10 editor picks in Antwerp.
Antwerp's drinking scene mixes centuries-old taverns with contemporary cocktail rooms. Café Quinten Matsijs and Paeters Vaetje sit among the oldest in the historisch-centrum, near the Grote Markt where Den Engel and Den Bengel face each other. In Het Zuid, L'Entrepôt du Congo on the Vlaamsekaai and Bar Burbure bring a more modern bar register.
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Drink De Koninck Bolleke on tap
Den Engel in Antwerp is the city's best-known brown cafe, anchoring Grote Markt 3 in a building that runs back to the 14th century.
Drink Belgian Trappist and abbey ales by the bottle
Paeters Vaetje in Antwerp sits in the cathedral's shadow on Blauwmoezelstraat.
Drink Cocktails and a 600-bottle wine list
Bar Burbure in Antwerp on Vlaamsekaai serves cocktails and a 600-bottle wine list built by a Michelin-trained sommelier.
Drink Bolleke De Koninck on draft, plus Westmalle and Chimay
Quinten Matsijs is Antwerp's oldest pub: a 1565 inn on the corner of Moriaanstraat and Hoofdkerkstraat with stained glass, beer steins on every shelf.
Drink Long Belgian beer list, bohemian wines
Witzli-Poetzli in Antwerp is a long-running artists' bar in the cathedral shadow on Blauwmoezelstraat.
Drink Belgian beer, brown-cafe staples
L'Entrepôt du Congo in Antwerp on Vlaamsekaai is a long-running brown cafe with a colonial-era interior and a Het Zuid waterfront terrace.
Drink De Koninck Bolleke, brewery-fresh
De Koninck Antwerp City Brewery on Mechelsesteenweg pours its full Bolleke range from a brewery taproom that has run since 1833 in the same building.
Drink Belgian beer on tap
Den Bengel on Grote Markt 5 is the smaller neighbour to Den Engel.
Drink Natural and orange wines by the glass
Patine in Antwerp's Zuid is a wine bistro on Leopold de Waelstraat.
