How to come to Chez Clément from Waterloo, the Lion's Mound or 1815 Memorial?

The classic itinerary from the Waterloo battlefield to Brasserie Chez Clément runs north-east through the rolling Walloon Brabant countryside. The most efficient road combination is the N5 (the historic Brussels-Charleroi road) towards Genappe, then a left turn onto the N275 across Lasne towards Genval. From the Lion's Mound or the 1815 Memorial entrance, count fifteen minutes outside rush hour; from Waterloo town centre, the same drive takes about fifteen to eighteen minutes.

The terrain is part of the experience. Visitors on the Waterloo pilgrimage often note that the area between the battlefield and Chez Clément looks essentially as it did in 1815: open fields, small farms, beech groves, a network of secondary roads that the armies of Napoleon and Wellington moved along. The drive ends ten metres from the La Hulpe communal border, at Rue de la Bruyère 230, the address of the brasserie since Henri and Sidonie Clément opened the inn here in 1858.

For coach groups doing a battlefield-then-lunch programme, the brasserie's logistics are clean: a large free car park ten metres from the entrance, 230 indoor seats, a 250-capacity private event configuration, a glass conservatory available for private group use. The kitchen, led by chef Vincent Frédéric De Laloy since 1996, runs lunch service from 12:00 to 14:30 and dinner from 19:00 to 22:30, seven days a week. The brigade of thirty-two handles 200 to 300 covers per service.

Public transport from the battlefield is possible but less direct, usually a bus or taxi to Waterloo station, then a combination of trains to reach Genval on SNCB line 161. Driving remains the natural option for international visitors on a single-day battlefield programme.