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Hospitality in Charleroi: an up-to-date menu on the table and on your guests’ phones

With 206,900 residents on 1 January 2026, Charleroi is Wallonia’s largest municipality, and the city counts nearly 10,000 students. Your printed menu stays on the table; Menyu puts the same menu online, and you edit it from your phone.

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Terrace table on a rain-washed square in Charleroi, with a red QR code stand, homemade fries, mayonnaise and a glass of white wine
AI-generated illustration

Key facts

Charleroi in figures

residents on 1 January 2026: Wallonia’s largest municipality, third in Belgium1
206,900
students or so counted by the city, which aims for 15,000 by 20352
10,000
people in Charleroi MĂ©tropole, home to 65% of those students2
600,000
MICHELIN restaurants for Charleroi and its surroundings, 14 of them Bib Gourmands3
40

With Menyu

What Menyu does for a Charleroi menu

On Menyu your menu lives at an address that never changes, and the QR code carries your colours. Here is what that brings a Charleroi restaurant, from the student lunch to the terrace.

  • A menu that changes every week

    Do your dishes change with deliveries? On Menyu you edit a dish or a price from your phone; the QR code, in your colours and with your logo, keeps the same address.

    • A dish or price changed without reprinting the QR codeIncluded
    • QR code in your colours, with your logoIncluded
    Make my menu QR code

  • Student lunchtime

    Set the student menu to show at lunchtime only and the full menu in the evening; Menyu follows the time zone chosen in the settings. With Premium, a game on the menu wins guests a single-use voucher sent by e-mail.

    • A category per time of day, in your time zoneIncluded
    • Games on the menu, single-use voucher by e-mailPremium
    Build a prize wheel

  • Allergens and diets, dish by dish

    You mark each dish with its allergens, from the EU list of 14; your guests then filter the menu: vegetarian, or free from whichever allergens they choose.

    • 14 EU allergens, dish by dishIncluded
    • A vegetarian filter and one for each of the 14 allergensIncluded
    My allergen chart

Growth

Wallonia’s most populous municipality

Charleroi had 206,900 residents on 1 January 2026, 1,137 more than a year earlier. In Belgium only Antwerp and Ghent are larger; in Wallonia, Liège comes next with 198,102.1

The arrondissement of Charleroi has 403,422 residents, and the city puts Charleroi MĂ©tropole at 600,000.12

For your menu

A big municipality means guests who compare before they come: an up-to-date online menu answers before the phone rings.

Students

A growing campus

In the city centre, CampusUCharleroi brings together ULB, UMONS, HEPH-Condorcet and three adult-education schools (ISI, ILT, IETC). The city counts nearly 10,000 students; enrolments rose by 3% at the universities and 6% at the colleges between 2025 and 2026.2

The stated goal is 15,000 students by 2035. The former Notre-Dame hospital buildings, a redesigned Square Yernaux and the M5 metro line are due in 2027 and 2028; student housing, concentrated in the Ville Haute, will change in 2027.2

For your menu

If students fill your room, the lunch menu must show at lunchtime and its price must be fixable without a reprint.

Local food

From Chez Duche to Vilain’s small plates

The city describes a food offer running from French and Belgian cooking to Mediterranean and Asian flavours, and publishes an interactive map of all its hospitality venues.4

For Charleroi and its surroundings the MICHELIN Guide lists 40 restaurants: one with two stars, five with one star, 14 Bib Gourmands and 20 selected addresses. Of these, 27 flag vegetarian options, 8 vegan and 7 gluten-free; 29 have a terrace.3

Chez Duche has served horse rib steak with homemade fries since 1993; at Vilain, 10 to 15 small plates change every week with what local suppliers bring.56

For your menu

A menu that changes weekly does not fit a frozen PDF; and when 7 restaurants out of 40 flag a gluten-free option, yours stands out.

Local rules

A terrace without a permit: administrative penalties

In Charleroi, running a terrace without a permit is one of the offences a municipal administrative penalty can target, alongside opening a venue without authorisation or breaking the conditions of a permit.7

Depending on the facts, the sanctioning officer can issue a warning, a fine, mediation, community service, suspension or withdrawal of the permit, or even an administrative closure. If a fine above €70 is considered, you can ask to be heard.7

The administrative police department only sees people by appointment.7

For your menu

Get the permit before you put out tables and an A-board: the penalty can go as far as withdrawal.

According to the guides

MICHELIN Guide restaurants in and around Charleroi

Two in Charleroi, the others in Mont-sur-Marchienne, Gosselies and Montigny-le-Tilleul: the local MICHELIN Guide selection leans towards gentle prices, with three Bib Gourmands among these five.

These five restaurants are not Menyu customers and were not contacted. They come from the MICHELIN Guide selection for Charleroi and its surroundings; on 21 October 2026 each website gave its hours or its menu.

  1. Chez Duche

    Avenue de Waterloo, in the heart of Charleroi58 · Traditional cuisine · €€

    • MICHELIN Guide selection 20263

    Horse rib steak with homemade fries, cassoulet, seasonal vegetable waterzooi: a neighbourhood address since 1993.5

    Guide MICHELIN listingRestaurant website8

  2. Vilain

    Avenue Paul Pastur, in a 1920s house69 · Seasonal cuisine · €€

    • Bib Gourmand 20263

    Ten to fifteen small plates to share, changed every week according to what local suppliers have.6

    Guide MICHELIN listingRestaurant website9

  3. Table et Vin

    Mont-sur-Marchienne, Avenue Paul Pastur10 · French cuisine · €€

    • Bib Gourmand 20263

    A wine cellar with a kitchen: master sommelier Thierry Jacques advises on the wines, chef Husson offers a set menu with choices.10

    Guide MICHELIN listingRestaurant website11

  4. L’esprit Bouddha

    Gosselies, Place des Martyrs12 · Chinese cuisine · €€€

    • MICHELIN Guide selection 20263

    A modern Chinese restaurant: beef gyoza, then lacquered duck you roll by hand in small homemade pancakes.12

    Guide MICHELIN listingRestaurant website13

  5. De Vous Ă  Nous

    Montigny-le-Tilleul, garden terrace at the back14 · Modern French cuisine · €€

    • Bib Gourmand 20263

    A set menu with choices, and the Ă  la carte list for premium produce such as turbot or scallops.14

    Guide MICHELIN listingRestaurant website15

Questions

Questions and answers

What happens to a terrace without a permit in Charleroi?

A municipal administrative penalty. The sanctioning officer can go from a warning to a fine, to suspending or withdrawing the permit, and as far as an administrative closure where the rules allow.

If the fine being considered is above €70, you can ask to be heard.7

How do I reach Charleroi’s administrative police department?

By appointment only: the department asks people not to turn up without one. To contest a penalty there is an online form; only if that fails, 071/86 89 92 answers on working days from 9am to noon.7

Does a QR code let me skip posting the menu outside?

No. The FPS Economy wants prices readable from outside with no special effort such as scanning a code; a QR code can only come in addition. Our Belgium page sets out the rules.

On Menyu, the QR code leads to the full menu, translated and up to date.16

National menu rules
How many students does Charleroi have?

Nearly 10,000 according to the city, which aims for 15,000 by 2035, with new buildings in 2027 and 2028. If your lunch trade depends on them, a Menyu category can show at lunchtime only.2

Do I have to show allergens on my menu?

For AFSCA, the food safety agency, allergens in non-prepacked food must be shown clearly and be immediately available on the spot, in restaurants as elsewhere.

Menyu lists them dish by dish, from the EU list of 14.17

Prepare my allergen chart
Does online payment work for a Charleroi restaurant?

No. Menyu opens payment accounts in France only, so Premium orders placed from the menu are paid at the counter.

Are the restaurants listed Menyu customers?

No. They come from the MICHELIN selection for Charleroi and its surroundings, 40 restaurants in all; we list them without having approached them.3

Limits

What Menyu does not do

  • No online payment for a Charleroi restaurant: Menyu payment accounts are created in France.
  • Your dishes can be translated, but the menu’s interface shows in French or English.
  • No link to the till: Menyu orders do not feed into your cash register system.
  • No custom domain: the menu lives at menyu.club, followed by the language and its name.

Method

How this page was made

Prepared by the Menyu team, based in Montpellier. Sources read on 21 October 2026: Statbel, the City of Charleroi, the FPS Economy, AFSCA, the MICHELIN Guide and the restaurants’ websites. None of the restaurants listed is a customer. The image is AI-generated and does not show a real place.

Sources

  1. Statbel, Population par commune au 1er janvier (1992-2026)statbel.fgov.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  2. Ville de Charleroi, Charleroi Ville étudiante : Point sur l’évolution du Campus pluri-universitairecharleroi.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  3. Guide MICHELIN, Restaurants MICHELIN, Charleroi et ses environsguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  4. Ville de Charleroi, Horecacharleroi.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  5. Guide MICHELIN, Chez Duche, Guide MICHELINguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  6. Guide MICHELIN, Vilain, Guide MICHELINguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  7. Ville de Charleroi, Police administrativecharleroi.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  8. Chez Duche, Site officiel de Chez Duchechez-duche.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  9. Vilain, Site officiel de Vilainvilainrestaurant.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  10. Guide MICHELIN, Table et Vin, Guide MICHELINguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  11. Table et Vin, Site officiel de Table et Vintableetvin.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  12. Guide MICHELIN, L’esprit Bouddha, Guide MICHELINguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  13. L’esprit Bouddha, Site officiel de L’esprit Bouddhaespritbouddha.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  14. Guide MICHELIN, De Vous à Nous, Guide MICHELINguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  15. De Vous à Nous, Site officiel de De Vous à Nousrestaurantdevousanous.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  16. SPF Économie, Guidelines : indication des prix dans l’horecaeconomie.fgov.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  17. AFSCA, Allergènesfavv-afsca.be · accessed 21 October 2026