Brussels, Belgium

Faubourg 21

Price per night from$283.95

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR243.60), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Palatial awareness

Setting

Sablon and on

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Faubourg 21 owes its good looks to a French fantasy. Its first owner set out to recreate the spirit of a château in the heart of Brussels, leaving behind carved panelling, sweeping staircases and ornate fireplaces that still define this intimate Royal District townhouse. The modern chapter is just as compelling, with Maison Sarah Lavoine's cocooning colour palette, a top-floor chef’s table and a Valmont spa all conspiring to lure you back from the nearby galleries a little earlier than planned.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

20, including four suites.

Check–Out

Noon, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates exclude breakfast, but à la carte options can be ordered from Bistra Noisette for €45 each.

Also

Faubourg 21 has one fully accessible Deluxe room for guests with limited mobility, and step-free access extends to the hotel's communal spaces and restaurants.

At the hotel

Rooftop terrace, courtyard, limousine transfers (fees apply), charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and Guerlain bath products.

Our favourite rooms

We’d skip straight to the Duplex Rooms, tucked away in their own building for all the privacy of a pint-sized Brussels townhouse. Lovers of old buildings should instead check into a Heritage or Grand Heritage Suite, where original panelling, mouldings, fireplaces and decorative wallpapers remind you that this was once a flourish-filled 19th-century residence.

Spa

Down in the hotel's former kitchens, Ré Labo de Beauté specialises in Valmont treatments, alongside a sauna and hydrotherapy tub for slower-paced afternoons. If your idea of self-care involves breaking a sweat, there’s a fully kitted-out gym in the converted stables with an impressive haul of Technogym machines.

Packing tips

Bring your gallery stamina: Faubourg 21 sits in Brussels’ cultural heart, with museums and art houses in every direction.

Also

If sightseeing isn't enough of a workout, personal trainers can be booked for one-to-one sessions in the gym.

Pet‐friendly

Sadly for four-legged friends, Faubourg 21 does not welcome dogs. See more pet-friendly hotels in Brussels.

Children

Faubourg 21 is for over-18s only.

Sustainability efforts

Faubourg 21 grows herbs in its own kitchen garden, composts organic waste, offers vegetarian and vegan dining options and has robust recycling and waste-sorting systems in place.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

If you’re splashing out on Chaga, request a seat at the counter. Some tables also overlook the Royal Palace, and get snapped up quickly.

Dress Code

Brussels dresses well, and so should you. Save your sharper tailoring for Chaga; Noisette calls for something a little less buttoned-up.

Hotel restaurant

Faubourg 21 gives you two very good reasons to dine in. Chaga, perched on the top floor, is chef Kevin Lejeune’s theatrical fine dining restaurant (open Tuesday to Sunday), where the open kitchen turns every service into dinner and a show. Belgian ingredients meet Japanese technique across five- and seven-course tasting menus that might feature robata-grilled langoustine in a saké-infused sauce, line-caught sea bass and oysters, or dry-aged beef sprinkled with elderflower, finished with a signature ‘cigar’ dessert. Downstairs, Bistra Noisette takes a lighter, all-day approach, serving polished French cooking to marble-top tables. Drop in for a leisurely brunch of buckwheat blinis, potato waffles topped with smoked haddock or a champagne-and-caviar affair if you're feeling indulgent; then return later for small plates and creative tipples.

Hotel bar

Leave the city’s beer halls to everyone else. Bar 21 is all polished wood, original panelling, marble fireplaces and excellent cocktails, with a drinks list that changes throughout the year alongside impeccably mixed Negronis and champagne by the glass.

Last orders

Breakfast at Bistra Noisette is from 7am to 10.30am, brunch from 10am to 4pm, lunch from noon to 2pm and dinner from 6pm to 9.30pm. Dinner seatings at Chaga start from 7pm to 8.30pm (closed Mondays).

Room service

You can order up to your room around the clock.

Location

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Address
Faubourg 21
Avenue Marnix 21
Brussels
1000
Belgium

Brussels' Royal District is all grand boulevards, stately townhouses, museums and galleries –— and Faubourg 21 puts you right in the middle of it.

Planes

Brussels Airport is the closest airport, around a 20-minute drive from the hotel. The team can help with transfers for €60 (one-way).

Trains

If you're arriving by train, Bruxelles-Luxembourg station is the closest, just a 10-minute walk from the hotel. Eurostar passengers can connect from Brussels-Midi in minutes, making rail an easy alternative to flying.

Automobiles

A car is more hassle than help in central Brussels, so we'd recommend relying on your own two feet and the city's transport network instead. For road trippers, Faubourg 21 offers valet parking for €50 a day.

Worth getting out of bed for

Faubourg 21 lands you in one of Brussels’ most cultured postcodes. Spend the morning admiring the neoclassical grandeur of the Royal Palace, then follow the museum mile towards Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, where Magritte, Bruegel and Rubens share wall space. Contemporary art lovers should hop between Bozar, Victor Horta's landmark arts centre, and the nearby Fondation CAB, a beautifully curated gallery dedicated to minimalist and conceptual art in a converted warehouse. Afterwards, wander downhill into Sablon, where antiques dealers, independent galleries and chocolatiers make it dangerously easy to fill your suitcase. 

Local restaurants

Humus x Hortense is the table to book if vegetables excite you as much as vintage wine: Michelin-starred, wildly creative and set inside a glorious art nouveau townhouse. Les Petits Oignons has been feeding Brussels regulars for decades, and for good reason — silky shrimp croquettes, sole meunière and soufflés worth repeating reservations for.  

Local cafés

Start the day at Café du Sablon, where Brussels’ coffee obsessives queue for expertly pulled espresso and filter brews before disappearing into the surrounding galleries. Linger over brunch at Café Costermans, a beautifully restored café tucked behind the historic Costermans antiques house with a leafy courtyard. 

Local bars

For cocktails, head to Chemistry & Botanic’s, where bartenders treat seasonal botanicals like laboratory specimens, producing well balanced drinks that are as theatrical as they are delicious. If beer is more your speed, Pop-Up Sablon overlooks Grand Sablon from a handsome 18th-century building, pairing Belgian brews with an ideal people-watching terrace. 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this design-led townhouse in the Belgian capital and unpacked their exhibition posters and chocolate shop haul, a full account of their city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Faubourg 21 in Brussels… 

You could spend an entire stay at Faubourg 21 admiring the woodwork and still miss a detail or two. Every carved door, marble fireplace and impossibly grand staircase seems to reveal another flourish, but thanks to Maison Sarah Lavoine, the listed townhouse never tips into period-drama territory. Instead, raspberry velvets, forest greens, sculptural armchairs and playful wallpapers give it the confidence to feel thoroughly current.  

It’s the sort of place that encourages lifestyle inflation: one Martini beneath the painted panels of Bar 21 becomes two, a quick look at Chaga's open kitchen turns into an indulgent tasting menu watched from the lava-stone counter, and suddenly you've convinced yourself a Valmont facial is a defensibly sensible way to round off the afternoon. The Royal Palace, Magritte Museum and Sablon’s galleries may be only a few minutes away, but don't be surprised if you’re back a little earlier to enjoy a soporific soak in your roll-top bath. 

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