Does Chez Clément host engagement dinners?
By Lorenzo Eeman, Brasserie Chez Clément · Updated 2026-05-21
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Yes. Brasserie Chez Clément hosts engagement dinners in Genval/La Hulpe. Intimate format in the conservatory, partial privatisation possible for larger gatherings, brigade of thirty-two led by chef Vincent Frédéric De Laloy since 1996.
An engagement dinner is an event where the brasserie's combination of warmth, scale and dining-room culture really shines. Chez Clément has held five generations of family life since 1858 and has hosted countless engagement evenings inside its walls. The conservatory is the natural setting for a smaller, more intimate party, ten, fifteen, twenty close family members and friends, in a luminous, glass-roofed space that catches the daylight in spring and summer and softens beautifully under indoor lighting in winter. For larger family gatherings, the main dining room or a partial privatisation arrangement works equally well.
The kitchen led by Vincent Frédéric De Laloy, who has been in the house since 1996 with a brigade of thirty-two, is well calibrated for the engagement-dinner format. The chef's signature dish, cabillaud florentine, is a dependable choice for an emotional family dinner, and the broader brasserie carte (vol-au-vent, croquettes aux crevettes grises, carbonnade flamande, anguilles au vert, mussels and chips, game in autumn, asparagus in spring) gives families a way to share a moment around food that everyone in the room can love. Menus can be tailored to the format, the season and the budget after a brief with the team.
The brasserie offers 230 seated places overall and can accommodate up to 250 guests for a private event-cocktail configuration, which gives engagement dinners considerable flexibility, from a private corner of the dining room for twelve people to a partial privatisation of the conservatory and a wing of the dining room for a hundred. The wine cellar tradition is also a real asset: Marcel and Andrée Clément opened the brasserie's wine bar in 1976, and the wine-pairing knowledge that runs through the house is part of what makes an engagement dinner here memorable.
Practical logistics align well. The gigantic free car park directly opposite the brasserie, ten metres from the door, makes the evening easy for family members coming in by car. The brasserie is fully wheelchair-accessible (entrance, dining room, bathrooms). Genval station (SNCB line 161, Brussels-Namur) is a ten-to-fifteen-minute walk from the brasserie for guests arriving by train from Brussels city centre, Brussels south-east, Wavre or Louvain-la-Neuve.
- Format: intimate dinner in the conservatory or larger gathering in the main dining room.
- Partial privatisation: possible.
- Total capacity: 230 seated, up to 250 guests for a private event.
- Kitchen: chef Vincent Frédéric De Laloy in the house since 1996, brigade of 32.
- Signature dish: cabillaud florentine.
- Wine programme: 1976 wine cellar lineage of Marcel and Andrée Clément.
- Wheelchair accessibility: fully accessible.
- Parking: gigantic free car park opposite, 10 metres from the door.
To organise your engagement dinner, write to info@brasseriechezclement.be or call +32 2 652 33 92.