From the owner: Les Caves d'Alex is said to delight lovers of classic cuisine and fine wines…read more Indeed, this French restaurant boasts a superb wine list, with several hundred references. We're located in an unusual setting, a former wine storehouse flanked by giant wine barrels (22,000-liter foudres), rather atypical in Ixelles. Extra surprise, a superb 1000 square metre garden/terrace right in the middle of Brussels, and a private parking lot to welcome you.

I have eaten in Athens Greece multiple times and while the food is good it doesn't carry the same…read moreflavors. The price is more than reasonable and the staff were friendly and happy to be of service. The atmosphere was open and while the place is cozy/intimate it's more of a hangout spot grab enjoy food with friends that a date night.

From the owner: We invite you all to the brand new concept of taste in the heart of Brussels, right in the European…read morequarter! For lunch or dinner come and explore our Greek grill cuisine and other flavors in a beautiful, warm atmosphere.

Visited last Friday with the family. The meat is of excellent quality and was delicious and well…read moregrilled. The wine list is really good and has surprising content. The wait-staff is friendly and the food was brought quickly and efficiently. As starters we all took different things. Empanadas, sausage, Iberico ham, chorizo, Japanese salmon tartar and some anti-pasti. They were really good quality and in my opinion good value for money. The side dishes with the main course on the other hand were so so. Really tiny not really well baked potato, fries that were average, some vegetables. The portobello mushrooms announced in the menu is in fact one mushroom upside down covered in molten cheese. Desert was a 'moelleux au chocolat' for two of us and apple tart with dulce de leche. Both were good but not great which brings me to the issue with this place. The local specialities served are really good quality but the dishes are all formulaic. The iberico ham is great for example but just thinly sliced on a wooden board. The chocolat brownie is left in the ramekin, not quite the right consistency, the apple tart is not home made. The other thing that didnt go right was that after serving the food the wait staff ignored us. Now I wouldnt mind but they placed the wine bottle out of reach! I would go back for the meat - it was great great quality.

Very charming hidden restaurant. Excellent steaks paired with great sauces and wines. Friendly…read morestaff. A great experience every time.

We randomly found a Groupon for this place while in town. I thought it would be worth a try since…read moreAidan had never had a fondue type dinner before even though he says he's been to the melting pot in the states but apparently was too sick to eat! We arrived at 18:30 for our reservation and were immediately seated. We enjoyed a pre dinner drink, salads, main course and two desserts for 79 euros! The main course meat plate was loaded with big chunks of steak and chicken ready to be skewered and dropped in the boiling hot broth. The meal also came with a large plate of fries. It was more than enough food for 2 and probably could have fed 3. We ordered the Creme brûlée and profiteroles for our dessert and both were large portions. The profiteroles had plenty of chocolate sauce, whipped cream and a sprinkling of nuts. The presentation was very nice. Other than a small language barrier issue with one of the staff who brought me an entire extra salad when all I wanted was the dressing, it was a lovely evening! The restaurant has a nice ambience and it's smallish but not so small where you would feel uncomfortable.

Very disappointed with the burger.. small for the price, extremely amateur, and long waiting…read moreperiod. Nothing more to say: avoid

Les propriétaires ont changés et ça n'a plus rien d'un italien…read more La cuisines est faite de réchauffé et les assiettes si t mal présentées. Le service est amical mais totalement amateur. C'était une bonne adresse, ce n'en est clairement plus une. Dommage.

If you really want to guarantee a spot for dinner here, make a reservation ahead of time, but to be…read morehonest, I wouldn't go out of my way to eat here. I'd only come here if I couldn't find anything else to eat - I prefer Fin de Siecle across the street for more traditional Belgian food (it's a no-reservation, wait-in-line kind of place). We ended up here because we had eaten at Fin de Siecle already the night before, and the restaurant we wanted to go to was full, so this was one of few options to dine at on a Sunday evening. The service here was interminably slow - it took them almost 20 min to get me a table. I didn't have a reservation, so I was fine waiting, but when you tell me 5 minutes or 2 minutes a handful of times, it's just better to tell me that it's a 15-20 minute wait for a table. It worked out fine because my fiance had to go find an ATM to get cash, since this place doesn't take credit cards. We thought this place was more Mediterranean (per Yelp's categorisation) but it was more Italian than anything else, with Spanish tapas and some Italian starters / antipasti. They have a lot of "world tapas" and the menu had a lot of different options of varying cuisines, but this place seemed to just make a lot of things on the mediocre side instead of making fewer things that taste great. On the tapas side they have bruschetta, fried bacalao fritters, patatas bravas, fried calamari, crostini. They have 7 salad options to pick from, which is definitely nice to find in a restaurant in Brussels, where most of the choices on the menu revolve around potatoes and meat. They have about 10-12 choices for pasta dishes, Belgian dishes, meat, and fish. You should be able to find something to eat on this menu since it's fairly varied. Bruschetta (6,50€) - We were starving by the time we sat down, so we got an appetizer - they have 2 bruschetta dishes, the smaller one at 6,50€ has tomatoes, parmesan cheese, basil, and anchovies, and just one piece of bread, and the larger version is almost double in price and has 2 pieces of bread and includes shrimp scampi and garlic. The bruschetta was fine (we got the smaller one) - not mind blowing, but not worth the price. There were a lot of tomatoes and the parmesan cheese was good but the bread was just okay and didn't seem particularly fresh. Salade Publico (15,90€) - This salad had a really huge piece of grilled salmon on top of shredded cabbage and iceberg lettuce, and had some fried calamari and bacalao / cod fritters. The salmon was farm-raised and overly plump, and slightly overcooked. The lettuce/cabbage was fine, but would have preferred mixed greens. The fried calamari and deep fried cod fritters didn't seem very fresh and seemed previously frozen and very-much mass-produced like it came out of a big bag from the freezer. We wanted salad, so this was at least decently healthy and satisfied what we wanted, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get this salad again. Ravioli Publico (15,20€) - These raviolis had meat inside, and topped with brown mushrooms, some parma ham, and a cream-sauce. There were maybe 10-12 pieces of ravioli on the plate, just FYI for those of you who are used to ordering ravioli and getting 5 pieces and then sit there hungry for the rest of dinner. The other pasta dishes looked bigger to me, and I wished I had gotten the orecchiette instead. The pasta was fine but didn't taste particularly fresh. I've had similar tasting pasta from the grocery store in the refrigerated section. I don't think I'd get this again if I came back. The service was not super - they took a long time to bring us wine after we ordered (and forgot my glass and then charged us for an extra one when I asked for my wine -- glad we checked the bill!) and were slow at taking orders / bringing food. Maybe they were super busy, but they just seemed short-staffed on waiters/cooks. They also didn't bring us the complimentary bread all the other tables seemed to get. They don't take credit cards, so plan accordingly. I wouldn't come back here unless there was nothing else open around here. The food was just mediocre for the price, and the service was subpar. It was okay - I'd give it between around 2.5 stars, maybe 3 if I was feeling generous. There are better restaurants in Brussels.