Italian in Brussels ...

...  an Italian restaurant for dinner--called Ricotta et Parmesan, with a striking decor--pots, pans and everything for the kitchen on the walls and shelves. The food was excellent and so were the cheerful servers.  We took a mid-dayThalys train (that's the rapid service to Belgium and Holland from Paris)--smooth and less than an hour and a half to Brussels. But the train was late and traffic bad on arrival, so we didn't get to do anything except dinner.  But stay tuned.