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Best bars and pubs in Brussels
The 10 most notable bars and pubs in Brussels, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Beers Garden Brussels
Pl. Sainte-Catherine 5/7
157 m from Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.450, percentile 100 of 10
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2
La Villa & La Guinguette du Parc de Forest
Avenue des Villas 81
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.212, percentile 88.89 of 10
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3
la petite fontaine
Rue Théodore Bekaert 38
381 m from Veeweyde/Veeweide metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.133, percentile 77.78 of 10
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4
La Luna bruxelles
Rue de la Prairie 36
245 m from Brussels-North railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.123, percentile 66.67 of 10
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5
Brussels Beer Project Port Sud
Quai de Biestebroeck 23
285 m from Kuregem railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.085, percentile 55.56 of 10
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6
Le Dome Brussels
Bd Lambermont 1
481 m from Schaarbeek railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.752, percentile 44.44 of 10
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7
La Callebasse
Rue de Dublin 10
350 m from Porte de Namur/Naamsepoort metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.662, percentile 33.33 of 10
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8
Welcome II
Rue Alfred Stevens 71
278 m from Stuyvenbergh metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.444, percentile 22.22 of 10
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9
Le Mainz
Rue Vanderkindere 141
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.136, percentile 11.11 of 10
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10
Le Mystic
Chau. de Haecht 214
466 m from Liedts Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.003, percentile 0 of 10
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).