Guidebook for Bruxelles
Food Scene
Restaurant de l'Ogenblik
1 Galerie des Princesnice dinner
Taverne du Passage
30 Galerie de la Reinefavourite dining room
Genco
28 Rue Joseph Stevensbest Italian in town
you said you wanted a Belgian meal (no plastic money and queue after 20)
174 locals recommend
La Fin de Siècle
3 Av. de l'Arméeyou said you wanted a Belgian meal (no plastic money and queue after 20)
Mémé Café
3 Rue des Riches Clairesa real snack
Drinks & Nightlife
Mokafé
9 Galerie du Roibreakfast
La Pharmacie Anglaise
66 Coudenbergaromatic cocktails
Cobra bar-gallery
1 Rue des Chartreuxfor a good whisky sour
L'Archiduc
6 Rue Antoine Dansaertclassy jazz afternoons or sweating dancing nights
Humus x Hortense
2 Rue de Vergniescocktails around a vegetarian dinner
Everything Else
Musical Instruments Museum
2 Rue Montagne de la Courmusical favourite
Parks & Nature
Egmont Park
25 Bd de Waterloosecret and poetic
Shopping
from gallery to gallery, plunge in the atmospheric 19th-century shopping mall with restaurants (Taverne du Passage, Ogenblik), chocolate shops (Mary and Marcolini), gloves and umbrellas, Mokafe, bookshop (Tropismes)
25 locals recommend
Galerie du roi
3 Galerie du Roifrom gallery to gallery, plunge in the atmospheric 19th-century shopping mall with restaurants (Taverne du Passage, Ogenblik), chocolate shops (Mary and Marcolini), gloves and umbrellas, Mokafe, bookshop (Tropismes)
Gillis Modistes
17 Rue du Lombardhats craze
Galerie Bortier
55 Rue de la Madeleinecheck the books and magazines shops for an antique deal
Getting Around
Gare Centrale station
De Brouckère
key station for metro 2, 3, 4 and 5
Arts & Culture
Bozar station
Musee Magritte Museum - Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
3 Rue de la Régencestarting point