The Top 100 Places to Eat Near La Boule
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Rank 1. La Boule
Bakery
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Rank 2. Entre-Nous
Neapolitan Italian
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Rank 3. Boulengier
Bakery
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Rank 5. 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 6. 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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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 8. 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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Rank 9. Asturias
Spanish
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Rank 11. 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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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 13. Fight Club
Pizza
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Rank 15. Le Petit Mercado
Peruvian
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Rank 16. Fish Tank
Seafood
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Rank 17. Chana
Vegetarian Indian
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Rank 19. Cipiace
Italian
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Rank 20. Honest
Coffee
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Rank 22. La Sardine du Marseillais
Provençal French
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Rank 23. Badi
Cider Wine Bar
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Rank 27. Ptitbeur
Beer Bar
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Rank 28. Grabuge
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 29. Belle Lurette
French
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Rank 30. Horta
Portuguese
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Rank 31. Nuovo Rosso
Italian
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Rank 33. Little Apo
Vietnamese
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Rank 35. 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 36. Pépite
Bakery
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Rank 37. Lucifer Lives
Coffee
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Rank 39. Hopla Geiss
Alsatian Bakery
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Rank 41. Rascal's Café
British
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Rank 42. Munch
Thai
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Rank 45. Pois Chiche
Lebanese
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Rank 46. 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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Rank 47. Stella
Specialty Coffee
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Rank 48. 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 49. Daily 3000
Pizza
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Rank 50. Lil Bao
Taiwanese
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Rank 53. Kaiju
Noodles
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Rank 54. Jackie Coffee
Coffee
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Rank 55. Kookoo
Coffee Shop Persian
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Rank 56. La Bottega Della Pizza
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 57. Buddy Buddy
Coffee
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Rank 61. Frasca
Italian
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Rank 62. Nüetnigenough
French
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Rank 63. Kami
Coffee
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Rank 65. Kartouche
Bistro French
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Rank 66. MangiaSempre
Italian
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Rank 68. Lil’ Bouche
Coffee
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Rank 71. 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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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 74. Eight
Bakery
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Rank 75. Gazzosa
Italian
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Rank 77. L'Express
Lebanese
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Rank 78. 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 79. Bouche
Coffee
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Rank 80. Alley Mian
Lanzhou Noodles
A cook pulls and folds noodles to order in full view of the dining room, which sets the tone for everything at this small, no-reservations noodle shop near the Théâtre de la Monnaie. The broth is Lanzhou-style, built deep and left unadorned. Michelin gave it a Bib Gourmand, and the lunch queue most days makes the argument more plainly. Go early, go hungry, and don't expect to linger.
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Rank 81. Mendo
Ramen Noodles
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Rank 82. Jayu
Contemporary Korean
Twelve stools around a counter, one table, three bells to signal the start of service, and a two-hour tasting menu in twelve courses that Sang Hoon Degeimbre shapes around Korean fermentation, fruit, and spice. The room reads like a speakeasy, all theatrical hush, and the food leans into doenjang, umami, and smoke rather than the usual European fine-dining playbook. A Michelin Selected restaurant tucked behind the noise of Rue de Flandre.
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Rank 83. Addis Stories
Ethiopian
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Rank 85. Bintje
American
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Rank 86. Perruche
French
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Rank 87. Bisous
Dessert
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Rank 88. Nikolas Koulepis
Greek-French Bakery
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Rank 89. Kage
Tea Cocktail Bar
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Rank 90. Nyyó
New York Vietnamese
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Rank 94. Comptoir Florian
Coffee
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Rank 95. Corica
Coffee
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Rank 96. Grain
Bakery
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Brutalist concrete and a casual room that makes no apologies for either. Kline is a modern neighborhood restaurant where the menu leans on local sourcing, vegetables, and seasonal instincts, with global flavors folded in wherever they fit. The à la carte lineup skews well toward vegetarian and is designed to share. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place where the food does the talking without the room dressing up for it.
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Rank 99. Moutarde
Bistrot French
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Rank 100. Lafeh
Lebanese