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Stirring again - Chef Bart Vandaele, Belga Cafe
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August 24, 2012
By Missy Frederick, Washington Business Journal
August 24, 2012
Bart Vandaele was a trendsetter when he opened Belga Cafe on Barracks Row in 2004. It wasn’t just that he was staking a claim in a restaurant-starved neighborhood back then — at that point, Belgian restaurants in Washington were a rarity in and of themselves.