# Jat' Café

> A wood-fitted coffee shop on the quiet street between Place Royale and Porte de Namur, open on Sundays, with bagels and weekend brunch.

- Canonical URL: https://www.brusselsgrandplace.com/places/cafe/jat-cafe
- Category: Café
- Address: Rue de Namur 28, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
- Coordinates: 50.840562, 4.359899
- Opening hours: Mo-Sa 07:30-19:00; Su 08:30-19:00
- Official website: https://www.instagram.com/jatbrussels/

## Why we recommend it

It sits on a small street between the royal quarter and Porte de Namur, so you get the historic city at one end and business-as-usual Brussels at the other. All wood inside, and the tables fill up with families, students and the local hipster contingent in roughly equal measure. Open on Sundays, which is rarer here than you would expect.

## About

Jat' takes its name from the Brussels word for a mug, which sets the tone: this
is a coffee shop rather than a café in the old Belgian sense. Wooden fittings
throughout, a counter of pastries and muffins, and bagel sandwiches that make
it a lunch stop as much as a coffee one.

The **weekend brunch** runs until the middle of the afternoon: eggs with bacon
or salmon, viennoiseries, fresh juice, fruit salad or yoghurt.

## Why it works for a Sunday

A good deal of central Brussels shuts on Sunday, and Jat' does not. If you are
staying near the Grand-Place and want somewhere to sit with a coffee and a
newspaper on a Sunday morning, the walk up to Rue de Namur is a short one.

The mix of people is the other reason to go. Students from the nearby faculties,
families with children in tow, and the specialty-coffee crowd all end up at the
same wooden tables, which makes it an easier room to bring children into than a
quiet dining place.

## Getting there

Walk up through the Mont des Arts to the Place Royale, then straight on into
Rue de Namur. The café is a couple of hundred metres down on the left, before
the street opens out at Porte de Namur.

## Distances

Straight-line distances computed from coordinates. Walking times are estimates, not measured routes.

| From | Straight line | On foot |
|---|---|---|
| Grand-Place | 860 m | approx. 16 min |
| Place du Grand Sablon | 290 m | approx. 6 min |
| Brussels Central | 610 m | approx. 11 min |
| Our apartment | 620 m | approx. 12 min |
| Manneken-Pis | 850 m | approx. 16 min |

## Map

- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.840562&mlon=4.359899#map=18/50.840562/4.359899)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=50.840562,4.359899)
- [Walking directions from the Grand-Place](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=50.846700,4.352500&destination=50.840562,4.359899&travelmode=walking)

## Nearby

- [Wolf](https://www.brusselsgrandplace.com/places/restaurant/wolf-food-market) — A food court in a former bank hall, with a couple of dozen kitchens around shared tables. No reservations, and it works for groups.
- [Le Cirio](https://www.brusselsgrandplace.com/places/cafe/le-cirio) — An 1886 Belle Époque café beside the old stock exchange, its interior barely touched, home of the half-en-half.
- [Estaminet Toone](https://www.brusselsgrandplace.com/places/cafe/toone) — An old estaminet down a covered alley off the Petite rue des Bouchers, under the Toone marionette theatre, with Belgian beers and puppets on every wall.

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Last updated: 2026-09-15.