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Shopping Malls & Streets Brussels
67 Reviews Brussels has very limited opening hours. Most city centre shops and boutiques close at 18.00 most days and even the supermarkets close at 20.00 the latest. Normally, the shops are not open on...
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Cloths, shoes, fashion Antwerp
52 Reviews Urban streetwear for men/women. After the succes in Oostende / Gent / Knokke / Brugge, this famous shop finally settled in the fashion capital of Belgium. This shop has the most modern clothes in...
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Chocolate Stores Brugge
56 Reviews There are many entering their experience regarding their experience about the best choclate experience. I have to add that Neuhas is number one, however, when the choclate is 100% made in belgium and...
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Chocolates Brussels
55 Reviews Around the Manneken Pis there's a lively chocolat business. Several shops rival displaying the most inviting chocolat candies, some of them with fruits. It's difficult to resist, and more difficult to...
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Chocolates Antwerp
26 Reviews A well known fact about Belgium is its chocolates. In this respect a spot which is certainely not to be missed by tourists visiting our city is "Chocolaterie Burie", a renowned establishment in...
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Art ,Souvenir and Food Shops Brugge
44 Reviews As well as being able to stock up on some fantstic luxury chocolates the citys main treasured product is beer, one restaurant offers over 100 types of beer on it's menu but only two types of wine, red...
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Antiques & Flea Markets Brussels
26 Reviews The street markets in Brussels are a very colourful affair but really no different to street markets you can encounter anywhere in Europe. I was a bit disappointed to find the same bling bling...
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Jewelry Antwerp
14 Reviews Nice, cosy, friendly and professional. About to get married or celebrate a special occasion, you can find nice jewelry for a nice price. The good thing is that when you buy from this shop, you know...
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Food & Beer Stores Brussels
21 Reviews Forget about Copernicus putting the sun in the centre of the the solar system, Beer Planet is the centre of the universe as we beer lovers know it. The walls of beers in this suitably aromatic shop...
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Curiosity shops/toy shops Antwerp
13 Reviews When you enter this store you'll find yourself in the tale of 1001nights. They sell beautiful exotic objects and furniture. In the back of the store there is a room decorated as a bedroom with a lot...
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Laces & tapestries Brussels
8 Reviews I'm crazy about Belgium. That's where I've found my future wife. She took me to the lace store to buy her wedding veil and a handmade lace tablecloth. I was afraid thinking this would be really too...
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Markets Antwerp
6 Reviews This is a fun place. I used to go there all the time to buy my foodsupplies. But now I work on Saturdays. I sometimes still go when i can bring myself to get up early. You find here a lot off good...
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Speculoos Brussels
6 Reviews When you can smell butter odour, that means you are arrived! Everything seems to be wonderful from outside.... Service inside is a disaster ! When we entered, the shopkeeper did as she didn't see...
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Souvenirs, lace, postcards Antwerp
6 Reviews You can buy all kind of different beer tshirts in all shops all over Belgium. But maybe local beers only sell where they brew it. Well, Belgium is famous for their beer so you should bring home at...
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Electronics, house appliances Antwerp
6 Reviews This used to be a shopping center with small shops, but it didn't work anymore. Two years ago it was totally transformed and the biggest part of it is used by the big European electronic chain store...
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Beer and liquor and delicatesses Antwerp
10 Reviews This page would not be complete without men- tioning 'KLEINBLATT'. Kleinblatt is in the provinciestraat over a hunderd years. The neighbourhood has changed in that time. When the Bakery first...
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Food and beverages Antwerp
8 Reviews Bierwinkel Den Dorstvlegel is small but filled from top to bottom with beer (mostly Belgian of course) and beer related things. Beers include almost all Belgian classics and several hard to find...
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Music, books Antwerp
6 Reviews Mekanik strip is the largest shop I know in it's kind. Belgium is know for its comic books. We call them strips... This huge shop sells them and everything related to them. It isn't a strictly...
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Antiques Antwerp
5 Reviews The 'Mechelsesteenweg' was long time ago the street with more exclusive shops. These days you can still find some special shops here. But this road is long , there is a lot of traffic... But if...
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Belgium is the best beer country. There are many shops around the Grand' Place in Brussels where you can buy most of the Belgian beers. They sell boxes which contains a few bottles of the same or different beers or with the matching glass.For those not knowing it: in Belgium every beer has its own designed glass. The beer doens't taste when drunk from a non matching glass :-).
Everywhere in Belgium you'll find chocolate shops ! Jean Neuhaus from Brussels invented the praline back in 1912 and since then the chocolatiers create always new and tasty creations. The most famous pralines - apart from Neuhaus - are Godiva, Guylian and Leonidas. Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate !!!!
If you like shopping this might just be the place for you. An outlet shopping village'.Over 85 brand new shops in a long cozy street.This street is created for this purpose on an oldmine site and the architectue is nice.Outlet collections are a bit older then youwill find in shops outside shopping village , but prices are up to 60% lower. I'm not a shopper for clothes myself but I doneed to buy some clothes now and then.I payed 30 euro for kicker shoes while thesame cost 130 euro in a regular shop.(and the ones I wear look the same for about thelast 20 years for sure....)Check on the website for the shops namesand what to get. A fine selection of international brandsis availeble as well as Belgian disigners.Some house decorationsshops , underwear...AND a Belgian can't do without some restaurantssnacks , dinners and bars...Large parking
De Slegte (sounds slightly like "dyslexia"...) is a great chain of bookshops, they have new and used books for cheap and many English titles (especially non-fiction - don't miss the arts and craft section). I've found some very cheap books there.
There are things that never change.One of them is the 'Caramella Mokatine'.When I was little this was for sure the candywe ate at grandma's. And now , the grandma's I know still give it to their children.One thing , grandma's with false teeth don't eatthem. haha. You can shew them , but theyare quit hard and sticky. But the taste...mocca , sugar , coffee. It is delicious.In 1925 Louis Roodhooft started the company.Their sweets became an instant succes.Their factory is located in Antwerp , in thelange leemstraat near 'Berchem station'.10 people produce about 500 tons of candyeach year.Their new candies are distributed in bakeriesand more special store. The mocatine canbe found in almost any supermarket (like GB , carrefour , Delhaize...)
I can't help myself , but I like these sort of drinks.SPA! the name rings a bell. Actually it is a little city in Belgium and every SPA in the worldborrowed the name from this place.Our royals loved this city , for the bathingand the good life.Now the original 'Elixir de Spa' is brewed inAntwerp. By 'FX de Beukelaer'. Even up totoday this distillery is a Belgian Royal Warrant Holder. But it that important?It is said that this drink goes back till the12th century. That is was brewed near Spaby the friars of the Capuchin order.In 1956 the recipi was bought and came toAntwerp.It a composition of 40 local herbs and famousfor it's digestive qualities.You wont find it at a lot of places.It is a nostalgic drink for romantic souls.Buy it in Antwerp at the Vagant (Reyndersstraat). The small bottle is the perfect gift I think.
If you are visiting the ardennes , that beautiful natural parth in the south ofour country and you want to take somethinghome as a souvenir....why not this?It is a delicacy and is eaten raw or baked , you can ad it in pasta and make fantastic sauces.Cut it really thin and eat it with bread.The nice thing is that it has a lot of flavorand can easely stand up to italian quality.I'll ad just one adress , but of course there are more...(La roche en Ardenne is verytouristy and has got some butchers) P. CH. CollinPlace Mac Auliffe 5Bastogne0032 61 21 13 21(since 1905) The one in the picture casts about 11 euro.
One who visits Belgium should try this under-rated specialty. This little country is stuck between 2 cheese- countries but in fact, it really can compete with both of them. The visitors who dare to stroll in the municipality markets will be suprised with quality and variety (300 sorts in soft paste, hard paste, raw, blue, goat, beer-refined cheeses...) here. OK, since not everybody would have time to do that, there are cheese shops and, at lesser extent, supermarkets.OK, in Belgium, forget Brie, Camembert, Emmental, Comté and Cantal..etc. Head to the many cheese shops and ask for some Belgian specialties. In Brussels, the one that comes to my mind is Au Suisse. It's in boulevard Anspach 73-75, in the center of the city. A huge variety of cheeses. OK, the name says "Suisse" but it is truly Belgian.As I live in the suburbs, I know more of the cheese shops in my area. They would be too far...
I was quite amazed how well-known Brussels' flea market is. Many visitors who went here knew about a "flea market somewhere in Brussels". Still, very few of my guests asked to me to lead them to Place du Jeu de balle's market. So far, friends from Madagscar and Eva (diageva) from Spain visited it with me.Well, if you happened to be interested in antiques, you would surely know about Sablon area & its shops. Not to look over either: Marolles area, incl. Rue des Minimes area, Rue Haute & Rue Blaes.In general, I have a thing for the huge hubs that use to gather many antiques shops. I don't talk about Trade Mart, rather a center where many antiquaires (who have their own galleries & shops elsewhere) are gathered, BUT without partitioning, so as to give a feeling of closeness, like wandering in a big shop of a sole person. In fact, while strolling in Sablon Antiques Center & in Galerie des...
Belgium can pride itself on being a pioneer in some fields... First railway net on continental Europe, the most dense also.Then, the first to have built a covered shopping mall in Europe (or so I was told). That was in the 19th when Galeries St-Hubert were built in Brussels. A shopping mecca ? Seems yes... but the gallery also has a double function: the ground-level always occupied by shops, whilst the upper floors designed for apartments and habitation.I could see in a TV program the interior of those apartments... beautiful.. and expensive. Also, those who own apartments there don't want to get rid off them... Would have done the same. That should be luxury: the feeling of uniqueness... Un côté fin de race, if you know what I mean. Between 1820 and 1880, seven of these glass-domed galleries were built in Brussels. St. Hubert gallery and Passage du Nord are amongst the ones who were...
Conrad Brussels Brussels
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Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce Brugge
4 Reviews and 299 Opinions The Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce is definitely the most romantic hotels in Brugges. Stunning location,...
Hilton Antwerp Antwerp
17 Reviews and 256 Opinions OK we´d been wanting to stay here for years, but was always too pricey. We managed to get a decent...
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