The BEST things to do in Brussels 🇧🇪🍻 - Handpicked by the locals.
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- Want to know exactly what to do and where to go in Brussels, Belgium? Then you MUST watch this video!
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10. Discover Brussels’ vibrant craft beer scene (#00:30)
9. Admire spectacular architecture at Grand Place (#01:54)
8. Soak in the cultural richness: art, art, art! (#02:31)
7. Indulge in the variety of cuisines (#03:21)
6. Experience the nightlife like a local (#04:40)
5. Enjoy Brussels like a local at the flea market (#05:26)
4. Spoil your sweet tooth with Belgian chocolate (#06:12)
3. Dive into a shopping heaven (#07:14)
2. Let yourself seduced by art and panoramic views (#07:48)
1, Chill in a park and stretch your legs (#08:30)
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I was born in Brussels (in 1946). Lived there, studied there, worked there. I am living now in southern France as retired. Sometimes, I miss Brussels. It is a city full of surprises at each corner if you let your curiosity flying freely. It is impossible to describe and to "market" this city in 10 minutes. The best way to visit it is to know a local who was born in Brussels, to take the time to stay there for a while and to let you drive along in different areas. Anyway, this video gave me nice souvenirs of my city. Thank you/Bedankt/Merci
Hello, you story sounds very interesting! If you ever come to Brussels, it would be nice to meet up. My name is Ekaterina, I am Russian, and now live near Hasselt.
Hi Ekaterina! I moved to bxl from Flanders 18 years ago as a student. This city made me and will always be in my heart. If you need any local tips to visit Brussels let me know!
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Should've added Cinquantenaire! Young people always go there at day and night for either chilling or going out and it's so so so mesmerising
Is this a park?
Great job showing Brussels!
Thanks. Very useful. I am visiting in June 2022. Discovering beer is number ONE on my list!
Thanks for the guide!
I love Brussels. Nice people, good beer, wonderfu bar and eateries.
Hello Bob, I was watching this video and I didn't expect to see you, I'm your neighbour in the building, what a coincidence 🤩😄
approooved !!
Very nice video! I'm planning a visit in November! Thank you for the tips!!!
Super cool video! You really captured Brussel's spirit
Yeah, as long as you mean 1000 Brussels. The other 18 communes don't get a look in.
I love your vedios amazing to watching so many things to learn ..very specifix explanation ..you are professional guide tour in the cities around Europe 👍😍🌍
Great video!
We are drinking Kwaks at the pub right now! What a great recommendation!! ❤
This is a very nice city, I hope I can visit again in the future when all this is over. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much!
It breakfast? Bad
Great city
Actually, Bob is not standing at Place Ste. Cath but at the Vismet. Ste. Cath is on the other side of the church!
I'm going to Brussels this Saturday, my second time visiting this wonderful city. Watching your CZcams video has certainly given me a few ideas of things to do and places to visit.
i was there in 2019! The fries, the chocolate,and the waffles omg! delicious.... oh yes! and the beer is 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
And the dirtiness of the streets, no?
I'm so excited to go and live there
Don't live there.. Chose other cities. Believe me
Nice informative video. I’m planning to visit Europe. Will include Brussels in my trip for atleast a 3 days visit to enjoy all these places
So excited to come and live there! I plan to go and do all of these! If anyone in Brussels wants to take me under their wing that’d be great! 🤗
You can always check out BRUZZ, the main source in Brussels when it comes down to
news and the best culture tips! We also have a weekly show on sundays called BRUZZ International, where we take a look at what's happening in the city keeping the international community in mind! 😁
If u ever made it here, we can hang out and I will show u around. Let me know :)
Sure you wanna live in brussels?
Randale!!!!
Great Video ! Thank you ! I am currently thinking to go visit this February :)
I hope you'll enjoy your stay even if it's probably be cold and rainy at that moment of the year.
Well done video! I could have added Cinquatenaire park and Atomium but I also understand that one cannot "include everything". You already have a lot of interesting attractions in a quite short time.
Mr Falafel does actually have the best falafel in all of town. If you need a cheap but filling and an extremely satisfying meal, go there!
Avoid the restaurants in Rue de la Montagne (opposite the cathedral) and avoid the restaurants at 'Rue des Bouchers' + area. They're not belgian/brussels, although they claim to be. They're just expensive useless tourists traps.
Even inside the gallery?
Must go back to Brussels and do it right!!
No comment
The renter of appartments offered vegan dandelion seitan, dont know if that os belgian food or hers but that was the most delicious food I ever tried. She said you can love vegan food if you only can be creative in the kitchen😍
I love your report about Brussels. I’m Norwegian and I love your city, however I just need to say that the comment about ‘the finesse of French cuisine ‘ is an illusion. I’ve lived in France for five years and I discovered that so called French Gastronomie Is an over statement simply because people are conditioned and don’t dare to ask questions.. i was still living in France when the country woke up to the big scandal ( 2015) in the restaurant business.. so many ‘restaurants gastronomiques ‘ and star Michelin were caught using frozen or industrial food and serving them as ‘ de la cuisine artisanale ‘. The whole thing proved my point.. same goes for their patisseries… I prefer eating in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Thailand, Oslo, NYC, Beirut, Marrakech,Naples, Sicily, Bologna, India, London or Brussels .
That's why we call it Belgian food, the French took it over, but they are not so good 😉
Discover the "good places" in Brussels; we have the most prestigious restaurants. You're all wrong. I am from Brussels. I think you've never seen the best places.
you can add Istanbul to that list
Brussels is a must once in our life’s.
I hate it and the same it I love it. (Love things)
Great video, but my dude, check your audio balance. The music is way too loud
Super Belle Ville
Lovely from INDIA ❤️👍
I am a fresh graduate, looking to continue my study in Belgium. I like to watch some videos about it to motivate me. I hope I could get the scholarship!
Wow a boy's fountain is a Real European Brand nowadays. Anyway it's great to see a lot of beautifull old corners with such a devine art on the walls, a choclate is no longer a secret and such a sweet company with beer makes the evenings there really unforgetable for all addicted to earliests days of free Easter Isle American style.
I travel alone to Brussels 4 years ago, I went to a bar alone for a beer and the waiter received with a "we don't sell coffee here" 😒
As a person with social anxiety, it made me not enjoy my beer😪
A lot of people in Brussel refuse to speak Engish (or Dutch/Flemish). Not all of course
8:53 Parc Georges-Henri is in Woluwe, quite far from Watermael-Boitsfort.
I I wanna try the fries 🤯
If you go there try them with the sauces
Great video! Thank you from BX!
Those places are places more to meet tourists and European bureaucrats, than actual Belgians...
If you want to connect to the actual city, you'd rather go around "place Flagey", the university, the sunday-morning market "aux abattoires de Bruxelles", taste the beers at the "moeder lambik" instead ... Belgians takes a bit of time to meet: you need to become a regular of the same place. But you won't end up with such a made-up picture of the city (witch explained so many wrong decision at the EU).
Brussels is the city that has everything you need❤️
but not everything you want
What is the falafel place shown around 3:43?
Going Brussels in august what’s the nightlife like?
Hello!
Bob the American expat is not on the Place Ste. Catherine, he is on the Fish market.
And no way is fornostar the best pizza place in brussels …
@@georgeleorgebeorge2354 That's for sure!!!
For a moment I felt as if I were the protagonist of a 90's movie
Leffe is great beer. Hard to find in North America, but it's here if you know what taverns to look for and they serve it in the traditional chalice
Humanzoo - An African girl was fed by the outstretched hand of a white patron during 1958 Brussels featuring 'Congo Village' with visitors watching her from behind wooden fences.
I've never visted mainland Europe even though I live in the UK. I think it's about time that I did. I plan to do Paris, Brussels and maybe Amsterdam by Eurostar over the coming weeks, short trips.
As sad as it sounds I am actually looking forward to getting EU passport stamps...
How many days do you recommend in Brussels?
I miss the "kruidtuin van Brussel" (botanic garden), Graf van de onbekende soldaat, the cathedrals. In Brussels you will find very ugly places next to beautiful architecture. Still its a nice place to walk around and discover.
Point taken
As an "African" the reason Europe is still behind and racist in their ignorance is the constant use of African as a blanket term! I'm a Londoner and I can tell you we are far more culturally diverse and past the term of blanketing cuisine as African! At least state a region for goodness sake! It's a continent! We don't eat all the same food!!!
Thank you!
Okay, we're going to Brussels and I didn't see hardly any small children in this whole video! I'm a little worried! I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old... Are breweries and lots of these places kid friendly?
Or did I choose a bad destination for a family. 😬
Haha, children are welcome don't worry. They are everywhere! 🤣 Kids are allowed in breweries. We even used to get some (very light) beer (Piedboeuf) at... kindergarten!
You didin’t see because is no nearly kids there. And people now how dangerous is there… I was in Brussels in August with my family. Many gangs in the street and old town … no tourist nearly if you wanna know how bad is there just check comments on police website in Brussels.
And decide if you want go
There . For your safety and your children don’t go there or go alone first…
@@justynaalicja6692 I am now living in Brussels for over a month and have been to Brussels almost weekly for about 3 years and I can tell you that that's a bit of an exaggeration. Brussels is fairly safe and there are a lot of police everywhere in every part of the city. There aren't gangs walking around in the streets (well, my friends who have lived in bxl for their whole lives and me have never seen any 'gangs' in the streets). You just have to be careful for pickpockets and don't walk around as a girl at night if it is not the city-center. There can be perverts at night but in Bruxelles-central it is pretty safe.
Is not true what you said . Is The most dangerous city in Europe . I was in Amsterdam, Paris, London etc and even Russia and Brussels is the most dangerous city. I was in old town , Atomium. Just read comments on website World Nomands Crime in Belgium about the Brussels and down on the page are many comments , same you can read on police website… nearly no Kids I was with my son and everyone looked at us . Cos is not kids there… and every 3 minutes people ask about money… OMG rubbish everywhere… rats. do you know that in rest in Europe women can walk normally day, evening , night that mean is normal and safe you can have your phone, your jewellery…
@@justynaalicja6692 Ok, firstly the Atomium isn't in the old town at all, ahaha. Have you ever been in Brussels, really? /o\
How many days do you need to visit brussels? Thanks.
2 days
Ada have no clue about belgian chocolate, what about “Manon”, Butter cream, Liquor and Crème Fraîche filling? Not only Ganache and Praliné.
And sure I forgot some as so many small Chocolate Chef in Belgium
Does anyone know where this is place? 0:12
Another great thing about Brussels: you can easily visit the nearby Flemish cities of Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges! They are even more beautiful 😍
It would be so great to live in Brussels, and be able to visit those other cities when I wanted to get away, plus the coast in the summer.
Sure. That's the best thing of living in Brussels... 😉
Are the bars open in Brussels during the Pandemic?
No all bars and restaurants are now closed. They are closed since November 2020 and currently we don't know when they will reopen.
They open normally again in May
Ok...but reminding you that alcohol destroys your liver over time. Stop drinking beer, wine, etc. God bless.❤️
African cuisine?? It’s a continent with so many countries and different cuisines.
Which small street is it at min 9:33?
It's Rue de la Cigogne next to Rue Antoine Dansaert
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i like this aggressive cityname
Why is it agressive?
0:45 "Hi I am Elodie I was born in Brussels and I still living here after 30 years..." is it that people tend more to leave Brussels than living in Brussels?
As a true guy from Brussels, you didn't even talk about St-Géry, goupil le fol, le Corbeau (the crow), Cim D'Ix, Plux le jeudi soir, Madame Moustache, La porte Noire, Le Jam, Alice Bar, Cospaia...
Goupil le fol is pretty but that's about it, cim d'ix is quite overrated and I don't see the point of plux if you're not from the european bubble
@@nicolasdudermel1211 i'l from Brussels and i've a lot of friends of mine who are also going, i made a lot of new friends there :)
Mai ovidiu pe cinéamomorit NOI???
Yeah I live in Belgium and our fries and chocolat is the best in the world. Our dutch community is not very social but you will get Friends if you just do the thing you like. Come visit and learn our conutry. Don't forget the chocolat tho.
I doubt you will find every cultures cuisine there like native American cuisine aboriginal Australian or Pacific islander food
Its a culture.
You're right, it would have been more accurate to state that you'll find restaurants of all ethnic groups living in Brussels.
I doubt you would find that even in New York
I’m moving to Brussels this summer and plan on staying for life😎 I’m fluent in French but is German more common in Brussels
French is most common in BXL.
Of the three official languages German ist the least common. Bear in mind: About one percent of Belgians are native speakers of German and they live in a small area on the German border. You may get along with German up to a certain extend because , of course, you may find German residents in "our" European capital and certain percentage of Belgians speak German but they may as well Spanish, Italian, Arabian or Lithuanian.
@@hannofranz7973 German is not an official language in Brussels.
@@AlanHope2013 German is an official language in Belgium and therefore in Brussels to even if it isn't used.
You forget the Atomium you need to visit that if you're in brussels
04:48 immigrant*
Where was the footage of the people playing chess?
The best thing to do
Bravo, tres bonne introduction a cette ville ou je vis ! Mais, sorry, Paris reste genial...il ne faut pas les comparer !
Exactement
The best thing to do with Brussels is to leave it. I know, because I've lived there.
Lemme guess, Muslim refugees assimilated the area, trying to destroy western culture?
@@aryamanbhadauria1584 No, simpleton. That has even nothing to do with it. Not every problem of Belgium has to do with Muslims. In fact, only a small minority of problems of Belgium have to do with Muslims (a.o. the drug-trade in and around Antwerp as main European port for drugs, where they shoot little girls dead of fellow-Muslims).
@@dirkgonthier101 And the World Cup Riots from Moroccan fans during December was a small problem?
@@aryamanbhadauria1584 Like I stated I'm not living in Brussels anymore. And, yes, it was a small problem that needs to be dealt with on a very simple way.
Fortunately Brussels has something else to offer than only beers. Your video starts in insists very much on alcohol even as if it was the first criteria of attractivity to visit a big and old city in Europe.
Tbh it is a big part of belgian culture, surely not everybody drinks beer, but a lot do. Also it's placed last in the top 10, so not to high. It could have ranked even higher in my opinion 😉
@@louh7816 note
Go and visit Anderlecht, Schaerbeek, Molenbeek, very nice neighborhood. You missed the very best of the best of Brussels.... Nices people friendly, polite, clean streets, well educated. Top high educated. Its a great pleasure. Think about it when you will come back again.
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Why is the head of those beer so big? Tey dont serve it right, the head should be around 5cm
Can I buy a Kangaroo steak in Brussels?
1. Drink beer
2. Drink beer
3. Drink beer
4. Drink beer
5. Drink beer
6. Order another beer... and drink it
7. Drink beer
8. Drink another beer.
9. Drink beer.
10. Buy chocolate....
Just kidding.... have another beer!
I am a Muslim (sad face)
Just returned from Brussels. The buildings are gorgeous but not a fan of the ease around.
Nike
She forgot “Crème Fraîche” filling and the “Manon” typically belgian chocolate, “Butter Cream “ filling, Liquor filling.
I don’t think she’s a real expert in chocolate by resuming chocolate in “ Ganache and Praliné “
forgot to mention gare du nord
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I like how at 2:28 he says " grab a seat and make some friends " lol the Dutch are not even fond of making new friends. In my experience they're actually more closed off.
Brussels is in Belgium
Depends per group and what the mood is I'd say. if they're having a chill talking evening. Ye ofcourse they're gonna be thinking you're weird and a bit closed off because they would suddenly need to speak a different language. But if it's a party with music and all.. Ye nah I don't think anybody is closed off then. especcially if you brought your own drinks :P
We are not dutch in Brussels though
barely you will find dutch in Brussels, they do even put any dutch speaker in the video LMAO. Brussels is more multicultural with people from all around Europe and world. Dutch people usually stay at Flanders where everything is cleaned, organised and everyone speaks dutch (They speak better english than French speakers but they jsut don't want to speak English lol)
i really would like to know why this vidéo is narated by a dutchman ??
Nice video but you should improve your french...😉
the best thing in brussels is to buy a trainticket to amsterdam
And where is the atomium?
At the Heizelpark in Laken, not in centre of Brussels.
@@lindamaes6454 i mean it`s not in this video lol.
@@biancad.5894 Off course not, it's a video of the city center.
because these are the locals' recommendations
@@rastapopoulos7870 We are locals from Belgium.
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My poor Brussels is death a long time ago...
Tip number 1: If you go to Brussels never travel with Brussels Airlines.
Bruxelles, c'est bien 2 jours, pas + !
Bike or get a bird scooter
Ik zou graag Brussel bezoeken om de stad en de omgeving te ontdekken. Ik zou graag een par dagen er blijven. J'aimerais savoir ou les bruxellois passent les jours, ailleurs des lieux touristiques. Peut-être quelqu'un me peut donner quelques conseils. Ich bin Berliner, da und anderswo bin ich auch immer auf der Suche nach dem wirklich authentischen Stadtleben. It would be great to discover that some time in Brussels,too. Ya veremos cuando llegaré a conocer la ciudad. Desde luego, me encanta su multiculturalidad como capital europea. Dona la impresió que es puga trobar gent de totes les llengues i cultures del mon en el lloc.
african food = nogo zone
Why?
The part where he says Brussels offers "the best of french cuisine mixed with other stuff" just isn't true in my experience, especially when it comes to baking. Average belgian bakeries are truly awful compared to french ones. As an example, a belgian "flan" is the most foul creation i've ever tasted. Don't even get me started on their mille-feuilles.
You can even notice it in Paul bakeries, which is a notoriously bad brand. Pauls in france STILL taste way better.
And for the love of god, avoid the tourist honeypots with their low quality food and ridiculously overpriced menus. If it's marketed for you guys, it's bad.
PS. You could however try finding some tartes al djote, a fairly unique recipe from Nivelles :)
OMG !! I liked the girl in the video, so beautiful !! may I ask her number ?
Why am i crying to this comment 😭🤚
She is very pretty in fact! I hope when I am going there I can find beautiful women like that
Stupid humans don't make so many children 😔😔🤯🥵😰
WHY ON EARTH even mention the german cuisine ?? just because of the portions, really ??? Brussels food is primarly belgian, french, italian, NOT german, you seem to think that french restaurants serve smaller portions ?? that is so cliché, maybe in Paris, not anywhere else, i have never heard anyone using german cuisine as an example, not even for quantities, and that, again, is also a cliché !, german cuisine can also be refined, and served in small portions., when in brussels i would recommend to eat 20% belgian food, 70% italian, 10% the rest