I had the good fortune to dine in a great restaurant where they serve very traditional Belgian and fantastic food. Viva M'Boma - meaning ‘vive la grandmere’ (long live the grandmother in bruxellois, the old dialect of Brussels).
The restauran…
If you are comming to Brussels and are looking for a good meal in some very fashionable surroundings you just have to visit Belga Queen. Belga Queen has a Brasserie, oyster bar, beer bar, cigar bar. Belga Queen has a fresh cuisine with…
On the Fish Market in Brussels you can find a lot of restaurants but one of the better ones is the "Bij den Boer" which is a restaurant specialized in fish. The fish market is located in the very heart of Brussels, on the « Vismet » not far from th…
Situated not far from Place Chatelain you can find this very nice little restaurant specialized in Spanish, Mediterranean, Tapas food. The restaurant is seldom crowded but this does not indicate that it is not a good restaurant. The price level is ve…
If you are walking the streets of Brussels and you get a sudden urge for Tapas at an affordable price, you could visit LE BAR A TAPAS that is located in the city centre near Anspachlaan.
In general this is a very popular place, especially for the …
I had the fortune to have dinner with one of my friends at restaurant Le Fellini situated on Place du Chatelain. The restaurant is situated in the middle of square and it has both indoor and outdoor service and even lovely terrace overlooking the squ…
Situated in the wonderful square of Rue Saint Boniface you find many different great restaurants - one of them being the Le 2éme Element. The retaurant is sober and and clean in its style. It is a Thai restaurant with wonderful dishes. The restauran…
Dona Flor is a Brazilian restaurant in Ixelles in Brussel very close to where I live.
It is a very cosy restaurant with nice waiters but also with exotic atmosphere. In the background while you are eating there you always have the sound of Rio´s…
Not very far from the amazing Gross Markt or Grand Place in Brussels you can find this nice restaurant.
It is situated in one of these traditional Brussel houses where the front looks rather small but when you enter the total space availables jus… This review was featured on Saturday March 29th, 2008
I was walking together with some friends of mine around in the centre of Brussels looking for a restaurant without any reservation on a Friday night. My friend and his wife had come down from Copenhagen, it was my friend’s wife birthday and we want…
This week I had to great luck visit a restaurant that had specialized in "Cuisine francaise de terroir" or the traditional french cuisine. The restaurant is situated in Ixelle at the wonderful square of Rue Saint Boniface - a little pearl of this pa…
If you are in the historic centre of Brussels, walking arround in the area close to the Grand’ Place and you feel hungry, it is possible that you seek in the the touristic alleys with all the fish restaurants. In this area I can recommend "the …
I had the fortune to be invited to The Stockmansmolen in Zaventem. Its a very nice and cosy restaurant in an old mill that has been totally renovated in very gentle and nice stile. The surrounding are really great and you still have the stream runnin…
Who could imagine that you could find a really good restaurant in the most touristic area of Brussels – yes even on the town square? If you are in Belgium and are looking for a typical Belgian meal you have a lot of opportunities, but you could vis…
Very close to Place Chatelain in the Chatelain-Bailli area of Ixelles where I am so fotunate to live there is this sweet little thaï restaurant named "Tchin Tchin Thaï Food" The restaurant is rather small from the outside and in this area where res…
I had the pleasure to visit a genuine Belgian restaurant and one of those I have to return to. This was the real heavy Belgian cooking with a fair amount of beer in every dish. In all fairness I have to say that it was a Belgian college who…
After walking the streets of Lier I felt for something light for lunch. I was arriving at Grote Markt and I was walking along the different restaurants or brasserie facing the square.
The weather could have been better and it would have been nice …
I had the fortune of having lunch with some colleagues from work today at a restaurant called Babeko, which was situated at Place St. Catherine very close to the city centre. The restaurant is known for having a great lunch for a decent amount.
T…
If you are in the need for fast take away sushi of good quality you can visit the Sushi Factory on Avenu Louise. It is often possible to park just in front of it if you do it in the creative Brussels way, because of the zebra crossing just in front o…
Almost next door to where I live I have walked by the Indian restaurant of Palais des Indes. From outside this looks like everything you imagine from an Indian place.
This evening I decided to try the place because of a sudden urge for Indian food. …
On Avenu Anspach you can find the Le Food Factory which is the same concept as The Cheesecake which I earlier have written about. Le Food Factory is a bright restaurant in two levels. There is also outdoor service when the weather allows it.
I ha…
Very close to my work there is a great Italian restaurant; Ricotta & Parmesan. It is one of the oldest armouries of the capital, which was converted into an restaurant where you can get original pasta and antipasti arsenal with Italian style.
The…
This got to one of the more kitschy restaurants I have ever been to. We had been very late in finding a restaurant for New Year’s evening; actually we hadn’t booked anything until the day before.
It had become a case to find one at all, most g…
Situated on one of the many wonderful squares in Brussels; the Grand Sablon, you can find a strange combination of a French and Russian restaurant. From the outside the restaurant is filled with menu cards in handwritten chalk on chalk boards, cafe t…
The Grand Sablon is just a wonderful place in Brussels. It is a square with a lot of the Belgian ambiance but it is also a square in the high end of the scale and it has not the honest daily life ambiance that you can find on a square like Jeau de Ba…
Le Pain Quotidien is a chain of shops which you can find all over Belgium and they are also in other countries like England and France. The focus area is bread, cakes, tartes and quick lunches.
Their spirit is made of three essential elements: e…
Situated in Marollen in the shadow of the Palais de Justice and not far away from the Grand Sablon, you can easily miss this extremely nice little restaurant.
From the outside you are looking at some windows displaying at kinds of small gadget an… This review was featured on Friday November 13th, 2009
Restaurant Drug Opera is mainly or should mainly be a lunch restaurant. It is situated in the city centre not far from Grand Place on the main walking street. If you go there be sure to ask for a table upstairs; in the evenings they tend to keep you …
Lunch point is a typical lunch snack where you can have your basic needs fulfilled. The people behind the counter are friendly and smiling, they seemed to have a lot of fun amongst each other.
The interior of the Lunch Point is kind of cold; canti…
Situated in the middle of downtown Brussels, just next to the Muntcentrum, the Mexican restaurant Chichi's is quite often full. The food is the traditional Mexican with burritos, tortillas, chillies, nachos and so on. One the good thing about this pl…
Situated at one of many hotspots in the central part of Brussels St. Katelijnneplein, you can find a long row of excellent fish restaurants. One of the ones I prefer is Eb en Vloed. The restaurant has been refurnished less than a year ago and the int…
Just a stone's throw from the Bois de la Cambre, the Brasseries Georges is a real seafood specialist and besides that an authentic Parisian brasserie. With its Parisian-style setting, Brasserie Georges is an institution in Brussels for anyone who enj…
Situated very close to Place Chatelain you can find this nice Italian restaurant. As many of the other restaurants in the area you will often find this place full on a Wednesday evening or night.
Last time we were there we got a table outside and…
In the surrounding of the Chatelain in Brussels you have an enormous amount of bars and restaurants and just to visit all of them would be a huge task. I have over the years tried many of them, but new ones are coming all the time.
Le Macaron is a…
This review is yet one about one of these many interesting restaurants in the neighbourhood of Place Chatelain and this being Italian. The restaurant has around 45 seats and when I arrived Monday evening just after 9pm the place was more than half fu…
One of my friends suggested that I should visit this little restaurant and since it is situated almost what you could call around the corner I went there. I was not disappointed; it was a fantastic little place.
As the name indicates you are sittin…
This fish restaurant was once my first contact with the fabulous Belgian cuisine. The restaurant is situated near the old fish market in the middle of Brussels. It is a place you easily can walk by but if you look in the window you will almost find i…
One of my friends here in Brussels has lived in Ixelles the most of her life and she knows at lot of places and restaurants that I have to try before I leave the city. She is very fond of fish and I love it too, so we try to find time to visit good f…
This place didn’t open that long time ago; my guess is less than a month ago. I have been coming there a lot since then because I really enjoy the ambiance and the laidback atmosphere.
The place has some wonderful huge windows that goes from the…
Olea is yet one of many good restaurants situated in the surroundings of Chatelain in Brussels. After a back-to-the-roots year in Sardinia, Regina Piffarerio had the brilliant idea of opening a restaurant in Brussels in honour of the olive.
Oléa…
The Arrière Cuisine is a little cozy and honest lunch place which you are lucky if can find. I had the address in my hand and had to look a couple of times before I actually entered.
At first glance it looked like an old fashion bakery with a lar…
Vilvoorde is an industrial city just next to the Brussels Airport in Zaventem, but it also has a wonderful small town square or Grote Markt almost completely hidden away from the people passing this city.
On the middle of the square you find this…
La Châtelaine du Liban is situated on the corner of the amazing Place Chatelain in Ixelles. This was one of the first restaurants I ever visited on this square due to the fact that they have an outdoor service where you can sit and overview a large …
La Maison des Crëpes is a nice and cozy lunch and light meal restaurant in the heart of Bruxelles only a stone throw from the Bourse and 200 meters from Grand Place towards the Moroccan area along Avenue Anspach.
As its name suggests it is a pla…
It was just one of these days where I was too lazy to do any home cooking after work; it was also a special day because the following day was a holiday here in Belgium.
I walked around in my neighbourhood to check out one of the many places I had…
If you are walking the streets of Ixelles looking for some delicious Italian food to take away or just some things to sweeten your evening at home you should enter Antichi Sapori Italiani at Rue du Bailli.
This shop has everything your eyes need t…
Just outside of Brussels in the village of Groot-Bijgaarden you can find the wonderful Restaurant Michel. The restaurant was this year rewarded with one Michelin star and 16/20 in the Gault & Millau.
First time I was there I could not believe tha…
Hidden away in a covered square on the street Rue du Fosse aux Loups not far from the Muntcentrum and the Opera you can be lucky to find the Samourai. The Samourai is an original Japanese restaurant that actually takes you as close to Tokyo as you ca…
Not far away from the Cathedral in Brussels you can find this lunch spot which is situated in the financial area next BNP Paribas huge office complex aka the former Fortis building.
The place is quite simple but yet nice to have a lunch in. The caf…
This was actually the place where the restaurant Fellini had its location but this place has been undergoing a lot of renovation and revamping and it is now back in new shape and with a new name; Basta Cosi and it has come back as a restaurant and a …
On one of the most touristic corners in the entire Belgium; the corner you walk towards the Manneken Pis on the Grand Place or Grote Mark in Brussels you can find the restaurant; La Rose Blanche.
I have over the years visited this restaurant in m…
The last year they have done a lot of modifications in the A-terminal in Zaventem. I can only agree that it was the least you could do but one good thing is that they have upgraded some of the eating alternatives that they have there. Establishing th…
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