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Local guide · Province of Antwerp, Flanders

Antwerp restaurant owners, from Zuid to Eilandje: an online menu you can change at any time

In Flanders’ art cities, Antwerp included, two visitors in three come from abroad. Since 15 October 2025 a new regulation has covered every terrace in the city, and a permitted façade terrace may be winter-proofed from 1 October to 31 March.

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Round terrace table in a cobbled Antwerp street in autumn, with a red QR code stand, a plate of golden biscuits and a stemmed glass of amber beer
AI-generated illustration

Growth

Belgium’s most populous municipality

On 1 January 2026 Antwerp had 565,615 residents, more than any other Belgian municipality. A year earlier Statbel counted 562,002, so the city gained 3,613 people in 2025.1

For your menu

3,613 more residents in one year: for these new neighbours, your online menu is often the first contact with your place.

Visitors and languages

Visitors, with the Dutch first

In 2025 the province of Antwerp recorded 6,169,355 tourist nights, 3,225,383 of them by non-residents. The Netherlands led with 1,166,800 nights, ahead of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States.2

Toerisme Vlaanderen reports that two visitors in three to Flanders’ art cities (Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Leuven and Mechelen) come from abroad. The Visit Antwerpen tourist office publishes its pages in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish.34

For your menu

Dutch, English, French and German cover the five largest foreign markets of the province.

Local food

From handjes to starred tables

Visit Antwerpen puts forward three local specialities: Antwerpse handjes, hand-shaped biscuits or chocolates first made in 1934, the ‘Bolleke’ beer, and Elixir d’Anvers, a liqueur of 32 plants and herbs made since 1863.4

The 2026 MICHELIN Guide for Belgium and Luxembourg was unveiled at Antwerp’s new Bourse. Its selection gives three stars to Zilte, on the top floor of the Museum aan de Stroom.56

For your menu

A handje or a Bolleke takes two lines to explain to a visitor, and a printed menu rarely has room for them.

Local rules

Terrastoelating: what the city asks for

In Antwerp a terrace on public ground needs a permit, the terrastoelating. Since 15 October 2025 a revised regulation has applied to existing permits and new applications alike. You apply online and attach, among other things, three recent photos of the spot, the terrace type and a copy of your drankvergunning (drinks licence) application.7

The permit belongs to the company, not the building: take over a venue under a different company number and you must apply again. It has no end date, but lapses, for instance, after more than six months without trading. A permitted façade terrace may be winter-proofed from 1 October to 31 March, provided the winter elements are removed between 1 April and 30 September.7

In the streets where terraces cluster, the ‘strategische horecakernen’ (Zuid, Zurenborg, Eilandje, the historic centre, the theatre district and others), street-specific rules and plans may apply, and they take precedence over the general regulation. An annual tax applies too, set by location. The permits team answers on weekdays from 9am to noon on 03 338 66 66, or at [email protected].7

For your menu

Taking over a venue? File the terrace application before you open. The menu itself can be online from the first service.

Key facts

Antwerp in figures

residents on 1 January 2026, the most populous municipality in Belgium1
565,615
visitors to Flanders’ art cities came from abroad in 20253
2 in 3
of 2025 tourist nights in Antwerp province spent by non-residents2
52%
a permitted façade terrace may be winter-proofed7
1 Oct – 31 Mar

With Menyu

What Menyu brings to an Antwerp menu

Menyu puts your menu online behind a QR code in your colours, and you edit it from your phone. Here is what that changes in Antwerp, along with what Menyu does not do in Belgium.

  • A menu in Dutch and in your visitors’ languages

    Your dishes can be translated into 25 languages, including Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish; read the machine translation through before you publish. The menu’s buttons (filters, basket, opening hours) stay in French or English: Menyu has no Dutch interface.

    • Menu content translated into 25 languages, Dutch includedIncluded
    See what the Menyu menu does

  • The winter menu without reprinting

    The QR code always leads to the same address. When the terrace goes into winter mode and the menu changes, you edit a dish or a price and the menu is current as soon as you publish. A category can show only at certain hours, a lunch menu for instance; Menyu follows the time zone chosen in the settings.

    • One fixed QR code, a menu you can edit at any timeIncluded
    • Categories shown by time of dayIncluded
    • QR code in your colours, with your logoIncluded
    Make my menu QR code

  • Explain a dish before it is ordered

    Each dish shows its allergens from the EU list of 14, and guests can filter the menu, for example vegetarian or gluten-free. Up to ten stories, photos or videos, show the kitchen or the dish of the moment.

    • The 14 allergens shown dish by dishIncluded
    • Guest filters, including vegetarian and gluten-freeIncluded
    • Up to 10 photo or video storiesIncluded
    Prepare my allergen chart

  • Your current menu as a mobile menu, no account needed

    Paste the link to your menu (your website, Uber Eats, Deliveroo, TheFork or a PDF) and see it as a mobile menu, without creating an account. You see what your guests would see on their phones before you set anything up.

    • A preview of your menu from a link, no accountIncluded
    Paste my menu link

Limits

What Menyu does not do

  • Menyu does not speak Dutch: the dashboard and the menu’s buttons are in French or English. Only the content (dishes, descriptions) can be translated into Dutch.
  • No online payment for a Belgian venue: payment accounts can only be opened in France. With Premium, orders placed from the menu are paid at the counter.
  • At sign-up, the optional phone field expects a ten-digit French number, and a Belgian number gets the +33 prefix. Best to leave it empty.
  • One account per venue: a second address, in Borgerhout for example, needs its own account.

According to the guides

Five Antwerp tables in the MICHELIN Guide selection

From the three-star table on top of the MAS to an Antwerp brasserie open since 1962, these places are in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide selection. They span three price bands, from €€ to €€€€.

None of these restaurants is a Menyu customer, and none was contacted. The list comes from the MICHELIN Guide; on 21 October 2026 each one’s website showed its opening hours.

  1. Zilte

    Top floor of the MAS (Museum aan de Stroom)6 · Creative cuisine · €€€€

    • 3 MICHELIN Stars 2026568

    Viki Geunes cooks with the city at his feet, while Viviane and her daughter Gitte look after the dining room.6

    Guide MICHELIN listingRestaurant website8

  2. The Jane

    Eilandje, in a converted warehouse5 · Creative cuisine, Asian influences · €€€€

    • 2 MICHELIN Stars 20265

    Nick Bril left his former church for a warehouse on the Eilandje. The kitchen sits at the centre of the room, with its own DJ booth.59

    Guide MICHELIN listingRestaurant website9

  3. Bistrot du Nord

    Lange Dijkstraat10 · Traditional cuisine · €€€

    • 1 MICHELIN Star 2026510

    Coloured tiles, mirrors and wood panelling: in this old-style bistro Michaël Rewers cooks the old recipes, with a soft spot for meat and offal.10

    Guide MICHELIN listingRestaurant website11

  4. Ciro’s

    Amerikalei12 · Belgian cuisine · €€

    • Bib Gourmand 2026512

    Open since 1962, a retro brasserie whose Belgian menu seems straight out of the 1960s: vol-au-vent, crisp calf’s brain, steak and dame blanche.1213

    Guide MICHELIN listingRestaurant website13

  5. and/or

    Haantjeslei14 · Vegan cuisine, market cuisine · €€

    • Bib Gourmand 2026514

    Karen Shu serves plant-based, often vegan dishes to share; the Guide recommends the counter seats facing the kitchen.14

    Guide MICHELIN listingRestaurant website15

Questions

Questions and answers

Can a QR code replace the prices shown at the entrance?

No. The federal economy ministry (SPF Economie) says so in its horeca guidelines: prices must be shown in writing somewhere clearly visible from outside, and a QR code can only come on top of that.

So keep your menu or board outside. Menyu adds the full, translated menu on your guests’ phones.16

Price display rules in Belgium
How do I apply for a terrastoelating in Antwerp?

Online, through the city’s e-loket. Have three recent photos of the spot, the terrace type (façade or island) and a copy of your drankvergunning application ready. If you take over a venue under a different company number, you must apply again.

Questions: 03 338 66 66, weekdays from 9am to noon, or [email protected].7

Can I winter-proof my terrace?

Yes, for a façade terrace that already has a permit: from 1 October to 31 March, provided every winter element is removed between 1 April and 30 September. A terrace cover or anchoring also needs an environmental permit (omgevingsvergunning).7

Is Menyu available in Dutch?

No. The dashboard is in French and English, and so are the public menu’s buttons. Your dishes, though, can be translated into Dutch, one of the 25 content languages.

How much does Menyu cost for an Antwerp restaurant?

Plans are billed in euros: Essentiel at €49 a month for the menu, Premium at €79 with bookings and orders, Beyond at €149. The 7-day trial is on Essentiel. Online payment for orders is not open to Belgian venues.

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How should I tell guests about allergens?

For dishes served in a restaurant, the AFSCA, Belgium’s food safety agency, wants the information to be clear and immediately available on site. Menyu shows each dish’s allergens from the EU list of 14, and the free Allergen chart tool helps you prepare a printed version.17

Create the allergen chart
Do the restaurants listed here use Menyu?

No. They come from the 2026 MICHELIN Guide selection and serve as landmarks of Antwerp’s food scene. Each entry links to its source.518

Method

How this page was made

Written by the Menyu team; Menyu is published by a sole trader based in Montpellier, France. Figures, rules and addresses come from the pages cited, read on 21 October 2026; the City of Antwerp and Visit Antwerpen pages are in Dutch and quoted as they are. The restaurants listed are not Menyu customers. The illustration was generated with AI and shows no real venue.

Sources

  1. Statbel, Population par commune au 1 janvier (1992-2026)statbel.fgov.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  2. Statbel, Tourisme selon pays de provenance 2025statbel.fgov.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  3. Toerisme Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen groeit verder als toeristische bestemming: meer dan 15 miljoen bezoekers in 2025toerismevlaanderen.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  4. Visit Antwerpen, Streekproductenvisit.antwerpen.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  5. Guide MICHELIN, The Jane, Antwerpenguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  6. Guide MICHELIN, Zilte, Antwerpenguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  7. Stad Antwerpen, Terrastoelating aanvragenantwerpen.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  8. Zilte, Ziltezilte.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  9. The Jane, The Janethejaneantwerp.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  10. Guide MICHELIN, Bistrot du Nord, Antwerpenguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  11. Bistrot du Nord, Bistrot du Nordbistrotdunord.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  12. Guide MICHELIN, Ciro's, Antwerpenguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  13. Ciro’s, Ciro’sciros.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  14. Guide MICHELIN, and/or, Antwerpenguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  15. and/or, and/orandorantwerp.com · accessed 21 October 2026

  16. SPF Economie, Guidelines : indication des prix dans l’horecaeconomie.fgov.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  17. AFSCA, Allergènesfavv-afsca.be · accessed 21 October 2026

  18. Guide MICHELIN, Anvers et ses environs : restaurantsguide.michelin.com · accessed 21 October 2026