Best Tasting Menus in Ixelles
This list covers tasting-menu restaurants, all in the Ixelles neighbourhood. Humus x Hortense and Kamo hold the Michelin stars, both dated 2026. Humus x Hortense cooks herbs, grains, flowers and vegetables from local producers, with biodynamic wines. Kamo serves surprise tasting menus with counter seating and a sake programme.
The other restaurants use the tasting-menu format across several cuisines. Racines pairs a tasting menu with an exceptional natural-wine list and a sommelier. Ricciocapriccio focuses on Mediterranean seafood, and Amore, Pasta e Gioia on house-made pasta. Nonbe Daigaku offers omakase and sushi at the counter with sake. Quartz cooks contemporary French food from local produce. Pénar matches seasonal ingredients to natural and biodynamic wines. Kamoun serves a Levantine Syrian small-plates tasting menu with natural wine.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Amore, Pasta e Gioia
A family-run osteria on Rue de la Crêche in Ixelles where house-made pasta, beef carpaccio, and Angus tagliata anchor a menu built around direct Italian flavour rather than technical elaboration. Giuseppe, Karina, and Kevin run the room with the kind of low-key consistency that neighbourhood regulars depend on. In a neighbourhood of ambitious tasting menus and concept-driven kitchens, this is direct Italian done on its own terms.
Humus x Hortense
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred, plant-forward restaurant in Ixelles that holds a place in the We're Smart World Top 10 and carries a 5-Radish rating. Nicolas Decloedt and Caroline Baerten work exclusively with herbs, grains, flowers, and vegetables from local producers, paired with natural fermentations and biodynamic wines. Ranked 461st among Europe's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it is one decorated vegetable-focused address in Brussels.
Kamo
1 Michelin star
Evenings bring surprise tasting menus built around ingredient quality rather than luxury produce; lunches lean toward made-to-order sushi. Ranked among Opinionated About Dining's top European restaurants in 2025, Kamo represents Belgium's most convincing case for Japanese restraint.
Kamoun
Kamoun occupies a quiet address on Rue de la Levure in Ixelles, a neighbourhood where North African culinary traditions have found some of their most considered European expressions. The kitchen draws on the deep spice logic of Maghrebi cooking, placing it in a different register from the French-Belgian fine dining that dominates Brussels conversation. For visitors tracking the city's mid-tier dining scene, it represents a grounded alternative to the area's more theatrical options.
Nonbe Daigaku
A two-time Michelin Plate holder on Avenue Adolphe Buyl, Nonbe Daigaku sits inside Ixelles' compact but serious Japanese dining scene. For Brussels diners tracking value across the city's mid-to-upper Japanese tier, this is a useful reference point.
Pénar
Exceptional wine program
The address places it within easy reach of the commune's most active dining corridor, making it a practical anchor for an evening that begins and ends in the quarter.
Quartz
Quartz holds two consecutive Michelin Plates (2024 and 2025) and sits at the mid-to-upper end of Ixelles' modern cuisine tier, occupying a price point shared by neighbourhood contemporaries like Kamo and Amen. The address on Rue de la Réforme places it in one of Brussels' most dining-dense communes, where the competition for sustained recognition is meaningful. Consistent Michelin attention across back-to-back years signals a kitchen operating with reliable intent.
Racines
Exceptional wine program
A Michelin Plate-recognised Italian on Ixelles' Chaussée d'Ixelles, Racines sits in the accessible mid-range tier (€€) and draws consistent praise for its enthusiasm and flavour-forward cooking.
Ricciocapriccio
A consecutive Michelin Plate holder in 2024 and 2025, Ricciocapriccio brings Italian cooking to Rue Américaine 90 in Ixelles, one of Brussels' most restaurant-dense neighbourhoods. With a 4., it holds its own among the neighbourhood's most serious kitchens. The €€€ price point positions it in the upper-mid tier of Ixelles dining, where Italian and European cuisines compete closely for the same informed audience.
Planning tasting menus in Ixelles
- Which tasting menus on this list are Michelin-starred?
- Humus x Hortense and Kamo are the Michelin-starred tasting menus in our Ixelles guide. Each holds a Michelin star dated 2026. Humus x Hortense cooks a plant-based menu from herbs, grains, flowers and vegetables, with fermented ingredients and biodynamic wines. Kamo runs surprise evening menus at the counter, using seasonal ingredients, and pours sake. Both restaurants are in the Ixelles neighbourhood.
- Which tasting menus on this list have exceptional wine programmes?
- Racines and Pénar are the tasting menus with exceptional wine programmes. Racines pours an extensive natural-wine list led by a sommelier and holds Star Wine List awards dated 2026, with a set menu and a tasting menu of Italian cooking. Pénar offers an extensive selection of natural and biodynamic wines, also sommelier-led, beside seasonal local ingredients.
- Which cuisines have tasting menus in Ixelles?
- Italian, Japanese, French, plant-based and Levantine Syrian kitchens all publish tasting menus in the Ixelles neighbourhood. Italian rooms are Racines, Ricciocapriccio and Amore, Pasta e Gioia. Japanese rooms are Kamo and Nonbe Daigaku, both with sake. French cooking is at Quartz. Plant-based fine dining is Humus x Hortense. Pénar is modern bistronomic, and Kamoun is modern Levantine Syrian small plates.
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