Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Antwerp
Dôme in Zurenborg holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, with 610 selections from a cellar of 5,000 bottles weighted toward Burgundy, France, and Germany. It holds a Michelin Plate. Fine Fleur in Antwerp Center holds a Michelin star and the top Star Wine List ranking in Belgium. The Butcher's son in Harmonie holds a Michelin star and the same Wine Spectator award, with a cellar weighted toward France, Italy, and Spain.
Restaurant Marcel in Antwerp 2000 holds a Best of Award of Excellence, with roughly 760 selections and 30 wines by the glass at Bar Marcel. Wijnbistro Goddaard in Historisch Centrum holds the same award and pours world wines from rare wineries. Maven in Zuid holds an Award of Excellence with a natural and old-world list. Au Vieux Port in Eilandje and Danieli Il Divino in Park den Brandt also hold a Best of Award of Excellence.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
ArriKiiati
Deep wine list
ArriKiiati occupies a quiet address on Kommekensstraat in Antwerp's city centre, positioning itself within a dining scene that has grown steadily more ambitious over the past decade. Against a backdrop of Michelin-decorated neighbours and a city increasingly confident in its culinary identity, this address invites closer attention from anyone moving beyond the obvious names on Antwerp's restaurant circuit.
Au Vieux Port
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Au Vieux Port occupies a corner of Antwerp's Napelsstraat district with a wine program serious enough to earn a White Star recognition from Star Wine List. The kitchen works within a tradition that Antwerp's port-city identity has long shaped, where what arrives on the plate connects directly to where the city sits geographically. A reference point for wine-led dining in the city's mid-to-upper tier.
Bar(t)-à-vin
Deep wine list
A Michelin Plate-recognised wine bar and classic cuisine address in Antwerp's Lange Slachterijstraat, Bar(t)-à-vin sits at the accessible end of the city's serious dining spectrum, holding. The format pairs considered cooking with a wine-led focus, making it a practical entry point into Antwerp's broader classic cuisine tradition without the formality of the city's starred rooms.
Botanic Sanctuary Antwerp
Deep wine list
Botanic Sanctuary Antwerp holds a three-star accreditation from the World's Best Wine Lists awards, placing it among a small tier of Belgian hospitality addresses where provenance and product quality are treated as architectural decisions rather than menu footnotes. Set in the historic Leopoldstraat neighbourhood, it operates across multiple dining and hotel functions within a single landmark property.
Danieli Il Divino
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Danieli Il Divino sits on Beukenlaan in Antwerp's quieter southern residential arc, drawing attention from Star Wine List with a White Star recognition published in October 2024. That wine credential places it within a small cohort of Antwerp addresses where the cellar is treated as seriously as the kitchen. For a city with serious fine-dining density, it occupies a distinct niche worth understanding before you book.
Dôme
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Dôme holds a Michelin star and the top position on Star Wine List's Antwerp ranking, operating as a classically anchored French kitchen with a wine program weighted toward Burgundy, France, and Germany. The format runs lunch and dinner Tuesday through Saturday, closed Monday and Sunday, with a 610-selection list drawing from a cellar of 5,000 bottles.
Fine Fleur
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Fine Fleur holds a Michelin star and a leading Star Wine List ranking in Belgium for 2024 and 2025, placing it at the serious end of Antwerp's creative dining tier. The kitchen, led by Jacob Jan Boerma and Thomas Diepersloot, operates Wednesday through Saturday on Lange Gasthuisstraat in the old city. Opinionated About Dining's back-to-back European rankings confirm its standing as one of Belgium's most closely watched modern tables.
Hertog Jan at Botanic Sanctuary
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Hertog Jan at Botanic holds two Michelin stars and ranked 21st in Europe on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 list, placing it among Belgium's most credentialed fine-dining addresses. Chef Gert De Mangeleer's Modern Flemish menu operates from Leopoldstraat 26 in Antwerp's city centre, with Tuesday evening the sole weekly service window, a format that signals intent as clearly as any award.
Het Pomphuis
Deep wine list
Het Pomphuis occupies a converted industrial pumping station on Antwerp's left bank, giving it among the more architecturally striking dining rooms in the city. The venue sits within a broader Antwerp dining scene that ranges from Michelin-decorated Flemish kitchens to focused contemporary formats, and draws visitors who prioritise setting as much as plate.
L'Enoteca
Deep wine list
L'Enoteca occupies a quiet address on Grotehondstraat in Antwerp's southern residential fringe, placing it at some distance from the high-profile dining corridor around the city centre. The name signals a wine-forward identity, and the setting leans toward the kind of unhurried, course-by-course format that Antwerp's more serious dining rooms have made their own. For visitors working through the city's upper-tier options, it belongs on the same shortlist as the neighbourhood's most considered addresses.
Maven
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Maven occupies a former warehouse in Antwerp's Zuid district, building its identity around wood-fired, meat-driven cooking with in-house dry-aged cuts from rare European breeds including Rubia Gallega, Simmental, and Portuguese Mirandesa. Chefs Jules Koninckx and Luc de Laet run a programme that sits at the serious end of Belgium's new-era steak restaurant category, pairing its grill work with a natural and old-world wine list.
Millésime
Deep wine list
Positioned on Antwerp's Grote Markt, Millésime sits at an address that carries centuries of civic weight, a fitting frame for a dining room where the interplay between kitchen, cellar, and floor shapes every meal. The name itself signals a wine-led sensibility, pointing toward a format where bottle selection and food timing are treated as equal disciplines rather than supporting acts.
Nebo
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
A Michelin-starred contemporary restaurant on Panamarenkoplein, Nebo sits within Antwerp's upper tier of fine dining and takes its name from the Croatian word for heaven. Chef Dimitri de Koninck cooks à la carte with daily-fresh produce, placing particular emphasis on vegetable-led cooking within a broader contemporary menu. Opinionated About Dining ranked it 377th in Europe for 2025.
Pazzo
Deep wine list
A Michelin Plate-recognised fusion restaurant on Antwerp's Oudeleeuwenrui, Pazzo sits in the city's mid-to-upper price tier where creative cooking meets accessible format. It holds consistent appeal across both lunch and dinner service. For Antwerp's fusion scene, it represents a settled, recognisable address rather than a speculative newcomer.
Restaurant Marcel
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Restaurant Marcel in Antwerp offers classic French cuisine with contemporary presentation in a restored 1912 seamen’s church. Must-try dishes include foie gras terrine with homemade warm sweet bread, the tableside sabayon, and the dramatic steak flambé prepared at your table. The restaurant pairs refined cooking with an award-winning wine program led by Wine Director Serge Verboven and sommelier Jon Stalmans, featuring roughly 760 selections and Bar Marcel’s 30 wines by the glass. Accolades include Star Wine List’s Best Long List of the Year Belgium 2023. Expect warm, attentive service, immense chandeliers, and the theatrical pleasure of tableside preparations for an elegant, appetite-focused evening in Antwerp’s Het Eilandje.
Sir Anthony Van Dijck
Deep wine list
Sir Anthony Van Dijck occupies a historic merchant's courtyard on Oude Koornmarkt, one of Antwerp's most atmospheric medieval addresses. The restaurant has long drawn a loyal local clientele who return for cooking rooted in Belgian and Flemish tradition, served in a setting that rewards repeat visits. For those who want to understand what Antwerp's serious dining scene looks like beyond the spotlight, this is a reliable reference point.
The Butcher's son
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A Michelin-starred address on Boomgaardstraat, The Butcher's son positions French classical technique within Antwerp's increasingly confident fine-dining scene. Chef Bert Jan Michielsen and owner-wine director Luc Dickens run a tight operation: 410 wine selections, a cellar of 2,500 bottles weighted toward France, Italy, and Spain, and a prix-fixe format that earned consecutive Michelin stars in 2024 and 2025.
Vin d'Où
Deep wine list
Vin d'Où earned a White Star on Star Wine List in October 2022, placing it among Antwerp's recognised addresses for serious wine programming. Located on Terlinckstraat in the Berchem district, the restaurant operates at an intersection increasingly familiar in Belgium's dining scene: imported technique applied to the specific produce and wine traditions of this northern European corner. A reference point for those who take the glass as seriously as the plate.
Wijnbistro Goddaard
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Wijnbistro Goddaard on Grote Goddaard in Antwerp's historic city centre has earned Star Wine List recognition in both 2023 and 2026, placing it among Belgium's more consistently decorated wine destinations. The format reads as a wine-led bistro where the glass takes precedence over the plate, drawing a crowd that comes specifically to drink well in a neighbourhood already known for serious drinking culture.
Zilte
3 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Zilte holds three Michelin stars and a 93.5-point La Liste ranking, placing it among Belgium's most decorated creative restaurants. Chef Viki Geunes operates from the top floor of Antwerp's MAS museum, where the city panorama frames a menu that moves between precise vegetable cookery and technically layered seafood. The wine program has held multiple Star Wine List recognitions across three consecutive years.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Antwerp
- Which restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards?
- Six restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence: Dôme in Zurenborg, The Butcher's son in Harmonie, Restaurant Marcel in Antwerp 2000, Wijnbistro Goddaard in Historisch Centrum, Au Vieux Port in Eilandje and Danieli Il Divino in Park den Brandt. Maven in Zuid holds an Award of Excellence.
- Which lists on this page name a region or country?
- Dôme in Zurenborg weights its wine list toward Burgundy, France, and Germany. The Butcher's son in Harmonie weights a cellar of 2,500 bottles toward France, Italy, and Spain, across 410 selections. L'Enoteca in Zurenborg pours over 60 Italian wines on its list.
- Which restaurants on this list pour natural wine?
- Vin d'Où in Berchem, ArriKiiati in Schipperskwartier and Maven in Zuid pour natural wine on this list. Vin d'Où holds a Star Wine List award. ArriKiiati's list is sommelier-led. Maven's list is natural and old-world, poured with the restaurant's wood-fired meat.
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