Although kosher restaurants pullulate with nearby Antwerp (45 minutes by train from Brussels), you can find three kosher restaurants in the Belgian capital itself, near its center. Pleasing the observant traveler with food prepared beneath supervision of an rabbi, these restaurants present you with a various sophisticated food, fine kosher wines, and culinary treats.


Pilpel
Although Pilpel Restaurant is found within a retail complex, it can be positioned in Ukkel, an affluent neighborhood minutes far from downtown Brussels towards the south. Its name means "pepper" in Hebrew. Besides Jewish specialties, it provides grilled meat and Mediterranean dishes. Here you'll be able to consume a traditional Israeli vegetable salad, falafel, pita sandwiches, or Moroccan cigars created from spicy meat in filo pastry. Specialties include fish, grilled meats skewered or minced, and pate de foie gras. Pilpel has a kosher wine selection in order to increase the experience of your lamb cutlets, sausages, or kebabs.

Unique to Pilpel may be the Glatt Kosher Lamehadrin Mini-Market located alongside the restaurant. All meat sold here conforms to Jewish dietary law. Here you can order a takeaway Shabbat menu, or purchase pastries and also a large selection of hot and cold foods.

Balthazar
Food at Balthazar has a distinctive Pacific Rim flavor, having a dinner menu that ranges from tropical meals to pasta dishes. Considered a meat kosher restaurant, Balthazar can be a favorite lunchtime haunt for Eurocrats. It really is located two miles east in the center of Brussels. The Kashrut degree of this restaurant, as defined by Jewish dietary laws, is "glatt," the industry term stricter than "kosher." This means the cattle whose meat is utilized therein restaurant are at the mercy of a post-mortem examination and declared "glatt," or totally free of any adhesions within their lungs. Here, all food served is kosher and beneath rabbinical supervision of Rabbi Machzikei Haddas.

Da Bruno
Recption menus on the kosher restaurant Da Bruno lists Italian and Mediterranean specialties. Salads, pastas, pizzas, and fish consume a large choice of antipasti for instance smoked salmon with basil, mixed peppers or mushrooms in olive oil, and fried or grilled eggplant. Da Bruno is situated in the spot of Brussels generally known as Etterbeek east of downtown, near Leopold Park plus the War History Museum.