Gare Maritime - Food Market — Restaurant in Brussels

This place is nice for kids and the food is fairly good.

However, I find it very expensive for a food market taking into account that you don't get service at your table. As an example you will pay 15 € for a simple burger with a portion of fries and you have to add extra for the sauce. The burger was quite good though.

I also noticed that once the place get quite crowdy the waiters will come quite often to clear your plates. Not so pleasant when your plate is still half full. Yet it is important to notice that the staff were all very nice and professional.

What I really disliked though, is that you have to pay 1€ to use the toilets. Asking such an amount to your customers is pure robbery to me. They will probably say that the toilets are not owned by the food market and that they don't set the prices themselves. Nevertheless, they know very well that 95% of the toilet's visitors come from the food market. This is simply a way to get one more coin out of your wallet when you leave.

One last thing, I advice you to fully charge your phone before going there. Actually, you are invited to scan a QR code and order and pay online through the website. You will also have to register and provide your phone number which is quite surprising from a data protection standpoint. They have a place where you can order from their tablets, but you still have to provide a phone number when the order is ready, which, in the end, does not make much sense if your battery has died... All this technology just adds more complexity to the customer. I really start being fed-up with all these QR codes but it seems like they're about to bloom everywhere in a...

Very sophisticated way of ordering food. You can order your food, strictly by scanning a QR code with your smartphone. Don't have a smartphone? Don't recommend going there. You order from one or multiple places and when your order is ready, you'll get a message. Sadly, a lot of things were sold out. Small portions for the price you pay.

It's an indoor food market place. It was so crowded, there was barely any space left to sit. We found one small round bar table with 1 chair, 3 of us had to stand up the entire time. What I absolutely did not appreciate was one of the local workers judging one of us, asking us in a very condescending tone if the glasses of beer on the table were mine / my friend's alone (she even gasped at us). One was mine, one was of my friend who was picking up food. Wether they were or not from one person, it wasn't any of her business. Her comment / opinion was unwarranted and she should've kept it to herself, certainly for someone working there. Hence my poor review for service.

Personally had some pasta with cheese sauce, which was a bit of a let down, seeing the size and price. And the sauce was disappointing too. I ordered a charcuterie board for 4 people, it was expensive asf (+-€42), it took a long time to be prepared but it was also yummy. And it had the best dry sausage I've tasted in a while. Lovely to have...

The building is the only impressive thing about it. Food is mediocre, service is very slow - we had to wait some 30 minutes - then the food was not what we had ordered - the central ordering is ridiculously cumbersome (and invades privacy as others have pointed out). The layout of the space, surrounded by a completely unnecessary fence, makes it difficult to enter or leave woth a buggy. One set of toilets was completely non functional, the other was okay but it looked like one was expected to pay ! There were two completely I unsupervised and dangerous bouncy castles. The playground outside is nice. The corporate owners who have conceived this monstrosity presumably as a planning gain in order to sell their posh flats shd go further down the park path and see how the community cafe and other initiatives like the circus school function. Food Market is a joke as a title - any self respecting gastronome shd run a mile. Sorry but it’s awful and u shd take notice of these reviews and improve it. I visited on 24th April at about 1.00 pm (this is my second attempt To post a review here - can’t help wondering where my last effort ended up. ...