At Home: Belga Café Mussel Pots

Next on Restaurant Recreations...At Home, I tackle one of Belga Café’s most popular dishes - Mussel Pots. Lead by another Top Chef alum, Belgium native Chef Bart Vandaele, the melded rich culinary traditions of Belgium with the comfortable, relaxed attitude of Barracks Row has made this neighborhood gathering place a huge success. During last year's Barracks Row Culinary Education Crawl, Chef Thijs Clinckemaillie (who leads the kitchen at Chef Bart's newest restaurant in Logan Circle, B Too) demonstrated how to make these mussels.

Barracks Row Culinary Education Crawl

This past Sunday, February 17th Barracks Row along 8th Street SE, became a cooking school campus with the 2013 Barracks Row Culinary Education Crawl. Over 20 classes were offered from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from establishments such as Zest Bistro, Cava, Hello Cupcake, Senart's, Matchbox, Ambar, Lavagna, and Old Siam.  I luckily snagged tickets to the cooking class at Belga Café and dragged Keith along.