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Reviews - Bij Den Boer

Quai aux Briques 60, 1000, Bruxelles
BelgianAverage price €46
8.9
(686 reviews)

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  • Jussi R.1 review

    July 12, 2024

    3/10

    Service failed

  • Jessica G.

    Jessica G.2 reviews

    July 4, 2024

    8.5/10

    The waiter could be a bit more friendly, but he was professional. The food was incredible.

  • Kings T.2 reviews

    May 24, 2024

    10/10

    Very good food

  • Chris S.1 review

    May 10, 2024

    9.5/10

    If you always go into a restaurant experience in a relaxed and enthusiastic frame of mind, then the dining experience will reward your positivity. The staff at Bij den Boer were lovely and the food was superb. I can heartily recommend the foie gras and my partner very much enjoyed her corvina (both on the €24 lunch menu.) All four of our party walked away from BdB happy to have eaten there for our last meal in a fabulous trip to Brussels.

  • Maria G.4 reviews

    April 26, 2024

    9.5/10

    Nice locations and decoration inside. All the food was delicious and well cooked.

  • Alain b.3 reviews

    February 24, 2024

    9/10

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  • Elsa K.3 reviews

    February 1, 2024

    8/10

    Delicious food, nice service service comfy atmosphere

  • Pascal T.1 review

    November 6, 2023

    7.5/10

    Classic good quality food served with some local arrogance typical for BXL

  • Robert H.2 reviews

    October 6, 2023

    6.5/10

    No English menus. Poor English usage by staff

  • Melis O.1 review

    October 7, 2023

    3/10

    Terrible waiter!!! Simply terrible service. Average food- no english menu, no explanation of the menu english, waites 20min for water to arrive..

  • Yong-Dae C.1 review

    October 13, 2023

    7.5/10

    It was dinner for two on a busy Friday evening and the food was great. We had the set menu of fish soup, scallops and oysters which were tatsy. And we had the sunfish and monkfish for mains, though dishes were quite similar in taste profile, delicious nevertheless. The staff were friendly however the service was slow and had to prompt them every step. The couple on next table were still waiting for starters when we finished our mains, though having being seated at the same time. Would definitely return but perhaps on a weekday.

  • Bill M.1 review

    August 28, 2023

    8/10

    Food excellent. Service not overtly attentive. Authentic for local Brussels dining. Would highly recommend for Americans. People are normal and friendly.

  • Cyrus M.2 reviews

    April 24, 2023

    9.5/10

    A lovely spot. Excellent service and excellent food.

  • Wim V.1 review

    February 2, 2023

    10/10

    Tasty kitchen, helpful and friendly service.

  • Alina F.4 reviews

    November 26, 2022

    9.5/10

    Excellent food, good service but stressful welcome… We booked the only available time slot (as from 14h), we arrived on time but we were told that the restaurant did not received the booking and that 14h is too late… Nevertheless, they accepted to serve us food but maximum one dish… Finally we received main dish, dessert and coffee (all excellent), so it’s a pity that we had this useless stress at our arrival.

  • Mina B.1 review

    October 8, 2022

    8/10

    I have been going to Bij den Boer for 35 years - approximately once a year. The food is always good, the servers always a little haughty, but efficient and sometimes helpful. It doesn’t matter to me as I always enjoy my meal. The sole meunière is excellent, as is their house rose wine. Give it a try!

  • Beth H.1 review

    May 6, 2022

    10/10

    We had an exceptional lunch at a local establishment. Wait staff was extremely professional and kind. He assisted us in explaining the menu due to our lack of the language. Everything from drinks to dessert was sublime. We wouldn’t hesitate recommending this restaurant to all. What an enjoyable gastronomical experience.

  • Edward S.8 reviews

    April 21, 2022

    9.5/10

    This resto in centre of Brussels with metro station ideally placed outside the door has been one of our favourites for 40, yes forty, years. Brilliant fish dishes - magnificent sole meuniere

  • Ovidiu M.1 review

    October 17, 2020

    2/10

    They refused our reservation even though we had a confirmation. They did not check their online reservations! Next time I will definitely go somewhere else because they activate a service they never check !

  • Jane W.7 reviews

    January 11, 2020

    7/10

    My guests loved the atmosphere and our waiter was very pleasant but my monkfish was over cooked and the dish it was served in was hot enough to burn my hand when I brushed against it.

  • Katrina K.3 reviews

    December 7, 2019

    6.5/10

    The good news was that the mussels were excellent - plump juicy, plentiful and hot with good frites. The restaurant was buzzy. The bad news was that they had no record of my booking. However I stood my ground and eventually we were sat next to the kitchen which was ok. However there was a lot of muttering and puffing.

  • Simone M.

    Simone M.43 reviews

    December 5, 2019

    9.5/10

    Splendido plat royal of sea fruits with lobster, delicious!

  • Luis R.1 review

    November 23, 2019

    10/10

    Excellent!..Cannot say enough good things about this place...I make it "a thing" every year for my birthday.

  • RICHARD C.22 reviews

    November 21, 2019

    9.5/10

    Not a huge fish lover, but all dishes were delicious - even the fish soup! Boisterous atmosphere but still able to have a conversation without shouting. Seemed like a genuine local place. Recommended.

  • Willem H.1 review

    September 28, 2019

    5/10

    Apparently reservations you make post 6pm don’t work.. we reserved for 7.30pm and had our mains bt 9.30pm... Also, mussels there are relatively small.

  • Jason M.1 review

    September 23, 2019

    10/10

    Excellent restaurant for fish. Menu includes soup, two fish courses and dessert. There are a few non-fish options but standout dishes were scallop and white fish.

  • Ulrike W.3 reviews

    September 2, 2019

    9/10

    The typical Belgian restaurant offers regional dishes as fish and mussels in good and fresh quality.

  • - -.2 reviews

    June 21, 2019

    5/10

    Took 20 minutes to be acknowledged by any server once sat at our table, and we only then got helped because I tapped a waiter and asked for service. Even though we spoke English when we were sat, we were not given English menus until it was clear that we were trying to use Google translate app to figure out what to order. No one checked on us while we ate to see if we liked the food or wanted another drink. The food was good, but not great. The tasting menu looked like a good value, but we were not hungry enough for 4 courses, so we opted to order a al carte, which was dramatically more expensive than the tasting menu (basically paying significantly higher prices because we didn’t want to waste food or stuff ourselves). What is the point? There are so many delicious restaurants in Brussels. Disappointing because we were excited to eat here, but we’re quite let down.

  • Tatiana I.2 reviews

    March 1, 2019

    5/10

    It has been our fourth visit at this restaurant since 2008. We have always appreciated the cuisine and their really good tasty dishes. We recommended this restaurant to many our friends who have been visiting Brussels during the years. Oyster, fish soup, those was always delicious. This was the reason to visit bij de boer again and again. But yesterday was the worst visiting ever. As we arrived was the reaction of bored deeply unmotivated waiter very insulting. Even for obviously his fault in our reservation we never heard a excuse. A very rude behavior of this waiters let a very sad impression. I think this was our last visit at bij de boer.

  • Christopher M.1 review

    November 17, 2018

    7.5/10

    Good, authentic food, especially the seafood. Basic, friendly service. They managed to overlook our online booking, but did come up with a table for us fairly quickly.

  • Ioana S.12 reviews

    November 9, 2018

    10/10

    One of the best if not THE best place in Brussels for mossels or seafood. Very happy and cozy atmosphere and a very friendly staff.

  • - -.1 review

    June 18, 2018

    10/10

    The food was really good and service professional and friendly.

  • - -.1 review

    March 24, 2018

    9/10

    Great and relaxed place, fresh well prepared seafood and fish. Nit cozy by any means but a very good kitchen attentative service and some cooks who know what they are doing. The fixed price menu is a bargain.

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