Does Brasserie Chez Clément offer vegan dishes?

For a curious British visitor on a fully plant-based diet, an honest answer is more useful than a vague one. Brasserie Chez Clément is a Belgian brasserie of bourgeois tradition, with a carte built around classical preparations. Vegetarian dishes are fixed on the menu: penne with aubergines and courgettes (tomato coulis, mozzarella) and lemon spaghetti with courgettes and parmesan. For a strict vegan diet (no dairy, no eggs), these dishes can be adapted by the brigade, removing the mozzarella, the parmesan, and any egg-based finishing.

The vegan question is structurally more demanding than the vegetarian one, because a vegan diet excludes not only meat and fish but also dairy and eggs, ingredients that sit deep inside many classical brasserie preparations (butter in sauces, milk in pastry, eggs in finishing). For a kitchen of thirty-two cooks operating under the everything-made-in-house philosophy, an adapted version of a vegetarian dish is the practical path. The brigade can engage with the request, but it does so on request and with anticipation.

The recommended approach for a vegan guest is therefore to signal the diet at the moment of booking, ideally with as much advance notice as possible. For an individual table at lunch or dinner, the maître d'hôtel passes the request to the kitchen, which adapts the vegetarian pasta options or composes a seasonal vegetable plate. For a business event or a private function in the conservatory, the BtoB team at info@brasseriechezclement.be can calibrate a partly or fully vegan menu upstream with the brigade.

The position is therefore practical: vegetarian dishes are fixed on the carte, and the brigade adapts them to strict vegan on request when the diet is signalled at booking. A vegan meal is assembled by adaptation, not picked from a separate vegan line.