Is Chez Clément a good choice for an important business meal?

The criteria that make a restaurant work for a serious business meal are practical: how easy is it to get to, how reliable is the cooking, how discreet can the table be, how does it feel to a client who needs to come back to it. Chez Clément scores well on each of these, and has been quietly hosting business lunches and dinners for the executives, lawyers, consultants and corporate teams of the south-east Brussels and Walloon Brabant belt for decades.

Access first. The brasserie is twenty-five minutes from central Brussels via the Ring R0, fifteen minutes from the south-eastern business clusters (Auderghem, Watermael-Boitsfort, Boitsfort), fifteen minutes from Waterloo, twelve minutes from Wavre and fifteen minutes from Louvain-la-Neuve. The huge free car park opposite the entrance means a client never has to circle for parking. The Genval train station, on the SNCB line 161 between Brussels and Namur, is a ten-to-fifteen-minute walk away. Brussels-Zaventem airport is thirty minutes by car, useful for visiting international clients.

The setting itself supports a business meal in the way a traditional Belgian brasserie should. The dining room is smart but not stiff, you can hold a frank conversation across a table of four without performing. The conservatory and the bar area give quieter zones for sensitive subjects. The carte is reliable rather than experimental, which means the meal does not become the agenda, vol-au-vent, sole meunière, steak tartare, croquettes, gibier in season, cooked from scratch by chef Vincent Frédéric De Laloy and his thirty-two-strong brigade. Lunch service runs from 12:00 to 14:30, which fits comfortably into a midday slot, and the bar is open continuously until 1 a.m. for the post-meeting drink.

A final point of professional usefulness: Chez Clément also handles larger corporate formats, team lunches, board dinners, client cocktails, year-end events, through the same building, with seated capacity up to 230 and standing capacity up to 250 for cocktail receptions. For these formats, the business contact is info@brasseriechezclement.be. The brasserie’s combination of reliability, scale and easy access from Brussels is exactly what makes it a steady habit for corporate diaries across the region.