Belga Café

Belga Cafe is located at 514 8th St SE, Washington, DC. This location is in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. This business specializes in Cafes and has 3 review(s) with a star rating of 4.7.

"Handsome" with "great mussels" sums up why legions "love, love, love" chef-owner Bart Vandaele's "real taste of Belgium" on an "edgy" stretch of Capitol Hill; "outstanding" midpriced eats aside, it's also a "beer destination", which along with the "tight", brick-walled art-"gallery"-like quarters, produces a "notable din", cut through ably by "competent" servers.

You can go traditional with mussels and the crispiest of french fries or dabble in what the chef calls Euro-fusion at this sleek café done up with dark wood, exposed brick, and creamy chairs and linens. Classic dishes such as waterzooi (Flemish beef stew) and leg of rabbit cooked with beer are expertly turned out, along with newer takes such as seared scallops with young carrots, red beets, and...

Sure Capitol Hill can be a nightmare of $1 Bud Light happy hours and wood-paneled steakhouses, but those in the know ditch the interns and old boy’s clubs in favor of the airy dining room at the Euro-fusion Belga Cafe. At night, journalists and European expats wash down mussels and twice-cooked fries with cold Hefeweizens. But the real indulgence is brunch, when hung-over Hill staffers spill...

Belga Café is located on a street called "Barracks Row," named for the Marine Corps barracks bordering the street to the east. This is one of those D.C. neighborhoods that's been here forever -- the Marine Barracks and the Navy Yard, just blocks away, sprouted 200 years ago -- but is now being revitalized by merchants and the city, especially with the nearby presence of Nationals Ballpark, the...

Serving, lunch, dinner, the ever popular brunch, and "Dinsdag Mossel," Belga Cafe features an open kitchen, European casual dining room along with a sidewalk cafe. It is a small piece of Bussels on the Hill