Meir Antwerp – All our local tips

when I go shopping at ‘Wilde Zee’, I have to get an ice cream from Bieke (summer, winter, it doesn’t matter!).

Hallelujah, you won’t believe how good this tastes. They make everything fresh, all year long. My favourite is the banana taste!

And when you don’t feel like eating ice cream, have a waffle… they’re yummy too!

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‘T Bieke | Coffee & tea, Snacks | Ice cream € 1.00
Korte Gasthuisstraat 8 | Meir | +323231659
Mon 11:00 – 19:00, Tue – Sat 10:00 – 19:00

In the Hoogstraat (close to the Zwarte Panter, check the Zwarte Panter article) there is a little shop called ‘Achter de Maan’ (Behind the Moon).

It is not so easy to tell what they are selling, but it is always fun. They have a lot of design things, and a lot of toys. One of the characteristics is that almost all objects are funny. They make me smile. There are original umbrella’s (in the shape of little persons), bags, funny kitchen stuff and Japanese toys. The sell similar things to Akotee (check the Akotee article) on the Melkmarkt, but yet they have their own style. In Dutch we call the things they sell ‘hebbedingetjes’: little things you want to have, but that are mostly not needed.

What I don’t like is that they sell a lot of plastic and that it is a little bit too expensive. But is is really a great shop to find the perfect present. For somebody else or for yourself.

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Achter de Maan | Shopping
Hoogstraat 45 | Meir | +3232907292
Mon & Wed – Sat 10:00 – 18:00, Sun 12:00 – 18:00

This extremely colorful sweet shop next to the cathedral is one of the funniest in its kind.

Special clocks, crazy postcards, music boxes, books, lamps or bags for your bike: they have it all.

Go in and you don’t know where to look first. It feels like Christmas all year long, even now in the summer!

In Belgium we need an umbrella like Hawaiian people need flowers around their neck.  You can find very colorful and cute umbrella’s right here.  To brighten up your rainy days…

They have the special and very successful brand ‘Kitch Kitchen’. They have all kinds of bags for bikes, in a red-yellow-purple-green… You name it, they have it!

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Akotee | Shopping
Melkmarkt 30 | Meir | +3232132313
Mon – Sat 10:00 – 18:00

American Apparel is an american brand (not very hard to figure that one out ). They sell clean clothes (in the meaning of: made in the US and not China!) in a clean environment. Doesn’t sound very exciting you think? Guess again… when you enter the shop, you just have to stand still and let it all come to you… tops, t’s, sweaters, leggings…. in every color you can think of! They even sell dancing clothes…

I often go there to buy simple sweaters and t-shirts, but i also go there when i have a Theme-party… In a few weeks, i have a party: 80’s-ski outfit! So i went to American apparel to buy myself a fluo dancing top to wear under my ski-pants…and fluo leg warmers and a fluo thing to put on my head! lovely! let the party begin!

Just visit the shop to buy some good basics or have a great time laughing with all the silly stuff you also find there!

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American Apparel | Shopping | T-shirt € 15.00
Kammenstraat 4 | Meir
Mon – Sat 10:00 – 19:00

The French brand APC is not very well known in Belgium, but very popular in France.

The shop in Antwerp is a very small shop, but it has all you need. Men’s and women’s clothes, shoes, bags,… all very basic but oooh so nice, and very easy to combine with other stuff. My boyfriend often buys sweaters there, and they always have wonderful boots! Three years ago (2007) I bought some boots here, and I still use them almost every day!

They often have some sales in the back of the shop (always handy!). And at the cash register, you find candy called ‘een koffiebolleke’ from Roodthooft… it’s a very famous ‘bolleke’ made in Antwerp (and I’m addicted to them).

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APC | Shopping
Lombardenvest 12 | Meir | +3232265054
Mon – Sat 10:00 – 18:00

This small and cozy place is located in the shadow of the Carolus Borromeus Church, one Antwerp’s five Monumental churches.

You can drink all kinds of special coffees, milkshakes and hot chocolates. Newspapers, magazines and interesting books of Antwerp history you can read while nipping from your cup…  You can order many types of hot Choco, coffees and milkshakes with special flavours…

The owner of this friendly bar will serve you whatever you wish for with a big smile! Sometimes that’s all you need, right?

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Bar Choq | Bars
Minderbroedersrui 64 | Meir | +32494657243
Mon – Fri 10:00 – 19:00, Sat 10:00 – 18:00

This is realy brunch & lunch heaven for me. Whenever I’m there it feels like my grandfather is preparing me my favorite food in his own special way, like only he knows how.

Delicious sandwiches are served here. Every ingredient is home made with special care… you can see that!

It’s a nice environment where you can relax on your own, experience great food with a newspaper or enjoy the company of your friends over a delicious meal.

There’s a terrace when the weather is fine.

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Beauz | Coffee & tea, Snacks | Main Meal € 15.00
Mechelsesteenweg 12 | Meir
Tue – Sat 09:00 – 21:00

Since 2003 Antwerp has a super popular coffee bar very close to the Meir, our little shopping paradise… Caffénation is a bit hidden, but that doesn’t mean it is not noticed. It’s a small place where coffee is the sacred wonder thing. The owner is in love with coffee (they say he even attends coffee tastings). They sell a lot of original coffees with a creative touch. If you want a latte art, caffè machiato, single blend ristretto, decaf soy cappuccino or iced vanilla latte; they have it. They also have soy milk. And they don’t forget tea lovers and chocolate lovers. They sell for example a drink with Maltezers.

You can drink your coffee in a sofa or at a big table with a newspaper or a magazine. When you leave you can also buy some coffee. A talk with the owner makes you believe it is not possible to survive without coffee.

I love to come there. It has everything a what a coffee lover like me wants. But I’m not the only one that likes it there. There’s also the rest of Antwerp. It’s a great place for a quick meeting with a friend, for a little pause after shopping. I never stay long. It is one of the very hot spots in town and sometimes that’s a pity…

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Caffènation | Bars, Coffee & tea | Espresso of the week € 1.80
Hopland 64 | Meir | +32486323015
Mon – Fri 08:30 – 19:30, Sat 09:00 – 20:00, Sun 12:00 – 18:00

This magnificent Church was built between 1615 & 1621. The Hendrik Conscience Square faces this church. It just overwhelms you: the size, the details, the facade…

This church was built with paintings, architecture and sculptures designed by Pieter Paul Rubens. Although this is a very big church it’s not that easy to spot in the skyline of Antwerp. It’s a bit covered by more modern and bigger buildings. But once you arrive on the square you will understand the uniqueness of this “hidden” church.

The square in front of the church is very relaxing as well. Usually a lonesome violin player is playing his instrument, bringing a calm, relaxing atmosphere over the area, and that only adds to the “grandeur” of the church.

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Carolus Borromeus Church | Art & culture
Hendrik Conscience Plein | Meir | +3232313751
Mon – Sat: 10:00 – 12:30 & 14:00 – 17:00, Sun before Church service

One of the city’s proud is city hall. This renaissance building is a part of the Unesco heritage. In Antwerp we reffer to it as – ‘t schoon verdiep – (the beautiful floor) referring to the beautiful first floor. This is where the mayor of Antwerp has his office. All official city receptions are held here as well like weddings etc.

In front of the city hall you’ll see the statue of Antigone trowing away a hand from where Antwerp got its name. Hand Werpen (Trowing hands) –> Antwerpen

Antigone guarded the city port, boatsmen who refused to pay taxes got their hand cut. The hand was then tossed in the river Schelde.

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City Hall | Art & culture
Grote Markt | Meir
For opening times see tourist office

The man behind the Antwerp six, Geert Bruloot, started his business at the Lombardevest with the shop Louis, but sold it after some years of succes and began a boutique in very nice shoes for men & women, Coccodrillo…

It’s located in the Schuttershofstraat, one of Belgium’s most expensive streets. They will a new shop across the street soon, Coccodrillo only for men. Looking forward to that moment!

You’ll find brands like Dries Van Noten, Lanvin, Maison Martin Margiela, Miu Miu, Prada, YSL, Balenciaga, Raf Simons and many more…

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Coccodrillo | Shopping
Schuttershofstraat 9 | Meir | +3232332093
Mon – Sat 10:00 – 18:00

This old and cozy bar you’ll find in the shadow of the former french Opera of Antwerp: Bourla schouwburg.

This very posh area doesn’t stroke with the atmosphere inside or on the terrace.  It has a no-nonsense feeling and you get your coffee with a filter.

One thing you must order whenever feeling hungry: boterham smos spek (sandwich bacon with salade). Cheap and tasty: a combination I like the most!

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De Duifkens | Bars, Snacks | Sandwich € 3.50
Graanmarkt 5 | Meir | +3232251039
From 10:00 daily

This little café is called ‘de Reus’ which means ‘The Giant’ and that’s how you feel when enter the bar. Only a few people can join you to drink a unique beer called ‘Nello’ or ‘Patrasche’.

It’s a beer called after the world famous story of ‘The Dog Of Flanders’ (writer: Marie Louise de la Ramée). It’s located at the Grote Markt near the cityhall. Fantastic view in the very center of the city…

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De Reus | Bars | Beer € 2.00
Grote Markt 22 | Meir | +3232132282
Wed – Mon 11:00 – late

Theme parties are very trendy to organise lately. So whenever I have a party, I go to Episode… It’s a second hand shop and you can find anything there.

These are the themes I shopped for at Episode:

- Lumberjack Party
- After Ski Party
- Keeping Up Appearances (Hyacinth and Onslow!)
- Totally Wrong 80’s Party
- Fluo ‘this is the sound of C’ party (New Beat!)
- 90’s Party

And believe me, my outfit always was very successful!

Just go check it out, have a laugh or find something really nice (when you search good, you can also find things you can wear without going to a theme party )

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Episode | Shopping
Steenhouwersvest 34 | Meir
Mon – Sat 11:00 – 18:00

Even when you’re not a metal or Gothic or a punk-fan, there’s a shop in the Kammenstraat in Antwerp that is great fun and worth a visit. ‘Fans’ is a clothing shop for Gothics and vampires, and other subcultures and species… You can almost permanently find youngsters with extreme black clothing in this strange shop that has opened the seventies.

The owners of the Fans faced a lot of difficulties and lawsuits over the years because the neighbors considered them dangerous and provocative. But the people that come here may look dangerous, they are often insecure and mostly very nice. When I spoke to the owner last week, he told me: ‘We only get bloodthirsty after closing time…’ I thought this was very funny. In September they wrote `Black to School…’ on the windows.

I used to be afraid to go inside, but since a while I go there sometimes and wander around in the very little shop. It is a lot of fun. They sell the strangest things. I got me a ‘Giant Microbe’ – they’re like teddy bear microbes. I got “the flu”. They also sell coffin-shaped wallets, and of course a lot of clothes. Some are really wearable for ‘outsiders’.

This shop is an icon in Antwerp; almost everybody knows ‘the Fans’ and it is a part of this city. They say it’s a gate to the Underworld, but it is also an interesting place with interesting objects…

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Fans | Shopping
Kammenstraat 80 | Meir | +3232323172
Mon – Sat 11:00 – 18:00

When you are in Antwerp on a Friday morning, it is something you really have to see: the strange and famous ‘Vrijdagse Markt’. Go there!

It’s great and it’s so typically Antwerp. It’s a little adventure on a Friday morning. It’s a second hand market but what it makes different is the way of selling: it ’s an auction, they talk really ‘aantwaarps’ and sometimes you think they will be fighting soon because people get all incited.

They mostly sell furniture and bicycles but it is incredible what else you can buy there: a box with toothbrushes made in 1963, a complete correspondence between a mother and a son over twenty years, a broken toaster, dirty teddy bears, etc. Sometimes it is real rubbish and sometimes it is a treasure. A lot of the things come from old people that died, shops that went bankrupt.

It starts at nine in the morning and it finishes at one o’clock in the afternoon. The garbage car comes between one and two and cleans the whole square. And that’s necessary. All the things that nobody wanted are left behind.

I don’t know how long it already exists, but I guess it was always there. I’m mostly working on a Friday morning and i don’t go there often, but when I have the chance i don’t want to miss it, this special market, so lively, so energetic.

And maybe nice to know: the museum of Plantijn en Moretus is on the same square…

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Friday Market | Art & culture, Shopping, Festivals & events | Free
Vrijdagmarkt | Meir
Fri 09:00 – 13:00

This is absolutely my new favorite in Antwerp! It’s not known by many people but a real treasure to cherish. Il Gallo Nero is an Italian restaurant owned by a Belgian – Italian couple. It’s Italian, but the Italian man handles the service, his wife takes care of the excellent dishes. You ‘ll find some great Italian dishes here with a touch of Belgian influences. The food is of great quality here.

What adds more to the charm is the nice man who serves you. He’s Milanese born and only speaks french & Italian (fluently). He explains everything he serves in a way only an Italian can. The food, the people: honest, nice and excellent quality.

And while you are there, take a moment to enjoy the nice scenery you’ve entered. Some nice paintings and some traditional Italian kitsch…this all served with carefully selected music by Italian crooners.

I tell you… if you only have one restaurant opportunity in Antwerp, this should be it. Cozy, romantic, …

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Il Gallo Nero | Restaurants | Main meal € 30.00
Grote Pieter Potstraat 36 | Meir | +3232311960
Thu – Tue evening (reservation is always safe)

I often come in the café/restaurant K. Zeppos. The name comes from a Belgian tv-programme for kids: Kapitein Zeppos. It played in the years 1964 till 1968 and was very successful.

When you enter the café you see a very big picture of the actor that played Kapitein Zeppos (Senne Rouffaer).

K. Zeppos is a very ‘practical’ café/restaurant. It’s in the middle of the city, but not in the heat of the tourist-zone. It has an enormous terrace on a big square in summer and in winter it is very comfortable inside. Good atmosphere, nice food for an okay price. It’s not cheap, but also not very expensive. Only their tea is way too expensive. That’s why I never drink tea in the K. Zeppos.

It’s a perfect meeting-place for little groups. If I want to see a bunch of my friends we think easily of K.Zeppos. Especially if some people have to eat. You can eat classic Belgian food, but they have also meals from all over the world. It’s a good place where I like to come from time to time…

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K. Zeppos | Bars, Snacks, Restaurants (Intern.) | Main meal from € 15.00
Vleminckveld 78 | Meir | +3232311789
From 10:00 daily

The exclusive and fantastic feeling you get whenever nipping from your royal bubbles, is just the beginning of a fancy trip into the city.

This is the place the city of Antwerp threw the biggest parties in the 20th century.

This bar is located in the golden Stadsfeestzaal inside an enormous glass of Champagne!

You can drink champagne or a coffee, a tea or fresh orangejuice.

It’s the perfect place to start or end your shoppingday…

If the champagne doesn’t make you dizzy, then for sure the view will…

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Laurent Perrier | Bars | Glass of LP Champagne € 11.00
Meir 78 | Meir | +32475775812
Mon – Thu & Sat 09:00 – 20:00, Fri 09:00 – 21:00

Not so long ago I was a passionate skateboarder, but then real life, body weight and other stuff kicked in. So my favorite sport got a bit behind… but that doesn’t stop me from visiting the skate-parks I used to hang out.

So if you are enjoying a stroll in the Antwerp City park make sure you make a stop at the north side of the park where a fine skate-park is located. Take a sit next to the ground and watch a variety of skaters an BMX’ers showing of their skills. It’s worth a little stop, especially if you’re into this kind of sports.

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Live To Ride | Relaxing | Free
Quinten Matsijslei Antwerp | Meir
24 hours daily

The largest worldwide collection of comics in Europe: Mekanik Strip has been the leader for 25 years already!

You can find any comic book, and many gadget, postcards, t-shirts and dolls in here. If you don’t find it here, probably you won’t find it anywhere…

On the first floor you can visit an interesting artgallery, entrance free!

The two owners of the shop, Lin & Jan, will help you like no one else. Her profound knowledge of the comic-universe will guide you to that one thing you badly want to find.

We have several comic-walls in the city, all because of her! Go and visit the shop, you’ll be surprised by all the toys!

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Mekanik Strip | Art & culture, Shopping | Comics workshop € 15.00
Sint Jacobsmarkt 73 | Meir | +3232342347
Mon – Fri 10:00 – 18:30, Sat 10:00 – 18:00

Despite of what some people might think about Antwerp inhabitants, we do not only shop and eat… we also drink coffee! Not so long ago I thought the only way to have a home-like-coffee-drinking-experience did not exist, but it actually does.

The place resembles a big living room with comfy couches, nice decoration with a great atmosphere. This is indeed one of the few places in Antwerp where different generations and backgrounds drink together in harmony: babies with their mothers and grandparents, people in their twenties, in their thirties, Belgian, British, Dutch… this is actually a great place to network.

The specialty of the house is the ‘Antwerpse coffee’ prepared with one of the most typical Antwerpian spirits: Elixir d’Anvers.  The Coffee of the Month’ in February is a mix of almond liquor and speculaas spice.

No doubt this is one of my favorite places in the whole country not only because the coffee is great, original, and versatile, but because my man (one of the most

anti-coffee-persons) actually enjoys having a drink of coffee. I think I finally converted him.

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Monte Cristo | Coffee & tea | Coffee € 2.00
Pelgrimstraat 14 | Meir | +32032331078
Mon, Thu – Fri 14:00 – 20:00, Sat 11:00 – 20:00, Sun 11:00 – 18:00

The Museum Plantin Moretus has an extraordinary collection of typographical material, has a beautiful library and a fantastic interior (with golden leather!!). But this is not why I love this museum so much…

I love it because of it’s fantastic garden or courtyard to be exact. You can see it on the picture above… It’s so calm and quiet… the perfect place to hide from the busy city once in a while. It is situated on the lovely Friday Market, which has a few very nice cafes.

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Museum Plantin Moretus | Art & culture | Adult € 6.40
Vrijdagmarkt 22 – 23 | Meir | +3232211450
Tue – Sun 10:00 – 17:00

Antwerp hosts many libraries, some of them practical, some big, some renown and some of them are not accessible for public visits. The Nottebohm Library is one of those closed libraries. Only once or twice a year the public is allowed to have a peek at its rich and beautiful content.

Today i was lucky to enter the library and view it in his full glory. I was amazed by the massive old books stored there (over 35 km if placed next to each other) and this all in a great historic room. It opens occasionally – check the website for opening weekends. It’s definitely worth a visit.

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Nottebohm Library | Art & culture | Free
Hendrik Conscienceplein 4 | Meir
Check website for opening times

The best place in town  to get Antwerp’s finest cookies!

The delicious and world famous ‘Antwerpse Handjes’ (Antwerp Hands) are for sale right here.

The history about the name ‘Antwerpen’ goes back several centuries and means ‘Hand-werpen’ (hand trowing). That is why we have these great cookies here.

Buy them for friends, because they are a symbol for true friendship, or treat yourself something!

TIP: Nice stuff to give away as a present from your trip…

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Philip’s Biscuit | Shopping, Snacks
Korte Gasthuisstraat 11 | Meir | +3232312660
Mon – Sat 11:00 -18:00

Next to APC (check the APC article) you find Step by Step, and when you enter Step by Step after visiting APC, it feels like you are in Paris in stead of Antwerp. A set of Barbie dolls welcomes you before you walk in the Walhalla of French Brands. You can find Vanessa Bruno, Isabel Marant, Anna Sui, … The shop (first housed at another spot) almost had to close, but an employee and a very good customer saved the shop and reopened it in Lombardenvest. Thank god for that!

I don’t try to go there that often, because it is quite expensive (and you always see something you really really want), but when sales start: I’m there! I have a small size and they always have a lot of trousers in small sizes left. And prices really go down a lot! I once bought a new pair of Notify trousers, for only € 70!

Every sales period I go there, and i must say, my collection is getting bigger and bigger. I smile every time I see all those beautiful (cheap!) clothes in my closet.

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Step by Step | Shopping
Lombardenvest 16 | Meir | +3232131854
Mon – Sat 10:30 – 18:00

Next to Step by Step (check the Step by Step article), you find TAS, a new shop filled with lovely bags and some shoes. And the best thing: it’s not expensive at all! A lot of my friends go there too, and always with success!

The lady of the house makes you feel at home when you enter. I often just hop in after work to chat a little with her.

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TAS | Shopping
Lombardenvest 20 | Meir | +3232318682
Mon – Sat 10:30 – 18:00

The Botanical Garden and its 2000 noteworthy plants have their origin in the herb garden belonging to the medieval St. Elisabeth Gasthuis, which is still a hospital today.

I often have to go there for my work and I don’t mind that at all. The Botanical Garden is situated in the shopping heart of the city (behind the Meir, Huidevetterstraat, Schuttershofstraat) and gives you the opportunity to step out of the busy shopping area into a quiet, calm world of plants and flowers. People of Antwerp often go there to eat their sandwiches or read the newspaper. Even now in winter, it’s lovely to just walk through the garden to escape from your busy Christmas shopping. And don’t forget to drink a coffee in ‘het Gebaar‘, the establishment in the garden that won a lot of patisserie prices!

It’s a hidden treasure and my favourite spot in Antwerp.

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The Botanical Garden | Relaxing | Free
Leopoldstraat 24 | Meir
08.00 – 18.00 daily

If you want to wander among the real citizens of Antwerp, get up early on a Sunday morning and visit the market place. Hear the salesman, shout and show off their goods. Especially some fruit sellers are really funny to watch.

Recently the Antwerp city built a roof over this huge square. The elements of nature won’t interfere with you shopping needs no more!

On Saturdays the market place is about delicious food, vegetables, fruits, exotic items for your meals.
On Sunday you can find general house items, clothes & food.

Worth a visit, worth getting up early!

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Theaterplein | Shopping | Free
Theaterplein | Meir
Sat 07:00 – 16:00, Sun 07:00 – 13:00

The Witzli-Poetzli (they say the name comes from the book The Master and Margarita from Boelgakov – Huitzilopochtli is a wargod of the Aztecs) is a very small café in the center of center of the citycenter. It is next to our great cathedral. In the summer there’s an unique terras in the shadow of the cathedral. In the winter it is a cosy place where people come to drink coffee and read a newspaper.

In the narrow street of the Witzli are no cars allowed and there are practically no shops. It is a passing-through-street. A lot of people pass by and from the Witzli-Poetzli you have a perfect view! In winter there’s a lot of wind in the street, so you can see very funny situations that happen to by-passers.

The former owner – Guido – died very sudden in December 2008, a couple of weeks after a fight in his cafe. This was a enormous shock for a lot of people in Antwerp. And of course: what would happen to the Witzli?! Antwerp wouldn’t be te same without! We are very lucky that a former barman took over the café and that he keeps the Witzli like it was.

I visit the Witzli-Poetzli a lot. It is the most ideal spot to meet friends or to rest after a walk in the city. But the most important reason is their white coffee (café au lait). I never drink white coffee, but it is such a genius form of white coffee that I always want to drink it when I come there. Don’t let them tell you something else.

Don’t leave Antwerp without tasting the Witzli-coffee!

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Witzli-Poetzli | Bars, Coffee & tea
Blauwmoezelstraat 8 | Meir
From 10:00 daily

The Zwarte Panther (Black Panter) is a famous art gallery in Antwerp where I walk in from time to time. In the Hoogstraat, a small street where no cars are allowed, you wouldn’t expect this interesting complex building with nice spaces, a cute inner court, a chapel, a cellar and a little house behind the chapel.

In 1303 it was a little guesthouse (Sint Julianus Gasthuis) where poor pilgrims could stay a while. In 1968 the gallery opened. They say it is the oldest gallery in Flanders and the second oldest in Belgium for contemporary art. Adriaan Raemdonck, the gallery owner is passionate and takes his job very seriously.

There are almost permanently exhibitions by famous artists like Fred Bervoets, Jan Cox, Pjeroo Roobjee, Sam Dillemans, Jan Vanriet and many others.

I find it a an interesting place, not only because of the great art you can find there, but also because of the location from the Middle ages. The chapel (restored in 1956-1958) is simple but beautiful, the art in it is special. The inner court is idyllic, the rooms upstairs are light and pleasant. The art of Fred Bervoets is impressive.

Once in a time I walk in, and enjoy this oasis in the city. It is a spot where art meets history and that’s a good marriage.

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Zwarte Panter | Art & culture | Free
Hoogstraat 70-72-74 | Meir | +3232331345
Thu – Sun 13:30 – 18:00