The Belfry square and the streets around it: the Wednesday food market, chocolatiers such as The Chocolate Line and Dumon, and waffle shops like Chez Albert.
Order The set lunch menu; the kitchen runs a tight, produce-led card that changes with the season.
Bistro Bruut sits on the Meestraat canal in Bruges, cooking modern Flemish food on regional produce. Gault&Millau rates the kitchen 16 points.
Order The monthly menu or the suggestions beside the regular card, each with a generous portion of vegetables.
Den Amand at Sint-Amandsstraat 4 in Bruges is a cosy bistro next to the Markt, where An Vissers cooks seasonal vegetarian, fish and meat dishes.
Order Mussels with garlic butter, or eel in green herb sauce.
Breydel-De Coninck at Breidelstraat 24 in Bruges is a family-run mussel and lobster restaurant, also serving fresh lobster, turbot, sole and eel.
Order The 6-course plant-based menu of seasonal vegetable dishes.
Restaurant Patrick Devos at Zilverstraat 41 in Bruges is a gastronomic restaurant focused on seasonal, local and organic produce and vegetables.
De Stove at Kleine Sint-Amandsstraat 4 in Bruges is a warm ode to Belgian-French gastronomy, with seasonal dishes in an intimate setting full of character.
Order The changing seasonal menu, French-inspired, made with fresh ingredients every day.
Tou.Gou at Smedenstraat 47 in Bruges is a lunch restaurant open Monday to Saturday, with French-inspired cooking and a changing seasonal menu.
Order Espresso, and beans brewed by the team.
Dees Koffiebranders at Hoogstraat 38 in Bruges is a micro-roastery and coffee bar where you can try its beans brewed by the team or take them home.
Blackbird Coffee Club at Jan Van Eyckplein 7 in Bruges is an easy-going breakfast, lunch and coffeebar with uncomplicated food and a plant based focus.
AVI '38 Specialty Coffeebar is a cafe at Niklaas Desparsstraat 8 in Bruges.
Order Pralines with caramelised shrimp heads
The Chocolate Line at Simon Stevinplein 19 in Bruges makes pralines with caramelised shrimp heads and grows its own Criollo cacao in Mexico.
Order Super fresh, traditional pralines
Chocolatier Dumon opened its shop at Eiermarkt 6 in the city centre of Bruges in 1996, selling super fresh, traditional pralines in a medieval setting.
Order Hand-rolled truffles dipped in real Belgian chocolate
Pralinette at Wollestraat 31b in Bruges is a family chocolaterie where master chocolatier Fangio De Baets and his team make pralines and truffles by hand.
Order Speculoos and traditional Bruges biscuits
Maison La Confiance at Wollestraat 31a in Bruges is an artisan biscuit bakery with an open bakery, baking speculoos and thirty other varieties.
Cafuné Espresso Bar & Roastery is a coffee roaster at Academiestraat 8 in Bruges.
Also on this listDees Koffiebranders
L'Aperovino at Academiestraat 2F in Bruges is a two-storey wine bar and restaurant where sommelier Julie pours up to 100 wines, many by the glass.
Drink About 300 different Belgian beers, five of them on draft
't Brugs Beertje at Kemelstraat 5 in Bruges is a beerhouse with about 300 different Belgian beers, five of them on draft, in a building dating from 1632.
Order The house Tripel van De Garre, a full-bodied top-fermented beer, soft with a slightly bitter aftertaste.
Staminee De Garre at De Garre 1 in Bruges is a beer cafe open since 1984, with 140 different regional beers, among them its own Tripel van De Garre.
Drink 27 beers on tap and 150 bottled beers
Le Trappiste at Kuipersstraat 33 in Bruges is a specialist beer bar in an 800 year old medieval cellar, with 27 beers on tap and 150 bottled beers.
2be Beer Wall is a bar at Wollestraat 53 in Bruges, open 11:15 to 19:30 on most days and to 20:00 on Friday and Saturday.
Bar Ran at Kuipersstraat 4 in Bruges is a cosy neighbourhood bar with funk and disco music, where everyone is welcome and no reservations are taken.
Try The Original Belgian Waffle
Chez Albert at Breidelstraat 16 in Bruges sells the Original Belgian Waffle, which it says is freshly baked every day and served across Belgium.
Try Waffles of many different kinds
House of Waffles at Wollestraat 31 has served many kinds of waffles with passion since 2018, inspired by the recipe of the greatest grandmother on Earth.
Try Pizza with Duvel beer yeast in the dough
Otomat at Simon Stevinplein 12 is a pizza restaurant with its own Belgian twist on the pizzeria concept, using Duvel beer yeast in the pizza dough.
Gelateria Da Vinci is a street food stop at Geldmuntstraat 34 in Bruges, open Monday to Saturday from 11:00 to 22:00 and Sunday from 12:00 to 22:00.
Order The brown-red beer, a mixed fermentation blend of brown beer and lambic, on the terrace by the canals.
Bourgogne des Flandres at Wollestraat 26 in Bruges is a brewery and distillery where you can taste its beers on a cosy terrace by the canals.
Markt Wednesday Market is a market at Markt in Bruges, open on Wednesday from 08:00 to 14:00.
Diksmuids Boterhuis at Geldmuntstraat 23 is a cheese and fine meats shop, founded in 1933, with tapas and cheese platters, tastings and cheese towers.
Two Christmas markets on the Markt and Simon Stevinplein run from 20 November 2026 to 3 January 2027, part of Winter Glow, which lasts until 14 February.
A gourmet fair on 4 to 6 December 2026 in the Jan Garemijnzaal at the Belfry, during Winter Glow, with French, Belgian, Greek, Italian and Spanish producers.
The Handmade in Brugge MAKERSmarkt takes place at the City Halls from 18 to 20 December 2026, with handmade items, unique gifts and local produce.
The 1.5h truffle workshop at Grauwwerkersstraat 15 is hosted in English and has you make 20+ chocolate truffles from scratch with a large selection of toppings.
The 2.5h praline workshop at Grauwwerkersstraat 15 teaches chocolate tempering, then you make 20 pralines and 10+ mendiants and take them home in a box.
Belgian Waffle Workshop with Beer Tasting at Hoogstraat 10 in Bruges teaches Belgian waffles under expert guidance, with your favourite beer in the batter.
Try Pure veg Indian food, vegan and vegetarian.
Garlic n Greens at Vlamingstraat 10 is a vegan and vegetarian Indian restaurant serving pure veg Indian food inspired by the flavours of the owners' grandma.
Also on this listFrietkot De MarktHouse of Waffles
@tatties at Jan van Eyckplein 3 in Bruges calls itself the best breakfast and more in town, open Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 15:00 and closed on Sundays.
Also on this listBlackbird
On this list, shown aboveFrietkot De Markt't Brugs BeertjeBar Ran
