Brussels cafe & restaurant

Hi

I am going to brussels for a long weekend by the end of march with my boyfriend. We are students so is sort of a budget trip.

Can anybody recommends

1) Budget restaurant/cafe for having tasty mussels(seafood) and lunch? ( around 20-30 euro pp per meal)

2) nice cafe for coffee and chocolate cake.

I have read at previous posts that BUTCHERS STREET or restaurant near grand place is sort of tourist trap.

SO which area in the centre can i able to try some local restaurants.

Many Thanks

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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.

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