Belgian BEER and mussels. What's there not to like??

Brussels Sprouts is a much-hyped little Belgian restaurant at the latest nightspot Robertson Quay. Because it is always so full and busy, I’ll have to admit I’ve only been to it once. With my little one-time experience, I shall attempt a first-appearance review..
 
I had sausages and mussels with its Bruin Leffe beer when I was there. Let me start by describing the sausages. I believe they served three types of sausages in the same platter and they were really good if you’re a meat-eater. Personally, I thought it was too much meat for one person but you could always share. They would make really good beer accompaniments.
 
Now, let me sing praises for the mussels. Brussels sells a whole variety of mussels and I think we ordered the “house special”. The mussels came in a huge tub and were drenched in a nice yummy watery sauce. I must add here that my Austrian dinner companion kindly taught me the right way to eat mussels is to use their shells as pincers to pick the meat off the mussels once you’ve managed to eat the first one. However, perhaps you wouldn’t want to come here for a first date cos eating mussels wouldn’t be very romantic for the following reasons: 1) using hands would make holding hands a bit messy after, 2) the shells might destroy your manicure, 3) the garlicky sauce could cause bad breath (you can try to drink more beer to prevent this), and 4) the tub’s pretty big and occupies the large area of the table making eye-2-eye gazing and sweet talk quite impossible and distracting.
 
Now, I saved the best for the last… Belgian BEER… Whoever says Belgium’s the world’s best beer producer and connoisseur really wasn’t joking. Brussels sells Leffe on the tap here in two versions: Bruin (brown) or Blonde (light). Since I’m a fan of dark beers I only tried the Bruin version and it’s slurp-worthy!! Ok, again my Austrian dinner companion told me that Bruin is pronounced as brown in Belgian but when I did, the wait staff promptly corrected me that it’s “bruu-eeen”. Anyhow, definitely recommend beer-lovers to come to Brussels if not for the food then at least for the beer.
 
Ok, the staff. I’m not all praises here though. They were all very polite, that I have to give to them but it was VERY hard to get their attention. Brussels’ not short of staff, they’re milling all about in their black shirts and aprons but for some really strange reason, we had HUGE troubles getting anyone’s attention at my table. And we weren’t even sitting in a corner. Rather, we were sitting al fresco at one of the high tables in the middle so you’d think that we’re quite conspicuous. Unless the wait staff decided to ignore a table that looked suspiciously like a SPG table with me sitting with an Ang Moh old man (who is a work associate I must emphasise). But one thing I noticed was that the staff were all pretty much all young, hip and good-looking. Perhaps they’re all busy admiring each other, I don’t know.
 
Anyhow, conclusion is go to Brussels, but be wary of the service. Don’t go there if you’re in a rush cos the mussels and beer should be slowly enjoyed and you have to factor in time to get waiters’ attention… Oh! And you get free-flow fries if you order mussels!! One last thing, remember to call for reservation before going!