Coctail bars and pubs, Antwerp

This is a new upcomming cafe, with great guest-djs like Timaxx from Club Geluk. Theme partys: Soho Soul, deep south summer music by Dj Danny V. You can hear there often fresh & new talent. That's why the place is called SOHO, refering to the hip SOHO neighbourhood in London.

Dress Code: Modern

New trendy bar with mixed public, and modern music, sometimes dj performances (see picture). Now and then it's very busy and people dance, the music is pop, lounge, jazzy house, housy jazz like Buscemi or US3

During daytime people come for breakfast, brunch or lunch, even the police from the other side of the street come here. Kitchen is open till 23h and in the weekend til 22 h.

You can drink fresh orangejuice or cocktails and enjoy the 'hotspot' with your laptop, it's free wireles internet. Antwerp people, but also American or Japanese tourists mail their holidayfoto's home at Berlin.

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All the cocktail mixes you desire with a sexy name... for 6 euros!
And you get the show : the barman jungling with the bottles to prepare your drinks!!!!
Very nice and red warm atmosphere...and a DJ playing a king of lounge music that will become more energic later I guess...there was a dance foor free...

there are a lot of nars where you can go for a drink.also,there are a lot of students in antwerp so in some bars they organize their nights.and we noticed unusual way of picking up the glasses from the tables.check out the photo :-)

The Berlin has a bartender that 1) knows how to make cocktails. i asked for a simple gimlet which is usually gets a deer in headlights response but instead got "gin or vodka", vodka, and proceeded to make a couple excellent drinks. 2) upon serving the drinks, got asked "would you like to open a tab?" Another first for me in Antwerp. All good. The berlin is supposed to be opening a new section of the bar specifically for cocktails in the next few months. Considering I live only a couple blocks from the place, should be a welcome addition to the neighborhood. This bartender works on mon, wed, fri/sat.

Weekdays are occasionally busy (you never know when a one beer on a monday night can quickly turn into a dozen and leaving at 2-3am), and weekends are usually always busy, at least at night. There's no food served but it has a big screen for football and has live music every Friday/Saturday night. A good place to meet other expats but you won't meet many belgians. Expats include from around europe but mostly from the netherlands. Staff is friendly, prices are a little higher than many other pubs around.

The owner of this place had a dream.
He wanted a place where 'Antwerpenaars' of different
backgrounds and countries were welcome.
Since Antwerpenaars of different backgrounds
don't know each other that well.

And he managed to accomplish that dream.
'Café au lait' has it's own atmosphere and
ambiance.

The interior is warm , decorated with african
masks , there is a cuddle corner and a dj brings
you in the richt mood if you want to go out
afterwards. The coctails are of superb quality...

De Muze is a jazz bar in the Oude Stad. It has three levels and is usually filled with an eclectic group of people. This was the most friendly bar I came across, and I was able to have some pertinant and good conversations. The bar food was rather good also. I recommend this joint.

Dress Code: Anything goes.

This place was just packed! It was wall to wall people in a very non-descript room. I couldn't understand what the fuss was all about. The crowd was nice to look at and certainly was eye candy for all genders and sexual preferences, yet again, the people were not friendly and the smoke simply oppressive. I usually do not mind cigarette smoke, but the crowd at this bar must have been smoking stink weed! I left still looking for that cool, friendly, and warm Antwerp bar.

Dress Code: Antwerp is suppose to be fashion city, but most people dress for a hike in the Ardennes!

At first I really liked this place. It was intimate and played some really cool tunes. I sat there drinking at the bar, and no one looked at anyone else or talked with anyone. What's with that? A bar is only as good as the people who hang there. This place left me cold.

Dress Code: Casual and laided back.