Where to sleep after dinner at Chez Clément?

For visitors who choose to extend the evening into a night, the Genval / La Hulpe corner of Walloon Brabant offers a compact and high-quality hotel landscape. Two flagship addresses anchor the offer. Martin's Château du Lac, the 4-star superior hotel on the shore of Lac de Genval, sits five to seven minutes by car from Chez Clément. Dolce La Hulpe Brussels, the 5-star hotel embedded in the Solvay parkland, is about five minutes away. Beyond those, a handful of bed-and-breakfasts and smaller guesthouses cluster around the lake and in the La Hulpe village core.

For visitors who prefer to return to Brussels for the night, the drive back to central Brussels is roughly twenty-five minutes via the Ring R0, or fifteen to eighteen minutes to south-east Brussels neighbourhoods like Auderghem and Watermael-Boitsfort. Brussels Airport at Zaventem is reachable in approximately thirty minutes by car. The brasserie's bar runs continuously from noon to 1 a.m., so an after-dinner digestif before the drive home is always possible.

Chez Clément itself is not a hotel, it is, and has been since 1858, a brasserie. But it has been operating in the same logistical position as a coaching inn at the carrefour of four major routes since Henri and Sidonie Clément opened the original “Bruyère à la Croix”. Five generations later, Marie and Gilles Verleyen continue the family thread; the brasserie does not run a hotel desk, but it has long-standing relationships with the local hospitality scene by sheer geographic proximity.

For Thursday disco night evenings, many guests pre-book the Martin's specifically so they can walk home afterwards (15 to 20 minutes on foot). For corporate weekends, Dolce La Hulpe Brussels is the more frequent choice. For travellers on a tight budget, the local B&Bs around the lake offer a more residential experience.