CuisineBakery
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Neighborhoodminnewater
HoursDaily 10:00-18:00
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Tip: Ask for the Brugs Swaentje, the praline the shop is known for. Near the Church of Our Lady.

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Address: Mariastraat 20, 8000 Brugge, Bruges

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The Old Chocolate House ★ 4.1

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The Old Chocolate House on Mariastraat in Bruges pairs a praline shop with a tearoom, where you stir your own hot chocolate from warm milk and cocoa buttons.

Tip: The make-your-own hot chocolate is the order; pick your chocolate by cocoa percentage. Near the Church of Our Lady.

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Carpe Diem Bakery & Tea-room ★ 4.1

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Carpe Diem near the Begijnhof in Bruges is a long-running bakery and tearoom, with a case of cakes and pastries and some of the city's best waffles.

Tip: Buy a loaf or a pastry at the counter, or sit in the wood-panelled tearoom for a waffle.

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Pralinette ★ 4.3

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Pralinette on Wollestraat is a family chocolatier behind one of Bruges' oldest facades, where Fangio De Baets hand-makes more than 80 pralines and truffles.

Tip: Watch the pralines being filled in the workshop at the back, then build a mixed box of the fresh-cream specialties.

Worth the queue: Hand-filled fresh-cream pralines

Maison La Confiance ★ 4.2

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Maison La Confiance on Wollestraat in Bruges is a speculoos specialist, baking the spiced biscuit in eight variations alongside shortbread and butter cakes.

Tip: The plain speculoos is the classic; the variations make easy gifts. A short walk from the Belfry.

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The Old Chocolate House ★ 4.1

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The Old Chocolate House on Mariastraat in Bruges pairs a praline shop with a tearoom, where you stir your own hot chocolate from warm milk and cocoa buttons.

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Worth the queue: Build-your-own hot chocolate

Patisserie Schaeverbeke ★ 4.3

Bakerysint-gillisWed-Sun, mornings to early afternoonWalk-in onlyPatisserie and laminated pastries

Patisserie Schaeverbeke on Schaarstraat in Bruges is a neighbourhood patissier rated among the city's best, with laminated pastries, cakes and viennoiserie.

Tip: It sits east of the centre toward Sint-Gillis. Get there in the morning for the full pastry case.

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Carpe Diem Bakery & Tea-room ★ 4.1

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Tip: Buy a loaf or a pastry at the counter, or sit in the wood-panelled tearoom for a waffle.

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The Chocolate Line ★ 4.7

BakerymarktTue-Sat 09:30-18:30, Sun-Mon 10:30-18:30Walk-in onlyExperimental Belgian pralines

The Chocolate Line on Simon Stevinplein in Bruges is Dominique Persoone's lab, where pralines run from caramelised shrimp-head to tree-to-bar Criollo cacao.

Tip: Watch the workshop through the back glass. Gault&Millau voted it Belgium's best chocolaterie in 2023.

Worth the queue: Tree-to-bar Criollo chocolate and unusual pralines

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