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2007-06-17

Oddest Brussels Landmark

No, it’s not the 18-inch statue of a naked toddler peeing.

No, it’s not the giant silver tinkertoy.

These are the famous Brussels landmarks. I’m talking the oddest landmark.

Americans who have visited Brussels for any length of time will know what I mean.

You take the metro to De Brouckère and you go up the stairs and it stands before you in all its glory.

One of the few remaining Chi-Chi’s restaurants.

Apparently, the Chi-Chi’s chain fell on hard times in 2004: a Hepatitis A outbreak in one of their restaurants caused them to sell their operations to Outback Steakhouse which shuttered the American restaurants.

The Chi-Chi’s is located in a 70s era, butt-ugly office building. The plaza in front of the building is walled off with high, ugly, iron fencing. Three flag poles, flying Chi-Chi’s flags, stand in the center of the plaza. Put a couple of armed guards in front and the whole thing would look like an Embassy.

The Chi-Chi’s Embassy. That’s the oddest Brussels landmark.