The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Perruche
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Rank 1. Perruche
French
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Rank 2. MangiaSempre
Italian
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Rank 4. Mangiavino
Italian
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Rank 5. Lombric
Natural Wine Bar
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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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Rank 7. Horta
Portuguese
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Rank 9. La Stazione Alimentari
Italian
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Rank 11. Honest
Coffee
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Rank 13. Hopla Geiss
Alsatian Bakery
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Rank 14. Belle Lurette
French
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Rank 15. Ptitbeur
Beer Bar
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Rank 16. Amakara
Japanese
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Rank 18. Rascal's Café
British
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Rank 19. Brood
Bakery
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Rank 20. Pépite
Bakery
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Rank 21. Grabuge
Cocktail Bar
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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 24. Little Apo
Vietnamese
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Rank 25. Munch
Thai
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Rank 27. Daily 3000
Pizza
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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 29. La Bottega Della Pizza
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 31. La Boule
Bakery
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Rank 32. 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 33. Fight Club
Pizza
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Rank 34. Kami
Coffee
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Rank 35. Le Petit Mercado
Peruvian
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Rank 36. Cipiace
Italian
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Rank 37. Boulengier
Bakery
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Rank 38. Chana
Vegetarian Indian
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The tiled walls and zinc bar still look exactly like the butcher's shop this Art Deco Saint-Gilles building once housed, which sets up an odd, charming contrast with what comes out of the kitchen. This neighborhood restaurant serves modern, organic-leaning food, the kind where carrots get a whole dramatic arc and a piece of fish arrives with quiet Asian inflections. The cooking is playful without being showy, and the prices stay sensible enough that coming back feels easy.
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Rank 44. 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 45. Badi
Cider Wine Bar
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Rank 46. 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 47. Kookoo
Coffee Shop Persian
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Rank 48. Jackie Coffee
Coffee
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Rank 50. Entre-Nous
Neapolitan Italian
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Rank 51. Nikolas Koulepis
Greek-French Bakery
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Rank 53. 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 55. Kaiju
Noodles
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Rank 56. 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 58. 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 60. Stone Dial
Contemporary Chinese
An old wood-burning stove anchors the dining room of this contemporary Chinese restaurant, which occupies what may be the oldest building in Uccle. The setting is a little theatrical, all dark wood and vintage quirk with chopsticks on the table, and the menu leans into the contrast: colorful, generous plates of traditional Chinese cooking. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a place that feels like a find without making you feel like you're being let in on a secret.
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Rank 61. Brugmann
Modern French
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Rank 62. Chez Luma
French
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Rank 63. Frangines
Vietnamese
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Rank 64. Asturias
Spanish
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Rank 66. Batch
Coffee
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Rank 67. Grain
Bakery
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Rank 68. Mendo
Ramen Noodles
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Rank 69. Fish Tank
Seafood
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Rank 70. Stella
Specialty Coffee
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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 72. 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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Kobe Desramaults, who made his name at In De Wulf and Chambre Séparée, runs this Michelin-starred creative dining room in central Brussels with a lounge soundtrack and an open kitchen counter at its heart. The set menu changes daily, which keeps the chef honest and the regulars guessing. Expect bold, ingredient-focused cooking where the produce does most of the talking, and service polished enough to feel made-to-measure without being stiff about it.
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Rank 75. Nuovo Rosso
Italian
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Rank 76. Bintje
American
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A Michelin-starred corner restaurant near the Brussels fish market where the menu is a surprise and the philosophy is not. The chef builds tasting menus around local, seasonal produce, then quietly pivots to something like wasabi sorbet without breaking a sweat. The room is deliberately unpolished, the wine list leans natural, and every decision on the plate seems to have been argued over before it arrived.
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Rank 79. Kartouche
Bistro French
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Rank 81. 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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The elevator takes you to the 23rd floor, then you walk up two more flights of stairs, which feels like a prank until you see the view across Brussels from a glass-walled fine dining room perched above the city. The open kitchen puts the chef's precision on full display, and the cooking pairs delicate French technique with genuinely playful combinations. La Villa holds a Michelin star, and the à la carte option at lunch keeps it from feeling like a commitment.
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Rank 86. Khobz
Bakery
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Rank 87. Julien Othomene Pâtisserie
French Bakery
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Rank 88. 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 89. Giotto
Dessert
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Rank 91. La Sardine du Marseillais
Provençal French
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Rank 92. 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 93. Frasca
Italian
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Rank 95. Bisous
Dessert
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Rank 96. Jane
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 97. Nyyó
New York Vietnamese
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Rank 98. Le Chalet de la Forêt
Modern French
A two-Michelin-starred restaurant tucked against the edge of the Sonian Forest, with a terrace that makes the woodland feel like part of the dining room. Pascal Devalkeneer runs the kitchen with a precision that reads as almost quiet, sourcing Aveyron lamb and Brittany abalone and honey from his own hives. The sommelier leans hard toward Burgundy, which, given the cooking, is not a bad instinct.
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Rank 99. Le Pigeon Noir
Classic French
Waiters in full garb, tables packed so close you'll learn your neighbor's order by accident, and a menu built around Burgundian comfort food that has no interest in impressing anyone. Le Pigeon Noir is an old-school Brussels bistro doing classic French country cooking with good produce and no fuss. The room feels like a village café that never got the memo about modernizing, which is precisely the point.
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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.