A business lunch in La Louvière is arranged just like any professional lunch: you set an arrival time, work out the number of guests and choose from the restaurant’s actual menu, with no promise of equipment or a dedicated room. At Mamma Maria, Rue de la Loi 40, lunch service runs from 12.00pm to 2.30pm, every day except Tuesday — closed on Tuesdays. That’s the setting in which you can host colleagues or a client, no more, no less.
A lunchtime restaurant in La Louvière: what for
For a working lunch, first decide on the number of guests and how much time you have. The menu offers sharing boards, focaccias, wood-fired pizzas and dolci. You can put together a meal for two or three, or bring together a larger table for a team coming from Houdeng or Manage. Checking the menu before the meeting helps take the group’s tastes into account and pass on any questions to the team.
If you need to discuss something confidential or use equipment during the lunch, mention this before booking. Options need to be checked with the team: the restaurant’s presentation is not an offer of an equipped meeting room. For a standard business meeting, the starting point remains an Italian meal and a table with an agreed time.
The details depending on numbers and timing
For a lunch for two or four people, a simple booking is enough: state your arrival time and, ideally, a desired departure time if a meeting follows. Lunch service ends at 2.30pm; for a meal that needs to finish before a 2pm meeting, it’s best to arrive early and say so when booking, rather than hoping for faster service that can’t be promised.
For a larger group — around ten colleagues, a team send-off — it’s better to go through the Privatisation page, which sets out the packages for 25 to 45 people and full privatisation for 35 to 70 people on request. Below these numbers, a standard booking via Contact works perfectly well: there’s no need to book out the whole room for a working lunch between three or four people.
If the meal comes after a meeting, state its finishing time and the time needed to get to the restaurant. A late arrival should be discussed with the team before fixing the appointment. The lunchtime opening hours alone aren’t enough to determine the latest arrival time or order time for your group.
Points to check before confirming
The first mistake is assuming that a journey from a business park or industrial zone always takes a fixed amount of time. We can’t guarantee a precise travel time or a departure down to the quarter hour: traffic, parking and the time of day all affect this. It’s better to allow some margin rather than planning a lunch around too tight a schedule.
The second mistake is turning up without warning for a group of six or eight on a busy day. A table needs preparing; a call or message before you arrive avoids waiting and allows the actual availability for that day to be checked.
The third difficulty is booking without specifying the particular needs of the meeting. Need for discretion, a departure constraint, a seating preference: it’s best to mention these at the first point of contact. This allows you to adapt your plans to the restaurant’s response and give participants confirmed information.
How to book a working lunch
For a simple meal with colleagues or a client, a call to +32 64 28 32 73 or a message via the Contact page is enough: state the date, your desired arrival time and the number of guests. The request is passed to the team, who then confirm the booking — it is not an instant confirmation.
For a larger group or an occasion beyond a simple lunch for four, head to the Privatisation page to check the available packages and their current terms. In both cases, the closer the date gets, the earlier you should give notice, especially on a busy weekday.
If you have a date and a number of guests in mind, now’s the time to let us know: we’ll get back to you to arrange the timing and table that suit your lunch.
