# Fin de Siècle

> A loud Belgian brasserie near Sainte-Catherine serving large plates of carbonnade, stoemp and rabbit. No reservations, so timing matters.

- Canonical URL: https://www.brusselsgrandplace.com/places/restaurant/fin-de-siecle
- Category: Restaurant
- Address: Rue des Chartreux 9, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
- Coordinates: 50.848894, 4.347108
- Opening hours: Mo-Su 12:00-24:00
- Official website: https://www.findesiecle.be/en

## Why we recommend it

You cannot book, so we tell guests to walk over around six. Come at eight and you queue. The room is loud, the plates are enormous, and it is the meal people talk about when they get home.

## About

Fin de Siècle serves the Belgian dishes people come to Brussels for and rarely
find outside a tourist menu: **carbonnade flamande** cooked in beer, **stoemp**
with sausage, **lapin à la kriek** rabbit in cherry beer, chicons au gratin,
and mussels in season. The daily menu is chalked on the wall rather than
printed, and the portions are the kind that make a starter a mistake.

The beer list is long and the staff will pair it with what you have ordered if
you ask, which is worth doing: most of these dishes are cooked with beer, and
drinking the same one alongside is the point. Leave room for the waffles or
the speculoos cheesecake.

The room is dark, crowded and genuinely loud. That is the character of the
place rather than a fault, but it is not where you go for a quiet conversation
or an early night with small children.

## The timing problem

**They take no reservations.** At lunch and from about half past seven the
place is full, and the queue on the pavement is normal rather than a bad sign.

Our advice to guests is to arrive around **18:00**. You will usually walk
straight in, the kitchen is unhurried, and the room fills up around you over
the next hour, which is the better half of the experience anyway.

Worth checking when you arrive: the house has a long-standing reputation for
being **cash only**. Their own site does not state a payment policy, so bring
notes rather than assume the card will work.

## Getting there

It is a walk of about a quarter of an hour from the apartment, west past the
Bourse and towards Sainte-Catherine. The route through the Galeries and along
Rue Antoine Dansaert is the pleasant one.

## Distances

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

| From | Straight line | On foot |
|---|---|---|
| Grand-Place | 450 m | approx. 9 min |
| Manneken-Pis | 480 m | approx. 9 min |
| Our apartment | 670 m | approx. 13 min |
| Brussels Central | 770 m | approx. 14 min |
| Place du Grand Sablon | 1.0 km | approx. 19 min |

## Map

- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.848894&mlon=4.347108#map=18/50.848894/4.347108)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=50.848894,4.347108)
- [Walking directions from the Grand-Place](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=50.846700,4.352500&destination=50.848894,4.347108&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 Petit Bon Bon](https://www.brusselsgrandplace.com/places/restaurant/le-petit-bon-bon) — Christophe Hardiquest's Belgian brasserie inside the Corinthia hotel on Rue Royale, with tables opening onto a courtyard terrace.
- [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.

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Source: [Fin de Siècle](https://www.brusselsgrandplace.com/places/restaurant/fin-de-siecle) on [Brussels Grand Place](https://www.brusselsgrandplace.com/), the Grand-Place in Brussels building by building, written by people who live 200 m from the square.
Last updated: 2026-09-15.