Brussels: Queer Life - Gay Venues - Bars and Cafés

L'amazone,
10 Rue du Méridien
1210 Bruxelles
Opens Thursday to Sunday.

Le Belgica
32 Rue Marché au Charbon,
1000 Brussels.
Thu - Sun 10 PM to 3 AM.

An old fashion café. An usual pre club stop. Its one of the trendiest and most popular gay bars in Brussels beating out house music to the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd inside.

Le Can Can
55 Rue Des Pierres, Steenstraat
1000 – Brussels
Opens 6:00PM until …
closed Mondays Fridays is Karaoke night.

Chez Maman
7 Rue de Grands Carmes
1000 Brussels.
Opens daily from 10 PM. Small, classy-looking bar famous for its drag shows on Fridays and Saturdays.

Comptoir Bar & Restaurant –
Oude Granmarkt 26 (26, Place de la Vieille Halle Aux Blés)
Brussels
Bar in Ground floor opened everyday from 7 PM to 2AM.
Restaurant on first floor opens Mon - Thu 7PM to midnight, Fri - Sun 7 PM to 1AM. Mixed.
Popular with the young crowd.

Le Cou Cou
8 Rue Jardin Des Olives
1000 Brussels
Opens daily from 4 PM

Dolores
40, Rue Marché au Charbon
1000 Bruxelles
Bar-Restaurant

Le Gémeau
12 Rue de Laeken
1000 Brussels
Opens Friday to Sunday from 10pm.

L'Homo Erectus
57,Rue Des Pierres
1000 Brussels.
Opens daily from noon.
Nice and cosy and very near the Grand Place.

L'Incognito
12, Rue Des Pierres
1000 Brussels
Opens daily from 2pm.
Happy hour drag show.

Iris
12, rue de la Fourche
1000 Brussels

MAC
42, Rue du Marché au Charbon / 42 Kolenmarkt
1000, Brussels

La Reserve
12 Petite Rue-au-Beurre,
Brussels.
Closed Tuesday. Traditional looking bar on small street behind the Stock Exchange.
Mixed ages but apparently the only place to meet older guys in Brussels

The Smart
28, Rue Des Pierres
1000 Brussels.
Opens daily from 3pm

Tels Quels Bar
81 Rue Marché au Charbon
1000 Brussels.
Daily from 5pm to 2am. Wed - Sat opens at 2pm. Friday and Saturday closes at 4am. Popular meeting point for locals.

A great venue for information, the building also houses the International Lesbian & Gay Association (tel. 502 24 71), go here first to get the low-down on gay Brussels.