Belgo Centraal

Ordered all of the mussels that they offered. I would recommend anything on that menu.

Original Belgian food in London for a fair price. This really is as good as it gets. :)

We had such a nice dinner at this restaurant. We had the pre-​theater menu which was great. I started with calamari that was perfect with a delicious dipping sauce. The mussels in white wine were excellent. There is a huge selection of draft and bottles wine. Our waitress was attentive and very friendly. We had a great experience.

Beer Battered Fish and Chips were great. Build-​your-​own desert was even better! Also, the atmosphere is very cool — downstairs hidden away with long bar tables that fill up the room

You cannot do better unless you go to Belgium. Forget the menu — order the full order of mussels with frites. Chase them down with a Duvel or a Leffe or similar Belgian brew. Have 2 – 3 beers at lunch and say to hell with it all! This place is a celebration.

Service is really slow but the staff are lovely and the food is just fabulous.
If you are a fan of their mussel pots but hate eating with your fingers. …try the roasted platters … and eat with a knife and fork — what’s not to love :-).

Fun venue in a large, cavernous, subterranean setting. You head down either a warehouse-​style elevator or metal-​caged stairway into a maze of brick-​lined arched tunnels branching off in different directions with long benches that make for great cavorting with large groups.
The food is not bad, and even traditional Belgian items like mussels come in gigantic kettles that are worthy conversation starters in and of themselves. Also, the Belgian beer selection is amazingly extensive and covers different styles, including trappist, gueuze, and fruit beers.
The adventure even extends to the unisex bathroom with the communal washing fountain. Potentially makes for quite an interesting location to practice those pick-​up lines on folks.

Close to the Hoxton Hotel and in a cute neighborhood (The Seven Dials). Had their traditional mussels which were great — not too salty, mussels a bit small but still tasty. Had the hot chicken wings to start — they were also super small and the hot sauce is mixed with ketchup. The prawn risotto is a bit too buttery and rich for my liking and Belgo burger was good (topped with a large pickle!)
Service was OK. People were friendly but waited over 45mins for our dinner (I think they forgot about us because our original server was nowhere to be found).
Overall a good place to go for dinner. If you have a large party, it’s great! Lots of space and room.

Make a reservation! There was a wait and almost ran out of moules. I came back the next day and it was much better. Beat the clock deals make coming here worth it as well. I ordered the mussels and fries with the cream based sauce. Tables here are arranged close together and coat hangers do get taken up quickly during the winter hours. Next time I visit London, I’ll be back! I just love a good cream sauce.

One I always make a point to come to while in London! Cool sub-​basement setting where you can dine in the restaurant portion or the beer garden (common table seating). The beer list is fantastic, the setting is trendy/​cozy, and the mussels are not to be missed!
Looks like they have opened up many more locations, but this one by far has the coolest vibe and setting.
I was a little bummed they no longer great you with schnapps at your table, but they seem to still have it on the menu as an option. Ah well, just make up for it with another round of beer!

Let it first be known that I am not the biggest fan of mussels, but my traveling companion was, so we decided to try Belgo. It’s an interesting layout, because you are underground, essentially in a cave. It’s not the most glamorous place to dine and it felt a bit industrial to me. I tried the chorizo mussels and the pot would have been big enough to share, they just lacked flavor. The couple next to us got one of the chicken dishes and it looked great, so if I was to return, I would try that instead.

Impressive seafood menu with great drink menu, but not the ideal place for a quiet dining, retro design.

This is definitely not the place you will go if you are planning for a quiet dinner. Located at the basement with low ceiling, we feel like hearing surround sound everywhere.
We are here for the mussels, traditional style is the flavour to go for, and also don’t miss out the sauce (soup) at the bottom。 They are so fresh and tasty, I imagine adding some rice to it so we can have seafood congee。
They gave us some lobster tattoo stickers after the dinner, where my goddaughter loved it and put it on right away.

Great place! Great service! Cool downstairs restaurant. Really liked the croquets and the chicken

I visited Belgo Central during beer festival week and the atmosphere was electric. Here is a great place to try a variety of beers and one of the few places in London with a good selection of fruit beers. The mussels are served in a good value heap and tasty creamy sauce and the vegetarian starter platter comes with an addictively delicious cheese as well as satisfyingly crunchy carrot sticks and celery. There was also a wonderful live band that night. As such, Belgo can deliver a joyous all-​round dining experience.

Great food and good beer!
Fun place to go for good food and good beer! Interesting themed restaurant serving Belgium food and beer. Great fun for a night out! We had vegetarian and meet dishes and all was tasty. The highlight was the beer!

Schon der Abstieg in den tiefen Keller gibt das Gefühl: wow — da habe ich was tolles entdeckt! Dann der wirklich große Keller mit sehr hellem, freundlichen Mobiliar und wirklich bemühtem Personal. Die haben so lustige habitähnliche Schürzen um. Sensationelle Bierkarte — bei einem ganz starken Doppelbock muss man so was ähnliches wie eine Haftungserklärung unterschreiben. Moules frites immer toll — die Würstel sind auf keinen Fall zu verachten. Und erst die Flams Frittes dazu. Das Paradies ist so nah…

One of my most frequent restaurants in London, thanks to my sister! My first Belgium food experience was also at this restaurant and my first impression was a great one, I remembered stuffing myself with some good steak.
The place is often crowded and sometimes have to wait for a while for our table. Service was great, once it was our turn, they showed us to our table and paid attention to us (positively), making us feel comfortable and often ask us whether were were satisfied and anything else they could get us. Thumbs up for this service!
The interior of the restaurant makes it feel like being in an underground or something but I thought its pretty present, only thing is it can get very noisy when its full. Lots of diners chatting at almost the same time is not very pleasant for our ears. However, the food made up for it!

Pour la viande, c’est une arnaque totale.
On y va les yeux fermés pour les fruits de mer!
Attention! Ce restau est toujours plein! Un petit bar vous permet de prendre un verre si vous le souhaitez pour faciliter l’attente.
J’adore l’intérieur… déco et mobilier bruts des vieilles tavernes. On est décontract et on profite de sa bière avec ses amis.
Les produits sont super frais et de bonne qualité.
Le homard lors de la lobsterfest (courant juillet) est juste fantastique! Les moules sont succulentes également!
Gros bémol: La viande n’est vraiment pas leur spécialité. On paie très cher pour un petit morceau plein de nerfs, vraiment pas bon et mal cuit.

I totally did not expect to see a place like this in London. It’s super modern but lots of concrete and an «underground» feel to it. (Mostly because it’s in a basement.)
While the food here was one of our better meals and actually pretty awesome, the service really knocked down our experience big time. We were seated upon our arrival but the hostess was not very friendly and seemed pretty pretentious.
We had a reservation and once we were seated, it took about 15 minutes for someone to come by to greet us and to ask if we wanted anything to drink. In fact, no one came over — my Dad had to go up to someone and ask for them to take our order. It seemed that no one really wanted our table or knew who was assigned.
A woman came over to take our order. A while after, a man came over to check on us and to drop off drinks. Our food was delivered by 3 other people. I’m not sure we saw the same person twice.
The food was really awesome. I had a steak with bearnaise sauce and fries. It was a really heavy meal but the steak was cooked perfectly, the sauce was perfect and the fries were even good! (I am usually a pasta/​rice person and don’t really eat many potatoes.)
I think this place just needs to lose the attitude and it will be much better.
Oh, and try the strawberry beer. Really good.

Pretty good, not amazing. The place is huge and maze-​like, with lots of different areas and plenty of seating. Well-​cooked and generous mussel portions, perfectly decent frites, and good but slightly odd beer selection. Let me clarify, since beer is very important to me.
The tap list is a little weak, with mostly mild-​flavored, low-​ABV beers. My wife ordered a Brugse Zot Blonde, which turned out to be one of the weakest Belgian blondes either of us had ever had. She only drank a few sips.
The bottle list is better, but not all in stock. I tried to order the only Trappist ale I’d never had before, an Achel Brune, but got a distinctly cool reception on that from the waitress, who said she didn’t know if they had it (hm, okay) and strongly recommended the Straffe Hendrik instead. The latter was excellent, exactly what I wanted, so no harm, no foul, but the response was odd.
Which brings me to the low point; the service. Our waitress was a little scary — unsmiling, abrupt, and difficult to find when we needed refills on water or the check. A few other people came by the table to check on us, but it was difficult to tell whether they could serve us or not.
So ultimately, a 3.5-star experience. Good mussels, some good beer, odd service, middling prices. Might go back if I’m craving mussels and Belgian beers I already know well. Might try somewhere else.

I remember more than a dozen years ago when I came to London for work meetings always looking forward to an evening with dinner and a show. My coworkers, who were far more senior than me let me tagged along and introduced me to Belgo.
I finally came back today for lunch. It’s a tiny door to get in, and then you descend into this gigantic basement full of tables, bars, and a massive open kitchen. It’s like a warehouse environment with the waitresses dressed in black and waiters dressed like European soccer players. Their specialties are mussels, fries, and Belgium style beer!
I started with a pint of Strawberry Fruli beer — one of my favorites since it’s sweet and goes down smoothly. The foam reminded me of cream from Asian bubble teas! I was also surprised to see banana, coconut, cherry, and black currant beers as well!
For lunch I got the 1-​kg bucket of mussels, served Traditional style, which is a light garlic white wine broth with parsley, onions and celery. Mussels were fresh and tasty. Despite being smaller than ones I’ve had in the USA there were so many of them it took a while! They offer bread also if you like to dip the broth. Fries came with the order and were seasoned, and crispy.
This place is probably funner with a group, since you can mix and match from a dozen or so different preparations of mussels from your friends. Plus you might get to try more of their wonderful beers!

Certaines habitudes résistent au temps. Nos voyages à Londres, bien qu’espacés, sont immanquablement l’occasion d’aller chez Belgo, haut lieu des moules frites à Londres…
Situation: idéale. Le quartier de Covent Gardent est adorable et regorge de boutiques.
Configuration: étrange pour nous Marseillais et certainement Français. Belgo est un restaurant immense mais en sous-​sol. L’entrée est spacieuse, un peu industrielle et une charmante demoiselle se charge de sourire suffisamment pour vous faire oublier le froid (voire la neige). Ensuite il faut descendre l’escalier pour aller à la cave…
En fait c’est immense !
Le décor: la salle est faite de longues tables façon cantine que les clients partagent, en l’occurrence nous étions 12 et nous en remplissions une (avec encore un peu d’espace, donc je pense qu’à 16 on peut être bien, pratique pour les grandes tablées donc). L’ambiance est donnée également par les tenues des serveurs, des sortes d’aubes noires, comme des moines d’abbayes belges où l’on ferait la bière… enfin, j’imagine !
Les assiettes: vous venez ici pour manger des moules frites, et je vous conseille de vous en tenir aux moules frites ! Deux d’entre nous ont fait l’erreur de commander des burger de miettes de crabe et homard… un désastre gustatif. En revanche les moules sont bonnes et les frites (les miennes sont arrivées froides) pas mal du tout en général.
Sauf que: sauf que là, on a fait une réservation pour 21h45 et on nous a prévenu que les cuisines fermaient plus tôt exceptionnellement. Très bien. Sauf qu’on né nous a pas proposé de commander des desserts (nous fêtions un anniversaire) quand il était encore temps et que la fin du repas a viré au ridicule avec les serveurs qui nous regardaient en attendant notre départ avec impatience… sérieusement agaçant. S’ils étaient venus nous parler ça aurait été plus urbain de leur part !
En conclusion: on a toujours passé de bonnes soirées là-​bas. Mais gaffe de né pas y aller trop tardivement pour pouvoir profiter de la soirée et du repas complet !

Let’s go to Belgoooooo !
Un resto à conseiller pour son décor sympa et original mais aussi pour ses prix et formules plus que correctes pour Londres ! Les plats sont copieux, l’ambiance décontractée, enfin ça vaut le détour !

Un de mes endroits préférés à Londres. Près de Covent Garden, c’est l’endroit idéal pour passer la soirée après une belle promenade au centre-​ville londonien.
Les serveurs sont habillés un peu comme des moines, et la salle principale semble être sortie d’Asterix le Gaulois: Scèné du banquet final.
C’est joyeux, bon à manger, et beau à voir.
J’y retournerai tous les soirs si j’avais les moyens.
Oh: Détail. C’est un des restaurants les plus pleins que j’aie vu à Londres. Si vous voulez une table sans passer une ou deux heures au bar, faites un réservation.
Et si vous y allez, essayez la Dame Noire Un variation sur la classique Dame Blanche de Bruxelles, c’est un dessert à la glacé au chocolat avec un coulis de chocolat blanc. La décadence absolue (fortement recommandé!)

Die Belgo restaurants machen das, was man von ihnen erwartet. Muscheln und Fritten. Was anderes habe hier ich noch nicht gegessen. Aber das Essen ist gut, die Athmosphäre ist sehr gut, es ist Platz für sehr sehr viele Leute und es ist in einem Gewölbe und erstreckt sich schier endlos unter dem Covent Garden.

los monjes de la cerveza
Un lugar fantastico para los amantes de la cerveza e ideal para pasar un rato agradable y divertido con los amigos. Esta cadena de cervecerias belga se dedica a la venta de todo tipo y variedades de cerveza, ya sea negra o rubia, pero hay que destacar la cerveza negra, dispones de varias gamas con diferentes aromas. El local es muy amplio, esta climatizado y te sirven rapido y bien. Lo curioso es que los camareros van vestidos de monje

Uniquement pour la bière
Effectivement le choix en bières est impressionnant mais à part cela franchement pas de quoi en faire un plat … Pour le prix, 2 moules à la provençale avec une bouteille de blanc (Chardonnais) pour 67 Euros (40£) ça fait un peu cher la moule. Je confirme, les restos à Londres c’est plutôt cher.

bien pour les londoniens
Si Belgo est un bar qui fait beaucoup pour la bière, c’est surtout vrai lorsque l’on est, comme beaucoup d’anglais, assez inculte sur les bières belges, ou bien, comme beaucoup de français, en manqué de ce breuvage riche et bien servi. Pour terminer: Belgo, c’est génial lorsqu’on vit Londres.