Brussels Restaurants


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  1. Official Tourism Site: Brussels Restaurants  WARNING: Portions in foreign language
  2. Concierge.com: Brussels Restaurants and Dining Destinations  WARNING: Pop-ups
  3. Frommer's: Brussels Restaurants
  4. Fodor's: Brussels Restaurants WARNING: Pop-ups
  5. Lonely Planet: Brussels Restaurants
  6. Zagat Survey: Restaurants In Brussels  WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access
  7. IgoUgo: Brussels Restaurants
  • NOTE: Restaurants mentioned on this page plotted on Google Maps


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Brussels Local Cuisine

    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "This small, split-level restaurant, on a side alley off the Galeries St-Hubert, has all the trappings of an old-time bistro: green-shaded lamps over marble-top tables, sawdust on the floor, and laid-back waiters."
    • Zagat Well-Rated WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "[B]een a 'favorite Brussels haunt' since 1969, it still attracts a cosmopolitan crowd."
    • Frommer's Recommended: "It's an excellent place for your introduction to Belgian cooking, since it combines traditional cuisine with great quality, and offers just about every regional specialty you can think of..."
    • Zagat Well-Rated WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "[I]t’s a 'popular', 'prototypical brasserie' for 'eating like the locals.'"
  • Belga Queen (Belgian), Phone: 02-217-21-87 Google Map
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "A Belle Époque bank converted by restaurateur-designer extraordinaire Antoine Pinto, this huge brasserie is all buzz, from the bars (oyster, beer, and cigar) to the grand 187-cover restaurant under a stained-glass cupola supported by rows of pink marble columns."
    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "This is the place to impress a date, but don't be alarmed by the unisex bathroom stalls -- the clear glass doors become opaque once they're locked."
  • Falstaff Gourmand (French/Belgian), Phone: 02-512-17-61 Google Map
    • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "First-class Belgian and French menu dishes include one of the best deals in Brussels: a three-course menu gourmand, which includes an aperitif, glass of wine with the starter, and small pitcher of wine with the main course."

Brussels High-End Restaurants

  • Comme Chez Soi (French), Phone: 02-512-29-21 Google Map
    • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "Although the food is a long way from what most people eat at home, the welcome from master chef Pierre Wynants is warm, and his standards are high enough for the most rigorous tastes."
    • Fodor's Choice WARNING: Pop-ups: "The superb cuisine, excellent wines, and attentive service complement the warm decor."
    • Zagat Well-Rated WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "Pierre Wynants and his son-in-law Lionel Rigolet’s 'sublime' Belgian in the Lower Town is Voted No. 1 for Food in Brussels."
  • Bruneau (French), Phone: 02-421-70-70 Google Map
    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "Although it's outside the city center, this long-established restaurant persuades many gourmets from Belgium and beyond to flex their plastic."
    • Zagat Well-Rated WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "[C]hef-owner Jean-Pierre Bruneau’s 'outstanding' cuisine is complemented by equally 'excellent service'..."
    • Zagat Well-Rated WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "[S]terling service and a 'stellar wine cellar' lead to long, lovely lunches or 'romantic evenings'..."
  • La Maison du Cygne (French/Belgian), Phone: 02-511-82-44 Google Map
    • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "The service, though a tad stuffy, is as elegant as the polished walnut walls, bronze wall sconces, and green velvet. Because of its location, the restaurant is usually crowded at lunchtime, but dinner reservations are likely to be available."
    • Zagat Well-Rated WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "[I]nternational seafooder with 'superb' cuisine, 'an excellent wine list' and 'incomparable service'..."

Brussels Moderate Restaurants

  • La Manufacture  WARNING: Pop-ups (French/Belgian), Phone: 02-502-25-25 Google Map
    • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "Fully refurbished, with hardwood floors, leather banquettes, polished wood, and stone tables, all set amid iron pillars and exposed air ducts, it produces trendy world cuisine on a French foundation, for a mostly youthful public."
    • Zagat Well-Rated  WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "[T]he 'great atmosphere' comes from an expansive, dramatic industrial space with leather banquettes, stone tables and a 'sexy staff.'"
    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "The multilingual waiters are jolly and the wine list is exceptional -- not surprising in a restaurant owned by the president of the Belgian guild of sommeliers. Reserve a table outside if you like to watch the world go by."
  • In't Spinnekopke  WARNING: Auto-plays video (French/Belgian), Phone: 02-511-86-95 Google Map
    • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "You dine in a tilting, tiled-floor building, at plain tables, and more likely than not squeezed into a tight space. This is one of Brussels's most traditional cafe/restaurants -- so much so, in fact, that the menu lists its hardy standbys of regional Belgian cuisine in the old Bruxellois dialect."
    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "True Brussels cooking flourishes in this charming restaurant. The low ceilings and benches around the walls remain from its days as a coach inn during the 18th century."
  • Le Pain et le Vin (Mediterranean), Phone: 02-332-37-74 Google Map
    • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "The restaurant, in a converted house, looks out onto a garden. There's a terrace for alfresco dining in good weather. Whether the dish is chicken, fish, meat, or vegetables, the preparation concentrates on bringing out the natural taste, rather than smothering it with over-rich sauces."

Brussels Affordable Restaurants

    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "These bakeries-cum-snack bars are a popular brunch spot on weekend mornings. They have spread like wildfire all over Europe (and even to New York and Los Angeles) with the same satisfying formula..."
  • Chez Leon (Seafood), Phone: 02-511-14-15 Google Map
    • Frommer's Recommended: "Think of it as the mussels from Brussels, as this big, basic restaurant is the city's most famous purveyor of that marine delicacy. Léon has been flexing its mussels since 1893 and now has clones all over Belgium..."
    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "More than a century old, this cheerful restaurant has expanded over the years into a row of eight old houses, while its franchises can now be found across Belgium and even in Paris."
  • La Mirabelle (French/Belgian), Phone: 02-649-51-73 Google Map
    • Frommer's Recommended: "Plainly decorated, with wooden tables crowded together, the Mirabelle looks more like a bar than a restaurant and often has a boisterous pub-style atmosphere to match."
  • Paradiso Italian Restaurant (Italian), Phone: 02-512-52-32 Google Map
    • Frommer's Recommended: "This great little Italian restaurant is close enough to the Grand-Place to be convenient, but just far enough away to not be immediately obvious to the crowds. As such, it is one of Brussels's best-kept secrets."

Brussels Vegetarian Restaurants

  • Shanti Phone: 02-649-40-96 Google Map
    • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "An exotic look keeps faith with its multicultural menus: lots of greenery and flowers create a gardenlike feel, and crystal lamps, mirrors, and old paintings adorn the walls."

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