Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪 Waffles, chocolate AND incredible vegan food? Yes please 🧇🌱 From Michelin-starred plant-based fine dining to Belgian waffles and Asian burgers, the Belgian capital delivers a remarkable plant-based scene that is far better than most visitors expect. Brussels has a growing and genuinely exciting vegan restaurant community, and the quality of cooking across the city is consistently high.
The vegan scene is spread across several distinct Brussels neighbourhoods — the Ixelles area, the Marolles, and the city centre all have their own excellent spots. Here’s my guide to the best.
Best Vegan Restaurants in Brussels
1. Humu’s Hortense — Michelin-Starred Plant-Based Fine Dining
Humu’s Hortense on Rue de Vergnies in Ixelles is a true landmark in European plant-based dining — Belgium’s first and only Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant, awarded Best Vegetable Menu 2026 by GaultMillau, and consistently rated among the top plant-based restaurants on the continent. The cooking is refined, seasonal, and deeply rooted in Belgian and European culinary tradition, with a tasting menu that changes constantly to reflect what’s best from their partner farms. This is a genuine once-in-a-lifetime dining experience.
💡 Tip: Humu’s Hortense is one of the hardest reservations in Brussels to secure — book weeks or even months in advance via their website.
📍 Rue de Vergnies 2, Brussels 1050 | 📸 @humushortense
2. Tich Brussels — Beautiful All-Day Vegan Café
Tich on Rue de Namur in the city centre is one of Brussels’s most beautiful and welcoming vegan cafés — a plant-based and gluten-free all-day eatery that serves breakfast, lunch, and afternoon treats from 10am to 6pm every day. The food is fresh, healthy, and genuinely delicious, and the aesthetic is warm and inviting without being precious. A perfect daytime base for exploring Brussels.
📍 Rue de Namur 25, Brussels 1000 | 📸 @tichbrussels
3. Terter Brussels — Vegan & Gluten-Free All-Day Dining
Terter is one of Brussels’s most complete plant-based dining experiences — a fully vegan and gluten-free restaurant that serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week, with a weekend brunch that has become very popular among Brussels residents. The menu is creative and satisfying, the service is warm, and the commitment to both flavour and dietary inclusivity makes it genuinely stand out.
📍 Chaussée de Waterloo 264, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels | ☎️ +32 490 38 67 57 | 🌐 terter.be | 📸 @terter_brussels
4. Vegan Waf — Plant-Based Belgian Waffles & Ice Cream
Vegan Waf in the Galerie Agora is a genuinely joyful addition to Brussels’s plant-based scene — a 100% plant-based and gluten-free waffle and ice cream shop that reimagines Belgium’s most iconic street food without any animal products. The waffles are light, crispy, and delicious, and the ice cream selection is creative and consistently excellent. Open every day from 11am to 7pm.
📍 Galerie Agora, Rue du marché aux herbes 105/48, Brussels 1000 | 📸 @veganwaf
5. Lil Bao — Fluffy Vegan Bao Buns & Taiwanese Street Food
Lil Bao on Rue Haute in the Marolles neighbourhood is one of Brussels’s most exciting and original plant-based spots — a Taiwan-inspired street food restaurant serving fluffy, creative vegan bao buns and other Taiwanese-inspired dishes. The bao are genuinely extraordinary: pillowy, generously filled, and bursting with flavour. A brilliant lunch or dinner option that offers something genuinely different from the typical Brussels vegan fare.
📍 Rue Haute 20, Brussels 1000 | 🌐 www.lilbao.be | 📸 @lilbao.be
6. Le Botaniste — Organic Plant-Based Food & Wine
Le Botaniste is a Brussels branch of the celebrated organic plant-based restaurant concept (also in Ghent and New York) — a beautiful, serene space serving fresh, organic, plant-based food and a carefully curated selection of natural wines. The philosophy of “let food be the medicine” comes through in every dish, and the menu is both nourishing and genuinely delicious. A wonderful choice for a healthy, beautiful, and flavourful meal in Brussels.
📍 Rue du Bailli 10, Brussels 1000 | ☎️ +32 2 646 44 47 | 🌐 lebotaniste.eu | 📸 @le_botaniste_be
7. Lucifer Lives Coffee — Plant-Based Café with Amazing Pastries
Lucifer Lives Coffee is Brussels’s most intriguingly named vegan café — a plant-based coffee shop that serves extraordinary pastries, cakes, and café bites in a cool, characterful space. The pastries are genuinely impressive, the coffee is excellent, and the whole place has an energy and originality that sets it apart from the typical café scene. A non-negotiable stop for anyone with a sweet tooth visiting Brussels.
📍 Rue Haute 120, Brussels 1000 | 📸 @luciferlivescoffee
8. Kitsune Burgers — Award-Winning 100% Vegan Asian Burgers
Kitsune Burgers on Petite rue des Bouchers (one of Brussels’s most famous restaurant streets) is a 100% vegan burger restaurant serving homemade Asian-inspired burgers that consistently blow people away. The burgers are creative, bold, and deeply satisfying — combining Asian flavour profiles with classic burger construction in ways that feel genuinely original. Open Wednesday to Sunday for lunch and dinner.
📍 Petite rue des Bouchers 25, Brussels 1000 | 🌐 www.kitsuneburgers.com | 📸 @kitsune.burgers
9. Buddy Buddy — The World’s First Nut Butter Coffee Bar
Buddy Buddy on Rue des Drapiers is one of Brussels’s most unique vegan concepts — the world’s first nut butter coffee bar, combining specialty coffee with house-made nut butters, plant-based snacks, and beautiful café vibes. The concept is simple but executed with real passion and creativity, and the result is a genuinely distinctive experience. Also in New York and Paris.
📍 10 Rue des Drapiers, Brussels | 🌐 www.buddybuddy.co | 📸 @buddybuddy
Tips for Vegan Travellers in Brussels
Brussels is a compact and very walkable city, and the vegan scene spans several neighbourhoods that are all easily reachable by foot or metro. Humu’s Hortense in Ixelles requires advance booking and is genuinely worth the planning for a special occasion. For everyday eating, Terter, Tich, and Le Botaniste are all reliable and excellent. Kitsune Burgers and Lil Bao are both excellent quick lunch options in the city centre. And Vegan Waf is the essential Belgian waffle experience — non-negotiable.
Have you eaten vegan in Brussels? Let me know your favourite spots in the comments!