The 15 Best Cafés in Belgium
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The best cafés in Belgium, according to the experts: Le Fooding, the Michelin Guide, and The Infatuation have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. 'T Kanon comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Brussels and Antwerp.
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Batch and Café Palto hold the next two places. Le Fooding shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The Infatuation next.
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Rank 1. 'T Kanon
Café
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 'T Kanon (this place) 79.016
- #1 Batch 79.016
- #1 Café Palto 79.016
- #1 Frank 79.016
- #1 Kami 79.016
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Rank 1. Batch
Café
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 'T Kanon 79.016
- #1 Batch (this place) 79.016
- #1 Café Palto 79.016
- #1 Frank 79.016
- #1 Kami 79.016
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Rank 1. Café Palto
Café
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 'T Kanon 79.016
- #1 Batch 79.016
- #1 Café Palto (this place) 79.016
- #1 Frank 79.016
- #1 Kami 79.016
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Rank 1. Frank
Café
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Batch 79.016
- #1 Café Palto 79.016
- #1 Frank (this place) 79.016
- #1 Kami 79.016
- #1 Le Dillens 79.016
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Rank 1. Kami
Café
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Café Palto 79.016
- #1 Frank 79.016
- #1 Kami (this place) 79.016
- #1 Le Dillens 79.016
- #1 Les Brassins 79.016
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Rank 1. Le Dillens
Café
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Frank 79.016
- #1 Kami 79.016
- #1 Le Dillens (this place) 79.016
- #1 Les Brassins 79.016
- #1 Lucifer Lives 79.016
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Rank 1. Les Brassins
Café
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Kami 79.016
- #1 Le Dillens 79.016
- #1 Les Brassins (this place) 79.016
- #1 Lucifer Lives 79.016
- #1 Onan 79.016
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Le Dillens 79.016
- #1 Les Brassins 79.016
- #1 Lucifer Lives (this place) 79.016
- #1 Onan 79.016
- #1 Plong 79.016
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Rank 1. Onan
Café
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Les Brassins 79.016
- #1 Lucifer Lives 79.016
- #1 Onan (this place) 79.016
- #1 Plong 79.016
- #1 Quatre Quarts 79.016
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Rank 1. Plong
Café
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Lucifer Lives 79.016
- #1 Onan 79.016
- #1 Plong (this place) 79.016
- #1 Quatre Quarts 79.016
- #1 Replica 79.016
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Lucifer Lives 79.016
- #1 Onan 79.016
- #1 Plong 79.016
- #1 Quatre Quarts (this place) 79.016
- #1 Replica 79.016
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Rank 1. Replica
Café
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
A Tie
There are 12 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Lucifer Lives 79.016
- #1 Onan 79.016
- #1 Plong 79.016
- #1 Quatre Quarts 79.016
- #1 Replica (this place) 79.016
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Rank 13. La Marelle Café
Traditional Belgian Café
The menu arrives as a newspaper, which tells you everything about what follows. This is an old-school Belgian café with over 500 beers and a Bib Gourmand, serving the kind of hearty, nostalgic cooking that hasn't needed updating in decades: rollmops with house-made frites, vol-au-vent, horse-meat tartare with mayo. Fans of traditional Belgian food drive out to Quévy for exactly this, and the place is reliably packed with people who know the menu by heart.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Butchers Coffee is a bright corner cafe in Borgerhout, where prams are parked by the wall and nobody seems to be taking a work call, which almost feels like a rule. Parents read over cortados, the staff smiles without being asked, and the bacon breakfast buns arrive stacked high. The ricotta omelette is creamy enough to embarrass a hotel buffet. Plan on a quick stop, then check the time and stay another hour.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: Where To Eat & Drink In Antwerp
- The Infatuation Where To Eat & Drink In Antwerp
A Tie
Two places have the exact same Score, so they share #14. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #14 Butchers Coffee (this place) 65.408
- #14 Salt & Mint 65.408
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Rank 14. Salt & Mint
Moroccan Café
Salt & Mint is a small Zurenborg cafe that treats breakfast as a passport exercise, with Turkish, Persian, and Moroccan platters plus one diplomatically named "world brunch." Order a few with a group so the msemmen, honey, and mint tea can circle the table. The room is cozy enough that you'll hear the bastilla being demolished from every direction, and on Sundays the back terrace fills up whatever the sky is doing.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: Where To Eat & Drink In Antwerp
- The Infatuation Where To Eat & Drink In Antwerp
A Tie
Two places have the exact same Score, so they share #14. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #14 Butchers Coffee 65.408
- #14 Salt & Mint (this place) 65.408