Long awaited raw oysters in Brussels

I had a chance to visit Belgium in early December. It seems so close to Brno on the map, but is so far away in reality. The winter here in Europe has been really severe this year, and the flight schedule was all messed up, but we managed to get there 8hrs after leaving our flat.

One thing that I was looking forward to was, of course, to eat fresh fish, especially shellfish. We found a great restaurant near the hotel we stayed in the area called "the upper town."  The restaurant is called "La Tortue Du Sablon."  It is a cozy restaurant on one of those pedestrian-only type of alleys, but the decor was very nicely done and had a very romantic feel to it.  The restaurant seemed to specialize in lobsters. We were the first diners there, but the place filled up around 8pm or so, and a lot of people were ordering lobsters.  Since it was the first time there for us, we decided to go with a set menu with an additional order of fresh oysters on the shell.

You can't believe how happy I was to taste the raw oysters. Within a month or so after coming back to Brno from Japan, I was again feeling deficiency of fish.  We would try expensive sushi, but it doesn't nearly taste as good as the "real" sushi in Japan. We were getting tired of routine meat dishes.  So my brain was going "fish, fish, fish...." almost everyday till I had the first bite of raw oyster, which melted just nicely in my month.

The entire dinner was just so perfect.  I would definitely go back there if I have another chance to visit Brussels.