The Best Seafood in Brussels, by the Record
The best seafood in Brussels, by the professional record: Le Fooding and Michelin Guide have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Fish Tank comes out on top.
Beaucoup Fish and La Belle Maraîchère hold the next two places. Le Fooding and Michelin Guide show up on more of this list than any other guide.
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Rank 1. Fish Tank
Seafood
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Rank 2. Beaucoup Fish
Seafood
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Rank 3. La Belle Maraîchère
Franco-Belgian Seafood
Shrimp fritters and saddle of hare on the same menu tells you exactly what kind of place this is: an old-school Franco-Belgian seafood restaurant on the Saint-Catherine square, nostalgic in the best possible, unironic way. The room feels like Brussels circa a much earlier decade, and nobody seems to mind. Fish arrives impeccably fresh, portions run generous, and the crowd is the sort that has been coming long enough to skip the menu.
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Rank 3. Vismet
Seafood
Vismet sits on the old fish market square at Place Sainte-Catherine, which tells you something about how seriously Brussels takes its seafood history. It's a classic seafood restaurant with an open kitchen and the kind of lived-in room that clearly predates the neighborhood's gentrification. The cooking is traditional and unshowy: pristine sole, properly made sauces, ingredients that don't need dressing up. Come hungry, not overdressed.