11:10 pm – National holiday – The national restaurant served 1,700 mussels and chips in the heart of the Marolles district

The 7th edition of the Resto national animated, on Saturday from 16H00 to 22H00, the place of the Jeu de Balle in Brussels, with its traditional giant mussels and fries. A total of 1,700 meals were sold this year, compared to 1,350 in 2017. The National Resto displayed sold-out. Participants were invited to make a contribution via the event's website in order to invite to their tables the most poor neighborhood, who have benefited from a mussel-chips to 1 euro symbolic. Some 150 meals have been sold off since the first edition. This year, 200 mussels and fries were distributed to the poorest, against 300 in 2017. The meal was organized in a festive atmosphere. The cheerleaders of Les Mignonettes & Mamygnonettes performed themselves from 18:00. At 7:15 pm, the Rita orchestra and the Martins resumed ballet tunes. At 20:00, the collective "Brussels Zingt" proposed with the local club Mustaches a giant karaoke. The animator Wally, the badistant concierges of the game of Balle Berre & Swa, participated to animate this big popular dinner which ended around 22H00. The National Resto was created in 2012 on the initiative of Visit.Brussels Regional Tourism Agency. (Belga)

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