The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Badi
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Rank 1. Badi
Cider Wine Bar
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Rank 2. Le Petit Mercado
Peruvian
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Rank 3. ANJU
Contemporary Korean
Sang Hoon Degeimbre, the chef behind L'Air du Temps, strips things back here to explore his Korean roots. In a minimalist room in Saint-Gilles, the kitchen puts out sharing plates built around hotpots, kimchi, and slow-cooked meats, the kind of food that reads as generous rather than studied. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the sort of contemporary Korean spot where the bill won't send you outside to quietly recalibrate.
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The open kitchen runs entirely on fire, so you watch everything get smoked, roasted, or grilled from your seat. Flamme is a buzzy gourmet bistro in Saint-Gilles where vegetables take the lead, treated with the kind of seriousness usually reserved for meat. The menu is short, which sounds easy until you're actually choosing. Let the front-of-house guide your wine; regulars say she's never steered anyone wrong.
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Rank 8. Cipiace
Italian
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Rank 9. Chana
Vegetarian Indian
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Rank 10. Fight Club
Pizza
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Rank 11. La Charcuterie
Mediterranean
The vintage tiles and butcher's wainscoting are still intact, which tells you this was once a charcuterie and is now a snug sharing bistro in Saint-Gilles. Walk past the deli counter and wine bottles on your way to a table, then order things meant to be passed around: rustic country cooking with a Mediterranean turn that nobody saw coming. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the price point matches the unpretentious mood.
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Rank 12. Nénu
Contemporary Vietnamese
The organizing idea at this contemporary Vietnamese restaurant in Saint-Gilles is anh nhau, a tradition of sharing food and drink with people you like, which turns out to be a fine excuse to order three dishes minimum. The kitchen takes classical Vietnamese flavors somewhere quieter and stranger, lamb wontons and duck's tongues landing alongside smart cocktails. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place that makes a Tuesday feel considered.
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Rank 13. Boulengier
Bakery
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Rank 14. Nuovo Rosso
Italian
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Rank 16. Grabuge
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 17. Kamo
Japanese
A wood-lined counter in Ixelles where chef Kamo runs a quietly rigorous Japanese restaurant, Michelin-starred, with evenings given over to surprise tasting menus and lunches anchored by made-to-order sushi. The cooking is deceptively spare, built on the quality of raw fish rather than trophy ingredients. Minimal presentation, maximal attention to what's actually on the plate, which is the kind of restraint that takes years to pull off convincingly.
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Rank 19. Stella
Specialty Coffee
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Rank 20. L'épicerie Nomad
Mediterranean
The slate menu here draws no line between starters and mains, which sets the tone for a casual, tightly packed eatery where the cooking roams freely between mezze, couscous, and grilled beef. The Mediterranean and French instincts sit comfortably together, and the wine list is short but considered. It's the kind of neighborhood spot where no one's trying to impress you, yet the kitchen clearly has ideas.
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The Art Nouveau interior by Horta, all stained glass and sinuous ironwork, sets the scene before anyone's opened a menu. This is classic fine dining in the old Brussels sense, the kind of room where sauces are taken seriously and the fourth generation of the same family is still running the pass. A Michelin star. The wine cellar doubles as a private dining room for those who want something a shade more contemporary.
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Rank 23. Fish Tank
Seafood
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Rank 24. Little Apo
Vietnamese
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Rank 26. Ptitbeur
Beer Bar
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The wall tiles and mosaic floors date back to when this was a butcher's shop, and the chef kept them, which tells you something about his instincts. Quartz is a modern dining room in Ixelles where classical French technique gets a personal, locally sourced spin. Sauces are the quiet obsession here, and the cooking has the kind of confidence that doesn't need to announce itself. A neighborhood restaurant in the good sense: serious food, no performance.
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Rank 28. Pépite
Bakery
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Rank 29. Kaiju
Noodles
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Rank 30. senzanome
Italian, Sicilian
Tucked into the Sablon, one of Brussels' more self-satisfied corners, Senzanome is a fine dining room where the chef has spent years building a loyal following on Sicilian instincts run through a serious technical filter. The interior is cool and spare, pale tones and clean lines that step aside for the plate. Tasting menus carry the room's ambitions; the wine list leans deep Italian. It holds a spot on the 50 Top Italy ranking of the world's best Italian restaurants.
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Rank 31. Savage
Vegetarian
A grocery-bakery at the door sets the tone before you've sat down. Savage is a plant-forward set-menu restaurant in the Saint-Boniface neighbourhood, where the single nightly lineup leans on herbs and vegetables, with meat or fish available to add from the refrigerated counter by the restrooms, which is a very Savage way to handle the choice. The terrace catches the neighbourhood's easy energy, and the cooking is precise enough that the radish cream and the marinated carrot get their own moment.
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Rank 32. Belle Lurette
French
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Rank 33. Munch
Thai
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Rank 34. Jackie Coffee
Coffee
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Rank 35. Bozar Restaurant
Modern French
Karen Torosyan's pâté en croûte, made by reservation only and shown to you unbaked before it goes into the oven, is the kind of production that makes you sit very still. This two-Michelin-star modern French restaurant occupies a Victor Horta Art Nouveau building, so the room is already doing a lot. The kitchen revives ancestral French and Belgian technique with a precision that borders on meditative, puff pastry very much included.
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Rank 36. Kookoo
Coffee Shop Persian
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Rank 37. Rascal's Café
British
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Rank 38. humus x hortense
Vegetarian
Gilded ceilings and frescoes of angels overhead, and a plant-based tasting menu below, which is either a contradiction or a perfect match. This Michelin-starred restaurant in Ixelles has been doing zero-waste, micro-seasonal vegetable cooking since well before it was a dinner-party talking point. The sommelière runs a beverage program serious enough to match the kitchen, and the whole operation publishes a sustainability report, because of course it does.
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Rank 40. Racines
Italian
You walk past a small grocery counter before landing in a warm, book-and-bottle-lined Italian restaurant where the menu changes whenever the delivery does. The chef builds the whole thing around short supply chains and hand-made pasta, keeping plates clean and unfussy so the ingredients carry the weight. A natural wine list and a summer terrace make it easy to stay longer than planned.
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Rank 42. Old Boy
Fusion Thai
The open fire does most of the talking at this fusion Thai restaurant in Ixelles, where Belgian produce meets Bangkok street-food instincts and the spicing is careful enough to make you pay attention. Duck breast in green curry with coconut and Thai basil is the kind of dish that sounds like a trend and eats like a conviction. The room is cool and loud, the natural wine list is on point, and getting a table without a reservation is optimistic thinking.
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Rank 44. La Sardine du Marseillais
Provençal French
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Rank 45. Daily 3000
Pizza
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Rank 47. Maru
Korean
The pajeon, a crisp pancake paired with sweet vinaigrette and chili sauce, gives you a quick read on what this Korean restaurant near the Châtelain district is doing. The chef plays the sweet-sour-spicy balance with a light hand, and the varied textures keep things interesting. Locals fill the room at lunch for a quick plate or a slower meal with wine, which tells you the room works for both.
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Rank 48. Frasca
Italian
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Rank 49. La Boule
Bakery
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Rank 50. Entre-Nous
Neapolitan Italian
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Rank 51. La Bottega Della Pizza
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 52. Kartouche
Bistro French
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Rank 54. Hopla Geiss
Alsatian Bakery
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The Matongé district's energy seeps right into this small neighborhood restaurant, where the cooking leans on old-school French comfort food with quiet creative detours. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, Le Tournant pairs unfussy, grandmother-style dishes with natural wines chosen by a sommelier who takes that job seriously. The room fills with locals who clearly have a regular table, and the food tastes like someone actually cooked it rather than assembled it.
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Rank 56. Buddy Buddy
Coffee
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Rank 57. Kami
Coffee
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Rank 59. Mendo
Ramen Noodles
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Rank 60. Lucifer Lives
Coffee
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Rank 64. Bintje
American
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Rank 65. Bisous
Dessert
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Rank 66. Nyyó
New York Vietnamese
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Rank 68. Asturias
Spanish
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Rank 70. Grain
Bakery
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Rank 71. Honest
Coffee
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Rank 72. Nikolas Koulepis
Greek-French Bakery
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Rank 74. Pois Chiche
Lebanese
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Rank 76. Horta
Portuguese
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Rank 79. Eight
Bakery
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Rank 80. Lil Bao
Taiwanese
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Rank 81. Renard Bakery
Bakery
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Rank 82. Comptoir Florian
Coffee
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Rank 83. Moutarde
Bistrot French
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Rank 84. Jane
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 85. Goods
Bakery
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Rank 86. Elbow Lunch Counter
American
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Rank 88. Iyagi
Korean
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Rank 89. Certo
Italian
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Rank 90. La Paix
French Fusion Japanese
A two-Michelin-star restaurant that has traded its old corner spot opposite the Anderlecht slaughterhouses for a grand Belle Époque hotel, La Paix is mid-move and temporarily closed. The kitchen's signature territory is French technique pulled toward Japanese restraint, with serious seafood running through most of it. A destination fine dining room, the kind where you dress up and clear your afternoon.
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Rank 91. Bouche
Coffee
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Rank 92. Rebel
Wine Bar
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Rank 94. Ondo
Korean Coffee
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Rank 95. Giotto
Dessert
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Rank 96. Grain
Bakery
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Rank 97. Bombay BBQ
Indian
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Rank 99. Batch
Coffee
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