La Braise — Restaurant in Saint-Gilles - Sint-Gillis

First time I came back here with 3 of my friends after the restaurant was closed for a while. We were very curious as also a new owner took it over. Unfortunately we were completely disappointed compared to the quality and service we got with the previous owner.

1. poor choice in cocktails (only 2)
2. poor choice in desserts (only crème brûlée and a 3 ice cream balls )
3. smaller portion of meat and potatoes, and we missed the famous sauce used for eating with the potatoes. They did forgot to serve for one of us the potato.
4. For the sauce of your meat you have to pay extra, what was not the case before with the old owner. They charge you 5,5€ and you have only the choice between béarnaise and pepper (poor quality for the extra you have to pay compared to the homemade sauces before included with your meat). If i was not careful watching the bill, they charged us 6 sauces while we ordered only 4.
5. We ordered cote a l’os for 2 persons + tomahawk for 2 persons so we could share to each other. But we got served 2 côte à l’os of 1 person and same for the tomahawk. (Quality of the meat was good, but small)
6. you get immediately the feeling of hard selling when they try you to convince too much to take an entry and dessert what made us feel uncomfortable again.
7. We have been warned by the waiter that my friend is laughing too laud because we were having fun telling our stories. That was for us the biggest disappointment of breaking our good ambience we were having.
8. Friends ordered a bottle of wine at 39€, but served us the size of 69€ (we didn’t noticed the mistake concerning the size immediately and my friends consumed the bottle). We only noticed it when getting the bill, as they charged us 69€ for it. We asked them, we ordered the one of 39€, so why did you serve us the one of 69€? They said sorry but you should have told us before consuming it. Not really professional of them.
9. We have decided to leave the restaurant and continue having drinks somewhere else. We left the restaurant very disappointed with a bill for almost 70€ per person with no entry and no dessert and so we were still hungry. We got really the feeling of being ripped off.
10. The restaurant definitely lost its charm and its quality, we came here often before for our friends reunion but after this bad experience we have decided not to come back anymore and find a new grill meat restaurant for our reunion in the future.
11. So if you were used to come here before, i warn you that you will be very disappointed with the offer/service and price/quality with...

Seriously disappointing.

The food is fine but much too expensive; the wine list is bad (on two levels: first, most of it’s not written down, so you’re supposed to choose by listening to someone list regions without giving the prices or even telling you which are reds and which are whites; meanwhile a lot of them seem to have come from a night shop - the one we had was grave juice - at a 300% mark up); the service is awful.

The staff didn’t know what was available, had to keep going to the kitchen to check things, and then still weren’t sure. When we asked if they could close the door, they said yes, but never did. Things we ordered never came but were still on the bill. No one knew how to create a VAT receipt, and their card reader didn’t work…thank God we had cash.

When I’m paying €40HT for a steak (plus the price of the grape juice), I expect it to come with decent service.

I can think if at least two places that have a similar range of quality meat but are cheaper with better choices of sides, better wine lists, and better service (try Renard Bleu). I can think of several at the same price that are twice as good (Brigittines, for example). No reason too waste...

Apparently the place has a new owner which made it difficult to reserve a table because the phone lines were not working. But that was the least of our worries because the new owner came with new prices and no price list, so he charged excessive prices. Indicatively: 12€ for 1 lt of water! it is by far the most expensive bottle of water I have ever paid. Then, 34€ !!! for a simple salad composed of few tomatoes and mozzarella! Not in a Michelin star restaurant you don’t get to pay that much for a salad!!. 5.5€ for a side sauce! I have the impression the owner thinks he runs a Michelin star restaurant in St. Gilles. Finally, they no longer have the scampis in the menu so if you don’t eat meat your will end up with a salad. I used to be a regular customer, but not...