Restaurants & good tip & tricks

Here is what we have checked for the best (don’t tell about the worst) and our judgement is only personal without any arrangement…

 

The best of the best:

L’Ogenblik, pure tradition with quality and humour, in the discrete middle of the Gallery of Princes (between 40 & 80 €)

Viva Mboma, high quality & familial in the heart of rue de Flandres

La Villette good cook good wines place Ste Catherine (with also mussels)

Typical & not expensive:

‘Chez Antoine’ on place Jourdan, for Belgian fries and good atmosphere, but we prefer Fritland near the Stock-Exchange or Belfrit' on Rue de la Madeleine in front of Novotel.

‘Au Soleil’, in the heart of quartier St-Jacques, but you smell tobacco after it, because it’s not forbidden to smoke in the cafés in Belgium (only in restaurants)

Kindly exotic :

Toscana 21 at 21 Street of Roellebeck (Sablon) for  cooking from Firenze and Italy.

Kokob the ethiopian restaurant without plates and good atmosphere

‘Au Pou qui tousse’, the best restaurant from Sardinia

Norzee, the fish-shop where you eat standing up in the street corner

L’estaminet Spinnekopke on ‘place du marché aux fleurs’

At less than 20 €:

Dakao the kindest of Vietnamese restaurants (8 euros the main meal)

Arcadi very simple at the end of gallery St-Hubert

Pronto for a good pizza

& overall ‘Faim-de-Siècle’ for the best atmosphere in Brussels on 9 rue des Chartreux (no name on the street)

At Turkish quarter (20 minutes from center) you can eat for 8 euros, ask for fun discovery...

Eating cafés (the best)

Poechnelkelder in front of Manneken Pis

À la Mort subite

La Bécasse

À la Fleur de papier doré

For tourists (it’s ok but)

Chez Léon or chez Vincent or all the street Bouchers (butchers)

A bit chic

Café-hotel "à l'espérance" pure art-déco www.hotel-esperance.be

Ultime Halucinatie, a décor Art nouveau from origin (now closed with nobody to continue...)

The restaurant of Musée Royal

The Kwint at Mont des Arts

La taverne du passage et le marmiton on the midle of galeries

And overall Chez Bruneau (but prefer the price at noon)

 

Good trips : the galeries st-Hubert, the house of the designer Agnès Emery, material cloth shops Chien vert and Chien du Chien, on Sablon the gallery Flamand or the shop Mercedes (the best 'chiottes' (car or toilet) in Brussels, test the hot towels), the park of Petit Sablon or visit of ‘Bibliothèque royale’. And the flea market every morning, the best feelings when bargaining.

 

The museum, « y en a des biens » among the 80 of Brussels (what we recommend):

‘Musée de la Ville’ on Market-Place, a small museum to concentrate the best

‘Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts’ on Place Royale

‘Musées royaux d’arts et d’histoire’ au Cinquantenaire

‘Musée Belvue’ to understand historic complexity of Brussels and see the palace underground

‘Musée de la bière de Schaerbeek’ (only on Wednesday & Saturday 14 to 17:00)

‘Caves des galeries’ (entrance on 17 through the chocolate shop).

‘Centre belge de la bande dessinée’, rue des Sables, in a superbe building Art Nouveau.

 

The taste buds:

For wines : www.vins-etonnants.com is our supplier by choice, for his quality & diversity (astonishing wines)

Beers: ‘Délices et Caprices’  in front of our building at 68 street of Bouchers

Chocolate: all the best in Brussels, from Neuhaus to Corné, all is excellent!

Cakes: our prefered are at Dandoy, you can enjoy the pastry lounge at first floor above Wittamer at Sablon.