Brasserie restaurants in Brussels
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Etablissement Max
This elegant, pale-pistachio-and-gold brasserie serving refined fare is run by Yves Van Maldeghem whose entrepreneurial family started out with a grand mobile fair stall. Yves bakes waffles using his family’s 120-year-old waffle irons, and also makes pancakes and sizzling apple fritters. To bake your own, pick up Jan Gheysens’ Belgian Waffles and Other Treats (2006) here, which contains Yves’ family recipes.
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Lola
Lola...yes, it’s hard to get the Kinks out of your head at this streamlined contemporary brasserie. The menu is a combination of seasonal French and Italian (rack of lamb with thyme and onion confit and dauphinois potatoes, say), but it’s the effervescent conversations of the young clientele bouncing off the stripped-back stone and wood surfaces that really gives this place its buzz.
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Grand Café Horta
Encased in glass with views from the basement bar up to street level, this café-restaurant has outsized iron girders – relics salvaged from Victor Horta’s much-mourned Art Nouveau masterpiece, Maison du Peuple. Stop for a drink, snack or a full meal, with Mediterranean-inspired choices like asparagus risotto or ravioli with polenta, or that brasserie classic: steak-and-chips.
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Pakhuis
Soaring iron girders, interior balconies and a vaulted glass ceiling make this former warehouse a sublime setting for a Bloody Mary and/or a meal. Pakhuis excels in seafood (such as sea bass with puréed artichokes and vermouth sauce, or grilled Scottish salmon); wide-ranging seasonal choices might include lamb stew in Barbera wine, or organic pasta with black truffles.
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