What time do the Thursday disco nights start at Chez Clément?

A Thursday disco night at Chez Clément reads in two clear movements. The first is the restaurant service, which opens at 19:00 like any other evening and runs until 22:30. The full brasserie menu is served as usual across the main dining room, the conservatory and, in season, the terrace. Vincent Frédéric De Laloy, the head chef who has been in the kitchen since 1996, leads a brigade of thirty-two through the dinner service with no concession to the music side of the evening, the food is exactly the food. For a Thursday-disco dinner, an 7:30 or 8:00 p.m. table tends to be the most natural choice if you want to eat first and stay on for the DJ.

The second movement is the build-up at the bar. Separate from the restaurant room, the bar at Chez Clément runs continuously from noon until 1 AM seven days a week. Thursdays are the exception: a DJ takes the decks during the evening and the night can run until 4 or 5 AM, well beyond the usual 1 AM bar hours. It is the only evening of the week where the bar's activity stretches that late; the other nights, the 1 AM closing time remains the rule. For the Thursday you have in mind, the cleanest way to confirm the line-up is to call the brasserie directly on +32 2 652 33 92.

This dual schedule reflects something deeper about the place. A Belgian brasserie is not a restaurant in the narrow French sense: it is a public room where food, drink and conversation flow together through the day. Founded in 1858 by Henri and Sidonie Clément, Chez Clément has been operating in this mixed mode for almost 170 years. The Thursday disco nights, launched by France Clément in the mid-1990s, are the modern weekly expression of that mixed logic, one room moves seamlessly from dinner to dance floor without ever closing the door.

For visitors arriving from Brussels city centre, the drive via the Ring R0 takes about twenty-five minutes; from the south-east of Brussels (Auderghem, Watermael-Boitsfort) it is fifteen to eighteen minutes. The gigantic free car park directly opposite the brasserie, ten metres from the door, removes the parking question. Train passengers arrive at Genval station on SNCB line 161 (Brussels-Namur), a ten-to-fifteen-minute walk from the brasserie, sensible for the outbound trip; for the return, given that the night extends until 4-5 AM, a taxi or ride-share is the safest option.