The Best Steakhouses Near Hert, by the Record

The Butcher's Son sits inside the De Koninck brewery, sharing a building with a bakery, a chocolatier, and the butcher's shop where the chef once worked, which tells you something about how seriously he takes his sourcing. This is a Michelin-starred restaurant where red meat is the heart of it, though the kitchen drifts cheerfully into surf-and-turf territory. The industrial-loft room makes it feel looser than the cooking actually is.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

The dining room sits inside a working butcher shop, which means the meat arrived here before you did and skipped the middleman entirely. This is a straightforward grill and stew restaurant where the menu leans heavily on aged cuts, offal, and slow-cooked classics. Beautifully marbled Simmental beef gets nothing but coarse salt, rosemary, and a béarnaise, which is the kind of restraint that only makes sense when the raw material is this good.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

An open grill and warm industrial bones anchor this Antwerp steakhouse in Antwerp's Zuid district, where the room does a lot of the work and knows it. Dry-aged cuts arrive from Belgium, Austria, Spain, Denmark, and Japan, and when the kitchen is focused, the fire cooking shows real depth. It landed on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which tells you the concept has weight. The crowd is stylish and the atmosphere genuinely magnetic.

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By day it's a working butcher shop. Come evening, the cold store door swings open and you're inside a tasting menu restaurant dressed up in nostalgic butchery decor, which is either a concept or an experience depending on your appetite for theatre. The open kitchen turns out precise, inventive cooking that takes the raw material seriously, the way you'd hope a place that literally sells the stuff in the morning would.

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2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Lekker 500 2026 · Lekker 500

A butcher's counter near the open kitchen sets the tone at this Uccle steakhouse, where you pick your cut before it meets a Josper charcoal oven. The brasserie is sleek without being stiff, and the menu runs from classic Belgian vol-au-vent and filet américain to cured meats and crispy fries. Counter seats put the whole operation right in front of you, which is exactly where you want to be.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A glass-walled maturing room full of aging beef greets you at the door, which tells you exactly where you stand. This is a steakhouse built around Blanc Bleu Belge, the hulking Belgian breed the chef grew up with on his family's cattle farm. The cooking leans modern without losing the plot, and a cheese and dessert trolley still makes the rounds, bless it. Good country to be hungry in if you're passing through the Lake Donk area.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant