The best Belgian restaurants Belgium

This is a sign across the country. Yet we are far from fast-food chains here: everything is done with fresh products, most of which are organic. Whether for breakfast, lunch or afternoon pies or afternoon pies to enjoy bakery and coffee, we will always find something to eat for a few euros. The oak staircase, parquet and wooden furniture give the place a natural and convivial atmosphere, reinforced by the presence of a large common table where everyone is invited to sit.

If you like cycling and good cuisine, a step in this tavern is required. Cathy and Dirk have transformed this small bar into a good place to love the little queen! In the input platoon, fatty liver bowl with the onion jam stands out. In the core of the main group, eel, cheval tender, osso-buco and salads are to their advantage, without forgetting the huge salads that play the outsiders. By heating, the snack is offered. Rich and varied with bowl, shrimp, candied onions and other olives. Every day, the card reserves new surprises according to the market. A charming place where you don't have to be sure to leave the grand for your stomach.

Close to the Quintine brewery site, the Chaudron des Légendes offers hungry people a wide range of dishes made from fresh local products. Whether it's a snack, a meal, or a gourmet snack, this tavern with its warm atmosphere will satisfy its visitors. Carbonnade à l'Ezelloise, supreme of poultry with amber beer, or "foie gras poêlé façon Ducassis": here the recipes are simple, effective and always with a reference to the brewery. On sunny days, the meal on the terrace is even more pleasant.

After an adventure in the gastronomic restaurant business, chef David Selen now offers a bistronomic table. In his Improviste restaurant, with a superb view of the Waregem racecourse, you can enjoy a refined and precisely prepared cuisine. You can choose from a multi-course menu. We advise you to also choose the wine assortment, as they are well chosen. The chef comes by at the end of the service, creating a very friendly relationship with the customer. L'Improviste is really worth a visit!

The restaurant is located at the entrance of Nieuwpoort-Bad when you arrive from Nieuwpoort-Bad. So close to the fish auction, you can naturally enjoy seafood, but also one of the 10 carpaccios of beef or one of the 6 salmon carpaccios. Lobster is also one of the specialties, while the beef fillet, the calf of veal or the cute net represent the meat. The kitchen is contemporary and innovative: So don't hesitate to choose your dishes as an appetizer or a dish of resistance - the dishes change at least every six weeks. The wine list, with its little hundred references, does not have to blush. Special mention for discreet and attentive service.

Nestled on Chimay's Grand-Place, where it's always a pleasure to stroll, the Grand Café is an ideal place to stop for a drink or a bite to eat: burgers, fresh pastas, pizzas and salads (the table's strong point), at reasonable prices and in gargantuan quantities. Escavèche is also on the menu. Not great cuisine here, but a good place to stop after a visit to the château, 150 metres away. What's more, its gigantic summer terrace is undoubtedly the most beautiful in the city center, so you might as well make the most of it!

The place is pleasant, especially the terraces where you can eat in the shade of the trees. In the dining room, the team is dynamic and efficient. In the kitchen, the dishes are gourmet, with an emphasis on southern flavors. Although from time to time a few influences from here and there mingle with the preparations, but always with subtlety. The Vigneron menu is recommended, especially as it changes every week. And to accompany your dishes, Christian Leroy is a fine sommelier. He's always on hand to unearth new discoveries from the bottles.

Every Verviers knows the Patch! In an original setting, this restaurant looks disorganized, but isn't at all. The menu is small, but changes regularly: from salads to sweetbreads, not forgetting Liège-style meatballs. Even though it's thirty kilometers from Liège, we know how to make them too! A place to discover, if you haven't already done so, if only for the old-fashioned brocante decor or the shady terrace in fine weather. And let's not forget the smile on the face of the cremière (Laurence), for rarely have we seen such optimism and joie de vivre.

New brasserie (La Bru'sserie, where tapas are king), new menu created by chef Wout Bru. As for the cuisine, which is definitely top-notch, it is conceived with a desire for perfection and an attentive eye for choice (not to say luxury) and seasonal products (cep carpaccio, lobster ravioli, saddle of hare in winter, for example...). These gastronomic proposals are available in just two versions of a four- or six-course menu.terrace in a pleasant garden in summer, overlooking the Château d'Ursel.

The ^18th-century façade reflects the delicate, elegant interior décor. For more than 15 years, this intimate, subdued atmosphere has been the perfect setting for refined lunches and romantic dinners. To top it all off, the restaurant boasts one of the most beautiful terraces in Ghent. The four-course lunch menu is very interesting. On Saturday evenings, only the six-course tasting menu is served. The dishes are both fine and gourmet, you can't go wrong, everything is appetizing and well executed!

One of the oldest family-run restaurants in town. Opened in 1918 by a family of fishermen, who started out as fishmongers, the house has endured, evolved and the whole town runs here. The menu changes daily and features only the freshest artisanal products of the day. The chef respects the tastes and flavors of market produce. Creative, fresh and delicious. The kitchen is open, so there's nothing to hide. Ah! de Mangerie means "moment of pleasure"; the tone is set. A second De Mangerie has recently opened along the Promenade Albert ^Ier.

A chairlift in the heart of Flanders is really unusual! Built in 1958, the year of the World Fair in Brussels, the chairlift links the Mont Noir to the Moulin du Mont Rouge. Once this unusual excursion is over, why not take a little gourmet break at the Cordoba brewery, where the chairlift starts? On the menu, croque-monsieur with country bread and vegetables, and other typical dishes of a good brasserie. As for desserts, pancakes and home-made waffles will delight the gourmets.

For over half a century, Bouboule has been the king of Moules! Offering only the best quality, Bouboule has forged a solid reputation well beyond the city limits of Dinant. The menu features no fewer than 35 mussel specialties (1.2 kg, served with fries), as well as classic suggestions for fish, meat and stews. The view over the Meuse is breathtaking. If you're booked up, the "Bouboule chez soi" option lets you take the pans home with you, including (super-simple) instructions for use!

With its tired mirrors, murals and weathered woodwork, the Cochaux brewery exudes an atmosphere that is half Art Nouveau, half old-fashioned. The regulars come back and the faithful stay, a guarantee of quality and authenticity. For those with small appetites, the menu offers a choice of omelettes and salads. It's good, it's prepared with fresh products and it's a bit expensive for a classic cuisine. But it's close to a zero-fault menu... To shine in the evening, tell them that Felix Cochaux was an engineer and invented a new type of drag boat.

In the renovated buildings of the former National Bank, Quai 10, inaugurated in 2017, is at once a brasserie, a cinema and a video game gaming space. The premises are superb, contemporary, vast and bright, and here you can enjoy local beers and Italian cuisine (risotto with fresh truffles, taglioni alle vongole) with a local touch (carol dumplings, sauce with Charleroi's two beers). Well-crafted, original and hearty dishes. In fine weather, the terrace overlooks the Sambre. Sunday brunch is popular.

Installed since 1988 in the small town of Bouillon, this restaurant welcomes you in a marine setting. His specialty? Fried mussels! 35 different preparations are proposed à la carte to delight the taste buds. Antonio Ramirez, the boss, has been able to build customer loyalty over the years; thanks to his know-how, his welcome and the quality of his products. The portions are generous. Other Ardennes speciality dishes are also available à la carte for those who are in a group with mussel phobias. Friendly staff and terrace.

Stéphanie and Marc's Trac is a bar, café-theater and more, with a unique concept based around all these activities in a single location, plus catering and multi-purpose premises. Terroir, Restauration, Art, Culture et Citoyenneté is on the lookout for new artists, new products and new 100% Belgian quality activities! A small library and a cigar/lounge area are also part of the premises. Plates and salads are served alongside pizzas, burgers and delicious milkshakes.

This brasserie, unchanged since the 1970s, is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. An institution, especially for the night owls, but also for the little grandpas who come to remember the good memories here. The decor, unchanging, gives us the impression to be in the cabin of a captain in full expedition at sea. They serve honest double boulets (two boulets liégeois instead of one), salads, croques, vol-au-vent, stews, grills, burgers... All served copiously, washed down with fries, good Belgian beers and at union prices.

This hotel-restaurant offers a bucolic setting for a meal that's both local and refined. Weather permitting, make the most of the pleasant shaded terrace. In the open kitchen, the team will prepare local dishes such as the chef's pâté or the famous "potjevleesch", accompanied of course by pâté, salad and, above all, French fries! Several vegetarian dishes are also on offer, including a successful vegetable curry. The beer list is very varied and beer lovers will be delighted. A very popular address!

Its situation on the main street actually is one of the busiest places in the city. It must be said that the frame, like the map, is rather attractive. Warm with its apparent brick walls, the room can accommodate more than 100 people. Several formulas are possible, including the snack version for sweet peppers with various salads and omelettes. For others, fish are rigorous, including eel and bouillabaisse. If not, there is still the choice of asparagus that the restaurant offers as a specialist.

Here, you can choose your ambiance from a range of bright, airy spaces (leaning against the kitchen, in the tapas bar area, in the sushi bar area...) overlooking the open kitchen. But the most important thing is the plate: presentation, taste, light dishes, few sauces, not too much cooking. We let the product express itself. In the wine department, bubbles, French and a few extras. Among the many lunch and dinner formulas, we like the discovery in small portions and the "surprise menu", composed in the morning with surprises from the market (9 courses).

An institution in the region since Max was present at the region's fairs as early as 1839. At present, it is the sixth generation that works, with a descendant of Max: Yves Van Maldeghem. Inside this beautiful house in the centre of the town, you will find what used to be the wooden hut of the time. There are also many decorative elements of the time. The house specialties are waffles, pancakes and apple fritters. A sweet discovery is a must!

Its simple but tasty daily specials and a typically Belgian menu have made the establishment a success, even after a recent change of ownership. When you get tired of their (nevertheless delicious) "American fries" or their shrimp croquettes, you stay to taste one of the many beers (two huge barrels are displayed in the room). One takes advantage of a fast and copious "small restoration" of which several kinds of pasta which will calm you down a man! As soon as the first sunny days arrive, the regulars want to take advantage of the sunny terrace.

A well-known ixello address (the Niels family also runs Le Vieux Saint-Martin on the Sablon), this unchanging eatery is dedicated to quality poultry and fine local specialties such as shrimp croquettes. Roast free-range chicken, Canterbury-style fish & chips, Alsatian sauerkraut, game in season and an American prepared the same way since 1924! A private room can accommodate up to 15 guests. The covered terrace, right across from the ponds, attracts a select clientele who appreciate the totally professional service.

Olivier Dewulf, a talented young chef, has developed his experience with renowned chefs, which has enabled him to deploy his talents today in a unique, refined and characterful setting. His cooking uses imagination, inventiveness, freshness and above all with a lot of flavours! Doing " à la Brabançonne ", turbot " Vérilhac ", lobster... The wines are also carefully chosen to be as harmonious as possible with the plate. A terrace in summer is the most pleasant place to enjoy these very refined dishes.

Koen and Marijke offer a rather short menu but work precisely in a short circuit. The grills, specialties of the house, feature an indigenous cattle breed, the West Flanders Red. Each dish is accompanied by a beer, on the advice of Marijke. The menu of beers is carefully elaborated, according to the flavors of the beverage (hopped, malted, roasted...). The price of some bottles is quite high.

A trendy and relaxed atmosphere for this restaurant, where everything goes to the wok. You choose the ingredients and the chef is responsible for mixing everything for you. There are also snacks at noon. Good and nice.

An ideal stopover for a snack or a nice meal. This brasserie-brasserie will satisfy all the small (and large) creux… Pancakes, waffles, ice creams for four hours for sugar vents? Many kinds of croques, pasta, salads and campaign toast will delight lovers of salt. Here, the children are at the party. They love the whole map! Finally, a nice selection of beers will delight the parents! A small sweet address.

A real institution in Saint-Gilles, the Porteuse d'Eau has the charm of an Art Nouveau brewery with its stained glass and woodwork. Thibaut Lepoivre, passionate about the national drink and a true connoisseur, offers a traditional Belgian menu (summer and winter) and no less than 100 special beers. You can enjoy the specialities of this place with appetite, the beer service is important and done in the rules of the art and this last one is gladly accompanied by cheese in board, sliced by the customer. The staff are professional and friendly, and the atmosphere is very pleasant.

A café-restaurant with three guest bedrooms. The hundred-strong beer list includes several regional beers alongside the classic Trappist and abbey beers. Regional produce features strongly in the restaurant too and a number of dishes are made with beer.