Are there any restaurants in Brussels selling English-type food?
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No, apart from Irish pubs e.g. Kitty O%26#39;Sheas in Bd. Charlemagne, The Old Oak, in rue Franklin near Schuman.
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cliffsangel, out of curiosity, why would you like to eat English food abroad?
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Because we do not fancy mussels or eels!
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I am sure that the natives eat a more varied diet than just mussels and eels, in fact I did a restaurant search in the forum and got loads of restaurants.
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I am sure you are right but we want to play safe!
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Playing safe is eating English food? ;-)
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As regards with being familiar with the TYPE of food rather than perhaps QUALITY, then yes, in my opinion!
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Hello again, I made a list of restaurants from the forum, some are the mussel/eel type you do not want but I made this list for my family so just ignore those. There might also be some bits of Ta conversations I have not edited out yet. Hope this is helpful.
1) For moules-frites, you might as well go to the classic Chez Léon: http://www.leon-de-bruxelles.fr/ It is in rue des Bouchers which is indeed something of a tourist trap but this is one of a handful of restaurnts which are exceptions to the rule (actually the rule is: Ilôt Sacré except Galeries St. Hubert itself AND with an outside display AND with %26quot;barkers%26quot; who try to entice you in - which is most of the restaurants in the rue des Bouchers and petite rue des Bouchers, but not this one).
For lunch and dinner you have Arcadi at the far end (if you enter from the Grand%26#39; Place end) of the Galeries St. Hubert, and for dinner, Amadéo in the rue Ste. Catherine; take the street to the right of the McDonalds opposite the Bourse (stock exchange), cross the road at the traffic lights and carry on down rue Ste. Catherine, it%26#39;s on the left after about 5 minutes: it serves all-you-can-eat spareribs and some other things, e.g. scampi - www.resto.be/ware/details.jsp?businessid=1211
2) If you get there before it starts serving lunch at 12 (and it closes around 3), the best chocolate cake in Brussels is the one served at the tiny L%26#39;Italiano in rue du Luxembourg, near Gare du Luxembourg, but this may be somewhat out of your way. Another possibility is Le Perroquet not far from the Sablon, see www.resto.be/ware/details.jsp… The lunchtime-only Tarte Julie in Bd. E. Jacqmain, which starts at Place de Brouckère (left of the building with the Coca Cola sign on top) and runs roughly parallel to Bd. A. Max also has an excellent tarte au chocolat. And for a convenient café which does not have chocolate cake (but does have muffins etc.) there is the Aroma in the Grand%26#39; Place itself.
If you wander around Ste. Catherine there are quite a few restaurants
Stay away from the rue des Bouchers, though, except for the well-established standards recommended on here (Aux Armes de Bruxelles, Chez Léon..).
T%26#39;Kelderke which is actually in the Grand%26#39; Place, in a basement below the Hotel St. Michel.
In t%26#39;Spinnekopke, see http://www.spinnekopke.be/baseFR.html
L%26#39;Ecailler du Palais Royal
%26quot;Le Chaletde la Foret%26quot; in an older post and it looks really nice (and modern), although it%26#39;s not in the center of Brussels.
Aux Armes de Bruxelles
a nice café called Le Passiflore
For dinner Lucas (although it may be a bit more formal for dinner than for lunch) next to the Michael Collins on Avenue Louise, or just walk up rue du Bailli and then turn left into the place du Châtelain, where there are quite a few restaurants. Or for that matter, walk down Lesbroussart to Place Flagey - although the roadworks there are still horrendous - where there are lots of cafés and brasseries, although I can%26#39;t recommend any in particular (Café Belga in the steamboat-like building is currently rather trendy). If you like vegetarian food, Tsampa in rue de Livourne (first turning on the right off rue du Bailli, and it%26#39;s just a little way up on the left) is very informal and good for eating alone
La Taverne du Passage in the Galeries St. Hubert serves food non-stop from 12 till 24.00 and Chez Leon (famous for moules-frites) around the corner in rue des Bouchers, from 12 till 23.00
Tavernes in the rue du Progrès near the Gare du Nord
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That is really helpful - thanks very much indeed.
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You%26#39;re quite welcome.
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