Lowlander in City of London, Westminster

A reliable venue for a good beer

For beer, one of the best places to go. Also the mosselen were excellent like the Fish and Chips. Recommended is Delirium beer from the tap.

What a fantastic place!! Lots of beers, really good mussels and lovely atmosphere. If you're looking for Belgium beers, don't miss it, highly recommended!

Really hard to get staff to serve us. It wasn't very busy at all, but it took a lot of time and attempts to get served. Nice beers though

The food and beer was awesome. Michael and Alondrey (sorry about the spelling) really looked after us xx

Nice place to get a Belgian beer and sit outside when the weather is nice. Friendly staff and looks great for food too.

If you like a Belgium beer and something to eat then pop in won't be disappointed 👍

Great selection of beer, really feels authentic European atmosphere and servers are very friendly. Would recommend the beer tasting trio. Food is decent. Appreciate the variety of mussels and quality is good. Not a lot of healthier options on the menu, but all good choices to match copious beer consumption.

Fabulous choice of Belgian beers and excellent, attentive, considerate service (ensuring we made it to the theatre on time). A lovely pre-theatre spot, or somewhere to have some good Belgian drinks. The food isn’t mind-blowing but hits the spot if you’re going for the beer.

Una excelente gama de cervezas belgas junto con una cerveza inglesa trapense, que era sabrosa también. También tuvimos el almuerzo que se entregó rápidamente y sabroso también.

Thank you. Here I was introduced to the delicious Lindeman Kriek beer. What a treat. Cheers from the Bronx.

Great atmosphere and wide range of beers. Cheers

Popped in to grab 2 bottles just after opening. Only soul in the place. Ordered at the bar, 2 takeaway bottles and a half pint. Came to over £31 - was braced for a hefty bill based on what I ordered, but still seemed steep so queried it, thinking I'd been charged for a pint rather than a half pint. Turns out I'd paid service charge for the drinks I'd ordered and been served at the bar. Returned both bottles, got refunded the base price WITHOUT the service charge, and here I am a week later, with no refund having come through. So I've paid 30odd quid for a half pint of Kriek. Ridiculous. And no doubt I'll be told its optional. THEN ASK IF I WANT TO PAY IT AND TRAIN YOUR STAFF TO CHARGE WHEN WARRANTED.

I was fortunate to visit just after opening time, before it got busy. I have visited Belgium many times, and this is a similar atmosphere in London. Very friendly and helpful staff. A great selection of beers. Food is available but I didn't eat. Great to feel like visiting Europe for a couple of hours without needing a passport.

If you want nice pint of beer and delicious food you must come to Lowlander. Definitely highly recommend Brugse Zot Blond and fish and chips. In connection with nice and friendly stuff this place has lovely atmosphere. Special thanks to Vedrana and Jurek.

Great as ever. Love the Belgian beers, 🍻 and found room for our group of four. Always a 👍and been visiting for many years.

Esto fue un regreso a un viejo lugar de hace unos años. El lugar no ha cambiado en términos de aspecto y sensación, lo cual es algo bueno. Vinimos en un almuerzo del sábado y estaba zumbando. Frente de la casa estaba muy encendido inmediatamente preguntando si estábamos en un apuro o tomando tiempo para el almuerzo. El servicio mantuvo el estándar durante toda la comida. El menú refleja la tradición flamenca del gran café, por lo que una gran cantidad de moluscos y platos robustos. Bebidas sabias que está más orientada a la cerveza como era de esperar. así que una carta de vinos corta pero bien. Compartimos un entrante y el schnitzel principal, que estaba un poco demasiado cocinado, pero todavía bueno para el almuerzo. Sin embargo, la estrella del espectáculo fue el gofre chocohólico con helado. No hago postres, pero podría haber hecho dos de estos. Así que tuvimos un buen almuerzo y volveríamos por otro.

Not sure how but I was charged £32 for two draft pils (6.95) and one bottle of lager (6.75) when I also ordered from the bar. They are obviously charging over 50% service charge when ordering at the bar or the online menu is way out of date. Avoid this place

Great place to sample Belgian beers. Staff a tad frosty.

Después de un bar en Bermondsey, le presenté a mi hijo cerveza belga. Encontramos este lugar caminando a nuestro hotel. OMG. Kwak on tap... mi favorito y algo que nunca vemos en los Estados Unidos. Hay docenas de cervezas belgas en el grifo e incluso más opciones en botellas. Después de nuestra primera visita, volvimos y tuvimos moules y (más) Kwak.

Great atmosphere with a great variety of beers!

Excellent beer selection and very friendly staff, the flights are highly recommended!

Good beers, it's rare to see that in London, but 36 euros for 2 beers I've never seen that!

Best place for Belgian beer in Britain, great food, great service and most of all great choice of beer. Can't recommend enough

It has great service and very good food

Great cuisine! Friendly staff members 💖

Good food, great beer. Helpful and chatty staff. Looking forward to our next visit when it should be a bit busier.

Very friendly and fast service, good drinks and food aswell!

One of the loveliest Belgian beer places in London. Huge number of beers available, nice atmosphere and good food. Definitely worth visiting.

I good place to taste Belgian beers

Went on Sunday early and it was quiet. Burger was good, my friend had the famed Moules & Frites and was very impressed. Excellent beer selection, including a few taster options. Staff were excellent, especially with kids, and their menu was good.

Over £30 for three drinks. That's all I'll say.

Oh yes what a place. Must visit.

Very cosy bar with a nice atmosphere, very friendly staff and a huge selection of beers. Food was delicious and the portions were good size as well. A little bit pricey even with London measures, but worth it. Would definitely visit again.

What a great pub Fantastic enthusiastic staff Great beers Bloody expensive but well worth it Loved it

Best place in London for Belgian beers!

Seleccionamos este restaurante ya que era un poco diferente de lo habitual. Tuvimos los Moules que eran muy buenos. Como era una ocasión especial, nos dimos un capricho con una botella de vino, pensamos que el £ 30 era un poco caro, pero nos quedamos un poco sorprendidos cuando lo buscamos en Internet y encontramos la misma botella al por menor en £ 8. 75 ! Estoy seguro de que estaban comprando al por mayor, por lo que el margen supera con creces el 300 %. La situación negativa fue más allá ya que luego cargaron un 12. Cargo por servicio del 5 %. Tiene que llegar un momento en el que la hostelería pare esta práctica, está muy mal.

In a heatwave be a decent place to cool down! Food below average but this place is damp and cold. Too tight to put the heating on. Avoid at all costs if you're after a warm welcome!

Great beer from a massive selection. Staff were brilliant and knowledge. Good all round. Just go there and be amazed.

Belgian Outlet in the heart of Drury Lane. Disappointing in that we booked to take advantage of the pre theatre menu that is advertised on the website, Monday-Friday 4pm-7pm, to be told once sat down and with drinks that that they 'weren't doing that at the moment' without any other explanation. Being awkwardly British we just accepted that, though imagine others might have pushed the point a little more (we were hungry and didn't have the energy to go somewhere else). We ate anyway, food was hot and tasty. Beer was good but eye-wateringly expensive, even for London. £13.50/pint for an IPA - taster selections were £15 for 3x1/3 pints and were brought out with no explanation of which was which (most places like this at least label them or explain what you're drinking). All in all 3/5, good food let down by pricing and service.

Been going here for years. Class place. Great staff, phenomenal selection of Belgian beers. Has become the place where I meet with old friends.

This was recommended. 5 mins from Covent Garden tube. It’s actually got a great vibe and look. We went on a Sunday and it got busy but not too much so. We could hear ourselves talk which is always a plus. We had reserved (they charge you a £10 deposit) and got a great corner table. Mussels (mariniere and njuda sausage and fennel) were tasty and generous portions . Mussels still tender and soft. The bread was a welcome addition to soak up the the sauce. V filling. The white fries could be slightly more well cooked and crispy. We asked for butter for our bread and that made it even better. However the steamed broccoli was overdone and lacking in flavour and I works have liked the sweet potato fries to have been more plentiful. 4 for food but 5 for overall experience.

popped in to get out the cold and to have a drink. they had mussels which were delicious.The service was excellent, quick and efficient.

Amazing Belgian beer selection. Food was good, but portions aren't huge and it's fairly expensive.

Great place to experience Belgian style food and a great selection of beers

Love the beers on draught, and the bitterballen and the bratwurst were both absolutely delicious! The young man who served us was very helpful and polite. We will definitely come again!

Best place to try some new, good Belgium beers and drinks.

I first came to the Lowlander over a year ago, I thought the place was good value but this time around I was very disappointed. The portions now are not generous at all. I remember having some mussels the first time, there was some wine sauce in the pan, this time we only got mussels, much less than the first time and hardly any sauce. The burgers the kids ordered were tiny, they looked like home made ones with Tesco burger buns. The chips were greasy and only a tiny pot of them. The rest of the food we ordered was in the same lines. How can you charge £15 for a burger like that? The beer selection is good but again, pricey for a draught beer. I will never come back, very disappointed!

Great selection of beers and an amazing service

Servicio fantástico. La comida era preciosa y el gerente era muy servicial también Este lugar es una joya preciosa sin duda volveremos. También nuestro perro estaba muy contento y frío. Feliz Navidad x

loved the selection of belgian beers

Above average food, but not the best in london Great selection of beers Unfortunately wildly expensive

Absolutely fantastic Belgian beer selection. Atmosphere is great and staff are amazing!

Mid food, beers were very good though

EDIT OCT 2024: Prices are insane, especially bottles (£11 for a bottle of Chimay bleue) and glasses are not filled properly (e.g., my Kwak glass didn’t have any beer - not even foam - on the top 10cm). Taste of draft beers was a bit off as well. Very disappointed this place is going downhill… I won’t be back and will be going to Dovetail instead, where prices are ~30% (!) lower (e.g., £7.5 for a Chimay bleue) — Great selection of Belgian beers (although overpriced (£8-9 for a beer!) - De Hems is cheaper). Service isn’t great - we almost got turned away as it was “bookings only”, but nobody ever came so the bar was empty on a Thu night… not sure how they run this business but it clearly feels suboptimal. If you have many tables available, maybe let people use them?!

Good atmosphere, great background music, not the elevator music like kind. They have a large selection of beers, wines and cocktails.

Delicious Beers, huge variety, amazing Burgers were so so, cold bread was bad

A very good place to go with friends to enjoy Belgian beer, delicious croquettes and much more.

Excellent experience in London. Amazing variety of Belgian beers. Close and friendly treatment. And quality food, I was delighted. Highly recommended.

Went here with friends last night at 8pm. Server was unhelpful, service slow. Food took ages to arrive and was mediocre. Items had to be requested more than once. Nothing was offered - no ketchup or mayo for fries (this is a Belgian restaurant!). We asked for vinegar for the chips and it came in a bowl!. They also ran out of moules (at 8pm in a Belgian restaurant????). The server just came back and announced 'no moules'. They didn't apologise or even bring a menu so we could choose something else. The restaurant was busy. I doubt it will stay that way.

Favourite spot for a drink in London! Great atmosphere, friendly staff, amazing knowledge on Belgium beer. Vedrana always looks after us fabulously. Could not recommend enough! :-)

Big fan of Belgian beer and joined a friend for some drink and a meal at Lowlander. The food was really good and the service friendly.

Have been coming to this place every time I'm in London since 2010 when I first found it with some friends while living abroad. Great atmosphere, great beer, great food, great staff, great location. Can't recommend enough.

15 Belgian beers on tap and 76 in bottles, very good selection, NO UK corporate 'beer', excellent.

Great selection of beers and great food. Great service from Marco!

Great selection, slightly expensive but you get what you pay for

to be honest, you cant really say there was service. A female waiter was friendly who organized a table for us since we didn’t have a reservation. The restaurant looks nice with the first impression. My friend ordered kwak, froth was like 4/5 of the glass. It doesn’t look right and the server said it’s normal as the froth will settle. You know there is a line at the beer glass to indicate the volume?! Their pour didn’t even hit the line. Servers didn’t have knowledge about their product, they brought us wrong beer (dubbel or tripel) for a few times. I felt sorry for the owner tbh. The staff were just having the wrongly opened beer behind the bar like no one was watching. Well it’s a nice premises at a great location with vast options of Belgium beer, both draught and in bottles. However it was just a terrible experience. No wonder the place was not full on a Saturday night. Did I mention their “Belgium” waffle taste like something from Sainsbury’s? It’s so tough with cheap chocolate syrup, vanilla ice cream and some blueberries.

Would have expected a more professional approach to pouring the beer.. but my 1/2 pint kwak is not full, well yes, it’s full of foam 😂 Also got the wrong order for three times .. hope there would be better training so you know what beer you serve! Waffle is super rock-hard, seems over-microwaved

Really nice moule frites, good Belgian biers and great friendly service! The kids enjoyed it too 😁

This restaurant and bar in the centre of London is a wonderful Belgian establishment filled with belgian bottled beer and from the tap. I'm so glad that I booked a table, this place was packed. If you book, you'll have to pay a fee of £10.00. I think to stop people from canceling last minute. The lowlander reminded me of my time in Bruges. I asked for something that I enjoyed in Bruges and low and behold they had it so you know this Grand Cafe is authentic 😊 I had a few bottles of the Guillotine and chips and a burger which was nice. The staff are really nice and friendly, they really took their time to explain the menu. If you're in the area and you're thirsty, come here.

Nice beer selection which is on the pricey side (not surprising given the location). 12.5% service charge is laughable given the sub-par service and cost of the beer (£8 for a pint...)

A great selection of Belgian beers without the need to cross the border :)

I think it was off day. Food cold still great place to have lun

Amazing selection of Belgian and other European beers...many on tap. Very very very excellent waitstaff, who literally made a table appear for us today. Really good mussels frequently available....

If you fancy a bit of moules and flavoured bieres belgiques in the heart of London, this is a good spot. But, depending on the day and time you show up, they can be short-staffed, which means unexpected long wait.

Our food was great, especially the mussels (moules provencale). We enjoyed the beers and the atmosphere. Vedrana and Jennifer could not have been more pleasant and helpful. They made our dinner visit one of our best meals in London.

I love this place, the vibe, the staff are super friendly, helpful, efficient. Amazing food, excellent choice of beers, especially fruit beers.

Bear was good, I can recommend. Mussel have a lot of sand. The first few were ok, but the one dipped in sauce was too sandy to eat. Sausage plater was ok, but not worth its price.

The fries are not worthy of Belgian fries. Excellent beers and atmosphere as always, but sadly no longer acceptable food. We took someone especially to show them Belgian food, but the menu isn't Belgian any more (despite calling themselves Belgian). I had the mussels (the only Belgian thing on the menu) and they were full of little pebbles that I had to spit out. It would be better for them to have less items on the menu, and do them well.

The beer selection is excellent, probably the best place in London for Belgian Beer. But the food is not great, and most importantly, not Belgian. Bar the mussels, it's a strange mix of random international bar food - if you want to call yourself a Belgian Grand Cafe, you should probably invest in some Belgian cuisine.

Has a great beer selection but took ages to get served on a Friday night (empty bar but they prioritise table service)

Great selection of beers if you're a fan! The service was excellent! Food below average...I also found sth not edible in my salad, and I almost broke my tooth!! Atmosphere is nice - a bit too noisy (need some sound insulation), and the A/C was set to a very low temperature, so everyone was wearing their goodies/ jackets.

Belgian food and Belgian beer, what else do I need to say?

Friendly staff, who very accommodating for our large group. The beer is amazing - a great choice and very representative of Belgian delights. The food is good.

We were charged 12.5 % service for drinks we ordered and collected at the bar! Generally expensive as expected in this location but surprised with a service charge???

Buena selección de cervezas belgas con servicio de mesa amable que es profesional y amable. Pasamos un par de horas aquí. Nos gustó el ambiente, aunque anuncian tener el balón puesto. Un sábado por la tarde nos quedamos un poco decepcionados de no poder tomar una cerveza de calidad y disfrutar poniéndonos al día con el footie! Los baños necesitan atención. Probablemente volveríamos para una copa rápida si en la zona. Sabemos que el Soho es caro pero los precios de la cerveza aquí son excesivos.

The **Lowlander Grand Café** was the perfect place to celebrate my birthday! The selection of beers was absolutely fantastic, with a wide variety to suit every taste, from rich and bold to light and refreshing. For anyone who loves craft beer, this is the place to be. The food was just as impressive, especially the sharing plates, which were perfect for the occasion. Delicious, beautifully presented, and ideal for enjoying with friends—they really added to the celebratory atmosphere. Overall, it was a wonderful birthday experience at Lowlander Grand Café. Great drinks, amazing food, and the perfect spot to share with friends. Highly recommended!

Very good selection of Belgium beers including about 10 on draught. Food was very average. Service was ok but generally the cafe is a bit worn. Nothing grand about it.

Comida y servicio caros y de mala calidad, la cerveza era buena, pero de nuevo caro. Larga espera en restaurante casi vacío No recomendado

Great mussels and frits. huge selection of beers 🍻

Amazing place. Great selection of beers. Gabriella the manager clearly passionate and knowledgeable about his beers. Very good service as well from Jennifer. Will definitely return when in the area again.

Amazing atmosphere in here. Thoroughly enjoyed our food and the gorgeous Belgian beers! Delirium red is the way to go in my opinion!!!

If you like Belgian beer, then most likely this is the place for you. Plus only moments from Covent Garden

My husband really enjoyed the Belgian beers. We ordered some simple food, chicken Caesar salad and fish finger sandwich; both were ok. We were so happy to find a nice place serving food late (we didn't get there until almost 10pm).

We had had a nice meal there not so long ago, and we were looking forward to going back. Pity tonight was so bad we had to walk out. We sat for 20mins. There were only 3 other tables occupied ie not busy. Despite this the young lady went out for a half pint and a smoke and then came back and played on her screen. The young lad behind the taps poured and reported the same two glasses repeatedly over the same 20mins. The guy with the pony tail came out. Chatted with colleagues who were determined not to make eye contact with customers. He then rearranged cardboard signs, walking past each table, not making eye contact, then back to the bar to chat w colleagues. Rude doesn’t do it justice. Not offered a drink. Food was never going to feasible. After 25mins of unrelenting rudeness we left. Won’t return

Amazing place, spot on food, first class service and well the choice of over 300 beers 🍻

They have troubadour magma on tap what more can you ask for

Knowledgeable beer staff with excellent beer selection. Chunky chips were fantastic. I'd doc a point for the steak sandwich. Cut too thick in relation to the tenderness of the meat. Entire pieces came out every bite. Could not pull them apart for the life of me.

Huge selection of gorgeous Belgian beers. Staff very friendly and competent

Cozy pub where you can get tasty Belgian beers. Tried some snacks such as the bitterballen, chicken wings and padron peppers, which were well liked.