Carbonnade flamande is a signature dish of Belgium; we have verified places to eat it in Brussels. Flemish beef stew slow-cooked in dark Belgian beer with onions, mustard and a slice of bread. Start with where to eat Carbonnade flamande in Brussels.
Carbonnade flamande · Brussels
Flemish beef stew slow-cooked in dark Belgian beer with onions, mustard and a slice of bread. Sweet, malty, deeply savoury, served with mash, frites or buttered noodles.
Carbonnade flamande traces to medieval Flanders, when farmhouse cooks stewed tough beef cuts in the local dark abbey beers. By the 19th century it had become a brasserie staple across Brussels and the Walloon north. The technique relies on a slice of bread covered in mustard pressed into the stew to thicken the sauce and balance the beer's malt sweetness; the dish keeps and reheats better the next day.
Where to eat in Brussels:
- Brasserie Ploegmans
- Chez Leon
- Au Stekerlapatte
- Les Brigittines
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