Speculoos appears as a signature dish in 1 Belgium cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Speculoos · Brussels
Crisp Belgian brown-sugar biscuit spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg. Eaten with coffee, used as a spoon for ice cream, ground into the city's signature spread.
Jean-Baptiste Dandoy opened a small biscuit shop on Rue du Marche aux Herbes in Brussels in 1829, baking speculoos from a recipe of brown sugar, butter and warming spice. The family business moved to Rue au Beurre in 1858, where it remains today. Speculoos became the canonical Belgian biscuit through the 19th century, spreading across Flemish and Walloon households and eventually inspiring the global biscoff spread in the 1980s.
Where to eat in Brussels:
- Maison Dandoy
- Maison Dandoy Rue au Beurre
- Wittamer