't Frituurtje — Restaurant in Harelbeke

Belgian food historian Pierre Leclercq has traced the history of the french fry and asserts that "it is clear that fries are of French origin".

Fries are first mentioned in 1775 in a Parisian book, and the first recipe for modern French fries is in the French cookbook

in 1795. They became an emblematic Parisian dish in the 19th century. Frédéric Krieger, a Bavarian musician, learned to cook fries at a roaster on rue Montmartre in Paris in 1842, and took the recipe to Belgium in 1844, where he would create his business Fritz and sell "la pomme de terre frite à l'instar de Paris", 'Paris-style fried potatoes'.

The modern style of fries born in Paris around 1855 is different from the domestic fried potato that existed in the 18th century. In 1673, Francisco Núñez de Pineda mentioned eating "papas fritas" in 1629, but it is not known what exactly these were. Fries may have been invented in the first European country in which the potato appeared from the Professor Paul Ilegems, curator of the Frietmuseum in Bruges, Belgium, believes that Saint Teresa of Ávila of Spain cooked the first french fries, and refers also to the as evidence. The French and Belgians have an ongoing dispute about where fries were invented.

The myth of Belgian fries dates from around 1985. From the Belgian standpoint, the popularity of the term "french fries" is explained as "French gastronomic hegemony" into which the cuisine of Belgium was assimilated, because of a lack of understanding coupled with a shared language and geographic proximity of the countries. Jo Gérard claimed that a 1781 family manuscript recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in the valley, as a substitute for frying fish when the rivers were frozen. Gérard never produced the manuscript that supports this claim, and "the historical value of this story is open to question". In any case, it is unrelated to the later history of the french fry, as the potato did not arrive in the region until around 1735. In any case, given 18th-century economic conditions: "it is absolutely unthinkable that a peasant could have dedicated large quantities of fat for cooking potatoes. At most they were...

Our favorite Frituur in the area! We've tried others around & in Kortrijk and Kuurne, but we always come back here! You know you are going to get great frituur and even better fries - no matter the time you go! We've gone early and late - always a good portion of yummy fries 😍 (in my photos - medium portion split in pics with bier, small portion split in pics with...

Ik vind deze frituur redelijk goed. Het vlees was goed gebakken. Alleen een minpunt voor mij de frietjes mogen wel iets beter gebakken zijn tot ze toch een kleurtje krijgen.... een vlotte afhandeling kan goed zijn en is OK. Maar om eerlijk te zijn mijn frietjes waren gewoon voorgebakken. Het moeten geen krakers zijn,maar een tweede bak mag iets langer. Wel nette...