Art-nouveau mansion quarter east of the centre, anchored by Cogels-Osylei and Dageraadplaats. Neighbourhood brasseries and natural-wine kitchens.
Dôme in Antwerp is a French brasserie under an 1893 rotunda in Zurenborg. Frédéric and Evangeline Chabbert run the room on Grotehondstraat.
Signature: Sole meunière, Côte de boeuf, Classical sauces
Order: The côte de boeuf for two with béarnaise; the wine cellar runs deep across Burgundy.
Tip: Closed Sunday and Monday. Book the round table directly under the dome.
Dôme in Antwerp seats diners under an 1893 rotunda in Zurenborg. Frédéric and Evangeline Chabbert run a French brasserie programme on Grotehondstraat.
Signature: Sole meunière, Côte de boeuf for two, Classical sauces
Order: The côte de boeuf for two, or sole meunière off the fish menu.
Tip: Closed Sunday and Monday. Book the round table under the dome; the room rewards an ambitious wine order.
Domestic Bakkerij in Antwerp on Steenbokstraat is the bakery sibling to restaurants Dôme and Dôme sur Mer. Long-fermented sourdough, viennoiserie and rare grain bread.
Tip: Three locations across Antwerp; the Steenbokstraat original is the largest. Closed Monday.
Worth the queue: Long-fermented sourdough, viennoiserie
The weekly Thursday morning market on Dageraadplaats fills the tree-lined square beside the art-nouveau Cogels-Osylei mansions with about fifty stalls of fresh produce, bread, cheese and prepared foods. The same square hosts the Rommelmarkt Dageraadplaats, a flea market that runs roughly five Sunday dates between May and September.
Tip: The square fills with the brunch crowd from Dome and surrounding bistros after 11:00. Sunday flea-market dates are listed in advance.