Where to eat in Brussels: Comme chez Soi, Bozar, the Michelin stars, Noordzee, Chez Léon, the food halls and the places that English and French lists name most

💡 The Short Version: The places named by the most of the publishers counted are Delirium Café and Maison Dandoy (23 each), Cantillon and Comme chez Soi (19 each), Neuhaus (17), and Moeder Lambic and Pierre Marcolini (16 each). The Michelin Guide 2026 gives Brussels no three-star restaurant, three two-star (Bozar Restaurant, Le Chalet de la Forêt and LaPaix) and eight one-star. Menssa closes on 14 November 2026 and Senzanome on 31 October. Noordzee, the fish bar, is closed on Mondays and takes no reservations, and the Gare Maritime food market is closed on Mondays. Or book a tour: the city-centre food tourad is from €67 for 3 hours (GetYourGuide).

📊 The evidence behind this guide. Nothing here is ranked on one visit. This pass read 524 list pages from 2022 on and counts the 112 pages from 78 English-language publishers and the 131 pages from 25 French-language publishers, plus 12 pages from 8 Dutch-language publishers that count towards the totals: newspapers, magazines, guidebooks, broadcasters and travel writers, among them The Brussels Times, Time Out, Le Soir, La Libre and Elle Belgique. Brussels-only guide sites without a named newsroom, tour operators, directories and the venues’ own sites are not counted. Counts are publishers, not pages. How the guides are made

⚠️ Check the day. Comme chez Soi, Da Mimmo, Barge and La Villa in the Sky are closed on Sundays and Mondays, Comme chez Soi also on Tuesdays, and Kamo on Saturdays and Sundays. Noordzee, Poechenellekelder and the Gare Maritime are closed on Mondays, and À la Mort Subite on Sundays. Menssa closes for good on 14 November 2026.

The places named by the most sources

The count is the number of publishers that name the place on a list of Brussels restaurants, bars, shops or markets, with the split between English and French publishers. The total also counts Dutch-language publishers. A place named by fewer than 10 is left out of this table.

The English lists lean towards the tourist canon: Delirium Café (18 English, 4 French), Maison Dandoy (17 and 5), Neuhaus (13 and 3), Pierre Marcolini (13 and 2) and Noordzee (11 and 2). The French lists name the restaurants: Comme chez Soi (8 French), Kamo (6), LaPaix (6), Barge (5), humus x hortense (5), Le Chalet de la Forêt (5) and Da Mimmo (5). Each of those is a Michelin-listed restaurant.

These have their own guides, with hours and closed days: Brussels frites, Brussels waffles, Brussels chocolate shops and Brussels beer bars.

Michelin and the other awards

Michelin announced its Belgium and Luxembourg 2026 guide on 4 May 2026 in Antwerp. In the Brussels-Capital Region, counted from Michelin’s lists, there is no three-star restaurant, there are three with two stars, eight with one star and 22 Bib Gourmands, Michelin’s mark for good value. No Brussels restaurant won a new star in 2026, and Le Pigeon Noir, Senzanome and La Villa Lorraine lost theirs. The hours are the ones Michelin prints, so check the restaurant’s own site before you book.

Closed or closing. Menssa, the one-star restaurant in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, closes for good on 14 November 2026, and Senzanome, in the Sablon, on 31 October. L’Écailler du Palais Royal, a Sablon fish restaurant open for 59 years, served its last customers on 3 October 2026. Several lists and Michelin’s own pages still carry all three, and LaPaix’s old Anderlecht address.

Eliane is a one-star restaurant and entered The 50 Best Restaurants 2026 at no. 86, on the 51 to 100 list published on 21 October 2026. The top 50 is announced on 4 November 2026 in Lima.

Gault&Millau named Karen Torosyan of Bozar its Chef of the Year 2026, and David-Alexandre Bruno of Quartz its Young Chef of the Year for the Brussels Region. It gives LaPaix 17.5 out of 20 and humus x hortense 16.5 and three toques.

The restaurants’ own sites print these menus:

The 22 Bib Gourmand restaurants are Alley Mian, Selecto, Kline, Strofilia, ANJU, ÔNGBÀ, Stone Dial, Babam, Lune Siamoise, Car Bon, Nénu, De Maurice à Olivier, French Kiss, La Charcuterie, Osteria Bolognese, Le Tournant, Villa Singha, Yoka Tomo, Au repos de la montagne, Appel Thaï, La Branche d’Olivier and Maza’j. Alley Mian, ÔNGBÀ and Stone Dial are new in 2026.

Restaurants

Comme chez Soi

Place Rouppe 23 · Wednesday to Saturday, lunch and dinner · one Michelin star · Cited by 19 sources (11 English, 8 French) · commechezsoi.be

A house since 1926, run by five generations of one family, according to its own site, and it turned 100 in 2026. The kitchen passed in 2025 to Loïc Rigolet, son of Lionel Rigolet. It is closed on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays.

Bozar Restaurant

Rue Baron Horta 3, in the Palais des Beaux-Arts · two Michelin stars · Cited by 11 sources (6 English, 3 French, 2 Dutch) · bozarrestaurant.be

Chef Karen Torosyan cooks inside Victor Horta’s Palais des Beaux-Arts, with clean lines and soft lighting. See the menus above, and Brussels Art Nouveau for Horta’s other buildings.

Chez Léon

Rue des Bouchers 18 · open every day · Cited by 13 sources (9 English, 4 French) · chezleon.be

A pot of mussels with fries at Chez Léon. Photo: Edward, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

A friture, a fry restaurant, since 1893, when, the restaurant says, Léon Vanlancker moved to this address and opened his Friture Léon. The French group Joulie bought it on 10 February 2026 from the Vanlancker family, and said it would make small adjustments. See Brussels frites.

Aux Armes de Bruxelles

Rue des Bouchers 13 · Monday 18:00 to 22:30, Tuesday to Sunday 12:00 to 22:30 · Michelin Selected · Cited by 10 sources (6 English, 3 French, 1 Dutch) · auxarmesdebruxelles.com

Open since 1921 in the same rooms, with shrimp croquettes, poultry croquettes, eel in green sauce, Flemish beef stew, vol-au-vent and Zeeland mussels on the menu, and new seasonal dishes every six weeks. A court approved a takeover by its chef, Cédric Callenaere, on 11 February 2026, and 29 jobs were kept.

Noordzee (Mer du Nord)

Rue Sainte-Catherine 45 · fish bar Tuesday to Sunday 11:00 to 18:30, closed Mondays · no reservations · Cited by 14 sources (11 English, 2 French, 1 Dutch) · noordzeemerdunord.be

Noordzee (Mer du Nord), the fish shop and standing fish bar on Rue Sainte-Catherine. Photo: Michel wal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

A fish shop with a standing fish bar in the seafood quarter, which visit.brussels names as the place to head for seafood. Reservations are not possible: stop by and take a seat at a table. The fish shop is open Tuesday to Friday 08:00 to 18:00 and Saturday 08:00 to 17:00.

Bouillon Bruxelles

Rue des Dominicains 7 · Cited by 3 sources (all French) · bouillonbruxelles.com

A brasserie that adapts the Paris bouillon, serving Belgian popular cooking: Liège-style meatballs at €16.60, Flemish beef carbonnade and chicken vol-au-vent at €18.80 each, and two shrimp croquettes from €13.30. Visit.brussels’ shrimp-croquette competition named it the 2024 winner. It has vegetarian, halal and vegan options.

Maison Vincent

Rue des Dominicains 8 · Monday to Saturday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:30 to 23:30, closed Sunday · listed by visit.brussels · restaurantvincent.be

A restaurant founded in 1905 as a rotisserie, in a setting of tile murals that the restaurant says has been UNESCO-classified since 2008. Visit.brussels notes the flambéing at the table. It takes cards and cash, and a weekday lunch menu is served Monday to Friday.

Les Brigittines

Place de la Chapelle 5 · Michelin Selected · Cited by 8 sources (5 English, 3 French)

Classic Franco-Belgian cooking by the chef Dirk Myny, in an Art Nouveau setting a short distance from the Sablon and the Marolles. Visit.brussels says it cooks with beer, Stouterik or Cantillon’s Kriek, and the dishes include vol-au-vent.

The shrimp croquette

Visit.brussels has run a competition for the best shrimp croquette in Brussels since 2018. The 2026 winners were Journal on Avenue Orban in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Le Rendez-vous des Artistes on Rue Dejoncker in Saint-Gilles and Brasserie Signature on Place Jourdan. Bouillon Bruxelles, Brasserie Ommegang and Lola won in 2024.

Food halls and markets

The Gare Maritime, the former railway goods shed at Tour & Taxis that holds the street-food hall. Photo: Guy Delsaut, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Free things to do in Brussels puts the flea market in a morning.

What to eat

Food tours

A food tour is a guided walk that stops to eat. GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices are per person:

Brussels food tours compares them and names the classes.

At the table

• Rue des Bouchers. Travel sites warn against eating on the restaurant lane behind the Grand-Place, and the tourist board lists Aux Armes de Bruxelles on it. Residents asking for somewhere else name Le Pré Salé near Sainte-Catherine, Volle Gas on Place Fernand Cocq and Le Zinneke in Schaerbeek.
• Payment. Some small places take only cash or Payconiq, Belgium’s debit app. Ask before you order.
• Tipping. Service is included, and visit.brussels says a tip of 5 to 10 per cent is customary but not mandatory.
• Christmas. Winter Wonders closes at 18:00 on 24 and 31 December: see Brussels Christmas markets 2026.
• New Year’s Eve. See Brussels on New Year’s Eve 2026.

Plan the rest

3 days in Brussels fits the meals to the sights, where to stay in Brussels compares the areas, and what to book before you go to Brussels lists the closed days. For other cities, see Amsterdam, Paris and where to eat in Copenhagen.