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  1. Rank 152. 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.


    Address
    Guldenvliesstraat 60, 2600 Antwerpen, Belgium · Antwerpen
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Wednesday 6 PM–11:30 PM

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  2. A small card on each table names the local producers who supplied that day's ingredients, which tells you almost everything about this farm-to-table restaurant in the Ourthe valley. The menu changes weekly as fresh deliveries arrive, and the terrace under the grapevine trellis is where you want to be. The cooking is spontaneous and micro-seasonal, the kind of place where broad beans might show up alongside scented geranium and goat's milk.


  3. 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.


    Address
    Drie Eikenstraat 1, 2650 Edegem, Belgium · Edegem
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    Closed now, opens 6:30 PM

    Wednesday 6:30 PM–11:45 PM

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  4. The cobblestone alley off Dendermonde's Grand-Place looks like a period drama forgot to wrap. Inside this creative seasonal restaurant, the kitchen runs on live fire, with the chef coaxing smoke and char into scallops, grilled fruit, and vegetables in combinations that keep you guessing course to course. The menu reads as playful without being precious, which is a harder balance than it sounds.


  5. Rank 152. Va et Vient

    Modern French


    Address
    Handboogstraat 20, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium · Kortrijk
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–10 PM

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  6. Rank 152. VORACE

    Creative French

    A chef cooking in the family home keeps things honest, and at this creative French restaurant tucked into the Belgian countryside, the food follows suit. The menu strips away excess and lets ingredients carry the weight, with the kitchen's imagination showing up in the cooking rather than the plating. The sommelier has a clear soft spot for organic producers and will steer you well. Book ahead; this is not a walk-in kind of place.


  7. Rank 152. Yirmi

    Creative French

    Dinner in a stylish villa where the host walks you into a glazed wine cellar to pick your own bottle, which sets the tone nicely. The chef's creative French menus are built on real technique, weaving unexpected textures and flavors together without ever feeling like a science project. The kind of place where you leave wondering how long it took someone to think of that particular combination.


    Address
    Rue Trieux-Scieurs 22, 5020 Namur, Belgium · Namur
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–2 PM, 7 PM–9 PM

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  8. Bakker Aldo is a neighborhood bakery with two shops, one in the old center and one in Zurenborg, and they keep staggered hours so you can only ever visit whichever is open. The plain croissants are there for the purists, but the cream cheese and blackberry bun, part cinnamon roll and part cheesecake, is what you'll be eyeing. Expect a pastry line and a very reasonable bill.


  9. Camino is a dim, narrow restaurant in Antwerp where the tables are small and the lights are smaller, and the kitchen wanders Asia on a menu that changes: Thai herbs one night, kimchi mayo the next. The dan dan noodles are the thing people bring up, the steak tartare carries a curry warmth, and the staff glides between packed tables, which suits a brisk ninety-minute dinner that still feels like a night out.


  10. Rank 209. Funk

    Vegan Bakery

    Funk is a plant-based bakery in Zuid whose croissants shatter like they have something to prove, all without a gram of butter. The ground floor has the best light and a calm that feels almost suspicious for a place with a pastry case this good. Showing up shortly before 10 gets you a table and a short queue, and the kitchen then starts on savory plates, which aren't all vegan.


  11. Rank 209. Leo Antwerpen

    Artisanal Bakery

    Leo is a neighborhood bakery in the backstreets of Zuid that opens only on weekends, for a few hours, and shuts entirely on the last Sunday of the month. That's a lot of rules for a croissant. The brown-tiled room has no seats, so you buy a bag of pastries, maybe a jar of pesto for dinner, and leave. Go early, since the kouign-amann has a head start on you.


  12. Rank 209. Quite Frankly

    Diner American

    Quite Frankly is a lunch-only sandwich shop in Antwerp with a diner-meets-deli look, down to jars of pickled onions the size of small appliances. Trays of meat wait behind the counter for their turn in springy bread, and the pastrami is smoked in-house. Nobody asks how your day is going, which saves time, and the sandwiches come out quickly and are heavy enough that dinner becomes optional.


    Address
    52 Minderbroedersrui, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgique · Antwerpen
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–3 PM

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  13. This Zurenborg coffee shop bans sugar in your cup so you can taste the fruity, floral notes, which sounds precious until you taste them. The rule stops at the pastry case, where cardamom buns, madeleines, and carrot cake loaves operate on a looser honor system. Seats fill with laptop people, hushed catch-ups, and readers working through a slice of matcha cheesecake between chapters. It's a casual stop, no dress code required.


  14. Rank 209. Tap Out

    American

    Tap Out is a smash-burger joint dressed as a spaceship, with brushed chrome on every surface and an open grill where patties get flattened and onions cook down until the whole room smells like them. Expect paper-wrapped burgers, a fried chicken sandwich with a tempura-style crust, and skinny fries you'll order without discussing it. It's casual and cheap, so come hungry, not dressed up.


  15. Sitting steps from the Meuse River in the small Flemish village of Yvoir, this modern Italian restaurant is run by a chef of Sicilian heritage who brings that lineage into every plate without making it a costume. Fresh pasta and carefully sourced fish anchor the menu, and the wine list leans heavily Italian, with the front-of-house happy to guide you through it. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and ranked among the top Italian restaurants in the world outside Italy.


    Address
    Rue Colonel-Tachet-des-Combes 19, 5530 Yvoir, Belgium · Yvoir
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7 PM

    Wednesday 7 PM–9:30 PM

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  16. Tucked into the Sablon, one of Brussels' more self-satisfied corners, Senzanome is a fine dining room where the chef has spent years building a loyal following on Sicilian instincts run through a serious technical filter. The interior is cool and spare, pale tones and clean lines that step aside for the plate. Tasting menus carry the room's ambitions; the wine list leans deep Italian. It holds a spot on the 50 Top Italy ranking of the world's best Italian restaurants.


    Address
    Pl. du Petit Sablon 1, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium · Brussels
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–1:30 PM, 7 PM–9 PM

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  17. Rank 218. Materia

    Italian

    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.


    Address
    Dageraadplaats 3, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium · Antwerpen
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–1:30 PM, 7 PM–8:45 PM

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  18. Rank 219. Bar Bonk

    Seafood

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  29. A street-corner sushi spot on Leopoldplaats where the rice comes at room temperature, the way it should. The chef pairs clean, straightforward salmon maki with more restless ideas, like grilled red mullet topped with confit lemon, and the whole menu earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand for it. Sashimi, salads, and a solid take-away selection round things out, and sushi-making workshops run for anyone who wants to try their luck.


    Address
    Leopoldplaats 12, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium · Antwerpen
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–6:30 PM

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  36. Rank 231. Addis Stories

    Ethiopian

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  37. Rank 231. Ah Quy

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  39. Rank 231. Ajiyoshi

    Japanese

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  40. Rank 231. Al'Baraque

    Spanish

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  41. Rank 231. Alard

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  44. Rank 231. Albertini

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  49. Rank 231. Astro Boy

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  53. Rank 231. Auntie Café

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  57. Rank 231. Bar Ami

    Mexican

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  60. Rank 231. Bar Bristol

    Wine Bar

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  64. Rank 231. Barkboy

    Coffee

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  70. Rank 231. Beni Falafel

    Middle Eastern

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  72. Rank 231. Bintje

    American

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  73. Rank 231. Bisous

    Ice Cream Shop

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  74. Rank 231. Bistro Chicane

    Flemish Belgian Bistro

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  77. Rank 231. Bistrot De Pottenbrug

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  81. Rank 231. Bloemberen

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  85. Rank 231. Bookz&Booze

    Wine Shop

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  86. Rank 231. Bouboule

    Ice Cream Shop

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    Coffee

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  90. Rank 231. Boulot

    Bakery

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  91. Rank 231. Brasserie Bowie

    Neo-brasserie French

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  95. Rank 231. Brood

    Bakery

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