Stoemp is a signature dish of Belgium; we have verified places to eat it in Brussels. Brussels' rustic mashed potatoes blended with vegetables (carrots, kale, celery, leeks) and butter or cream. Start with where to eat Stoemp in Brussels.
Stoemp · Brussels
Brussels' rustic mashed potatoes blended with vegetables (carrots, kale, celery, leeks) and butter or cream. Served with sausage, bacon or roast meats; deeply seasonal.
Stoemp emerged in 19th-century Brussels as a working-class kitchen-economy dish, mashing whatever vegetables were cheap and to hand into potatoes. The word is Brusseleir slang for 'mash'. The Marolles and Anderlecht canteens preserved the tradition through the post-war decades, and stoemp remains a cold-weather brasserie staple paired with sausage or roast pork.
Where to eat in Brussels:
- Brasserie Ploegmans
- Au Stekerlapatte
- Volle Gas
- Au Vieux Saint Martin
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