How The ‘Fritten’ came to Ireland

I'm Frederic, owner of Ambiorikx. I'm originally from Limburg, Belgium, and moved to Ireland in 2001.

One of the questions I am asked most regularly by people in Ireland and in Belgium is what I most missed about living in Belgium. Apart from the obvious things like family and friends, the thing I most often answer is Belgian fries or "fritten".

In 2011, I played with the idea of starting a Bel…