Nuovo Rosso — Restaurant in Saint-Gilles - Sint-Gillis

Very bad experience. The chairs are randomly installed on the street, leading you on some of them as a tightrope walker during the whole evening (yes because the dishes came after almost 1 hour for 2 persons; we only speak about pastas here...and i acknowledge it can take time but it’s curious when people that arrived way after are served first...).

Very unprofessional waitress (1 of the 2). We asked her colleague to change place as we saw a couple leaving the table next to us. Said ok. Her colleague then installs a couple in front of us, 5-10 minutes later (we were just waiting the first couple to pay and the table to get cleaned). I go to her to kindly tell her and she answers she told the arrivants that it was for them. They installed themselves while I was discussing with her. Very unpolite in my opinion and no alternative presented.

The food is so basic. The meat in the ragù was in 2 homogeneous blocks, almost industrial. Nothing special about the rest. Not uneatable but clearly not at the level you’d expect.

They put a lot of cheese directly on the pastas, not a problem for me, but for some people it can be way more convenient to propose the cheese apart. The person with me likes it very gently poured, and I think it’s a pity not to let people the choice to serve something as strong as cheese themselves.

Would not...

Where to begin? I just discovered this place and met Mario tonight. Other than being an excellent human being, kind as very few, he has an excellent concept. Are you tired of the shitty ingredients by big chains that try to cut costs at every corner to sell you food that might be instagrammable but without any substance? Then you should really come here. The place is fairly instagrammable, but the quality... the quality is of another level. The dishes are prepared by Mario in front of everyone to see, the ingredients are indaublty of the highest quality, you can taste them and see them in the food. You can even see the waiters and Mario taking them out of their box and peeling them. This is a place that has a high standard to maintain, and it does so excellently. I cannot be any happier tonight than by having discovered it. After finding so much mediocrity in the Horeca word lately, this place is a breath of fresh air. Excellent through and through! Thank you very much again for creating this and for giving to Brussels a place with such excellent quality food, made with...

We had booked a table at this restaurant two times in recent months (on a weekend). On both occasions, the restaurant was closed and never contacted us to inform us upfront. They are not reachable by phone or email. I have been there before, and the food is indeed remarkable. Unfortunately, they don't care much about the customer and rely only on past success. It's incredibly frustrating that they don't even have the decency to send an SMS to let us know that our booking is canceled. At this point, I strongly recommend any prospective customer to stay away from visiting this restaurant. If this type of behavior were the norm, everybody would be out...