The European Quarter's American sports bar, screening NFL Sundays, Six Nations weekends, and Champions League nights at Cortenbergh 36.
Fat Boy's Sports Bar & Grill holds Avenue de Cortenbergh 36, three minutes from Schuman station and the Berlaymont. A Tripadvisor reviewer summed up the pitch years ago: as close to an American sports bar as you can find in Brussels, and the room still trades on exactly that.
The original Place du Luxembourg location closed in mid 2016; this is the one that carried on, listed by visit.brussels in its sports bar guide and by Fanzo with a full fixtures calendar.
Who would hate it? Anyone hunting Belgian beer heritage. This is wings, screens, and American portions in the most international corner of the city.
A long grill room hung with team flags and a wall of screens that split between NFL, Premier League, and rugby depending on the calendar, per Fanzo's listing. Booths take the families and expat groups early; the bar rail fills with single fixture diehards by kickoff.
The taps run Belgian standards alongside American bottles, with pints priced above the corner cafés; Yelp reviewers grumble about the beer markup and pay it anyway for the screens.
Order the wings, hot and dry rubbed, at €10 to €11 per basket per Tripadvisor reviews, and pair them with whatever pilsner is on. Skip the cocktail menu; this is not that bar.
Weeknights pull Commission staff loosening ties; weekends turn over to NFL and Six Nations crowds in jerseys, with American expats claiming the rail. Sunday NFL slates run late into the Brussels night.