In 2006, the owners of Dôme opened this seafood brasserie across the square in the Zurenborg district. With a wide marble bar, open kitchen, and walls of windows, it’s the perfect place to polish off a split of Krug and a couple dozen belon oysters.

Address:
1 Arendstraat
Antwerp
Belgium

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A white-tiled Danish joint perfect for scallop cevice and aquavit.

Address:
12-13 Marnixplaats
Antwerp
Belgium

Phone:
32-3-257-1357

If you find yourself on the Lange Gasthuisstraat (and you should), combine lunch- linguine with black truffles perhaps—with amusing bourgeoise-watching at concept store Flamant home interior’s swank brasserie.

Address:
12 Lange Gasthuisstraat
Antwerp
Belgium

Phone:
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The small museum’s collection of vintage cameras and photgraphy equipment offers a comprehensive history of the craft. Don’t miss the bookshop which has excellent monographs.

Address:
47 Waalse Kaai
Antwerp
Belgium

Phone:
32-3-242-9300

A well-edited collection of 20th-century ceramics and furniture, plus the odd Pucci foulard.

Address:
8 Timmerwerfstraat
Antwerp
Belgium

Phone:
32-3-294-3378

You’ll have to look closely to find this unassuming restaurant on the square’s southeast corner, but don’t be dissuaded. Fare is cheap, organic, and delicious—and a stealth fashion hot spot.

Address:
12 Vrijdagmarkt
Antwerp
Belgium

Phone:
32-48-642-5606

Here’s where you book if proximity to old-town charm is important. The hotel is just a cobblestone’s throw from the historic market, Grote Markt, and is wedged between gently listing 350-year-old merchants’ houses.

Address:
11A Haarstraat
Antwerp
Belgium

Phone:
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This pioneering conservatory of style is housed in the same building as the Flanders Fashion Institute and the new Yamamoto store.

Address:
28 Nationalestraat
Antwerpen
Belgium

Phone:
32-3-470-2770

Check into Violetta and Vera Pepa’s petite B&B, and a smiling sister will show you to the gold leaf-filled double room (tiny and sexy) or one of two airy suites. Croissants, fresh fruit, and strong coffee await outside your door each morning. This is a great value in Antwerp, with an Old City location that couldn’t be better for che... Morecking out the design capital’s fashion scene. The pioneering ModeMuseum (home to a Yohji Yamamoto store) is just down the street, adjacent to Dries van Noten’s Modepaleis.

Address:
24 Nationalestraat
Antwerp
Belgium

Phone:
32-4-75-234-703Less

This mini department store stocks a very un-Antwerp lineup of blingy Italian brands in a space that’s the apotheosis of the Antwerp aesthetic: neutral and burnished, simultaneously rich and plain. A cocktail at the adjacent Martini Bar is de rigueuer.

Address:
9-11 Lange Gasthuisstraat
Antwerp
Belgium
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The sister-owned store stocks their paired-down women’s line.

Address:
24 Nationalestraat
Antwerp
Belgium

Phone:
32-3-238-0021

A jeweler? A metalsmith? An art gallery? Call it what you like, but definitely stop by. The pieces—made of sterling silver or hand-hammered 18-karat gold—are set with roughly tooled semiprecious stones and pearls.

Address:
13 Lange Gasthuisstraat
Antwerp
Belgium

Phone:
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