Friterie

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A typical friterie in Brussels

A friterie (in French-speaking Belgium and some parts of Northern France), or frituur or frietkot (in Flanders) is a traditional chip shop serving quick service fast food. Friteries are often found on main highways and town squares and may be full restaurants offering a table service through to a caravan, trailer or even a converted van or buss just offering a take away.

Friteries offer many types of meats to have with frites, such as hamburgers, brochette, frikandel, meatballs, merguez, croquettes and fried chicken. Another characteristic of a Belgian friterie is the large selection of sauces including ketchup, mayonnaise, tartar sauce, american, samuri, riche, mexican, oriental, brazil, béarnaise or diablo. Traditionally the frites were served in sheets of paper rolled into a cone. Nowadays most friteries are serving them in a plastic box.

A variation is to serve the meat, the frites, possibly salad and sauce in a half of a baguette and is called a mitraillette^[1] which literally translates as submachine gun. Alternatively, the same ensemble is put in a dürüm, although this practise is more common in friteries run by immigrants.