Les Larmes du Tigre is a Thai restaurant located in a quiet area behind the Brussels Palais de Justice, about five minutes walk from Louise metro station. Along with the Blue Elephant, it is considered to be one of the best places for Thai cuisine in Brussels. We decided to try their Sunday Thai buffet brunch today.
View from the street
The entrance
One of the two dining areas
The ceiling, covered with Asian umbrellas that add a touch of exoticism
There's a garden terrace for the sunny days
Some crackers were offered on the table, to nibble on while ordering drinks.
Now onto the food: Thai Buffet by Les Larmes du Tigre
The buffet is served in a small area, with starters on the left, main dishes in the center and desserts on the right. On the other side there were two cooks preparing noodles and pancakes.
Starters - the chicken satay skewers and their peanut sauce were delicious. They also has vegetable salads, fried calamari, samosas, several friend meat snacks, steamed dumplings, spicy beef salad, noodle salad.
The charrette (cart) of Thai noodles soup. It's more for the show than for the taste...
Main dishes - noodles, white rice, fried rice, beef stew, sweet & sour chicken, Thai red curry and shrimps sauté. The red curry was delicious. Not sure what the Chinese sweet & sour chicken was doing in this Thai buffet...
The cook preparing the sweet dessert pancakes
We recalled from our visit to Thailand that desserts are not a highlight of Thai cuisine and our attempts at ordering dessert ended up with starchy/greasy dishes being served (sweet rice, fried ice cream...). Thai people seemed to prefer fresh fruits for their sweet tooth. So our expectations were not so high for dessert.
These were the dessert choices. There were also two types of ice cream (pineapple and melon) not visible in the picture. Too bad the mangos were not ripe.
These were the dessert choices. There were also two types of ice cream (pineapple and melon) not visible in the picture. Too bad the mangos were not ripe.
By 13:00, the place started to get crowded...
and there were small queues for the buffet. So it is advisable to reach the restaurant before 12:30.
Overall, we had an enjoyable lunch with some quality Thai food. It should be noted that vegetarian options were quite limited. From the welcome to the moment we left, the service was nice and with a smile. We look forward to our next visit at Les Larmes du Tigre, most probably for an à la carte meal and skipping dessert.
UPDATE: we reviewed Blue Elephant's brunch a few months later.
Les Larmes du Tigre
Brussels, Avenue Louise
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