How long does a business lunch at Chez Clément take?

The lunch service at Brasserie Chez Clément runs from 12:00 to 14:30, seven days a week. That two-and-a-half-hour amplitude is one of the practical reasons the house has become a regular B2B address for the southern-Brussels and Walloon Brabant business community: a corporate guest can shape the meal to fit the agenda, not the other way around.

For a tightly framed working lunch, a quick alignment with a partner, a structured one-on-one with an internal manager, the kitchen can run a two-course meal inside roughly sixty to seventy-five minutes if the order is taken promptly on arrival. The team is used to volume rhythm: with 200 to 300 covers per service and more than 1,400 weekly covers under chef Vincent Frédéric De Laloy's thirty-two-person brigade, the pace machine is well-oiled.

For a longer client lunch, where the conversation matters as much as the food, ninety minutes to two hours sits naturally in the same service window. The dining room layout helps: the main room, the bar area and the conservatory, the room where Marie and Gilles Verleyen were married, each have a slightly different acoustic and visual feel, so the right table choice already shifts the perceived tempo.

The duration is genuinely variable, 60 to 180 minutes is the honest range, with no rigid turn-over rule applied at the table. As a practical guide: tell the team your preferred ending time when you book, and the service paces itself accordingly. The same logic applies to a 13:30 finish for a tight afternoon agenda or a 14:30 last-coffee for a fully relaxed conversation.