday 11:00 a.m. to midnight, Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.