Aux Armes de Bruxelles - Restaurant traditionnel à Bruxelles

Carpaccio of coloured tomatoes, pistachios, parmesan, eggplant caviar, arugula and black olives (vegetarian) 16 € - 22 €

Smoked salmon salad, avocado, jumbo prawns, cocktail sauce, tomato and hard- boiled eggs 20 € - 28 €

Brie salad with strawberries, basil, balsamic vinegar, smoked duck breast and toasted pinenuts 18€-24€

Smoked Ardennes ham salad with melon, marinated watermelon and mozzarella balls 19 € - 26 €

Marinated red cabbage salad, Granny Smith apple, warm black pudding and crumbled speculoos 19 € - 26 €

Grilled chicken fillets salad, roasted peaches, croutons and pickles redonion 22€-30€

The soul of the establishment

In 1958 the restaurant began a period of prosperity when the World's Fair turned Brussels into the center of the world for six months.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Jacques Veulemans, one of Calixte Veulemans’ sons, founded the “Comptoir des Armes,” a Belgian-style tapas bar, on Petite Rue des Bouchers just outside the venerable establishment.

He worked there with his wife Madame Suzanne and his son Laurent, among others.

The entire city of Brussels would meet there for a drink and to enjoy small servings of the restaurant’s classic fare while they swapped jokes and stories all night long.

The prosperous period of “Aux Armes de Bruxelles” lasted two decades, contributing to the festive reputation of the Ilot Sacré, the capital’s top destination for fine cuisine.

In 2006, the Veulemans family sold the business. The restaurant went through several years of instability before being purchased in 2018 by Rudy Vanlancker, owner of Chez Léon and longtime friend of the Veulemans family.
It was time for this great lady of restaurants, asleep since 2006, to awaken.