The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Table Vaccin
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A former doctor's home, now a modern dining room where the chef moves easily between Belgian, French, and Italian classics. Dishes are meant for sharing, though individual portions are on offer too. The cooking is rooted in the timeless rather than the fashionable, so expect vitello tonnato and tomatoes stuffed with grey shrimp rather than foam or tweezers. The wine list makes a strong case for lingering.
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Rank 2. De Farmasie
Modern French
A 17th-century pharmacy cabinet anchors the black-and-white dining room, a nod to the building's former life that sets the tone nicely. This is a proper sit-down restaurant, Bib Gourmand-listed, where the kitchen leans into classic French technique with a few well-placed detours, wood-fired meats, farm-sourced poultry, and the occasional ponzu to keep things honest. The menu runs long, portions run generous, and the bill stays reasonable.
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Rank 3. Brabohoeve
Franco-Belgian French
A villa-restaurant in the Antwerp countryside where the terrace looks out over open meadows and the menu reads like a love letter to Franco-Belgian cooking. Shrimp fritters and vol-au-vent of free-range chicken are the anchors, but seasonal specials rotate through brill, hare, and whatever the kitchen finds worth chasing. The kind of place where the hardest part is narrowing it down.
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Rank 4. Hert
Modern French
Hert sits on the top floor of a tower, and the view over the Campine flatlands arrives before the menu does. It's a sleek, modern French restaurant where the chef's cooking leans classical but keeps slipping in small surprises: smoked eel alongside sole, a frothy bisque where you might expect something simpler. The wine list is put together with the same precision. It holds a Michelin star, which makes the industrial-Scandinavian room feel appropriately understated.
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Rank 5. De Pastorie
Modern French
A 17th-century former presbytery turned polished fine dining destination, holding a Michelin star, in the quiet Flemish countryside. A father-and-son team runs the kitchen, turning out French classics with a lighter, more contemporary hand. The manicured garden and terrace do a lot of heavy lifting on a good day. The wine list runs to what is generously called a bible, which tells you roughly where the evening is headed.
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The view from the top floor of the Museum aan de Stroom takes in the whole Antwerp skyline, which is a strong opening move for a three-Michelin-star creative restaurant. Viki Geunes runs a stripped-back room, elegant and quiet except for an old record player adding a jazzy hum, and builds dishes that are intricate without fussing about it. The kind of place where the sauces alone warrant a moment of silence.
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Rank 7. Resto 136
Asian Influences French
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Rank 8. Neon
Creative French
A former teacher training college canteen is now a Michelin-starred fine dining room where the chef, Nils Proost, treats a whole North Sea fish or a full carcass the way other kitchens treat a prime cut: nothing leaves without becoming something. Fermentation, zero waste, and five seasonal menus drive the cooking. The result is creative French with deep regional roots, in a town most people drive through on the way somewhere else.
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A Michelin-starred spot hiding behind an unremarkable front door in Antwerp, Bloesem seats a handful of people around a counter and one shared table for a single set menu of around fifteen courses. The kitchen leans seasonal and a little playful, textures shifting dish to dish in ways that feel deliberate rather than showy. The host handles pairings, alcoholic or not, with enough enthusiasm that you'll probably let her choose.
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Rank 10. Bistrot du Nord
Traditional French
Vintage floor tiles, wall mirrors, and wood paneling give this Michelin-starred Antwerp bistro the look of a French brasserie that time politely forgot to update. The chef runs a tight classical French menu, with a particular affection for the offal-and-tripe end of the spectrum, handled with the kind of technique that makes you wonder why everyone else abandoned it. Book ahead; the room fills fast with people who already know.
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Nick Bril's two-Michelin-starred restaurant moved from a grand church to a converted warehouse on the Eilandje, and the shift shows: the room is minimalist and airy, with serious art on the walls and the chef's DJ turntables sitting right there in the open kitchen. The cooking is creative and internationally minded, built on mature ingredients, last-minute grilling, and sauces with real backbone. Dress well and come hungry.
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Rank 12. Hertog Jan at Botanic
Asian New American
Concrete walls and muted grey tones set the scene for this intimate two-Michelin-star creative restaurant inside Antwerp's Botanic Sanctuary Hotel. The chef's Asian obsessions run through everything, and the kitchen asks guests not to post photos, which somehow makes the meal feel more like a secret. The cooking follows the motto "simplicity isn't simple," which is either profound or a warning that dinner will take a while, probably both.
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Rank 13. Maison Colette
Modern French
A former doctor's home in a small Belgian town, now a two-Michelin-star dining room with floor-to-ceiling windows, made-to-measure porcelain by Pieter Stockmans, and a dessert trolley that arrives at the end like a last-minute argument for staying. The chef's classical French training shows in every preparation, with langoustine treated four ways and a suckling lamb that earns its place on the menu. Garden dining and five guestrooms upstairs, if leaving feels premature.
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Rank 14. KOMAF
Contemporary French
A converted 17th-century farmstead outside Antwerp, all wood, marble, and thick drapes with the green countryside pressing in at the windows. The kitchen leans contemporary French but wanders confidently into Asian flavors without making a fuss about it, and the sauces alone justify the drive. One Michelin star. The front-of-house team runs things with the kind of quiet attentiveness that makes a long tasting menu feel effortless rather than ceremonial.
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Marble details and a serious wine cellar set the scene at this two-Michelin-star fine dining room in a quiet Belgian town that gives away nothing from the outside. Thierry Theys cooks with the kind of technical precision that makes each dish feel both considered and alive, pairing unexpected flavors in ways that hold together. Wines by the glass and an absurdly good petit-four spread at the end make it hard to argue with dessert.
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A former coach house on a sprawling Breda estate, with walnut and marble inside and a terrace that makes the grounds feel like part of the meal. This is a formal French fine dining restaurant, and the kitchen holds a Michelin star. The chef works classical French technique with Dutch touches and the occasional Asian inflection, and the sauces alone tend to settle any argument. The sommelier brings an extensive list and the confidence to match it.
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A Michelin-starred Asian restaurant in a small Noord-Brabant village, O&O charts a course across Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore in a single sitting. The chef fuses French technique with precise sweet-sour-umami balancing, and his daughter handles wine pairings from a cellar that earns the word spectacular. The kind of meal that makes the drive through flat Dutch countryside feel like a perfectly reasonable idea.
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Rank 18. Pont-Neuf
Seafood
A dockside terrace on the Antwerp waterfront sets the mood at this Michelin-starred seafood restaurant, where the kitchen leans hard into North Sea produce. The chef's approach is about restraint, letting a perfectly poached brill or a golden butter-fried fillet carry the plate, with sauces arriving as quiet support rather than the main event. Flemish good taste, Italian wine, and a Barbera d'Alba already open on the counter.
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Rank 19. Savoury
Modern French
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Rank 20. Nathan
Modern French
Marble surfaces and dark wood set the tone before a single plate arrives, and the room has the composed confidence of somewhere that has thought hard about everything. This Michelin-starred fine dining spot in Antwerp runs on classical French technique bent toward something more playful, where familiar flavors get sharpened by acidic Asian notes. The chef's plating is precise enough to make you feel slightly guilty picking up a fork.
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Rank 21. The Butcher's Son
Steakhouse
The Butcher's Son sits inside the De Koninck brewery, sharing a building with a bakery, a chocolatier, and the butcher's shop where the chef once worked, which tells you something about how seriously he takes his sourcing. This is a Michelin-starred restaurant where red meat is the heart of it, though the kitchen drifts cheerfully into surf-and-turf territory. The industrial-loft room makes it feel looser than the cooking actually is.
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Rank 22. Fine Fleur
Modern French
The kitchen team works behind smoked glass, visible but unhurried, while a young front-of-house crew moves with the kind of easy confidence that suggests they enjoy being here. Fine Fleur is a fine dining restaurant inside the Botanic Sanctuary Hotel, and holds a Michelin star for modern French cooking with a Dutch edge: gutsy sauces, exotic flavors, and a pastry chef who clearly has something to prove. Jacob Jan Boerma and Thomas Diepersloot are behind it.
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Rank 23. Hof Ter Hulst
Classic French
A converted Campine farmhouse in the Belgian countryside, Hof Ter Hulst holds a Michelin star for doing almost the opposite of what you'd expect from one. The chef's classic French cooking leans into tradition without apology: rich gravies, careful technique, ingredients given room to make their case. The kind of place where the food is warm and serious in equal measure, and the room feels like it has always been there.
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Dishes still arrive under a cloche, lifted tableside with a formality that most kitchens abandoned decades ago. This is a classic fine dining restaurant inside a handsome old Antwerp townhouse, where the chef has held a Michelin star since the mid-eighties and shows no signs of slowing down. Pig's trotters share the menu with langoustines, Bresse chicken swims in morel cream, and the sauces do the real work throughout.
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Rank 25. Glou Glou
Fusion French
A cozy, convivial wine bar and small-plates spot on a quiet Antwerp square, Glou Glou takes its name from the sound of natural wine pouring freely, which sets the tone for the whole evening. The sommelier steers the glass side; the kitchen does Franco-Asian-Italian tapas, loose and generous in spirit. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and booking ahead is less a suggestion than a practical necessity.
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Rank 26. Ni Shifu
Sichuan
The chili oil here is the real opening statement: Sichuan cooking in full, unapologetic form, with a menu long enough to cause genuine decision paralysis. This casual, no-frills restaurant in Antwerp earns its Michelin Bib Gourmand on the strength of honest, fiery Chinese cooking, the kind that has regulars leaning over bowls of rich fish soup or pork braised in fermented black beans. Loud, lively, and very easy to spend too little money at.
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Rank 27. Nebo
Modern French
The name means "sky" in Croatian, a quiet nod to the chef's father and his own Michelin-starred restaurant. This is a polished fine-dining room in Antwerp's Nieuw Zuid district, where an à la carte menu leans on classical French technique with enough unconventional turns to keep things interesting. The sommelier holds a master credential, and the wine list shows it. Nebo holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 28. Misera
Modern French
An open kitchen and counter take up most of the room at this modern French restaurant in Antwerp's Nieuw Zuid, so you watch every plate being built whether you planned to or not. Nicolas Misera holds a Michelin star for cooking that leans hard on fish and shellfish, with classical bones and sauces that quietly steal the show. Everything is à la carte, which feels almost radical at this level.
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Rank 29. Bar(t)-à-vin
French
The meat hooks are still on the wall and the old butcher's tiles are still glazed in color, which tells you most of what you need to know about this Franco-Belgian bistro tucked into a former slaughterhouse. The menu is short and Gallic and cooked without fuss. Bart co-owns and runs the floor on weekends, and his wine knowledge is the kind you want applied directly to your glass.
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Rank 30. La Belle
Creative French
Converted from a farmstead's old stables, the bare timber roof and cosy interior at this Michelin-starred fine dining room in a quiet village outside Geel set up a particular kind of evening. The chef blends regional produce with international instincts, pulling in tahini, curry, and sesame where they earn their place, and the sauces especially reward attention. Expect the chef to come out and say hello, which feels less performative than it sounds.
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The open kitchen sits behind what used to be a butcher's counter, which tells you everything about the vibe at this cozy farm-to-table spot in Boechout. The menu runs four or five dishes, built around what's good and nearby, cooked in a way that's rustic without being precious. The room has that gentrified-workshop feel, and the front-of-house charm keeps things loose and warm. A short menu, a sharp kitchen, nothing to argue with.
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Rank 32. Soixante
Polish Eastern European
Tables packed close enough that you'll learn your neighbor's business, and a window that makes the whole thing look like a dare. This is a creative restaurant where the chef's Polish roots steer the menu toward earthy, tangy combinations that tend to surprise. Pearl barley stands in for risotto rice, squid ink involved. The wine cellar is taken seriously, which the room's cosy, nostalgic clutter doesn't necessarily suggest it would be.
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Rank 33. Qin
Cantonese
Chinese lanterns and dark wood set the mood at this Cantonese restaurant inside Hotel De Keyser, where the kitchen's calling card is an extensive roster of house-made dim sum. The menu runs from Xiao Long Bao to Sichuan pepper duck to a classic hotpot, the last requiring a reservation, which feels appropriately ceremonious. The cooking skews traditional with just enough modern adjustment to keep things from feeling like a history lesson.
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Rank 34. Restaurant 1857
Creative French
A former coach house on a narrow street, and the old horse trough is still sitting in the open kitchen, which tells you something about the tone. This is a one-Michelin-star creative French restaurant where the chef layers miso and Asian umami into classically grounded cooking without it feeling like a gimmick. The dessert trolley comes around at the end, and the pastry chef running it also happens to be your host for the evening.
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Pop art canvases inspired by the CoBrA movement cover the walls, setting the tone for a sharing-plates spot that leans casual but pulls it together with a proper bar program. The menu hops across continents without apology, lobster rolls alongside pâté en croûte, a beef entrecôte, tarte Tatin for the finish. Leopoldplaats regulars seem to treat it as a standing arrangement rather than a one-off.
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Fourteen seats, a short menu, and a chef who treats Belgian comfort food as a starting point rather than a destination. Bar Pêche is a tiny modern restaurant where stoemp and sausage gets quietly reimagined, and the cordon bleu arrives with Italian ham and truffle cheese. The room is relaxed, the ideas are not, and the booking list fills up in a way that suggests word got around some time ago.
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Rank 37. InVINcible
Bistro French
A wine-forward French bistro where counter seats face the open kitchen and you can taste a glass before committing, which is either hospitality or smart salesmanship, probably both. The cooking runs to big, unapologetic Gallic territory: bone marrow butters, veal kidneys, whole fish in salt crust for two. The kind of food that makes you order another glass without noticing you've done it.
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Rank 38. Les Années Folles
Modern French
The website insists "this isn't a restaurant," which is a bold claim for a place serving modern French-Belgian tasting menus inside a 1920s building with parquet floors and period wooden mouldings. The chef is quietly obsessed with sauces and spices, and has a way with a knife that shows in the plating. He also comes out of the kitchen to serve you himself, which either charms or unsettles, depending on your disposition.
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Rank 39. Casello
Modern French
A former toll booth on the Antwerp road doesn't scream fine dining, but Casello has committed to the transformation. The sleek annexe leans hard into designer luxury, gilt details and all, and the open kitchen pulls focus the moment you walk in. The chef runs modern French technique through occasional Asian accents and Italian instincts, keeping plates spare without feeling stingy. A polished room for a considered dinner.
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Rank 40. BÚN
Vietnamese
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A converted warehouse on the Vlaamse Kaai that still feels like one, in the way only a good renovation manages. This modern restaurant runs lunch menus and a five-course dinner, built around food that pairs smoky and sweet without apology. The sourdough is made in-house and sold at the door, which tells you where the kitchen's head is at. Picked up a spot in the Michelin Guide.
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A restored farmstead tucked into the Kontich countryside is not where you'd expect to find a Michelin-starred tasting menu, which is partly the point. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the fields, old beams frame the room, and the kitchen frames each dish around a single clean flavor rather than a crowd of them. The wine pairings are taken seriously enough to interest people who take wine seriously.
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The dining room occupies the former stables of a historic estate, with original timber beams and old stone floors still doing the heavy lifting on atmosphere. It's a creative restaurant where the kitchen mixes classical technique with quiet surprises, European and Japanese both welcome at the table. The cooking is confident enough to pair calf's sweetbreads with anchovy without making it sound like a dare. Candlelit and unhurried, it pulls a crowd that dressed up on purpose.
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Rank 44. Bar Misera
Seafood
Tightly packed tables, wine bottles wedged wherever they'll fit, and a menu built around sharing plates with a heavy lean toward seafood: Bar Misera is the kind of casual, slightly chaotic bistro that Nieuw Zuid locals seem to treat as a second living room. The format is snacks first, larger plates to follow, with sides chosen separately. The fish comes bright and acidic, the kind of cooking that makes you slow down.
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Rank 45. Materia
Italian, Modern Cuisine
You push through a curtain off the gravel path and land in an all-black room lit like a film set, which turns out to be a fine-dining Italian restaurant in Antwerp doing something genuinely unfamiliar: contemporary Italian cooking stripped of every cliché. The tasting menu is the move, built around obsessive sourcing and a kitchen that treats playfulness as a technique. It placed in the 50 Top Italy global rankings, which is quite a thing for a room this far from Rome.
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Rank 46. Restaurant Uijttewaal
Modern French
A piccalilli sorbet paying homage to a grandfather's pickle company is a strong opening move, and it sets the tone for what follows at this polished French restaurant on the outskirts of Breda. The dining room is warm and quietly stylish, the kind of place where the wine list earns its own conversation. Lunch is available too, which the crowd treats as a genuine occasion rather than an afterthought.
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Rank 47. Brandstof
Wine Bar
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Rank 48. Restaurant Vannu
Modern European Vegetarian
A farm-driven, plant-based restaurant outside Bavel where the chef runs a multi-course set menu built on fermentation, pickling, and zero-waste thinking. Seaweed nudges beetroot somewhere more interesting; millet polenta cake gets tied together by a chanterelle sauce that does more work than it has any right to. Natural wines and house juices keep pace with the ethos. The Michelin Guide has it selected, and the cooking has the confidence to back that up quietly.
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Rank 49. Restaurant Markant
French
Wine crates line the walls of this cosy French restaurant just outside the Breda city centre, a hint that the kitchen and the cellar are given equal reverence here. The à la carte menu runs from classics like oeuf en gelée to vegetarian plates and the odd Asian detour, with some dishes finished tableside. Sauces are where the chef shows off, and the wine list rewards a careful read before you order anything else.
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Rank 51. Bloemberen
Bakery
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Rank 52. Boulot
Bakery
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Rank 54. Dojo
Omakase Japanese
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Rank 55. Brasserie Bowie
Neo-brasserie French
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Soft colours, tailored furniture, and a room full of regulars who know better than to look at the menu sum up this modern fine dining spot outside Antwerp. The chef holds a Michelin star, and the kitchen leans into light, quietly inventive cooking where flavours arrive in unexpected combinations without any fuss. The sommelier is worth leaning on, especially if you want something unusual or a well-chosen non-alcoholic option.
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Rank 57. Graan
Wood-fired Pizza
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Rank 58. Table d'Ho
Korean
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Rank 59. Rush Rush Coffee
Coffee
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Rank 60. Lina's
Bakery
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Rank 61. Overzee
Thai
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Rank 62. SiamSally
Thai
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Rank 63. Fong Mei
Cantonese
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Rank 64. Ting Kee Mie
Noodles
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Rank 65. Domestic
French Bakery
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Rank 66. Fiskeskur
Seafood
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Rank 69. Bakker Aldo
Bakery
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Rank 70. Hoffy's
Ashkenazi Eastern European
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Rank 72. Black & Yellow
Coffee
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Rank 73. Hiro
Japanese
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Rank 74. Osteria Porta Sud
Modern Italian
The curved woodwork, tiled floor, and colored glass panels of a Dutch interwar arcade give this intimate osteria a setting that pulls a little weight before a plate arrives. The cooking is Italian-leaning but quietly personal, built on good ingredients handled with a contemporary touch. Regulars who know the room fill it fast, so book ahead. The Michelin Guide has it listed among its selected restaurants in the Netherlands.
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Rank 76. Stoked
New Zealand
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Rank 77. Camionette
Vegetarian
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Rank 81. Cannolo
Sicilian
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Rank 84. Shuk
Middle Eastern
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Rank 85. Bistrot De Pottenbrug
Franco-Belgian French
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Rank 86. Normo
Coffee
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Rank 89. Bar Ami
Mexican
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Rank 91. Marché-Couverts
French
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Rank 92. Amí Bistro
Modern French
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Rank 93. El Gato Gordo
Mexican
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Rank 96. Chingu
Korean
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Rank 98. Jimmyz Burger
American
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Rank 100. De SmaakNatie
Italian