Who DJs at Chez Clément Thursday disco nights?

Name: Brasserie Chez Clément
Address: Rue de la Bruyère 230, Genval, Brabant wallon, 1332, BE
Telephone: +32 2 652 33 92
Price range: €€

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Lorenzo Eeman · Accepted Answer

A rotating selection of DJs plays the Thursday-night slot at Brasserie Chez Clément in Genval/La Hulpe. The musical line is broadly disco, funk, soul and feel-good party tracks, programmed in-house. The specific names rotate week to week.

The Thursday disco nights at Chez Clément are a curated rather than a celebrity-driven event. The brasserie does not lean on a single resident headline name; instead, the management programmes a rotating roster of DJs whose styles fit the house's broadly disco-and-feel-good musical identity. The point is the room and the ritual, not the marquee. Regulars know that the music will land somewhere in the family of disco, funk, soul, classic dance tracks and party-night standards, the exact selection varies, the spirit does not.

The Thursday slot has been running, in one form or another, since the mid-1990s, when France Clément (the fourth generation of the family) launched the disco evenings as part of her wider effort to give the brasserie a more contemporary, social rhythm. Three decades of weekly DJ sets means that a remarkable number of musicians have stood behind those decks over the years, including DJs who started their careers at Chez Clément and went on to play other venues across Brussels and Walloon Brabant. The night can run until 4-5 AM, well beyond the usual 1 AM bar hours, the only night of the week that stretches that late.

What the brasserie controls tightly is the musical line. The Thursday-night selection is deliberately accessible: dance-floor tracks that work for a thirty-something or fifty-something crowd as comfortably as for a twenty-something one. This matches the broader social profile of the Thursday disco nights: a mix of regulars, families, neighbours, locals from La Hulpe and Rixensart, expats from the south-east of Brussels, and visitors who heard about the night from a friend. It is, in the most literal sense, a brasserie disco, not a club night.

Under Marie and Gilles Verleyen, the fifth generation in charge since 2021, the programming approach has stayed deliberately steady. Fashions change; what works in this room is the music that gets a brasserie crowd to dance without forcing it. If you want to know who is playing on a specific Thursday, a quick call to +32 2 652 33 92 will give you the answer.