Explore our curated restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries in Ixelles.
Accolades in Ixelles
The tasting menus in our guide are all in the Ixelles neighbourhood. Humus x Hortense and Kamo are the Michelin-starred restaurants, and Nonbe Daigaku and Ricciocapriccio add omakase and Italian seafood with a Michelin Plate.
Humus x Hortense is plant-based fine dining in Ixelles, with tasting menus that change across 24 micro-seasons. Nicolas Decloedt and Caroline Baerten work with herbs, grains, flowers and vegetables from local producers, using fermented ingredients and biodynamic wines. The restaurant holds a Michelin star dated 2026.
Kamo is modern Japanese fine dining in Ixelles, with a Michelin star dated 2026. The evening format is a surprise tasting menu and counter seating, built around seasonal ingredients. Lunch service is made-to-order sushi. A sake programme sits with the meal. Opinionated About Dining ranked it 666th among Europe's top restaurants in 2025.
Nonbe Daigaku is an authentic Japanese sushi restaurant in Ixelles, with sushi and sashimi prepared at the counter by chef Yosuke Suetsugu. The formats include omakase and a tasting menu as well as a la carte and small plates. A sake programme accompanies the cooking. Michelin has given the restaurant a Plate for 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Ricciocapriccio is a modern Italian Mediterranean restaurant in Ixelles, with a tasting menu alongside a la carte service. The kitchen focuses on creative Mediterranean seafood, including octopus and sea urchin. The wine list is extensive. Michelin has awarded a Plate for 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Four restaurants in our guide carry exceptional wine programmes, all in the Ixelles neighbourhood. Natural wine and sommelier-led service run through each of them, and Racines and Les Caves d'Alex hold Star Wine List awards.
Racines is an Italian restaurant in Ixelles with an exceptional natural-wine programme, sommelier-led, and an extensive list. Plates draw on fish, meat and vegetables, and the formats are a set menu and a tasting menu. The restaurant holds a Star Wine List award and a Michelin Plate, both dated 2026, plus We're Smart World 3 Radishes for 2025.
Les Caves d'Alex is a classic French brasserie in Ixelles set in a historic wine cellar with giant foudres, in the former cellars of the négociant Mouchart. The wine programme is exceptional: an extensive natural-wine list led by a sommelier. The restaurant includes a 1000m² garden terrace. Both a Michelin Plate and a Star Wine List award are dated 2026.
Le Tournant is a French bistro in Ixelles with an exceptional wine programme: natural wine, sommelier-led service and sake. The kitchen serves house-made charcuterie and slow-cooked dishes, with natural-wine pairings, on a prix fixe and a la carte. Michelin has awarded a Bib Gourmand for 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Pénar is a modern bistronomic restaurant in the Ixelles neighbourhood. Its wine programme is exceptional: an extensive selection of natural and biodynamic wines, with sommelier-led service. The kitchen cooks seasonal local ingredients. The formats are a tasting menu and a la carte.
Bib Gourmand awards dated 2026 in our guide include Sichuan, Thai, Bolognese and modern Vietnamese restaurants in the Ixelles neighbourhood.
Car Bon is an authentic Sichuan Chinese restaurant in the Ixelles neighbourhood. Service is a la carte, and the wine programme is curated. Chef Chloe St-Cyr runs the kitchen. Michelin has awarded a Bib Gourmand for 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Lune Siamoise cooks authentic Thai food in the Ixelles neighbourhood, a la carte, from a micro kitchen. Herbs and spices are crushed just before serving, and noodles are cooked on the spot. A Michelin Bib Gourmand is dated 2025 and 2026.
Osteria Bolognese is an authentic Bolognese osteria in the Ixelles neighbourhood, with ingredients sourced directly from Emilia Romagna. Tagliatelle al ragù is among the dishes. The format is a la carte. The wine list is extensive and curated. Michelin has awarded a Bib Gourmand for 2024, 2025 and 2026.
ÔNGBÀ is a modern Vietnamese restaurant in the Ixelles neighbourhood, with a minimal wine programme and an a la carte menu. The menu includes house-made nems and braised noodle dishes from Vietnamese street food. A Michelin Bib Gourmand is dated 2026.
The Ixelles neighbourhood holds the serious wine lists in our guide. Four restaurants there carry exceptional wine programmes: Racines, Le Tournant, Les Caves d'Alex and Pénar. Racines and Les Caves d'Alex also hold Star Wine List awards dated 2026. Both lists are natural and sommelier-led. Le Tournant pours sake with a natural, sommelier-led list, and Pénar pours an extensive selection of natural and biodynamic wines.
Our guide counts 2 Michelin-starred restaurants in Ixelles, and 2 Michelin stars in total. They are Humus x Hortense and Kamo, both in the Ixelles neighbourhood, each with a Michelin star dated 2026. Humus x Hortense is plant-based fine dining with tasting menus of herbs, grains, flowers and vegetables. Kamo is modern Japanese fine dining with surprise tasting menus, counter seating and a sake programme.
Tasting menus in our guide are in the Ixelles neighbourhood. Humus x Hortense and Kamo are the Michelin-starred tasting menus. Racines, Ricciocapriccio and Amore, Pasta e Gioia cook Italian food, Nonbe Daigaku serves sushi and omakase, and Quartz cooks contemporary French food. Pénar is modern bistronomic, and Kamoun serves Levantine Syrian small plates.
The strongest wine programmes in our guide are the four exceptional ones, and they are natural and sommelier-led. Racines, Les Caves d'Alex and Le Tournant all pour natural wine with a sommelier; Pénar pours natural and biodynamic wines in that sommelier-led style. Sake programmes appear at Kamo, Le Tournant and Nonbe Daigaku. Extensive lists also appear with curated programmes, and Les Caves d'Alex pairs its list with giant foudres in a historic cellar.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Ixelles
Ixelles
Selected entries from the current guide for Ixelles.
Ixelles, Belgium
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.
Ixelles, Belgium
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.
Ixelles, Belgium
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.
Ixelles, Belgium
At Place St Boniface in Ixelles, Savage operates within a growing Brussels tradition of vegetable-first cooking built on traceable organic supply chains. The menu is structured around 100% plant-based creations, with fish or meat available as paid supplements. A closed-loop composting programme called Recyclo connects kitchen waste directly back to regional vegetable growers, making the sourcing cycle unusually legible for a mid-price restaurant.
Ixelles, Belgium
Car Bon on Chaussée de Waterloo holds back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition for 2024 and 2025, making it one of Ixelles' most consistent value propositions in Chinese cooking. Chef Chloe St-Cyr runs the kitchen at a single-euro price point that sits well below the neighbourhood's starred competition.
Ixelles, Belgium
A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in Ixelles, L'épicerie Nomad serves a format-free Mediterranean menu where ceviche, zarzuela, and shakshuka appear on the same slate without hierarchy. Tightly packed tables, a wine list curated to match the kitchen's range, and a price point well inside the Ixelles mid-tier make it one of the neighbourhood's more practical arguments for Bib Gourmand recognition.
Ixelles, Belgium
A Michelin Bib Gourmand-recognised bistro on Rue Saint-Boniface, Le Saint Boniface serves the offal-forward, confit-rich cooking of South West France and the Basque Country at mid-range prices. Red and white chequered tablecloths, tightly packed tables, and a soundtrack of French jazz set the tone. It draws a loyal local crowd and sits at the affordable end of Ixelles' dining range.
Ixelles, Belgium
On the Chaussée de Wavre in Ixelles, Le Tournant has earned consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025 for a style of cooking that resists easy categorisation. Chef Robert Jan Polman works within a home cooking register that the Michelin guide increasingly values: technically grounded, ingredient-led, and priced to be eaten regularly rather than reserved for occasions.
Ixelles, Belgium
Le Variétés holds consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand awards for 2024 and 2025, placing it among Ixelles' most consistent value-driven Belgian tables. Situated on Place Sainte-Croix, it operates in a neighbourhood that has quietly become one of Brussels' most interesting dining corridors. The €€ price point makes it the affordable entry into a local scene that skews considerably more expensive at comparable award level.
Ixelles, Belgium
Lune Siamoise brings Thai cooking to the Tenbosch quarter of Ixelles with enough discipline to earn a 2025 Michelin Bib Gourmand — recognition that places it among Brussels' most compelling value propositions in Southeast Asian cuisine. A reservation is advisable.
Ixelles, Belgium
ÔNGBÀ belongs to the Flagey side of Ixelles, where cosmopolitan eating habits meet compact neighbourhood rooms rather than formal dining rituals. The draw is less about ceremony than sourcing logic: how a small Brussels restaurant can make origin, seasonality, and cross-cultural appetite feel central without turning dinner into a lecture.
Ixelles, Belgium
Osteria Bolognese has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand in consecutive years (2024 and 2025), placing it among Ixelles' most reliably recognised Italian addresses. For Italian cooking in the neighbourhood, it sits in a different register than the splashier creative formats nearby.
Ixelles, Belgium
Occupying the former cellars of Mouchart, a historic Belgian wine négociant on Rue Eugène Cattoir, Les Caves d'Alex is among Ixelles's most wine-forward French tables. The setting — stone walls, barrel-shaped arches, a cellar atmosphere that predates the current kitchen — makes the wine focus structural, not decorative. Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025 places it firmly in the neighbourhood's serious dining tier.
Ixelles, Belgium
A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Rue du Châtelain, Odette en Ville occupies a grand citizen house in one of Ixelles' most composed residential squares. The kitchen works a seasonal Modern French register with vegetables at the centre of every plate, positioning it closer to produce-led neighbourhood dining than to formal French classicism.
Ixelles, Belgium
Amen sits on Rue Franz Merjay in Ixelles, holding consecutive Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025 under chef Hadrien Franchoo. The kitchen works within a farm-to-table framework at a €€€ price point, positioning it in Ixelles's mid-to-upper tier alongside peers that draw from regional sourcing traditions. For a neighbourhood with a dense concentration of serious cooking, it earns its place without theatrics.
Ixelles, Belgium
Chef Merijn van Berlo holds a Michelin Plate (2024) for cooking that channels floral and spiced intensity through vegetables, with an extensive list of organic and natural wines alongside. The price tier sits at €€€, in line with the neighbourhood's serious dining cohort.
Ixelles, Belgium
Maison du Luxembourg holds consecutive Michelin Plates for 2024 and 2025, placing it in the reliable mid-range tier of Ixelles dining where regional Belgian cuisine is treated with genuine seriousness. A dependable address on Rue du Luxembourg for those who want credentialed cooking without the upper-end price bracket.
Ixelles, Belgium
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.
Ixelles, Belgium
Philema brings Greek cooking to the Chaussée de Waterloo in Ixelles at a price point that makes it one of the more accessible Michelin Plate holders in the Brussels dining scene. Consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 places it within the tier of neighbourhood restaurants that punch above their category, earning critical notice without abandoning the relaxed register that defines the address.
Ixelles, Belgium
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.
Ixelles, Belgium
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.
Ixelles, Belgium
A Michelin Plate-recognised seafood address on Avenue Louis Lepoutre, Toucan sur Mer sits inside Ixelles' mature dining corridor where French technique meets North Sea and Atlantic produce.
Ixelles, Belgium
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.
Ixelles, Belgium
A Michelin Plate Italian in the heart of Ixelles, Fico sits at the accessible end of Brussels' Italian dining tier while trading in the kind of regional specificity that separates it from the neighbourhood's broader mid-market field.
Ixelles
Selected entries from the current guide for Ixelles.
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Ixelles
Selected entries from the current guide for Ixelles.
Ixelles, Belgium
A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Rue du Châtelain, Odette en Ville occupies a grand citizen house in one of Ixelles' most composed residential squares. The kitchen works a seasonal Modern French register with vegetables at the centre of every plate, positioning it closer to produce-led neighbourhood dining than to formal French classicism.
Ixelles
Selected entries from the current guide for Ixelles.
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