Dickies Beer and Grillhouse

June 4, 2008
I don’t get this place. An American-style grillhouse on the western markt, it has a few outdoor tables which are nice for people watching and relaxing, but their entire food menu (entrees) is grilled, and after 3 or 4pm they do not allow you to order only appetizers... some of which looked good and we wanted to order but we could not without a full meal, and I do not want to waste a meal in Belgium on a grillhouse. Beer-wise the selection isn’t terribly good. Some gueuze, some kriek, a few trappist, but no gems and nothing really to suggest you go out of your way to visit. I would suggest people use their time for better places.

April 22, 2008
We arrived in Brugge, a bit tired and footsore, and still a few hours from when we were supposed to check into our B&B, so still dragging luggage around with us. I stepped in to ask if they had room for us, and if it there might be place we could leave our luggage. They did, and they did. Traci and I both had a remarkably good steak, (better than the significantly more expensive one I had at Den Dryver), best I’ve had in ages. Friendly service, a warm, low-key atmosphere. Relatively small, but excellent beer menu. (They had Pannepot when I was there.) Finished our meal and then sat at the bar talking to the owner (?) for another hour. We ended up staying so long we had to call our B&B to say we’d be a bit late. Wish we could have made it back for another meal, and it’s definitely one we’ll return to on our next visit.

August 2, 2007
Was here last winter to taste the "Dickies special beer 10 years". I’m only drink a beer, but other people ware content of the food. Great choice of beers. Good place.

May 14, 2007
After hearing mixed reviews, I was very impressed by the selection, service and steaks. Pannepot was available when I was here, and I couldn’t resist washing down a steak with it. The steaks were all cooked over an open flame and among the best we’ve had in Belgium (where, compared to the USA, the meat quality is relatively low but the sauce quality very high). The server was happy to speak English--that’s normal in touristy Bruges--but besides that she was very attentive and we saw her often, even when we were out on the terrace. We ended up eating here twice in a day, and I look forward to our next visit...

April 21, 2007
Yogi_Beera sums it up beautifully. An unremarkable place in the Belgian context but hard to fault. The food was good, particularly the meat dishes, and the beer range morethan adequate. Plenty of beer tourists having a meal b/w bars, which seems to be Dickie’s niche.

March 29, 2007 [ Updated July 23, 2007 ]
(Update 7/2007) The steaks were still excellent, and Dickie was fine, too :). They were out of roughly 1/3 of the beers because of troubles with some distributor. Luckily, they had listed those that were not available. Will visit again next time. (3/2007) Nice steaks (considering the Belgian so-so beef standards), nice sallad, nice selection of Alvinne brews (well, others, too), friendly dog (she really liked to be scratched from all over :). We were pretty much the only customers there at the time, and the owners (a couple?) had their own dinner at the same time as we did. Oh yeah, they were out of chicken. The toilet was "interesting", but it did its job. A must visit, at least during off-season.

March 17, 2007
It was great to try the Alvinne beers, I liked the three I had very much. The bartender or owner, or manager, I’m not sure which, was eager to discuss beer. He knew of Ratebeer, and knew the products he was selling. The man is a beer lover. Selection is small but very good. I didn’t eat.

October 24, 2005
Very cozy and warm place. Awesome Steaks in Beersauce - delicious! Beer list is around 60-80 beers, some very well known as Drie Fonteinen Geuze and some other gems but also Beers from small breweries - like Alvinne. The owner and his wife drive to small breweries which have no distribution and buy their beer there. 80 percent of the people we saw at this place we saw later in Brugs Bertje - so it seems as a lot of Beer enthuasiasts go here. The service was great and caring.