{"id":29523,"date":"2006-09-29T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/09\/29\/eating-belgian-food-at-brouwers-cafe-in-fremont\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T10:00:22","slug":"eating-belgian-food-at-brouwers-cafe-in-fremont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060929-22\/?p=29523","title":{"rendered":"Eating Belgian food at Brouwer's Cafe in Fremont"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, some friends and I went for dinner at Brouwer’s Café<\/a>, a Belgian pub\/restaurant<\/a> in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. The menu is pub food, which means that everything comes with frites<\/a><\/i> and a choice of several dipping sauces, none of which is ketchup. One of my friends spent some formative years of her life in the Netherlands, so she was familiar with frites<\/i> and asked for curry ketchup. Unfortunately, they didn’t have it. (But I know a great German deli that does carry curry ketchup…) <\/p>\n

I tried to stay somewhat healthy with a salad, but the croque monsieur<\/i> pretty much cancelled out any fat-avoidance forgoing the frites<\/i> may have offered. As we munched on our frites<\/i>, I wondered how the Belgians managed to eat such profoundly fatty food<\/a> and not blimp up like Americans. My friends revealed the secret in one word: nicotine<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, some friends and I went for dinner at Brouwer’s Café, a Belgian pub\/restaurant in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. The menu is pub food, which means that everything comes with frites and a choice of several dipping sauces, none of which is ketchup. One of my friends spent some formative years of her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-29523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Last year, some friends and I went for dinner at Brouwer’s Café, a Belgian pub\/restaurant in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. The menu is pub food, which means that everything comes with frites and a choice of several dipping sauces, none of which is ketchup. One of my friends spent some formative years of her […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}