A friterie ([fʁitʁi]; in French-speaking Belgium and Northern France), frituur or frietkot/kraam (in Flanders and the Netherlands) or baraque à frites in Northern France is a traditional restaurant serving quick service fast food. Friteries are often found on main highways and town squares and may be full restaurants offering table service or a caravan, trailer or even a converted van or bus only offering take away.
Friteries offer several fried and grilled dishes served with frites, such as hamburgers, brochette, frikandel, meatballs, merguez, croquettes and fried chicken. Another characteristic of a Belgian friterie is the large selection of Belgian sauces including ketchup, mayonnaise, tartar sauce, American, samurai, riche, Mexican, oriental, Brazil, béarnaise or diablo. Traditionally the frites were served in sheets of paper rolled into an upside down cone. Nowadays most friteries also serve them in a plastic or cardboard tray, usually with a miniature plastic fork.
A variation is to serve the meat, the frites, possibly salad and sauce in a half of a baguette and is called a mitraillette[1] which literally translates as submachine gun. Alternatively, the same ensemble is put in a dürüm, although this practice is more common in friteries run by immigrants (mostly Turkish).