Café restaurants in Belgium
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Blaise Café/Nero Bianco
This duo doing modern Italian cuisine occupies an elite corner of Namur. Delvaux and Pierre Marcolini are also present, making it the spot to dine and shop. The ground-floor Blaise Café has a semiprivate courtyard, or you can take to the soft seats inside, watched by military mannequins. Upstairs, Nero Bianco's modern décor is accentuated by lamps that hang over the tables like great praying mantis.
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Bar Choc
Hidden away in the Zilverpand shopping courtyard, this streamlined, contemporary café is chocoholic heaven, serving chocolate fondue, chocolate pancakes, rabbit in beer-and-chocolate sauce, as well as 44 different kinds of hot and cold chocolate drinks (made from real chocolate, of course). The ginger hot choc – with bobbing pieces of handmade gingerbread – is wonderfully warming in winter.
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Le Pain Quotidien/Het Dagelijks Brood
Now a successful multinational chain, this is the original flagship of baker Alain Coumont, who launched his cafés here in 1990. Like its offspring, it revolves around a central wooden communal table, where local fashion designers, media types and post-clubbers rub shoulders over freshly baked bread and pastries, pies, salads and sandwiches, as well as sinful chocolate cakes.
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Simon Says
Inside one of Ghent's only Art Nouveau buildings, this creative little newcomer has gold futuristic flying objects hand-drawn on its turquoise walls by celebrated contemporary Antwerp artist, Panamarenko. Great for light organic lunches and snacks and Fair Trade coffee. Simon also runs a state-of-the-art two-room B&B upstairs. Located just north of Vrijdagmarkt.
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Brasserie La Clef d'Or
Unassuming café that's been serving soupe de la maison (house soup) and a good croque-monsieur (grilled ham and cheese sandwich) to flea-market vendors for years. It's as unpretentious as they come. The unusual opening hours reflect the needs of the clientele.
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Waka Moon
This funky corner cafe in a converted bookshop serves up African cooking to locals who congregate at the outside tables when the weather permits. There's plenty of chicken on the menu (try the chicken yassa) and the eclectic interior's zebra-striped chairs are happy-snap worthy.
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Patine
Give minimalism the flick in this bohemian little wine bar-restaurant-tearoom that also doubles as a B&B. The décor is warm and soothing, the clientele's a mix of everyone (including poodles), and the cuisine is light and healthy - salad, quiche and pasta dishes.
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L’Ultime Atome
The lively dining strip of Rue St-Boniface typifies ‘new Brussels’ with its multilingual clientele and diverse cuisines (traditional Belgian to Thai and more). For a good entrée to the scene here, start at the brasserie L’Ultime Atome.
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Den Draak
Den Draak Café and community centre, also known as Het Roze Huis (the Pink House), for Antwerp's gay and lesbian community. It's located in the Zurenborg (take tram 11 direction Eksterlaar).
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Le Grain de Sel
Cheery eatery set up in three connecting rooms. The house speciality is tartines Corses, sandwiches of sorts with a base of mozzarella cheese and tapenade. A good respite for vegetarians.
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Mezzogiorno
Contemporary Italian café that proves Bruges is not all old hat. Head up the cement steps near design shop B and enter a world where modern décor and fresh food are paramount.
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Soep & Soup
At this buzzing soup bar in trendy St Andries, five pots of soup, all made with fresh ingredients, simmer away. Vegos can ask to hold the meatballs.
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La Cuisine
The cheapest eatery in town is run by youth learning the trade.
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Den Draak
Den Draak Café and community centre, also known as Het Roze Huis (the Pink House), for Antwerp's gay and lesbian community. It's located in the Zurenborg (take tram 11 direction Eksterlaar).
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OK
Finger food, burgers and sandwiches are the staples at this hip new café attached to the casino. Free internet when you dine.
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't Pandje
Decorator's shop and tearoom, and the place to try a Hasselt speculaas. These cinnamon-flavoured biscuits are devoured nationally; however, they supposedly originated in Hasselt where the fat, chewy versions are still baked and sold.
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