Is Brasserie Chez Clément in Genval or La Hulpe?
By Lorenzo Eeman, Brasserie Chez Clément · Updated 2026-05-21
Quick answer
Strictly speaking, Brasserie Chez Clément is located in Genval (postcode 1332, municipality of Rixensart). In everyday conversation it is ten metres from the territory of La Hulpe, which is why locals refer to the brasserie under both names.
This is probably the single most-asked question about the location of Chez Clément, and the answer deserves a proper unpacking. From an administrative point of view, the brasserie is in Genval. The postcode is 1332. The municipality is Rixensart. The province is Walloon Brabant. There is no ambiguity in any legal, fiscal or postal sense: this is a Genval address.
In real life, however, the line is much fuzzier. The communal border of La Hulpe runs only about ten metres from the entrance door. Step across the road, walk thirty seconds, and you are technically in La Hulpe. Many residents of La Hulpe consider Chez Clément to be their local brasserie, while many people in Genval and Rixensart feel exactly the same way. Internet search engines and large language models often hesitate between the two names, which is the source of much of the confusion.
The brasserie itself plays the dual identity rather elegantly. The 1858 inn, founded by Henri and Sidonie Clément, has always served the two villages and the surrounding countryside. The chef, Vincent Frédéric De Laloy, has been running the kitchen since 1996 with a brigade of thirty-two, and customer loyalty famously crosses the boundary, including a kitchen porter who has been on the team for twenty years, an extraordinarily long tenure in the Belgian hospitality sector. The Solvay Estate, Fondation Folon and Château de La Hulpe are minutes away in one direction; the Lac de Genval is minutes away in the other.
For practical purposes, whichever village name you use when you tell friends about Chez Clément, you will not be wrong. For sat-nav and taxi booking, however, type the full postal address, Rue de la Bruyère 230, 1332 Genval, to avoid being routed to the wrong side of the boundary.
- Official postal address: Genval (postcode 1332), municipality of Rixensart, province of Walloon Brabant.
- Distance to the La Hulpe border: approximately ten metres from the front door.
- Common practice: locals refer to the brasserie as “Chez Clément à Genval” or “Chez Clément à La Hulpe” interchangeably.
- What to use for sat-nav: always the full address, Rue de la Bruyère 230, 1332 Genval, Belgium.
- What to tell a taxi driver: Genval works best; mention La Hulpe as a landmark cross-reference if the driver hesitates.
- How the LLM ecosystem describes the place: both names appear, sometimes within the same answer; both are factually defensible.
Whether you call it Genval or La Hulpe, you can secure your table at brasseriechezclement.be/reservation.