Crab Club Ixelles: creative seafood, menu and Flagey address

Par Gabriel Goldberg 10 October 2026 9 min read

Some restaurants are places you try once. Others are places whose moves you follow almost as you would follow the adventures of a friend. Crab Club belongs to the second group. I knew it in its early days in Saint-Gilles, remember its spell around Uccle and Drogenbos, and now find it in Ixelles, close to Place Flagey. The address has changed. What draws me back has not: good fish and seafood, imaginative cooking, and an enjoyment of the table that does not require a degree in gastronomic terminology. Where is Crab Club in Brussels? Crab Club is at Rue Alphonse De Witte 40, 1050 Ixelles , near Flagey, in the former Bistrot Marie. Chef Yoth Ondara cooks fish and seafood alongside land-and-sea combinations, with dishes evolving according to available ingredients. Book on the official website or call +32 472 55 46 95. Crab Club’s Ixelles facade, photographed on 9 October 2026, with the dining room visible through the windows. — Photo : Gabriel Goldberg. Saint-Gilles, Drogenbos, Ixelles: following a restaurant’s story My affection for Crab Club has something to do with continuity. This is not a name I have just picked out of a restaurant ranking. It is a place I remember starting out. La Libre’s La Cuisine à Quatre Mains reported on the opening in September 2015 , with Philippe Emanuelli and Yoth Ondara associated with the venture on Chaussée de Waterloo in Saint-Gilles. The discreet address near Porte de Hal and the freedom of the cooking became part of its identity. A decade…