The best restaurants Bruxelles - Brussel

Is it a wine bar? Is it a restaurant? A bit of both! There's no need to make reservations here, just turn up and take a seat wherever there's room: around cloud-shaped tables or at the wide counter, opposite bottles of natural wine, sake and various spirits. The menu is full of flavor and lightness, and you can feel the Italian and Asian influences (shiitake risotto, butternut and jasmine tea, spaghetti squash, pear-tamarind sauce and rice potato chips). An inventive cuisine that delights without fuss.

Enter the organic produce store and at the far end of the staircase, you're there. Chez Tan is the place to eat healthy, organic, vegetarian or flexitarian food: raw, marinated or cooked at low temperature, to preserve as many vitamins and original flavors as possible. Rare vegetables garnish the plates. Starters include fennel and avocado fettine marinated in lemongrass, with a purée of raw spring herbs, followed by a fillet of sea bass stuffed with spinach and wild garlic, with a cardamom emulsion of white asparagus. Culinary art!

An institution in Evere for three decades, the Lion Belge owes its good reputation to its numerous wood-fired grills and its well-stocked brasserie dishes. Dimitri, the owner, mixes in his menu the classics of the French-Belgian, Italian and Greek cuisine. In addition to the menu, there are weekly suggestions that change with the seasons, without forgetting the mussels. For starters, the mezze are particularly recommended. Bar and terrace for the occasional sunbeam. Pleasant piano bar on weekends. Reservation recommended.

Restaurant-wine bar specializing in tasty and authentic Italian dishes. You can choose from a hanging board, as if you were shopping at the market! The white tablecloths set the tone, the cooking is fair, without unnecessary fuss. The ingredients taste as they are, without unnecessary or prolonged processing or cooking. You might as well say that we like it! Caffè al Dente also has a shop next door. Unique wines to discover on the spot or to take away, fine and exquisite products coming directly from the Peninsula.

Georgios' welcome is cordial. The numerous mezze are to be tasted and shared in the Greek way, at the table. Fresh products, crispy bread served hot, excellent olives, olive oil and spices make the specialties where the octopus regularly stands out. There is also the Cretan dakos (toasted bread, goat cheese and tomato puree), ktipiti or tyropita, a spinach or cheese pastry. Seafood and kebabs round off an already extensive menu, which is complemented by some very good Greek wines.

A refined Japanese restaurant, it allows you to observe the chef, Tomoyasu Kamo, sitting at the counter, according to a tradition well established in the Land of the Rising Sun. Kamo's inventive preparations or traditional dishes, which are often served in Japan, are honored with a star and continue to sell out every night. For a first approach, lunch is available at a more democratic price, and for a jubilant discovery, the evening meals are more expensive but also more singular. Possibility of reservation for groups (maximum eight people), by reservation only.

Cold, hot, as suggestions or seasonal, the tapas are homemade with touches from here and elsewhere such as the tapas... poutine or Spanish, Greek and South American. We also found a goat cheese and zucchini lasagna, coconut milk curry dumplings, Brazilian-style scampi and spighe with truffle cream: 4 home-made classics. Freshness and discovery are the order of the day and the mix of flavours and spices is surprising. To drink, cocktails, about fifteen beers and a good list of wines from Europe and the world.

L'Ami Roger is known for its great Burgundian and Savoyard fondues. And almost as much for its fried mussels (the Belgian favourite in jumbo format). Alongside this, there are suggestions such as these tasty meats from Uruguay and Australia. The marinated prawns are a little marvel cooked on a plancha. Gian-Carlo has been at the helm of the establishment since spring 2019. He has transformed the garden terrace into a remarkable place. Note the owner's Italian roots, and link to his excellent risottos.

Restaurant and bar-club, one would think the address was reserved for loungers, but one can also enjoy it with family or lovers. The luminous decor, completely in line with the current trend, would almost make you forget the enormous terrace, redesigned on two levels, and the water feature, which give the impression of being immersed in nature. In short, a green setting in an essentially residential area. The very fusion-food menu is a happy mix of flavors from here and elsewhere. Several all-in menus are available for groups of twelve or more.

At the Mess, you can eat chic and healthy at the same time. You can drink a fresh juice as an aperitif: the kefir excites your taste buds. We follow with a full vegetable lasagna, but we're eyeing some plump carrot gnocchi. We finish in freewheel with a lobster of first choice! The more "scoundrel" dishes are also there for the amateurs: croquettes with grey shrimps or the cuckoo of Malines... The menu varies with the seasons. Two small lounges allow you to isolate yourself and the terrace is the ideal place to fill up on vitamin D.

Since 1882, this small restaurant (whose name "Chez Camille" has remained on the facade) has had a very brusseleir décor: mirrors and enamelled plates on the wall, checked tablecloths, old-fashioned service, the room is warm. The menu is also rustic as here we serve family cuisine and excellent mussels and chips. It is composed of stoemps, carbonnades, rare steaks, duck breast (whole) à la kriek, really delicious... and at reasonable prices. The table is known, you will have to reserve. Excellent welcome and beer menu.

On the plate, Belgium is in the spotlight! It's not so much about great food as about authenticity, and we're really looking forward to tasting one of the last places where the chips are homemade and the mussels are available in 30 different ways. On the walls... everything that makes us Belgian, from the royal family to Manneken-Pis, Jacques Brel, Eddy Merckx and old views of the capital. The dishes are generous in quantity and one forgets very quickly the hubbub which reigns in a room almost full every evening.

At Brasseries Georges, they know how to turn sauerkraut into a moment of pure bliss. And their seafood platters are second to none, as are their traditional dishes in general, which, without being creative, are beyond reproach. What's more, the fries are old-fashioned, and their shrimp croquettes have been voted the best in Brussels. What else? A veritable institution that continues to attract a new clientele of well-born gourmets, as much as it retains the loyalty of Ucluse's fine pedigree. A fine traditional address!

In Brusseleer, Schieve lavabo means "crooked sink". Burgers, pasta dishes, salads, etc. are all (r)-safe preparations such as parmesan fondues, dumplings in tomato sauce, vol-au-vent and suggestions that change all the time. Not forgetting the famous Schievelavabolo, which is an ogre in its XL version! As in all the other "Schieve" (Altitude 100, Place Jourdan, Uccle, Auderghem and La Hulpe), the brocante decoration (woodwork, numerous enamelled plates...) is inimitable! What more could you ask for?

The idea, original, is no longer new as this sign is now part of the local landscape. But a restaurant specialising in mushrooms is not something you find in the streets. In this little culinary theatre where trumpet, agaric, morel or lentin play the main role, tapas, sausages and other mushroom delicacies are cooked before your eyes with fresh products, from the starter to the dessert. And what's more, they are always served with one of the many wines on the menu. Organic or biodynamic, these wines are also off the beaten track. Again, please!

The cuisine balances quite well between creative proposals and a traditional menu. The fish arrives twice a day, the pasta, bread and desserts are made in-house and the pizza maker turns his dough in front of the customers! The wine list has a hundred labels from all over Italy and the bottles are displayed in an enoteca style. We point out an excellent prosecco as a homemade aperitif and we slide our feet under the terrace table to enjoy the garden. A reproduction of the Venetian painter Carpaccio hangs on the wall.

I might as well say it straight away, the colonnades and the traditional dances have no place. Here, the generosity of the plate prevails. Roasted meats are recommended, while the menu combines traditional dishes with local dishes. On the menu, for example, a stewed lamb in Kokinisto with creamy tomato. To accompany it, you can choose between French fries and gratin dauphinois. The crusty bread is served with tarama. Reasonably priced Greek wines and fast service at lunchtime. Upstairs, large groups are welcomed with a certain intimacy.

In a decor inspired by Venetian brasseries, the atmosphere is relaxed. It's a change from the rather basic student barsor the Asian restaurants in the neighbourhood. The pizzas are made over a wood fire and go perfectly with the wines that the owner produces in Campania. It is not by chance that this "Italian dream" has been a reference for lovers of pizza, antipasti, fresh pasta and other Italian specialities for almost 40 years. The suggestions are also there. Note that it is open 7 days a week, as you may well spend a day there.

Located in an old petrol station dating from the sixties, the Kif Kif café welcomes you with a smile as big as the sun. The decoration, a bit crazy, revolves around a mysterious character, between Rachid Taha and Che... At the entrance, a display of Moroccan pastries straight from the famous Parisian brand La Bague de Kenza makes your mouth water, while in the kitchen an Israeli chef and a Moroccan chef prepare grilled meats, couscous, tajines and oriental salads with talent. The terrace is very pleasant.

Specialising in grilled meats and fish, this bistro has been open for more than a quarter of a century and has a very tempting menu: hollow oysters from Normandy, roast turbot with chicory, venison with oyster mushrooms... the chef's suggestions never cease to tantalise the taste buds of those who love richly flavoured and generously prepared dishes. The team advises you to make a reservation to ensure that you don't end up with nothing to eat. The setting is classic and warm, with brick walls. Terrace.

This Art Nouveau house looks like a gigantic dollhouse! The trademark is the scaling bench where each sea creature looks as if it has just come out of the water. You can share a Maris platter and a bottle of muscadet or a Jumbo pan with a bottle of champagne. Or the other way around... The menu offers other classic but well-made choices, such as poultry vol-au-vent and beef onglet à l'échalote. And the lobster in duo with fresh pasta. The wine list is good and allows you to choose them by the glass.

Subtly spiced, fragrant flavors inspired by traditional Thai cooking methods... does the menu at Le Deuxième Élément still need any introduction? The mainstay of our dishes is rice, combined with vegetables, meat or fish. Other specialties include red curry, spring rolls and coconut milk dishes presented in small pots. Originality: a refined, uncluttered setting that takes the codes of Asian kitsch decor elsewhere. You can also indulge in a moment of zen on the back terrace, adorned with ivy.

One can easily recognize the quality of the products, directly imported from Sardinia to this pretty little canteen! Moreover, the menu is short, a sign of their freshness, with 2 or 4 pasta dishes and a meat... to which we must add a nice list of crispy pizzas ! Charm, authenticity... even for the greediest. Opened in 2012 by Roberto Casula, La Bottega della Pizza has won numerous awards, including Best Pizza Maker in Belgium by Foodprint. Only twenty covers, so remember to make a reservation.^2nd address in the Sablon.