The Hotel

rooftop · 27th floor The Hotel Brussels Rooftop, on the 27th floor of the property on Boulevard de Waterloo, is the other genuinely high-altitude option in the city after Vertigo and the one with the more polished hotel-bar offer. The terrace runs along two sides of the building with a long west-and-north view across the lower town toward the Grand Place spires and beyond, and the room handles its weather conversion through a serious retractable system.

The cocktail programme is built around a clean classics list, a small stable of seasonal signatures, and a competent Belgian-gin shelf; the wine list runs proper Belgian and French depth. Service is calm and hotel-polished. It ranks sixth because the room delivers a complete, conventionally excellent view-and-programme combination at a price that is fair for its tier, even if it lacks a single distinguishing signature that the leaders above can claim.

For the full ranking, see our editorial round-up of the 10 best rooftop bars in Brussels, the broader Brussels rooftop bars guide, and our category index of rooftop bars worldwide.