Very very good Italian authentic cuisine for people who are used to eat real good Italian food…read more!!!!!! My favorite Italian restaurant!! Very nice servers, always smiling. The restaurant is renewed since a few months, and all the tables are nicely spread: great privacy. A great terrace too.

From the owner: At Ristorante Taormina, you experience the real taste of homemade cuisine executed with care for…read morethe founding traditions of Italian gastronomy. So we cook our pizzas in a traditional wood-fired stone oven to preserve the authentic taste of real Italian pizza. Our pasta is as well produced in house by our artisans just like our desserts and ice cream which are realised in our dedicated workshop. We believe in traditional craftsmanship as a vision for the future where you will always be aware of what is served, with no secrets.

We've been here twice in 3 evenings with colleagues. Of the 6-7 restaurants tried in the area…read moreincluding other Italian, Chinese and Thai, I recommend Da Lino. Family run and on premises. A delightful meal including fun teasing by the wait staff how Americans always order Chianti--we didn't :) Can recommend the Scampi appetizer as well as the entrée of Linguini with Lobster and Basil. Perfecto! I'm not a dessert person, but I would save room for desserts (see pics) Small gripe: ordered a gin martini and got a gin and tonic. It's okay. I've come to accept the difficulty of ordering a true martini in this country. Serving a martini must be an unnatural act. Overall, good value in wine. Tip I: Restaurant has its own parking lot but not on the website as best I can tell...so call for directions. Otherwise parking in area of Zaventem train station is tight. Tip II: Closed Sunday, also not on website. While were we there in November, I notice inviting outdoor seating in season. Will return.

I've been there several times for business lunches. The…read moreplace is like a little Italy by itself, always courteous and efficient service. Everyone talks about their pizza, not being a huge fan of pizza, i tried it two times and they were sensational! I really like the authenticity in the rest of the menu. The chef proposes some interesting choices there. If you ever want a nice Italian in the region of Zaventem, I highly recommend Da Lino! The best one in the area.

From the owner: La Focacceria vous invite à déguster la "focaccia barese" (des Pouilles, Sud de l Italie) une sorte…read morede pizza a la pate savoureuse en plusieurs tailles et formes, ainsi que d'autres spécialités et plats des Pouilles et du sud de l'Italie.

Good food. We all enjoyed our food even with the language barrier. They didn't have an English…read moreversion of the menu and fortunately the menu was French and Italian and my high school French classes finally paid off. The staff was super friendly and helpful on making sure we were getting what we hoped we were ordering. In true European fashion, the meal took over 2 hours. We had a pizza and 2 Trios. Everything was really delicious. We had a Tiramisu and a chocolate tart for dessert. They were both delicious. I would highly recommend this place but do make reservations. We made them online and they didn't get transferred to the paper calendar but they made sure to squeeze us in.

If you want to eat Italian food, do not hesitate. This is…read moreone of the best I discovered in the region. Wonderful Italian wine card, lovely interior, perfect service for a reasonable price.

We came to Europe for Le Tour de France and this is the best meal we had in 6 days of travel. The…read moreowner is very friendly and personable. Highly recommend!!! Great atmosphere inside or out. Great portion sizes, reasonable prices.

We had a wonderful dinner here. The owner of the restaurant and his daughter came and explained the…read moredishes, including their recommendations. Each one of our pasta was homemade and absolutely delicious. I especially recommend the lamb ravioli. We shared the tiramisu, which was also delicious. It tasted like we were in Italy!

We weren't able to get a reservation but we came right as they opened for dinner and we were seated…read moreimmediately. The owner greeted us and told us about the dishes, his wife is the one who makes all of the delicious food! This is right at the center of Brussels so really a great place to eat and we ate outside. There's plenty of seating outside. The pasta was so delicious, fresh, and you could tell it was made with love.

This place is so good that I'm writing this review while I'm here, having just finished my dessert!…read moreThe pasta is exceptional, as good as in Italy. We had the Truffle tortellini & the Spaghetti Vongole - both were fantastic. We then had the Cafe Italia and the Dame Blanche for dessert- the perfect end to a great meal. The live pianist was a lovely touch, with beautiful music complimenting the great food. Service was wonderfully friendly and warm. Cannot recommend this place more- well worth the price.

So you know when you really really want to like a place? But every time you go, despite how much…read moreyou like the food, something taste wise just doesn't gel? That's what's it like with me and thus restaurant. It's a fave place for people from work and for one Italian colleague, it's the place he reckons serves Italian food just like he gets in his home town of Milan. So I have come here ranging with groups of 5 to 20 pros and am always impressed by the service, and also the theatrics of the host. And they have a menu in English, and prices and variety of food is pretty good even if there is no pizza on the menu. But somehow the food - it's always been too salty for me and ditto for the dessert this time, except the caramel cream brûlée was sickly sweet. I have enjoyed the Tiramsui in the past and can recommend that. So I think this restaurant is good, but their food is just not to my taste.

How do you say delicious in the local language. Oh well, I'll just say Delicious! Located right off…read moreof the main train station in zaventem. I came with a colleague for a midweek dinner where the craving for a steak was fairly high after a week of dining on mussels for the most part. The steak with mushrooms was so tender! Good wine and crowded with locals on a Tuesday night which provides great insight that this is a local favorite. Yum!!!!

A friend of mine had been trying for weeks to get a dinner reservation at Osteria Bolognese. She…read morewas finally able to snag one for 9:15 p.m. on a Tuesday. It wasn't ideal, but we were all happy to get in. We were immediately impressed. The service was fantastic, even for our group of six. The wine selection was perfect for the food. The seasonal menu was relatively small, so we decided to order one of every appetizer and every main, and to share everything. Everything was good, but these were the standouts for me: *Asparagus *Truffle pasta *Vegetable pasta *Clam linguine We could have done without the burrata, the lasagna, the cheesecake and the tiramisu, which were OK but not great. However, we cleaned every single plate, and we left overall feeling very happy and satisfied. BUT ALL WAS NOT AS IT SEEMED.... I woke up the next morning with no appetite. I thought this was no big deal since I'd eaten a massive late dinner the night before. Around 10 a.m., I started getting a killer headache. I thought I might be hungover, even though I hadn't drank that much the night before. In the middle of a meeting that morning, I started getting really nauseous, and then projectile vomiting. I let my friends from the previous night's dinner know I wasn't feeling well. It turned out another had been vomiting profusely all morning, and another felt very sick as well. The common thread was Osteria Bolognese. Unfortunately, since we all basically ate everything, it's hard to narrow down with precision which dish was the culprit. We suspect the clams. I obviously will not be going back here.

The first time I walked by the Osteria, it was closed. The second time, it was a Wednesday (when…read morethey don't take reservations) good luck getting a table. The third time I made a reservation 2 weeks in advance, the reservation was made a few days before my last day in Brussels. Thank goodness I made that reservation! I've never been to Italy, but Osteria Bolognese was the best Italian meal I've ever had. My friend and I shared a few dishes. The ragu, a popular dish, was light and flavorful. The tortellini were perfectly filling. The spritz was a Bolognese take on Aperol and it was delicious. The founders claim that the ingredients are flown into Brussels daily from Bologna and I have no reason not to believe them! When you go, expect your dinner to last all evening and make friends with the staff. Don't miss this place next time you're in Brussels!

I wanted a quick snack so I stopped in just before 1 pm on a Sunday and got a sausage roll. It…read morewasn't the best but it's pretty good if you're looking for something quick and inexpensive. They have a variety of other items and it seemed like a lot of people were ordering the sandwiches. They'll also warm it up for you, if you ask. We randomly found this spot on our last day of Brussels but if we knew about it earlier, we for sure would have gone here for breakfast a few times.

I REALLY liked their Brussels waffle; the texture and taste were amazing even if it looked…read moreordinary. This location is at the center of a lot of the major tourist attractions and is therefore great if you're looking for a quick, on-the-go breakfast or lunch without having to sit down (though that is still an option). Panos is a chain bakery/sandwich shop and was recommended by one of the aunties. Stuff you can find here includes sandwiches, wraps, soups, sweet and savory pastries, individual loaves and rolls, salads, coffee, and hot chocolate. Super basic, but high-quality stuff compared to a lot of other chain bakery places we saw as we traveled through Europe. Some of those sweet pastries were just really fancy looking for what's supposed to apparently be a very basic place, while even the basic stuff tasted really delicious. Their croissants were also super delicious, and I thought the raspberry croissant was particularly interesting. This particular location is on the street branching just off Grote Markt (Grand Place) and just across from the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert's southern entrance. It was near where we were supposed to meet up with our tour group, so we dropped by very quickly to grab some breakfast. My chief memory of that morning was that their waffle honestly made me feel better about the first half of the day.