Brussels Restaurants

  1. Bij den Boer

    A longtime seafood favourite with a no-fuss interior and newly-revamped blue-tiled façade. Real Brussels experience.

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  2. Jacques

    It's rare to see Jacques anything but full. This down-to-earth restaurant, one of the city's oldest seafood establishments, has been around well over 60 years. It attracts an older, largely local crowd for lunch and a younger, more cosmopolitan set at night. For lobster ring a day in advance.

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  3. La Mer du Nord

    Beneath a cobalt-blue awning out on the pavement, fresh-from-the-ocean seafood including mussels, oysters and fish rests on beds of ice. You can buy some to take with you, or watch as it's cooked and snack standing up, accompanied by a glass of chilled Muscadet wine at the stainless-steel outdoor bar.

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  4. La Quincaillerie

    The gleaming brass interior gives a clue to this brasserie's former life as an ironmonger's shop. It woos with seafood specialities.

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  5. Sea Grill

    You'd be hard pressed to find a more unlikely setting for Brussels' finest seafood than deep inside this '80s ode to interior atrium elevators and Muzak. But at the twin Michelin-starred Sea Grill restaurant, chef Yves Mattagne and his team create just that in the open kitchen. Try the Brittany lobster, crushed and extracted in an antique solid-silver lobster press (one of only four in the world) and prepared at your table.

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