Bistro Nazionale — Restaurant in Ixelles - Elsene

The food was good but I didn’t feel I got my money’s worth. It’s kinda expensive for the amount of food we got (we left hungry) and the quality was not so superior compared to other similar restaurants we’ve been to. We ordered a starter, main and drinks, and after waiting what felt like forever (we were hungry and thirsty), the main course arrived with the drinks, and they forgot the starter. We said it was alright and that we still would like to have the starters after the main (we wanted to try the croquettes). We finished our main, waited still for quite some time and then finally got the set of croquettes with one extra croquette as an apology (which was cool from the waiter, but we were 2 people and now instead of 4 croquettes we had 5, if she would offer something it maybe should be one for each?). Anyway, the staff was really cool and kept on apologising. Also offered us a free limoncello that we didn’t accept as we didn’t want to have more alcohol. For a highly recommended place I...

Worst experience ever! The food was so expensive and tasteless. I ordered the Valentine’s pasta, which was literally plain pasta and “creamy” sauce. It was just so bland and hard, and not worth the €35 price tag. We were there for 40 minutes before we got our drinks, and we had to ask for them as they had been clearly forgotten about. My partner then was waiting for part of his order and they were already jumping to dessert. They also overbooked the place completely, it was so hard to come in and out of the tables and It was impossible to have fun or chat since the tables were so close together, I couldn’t hear myself think over everyone’s...

Good but nothing outsdanding. Despite owned by the same group, pasta at La Cocina are much better. Service is not great. We had booked to be sitting on the terrasse but then when we arrived we were told there was no space outside. Given the inside section was completely empty, we asked to kindly reorganize the table setting so that the group could be sat more comfortably which clearly annoyed the waiter who said we'd better give him good reviews in an exhausted way. Attitude continued during the whole dinner. Clearly seemed our waiter didnt want to be there and was quickly annoyed if someone was not 100% focused on what he...