Boutique Hotel Find: Artist Residence London
A stately five-storey Regency terrace on Cambridge Street has given London’s Pimlico (an ordinarily straitlaced neighbourhood where Winston Churchill once lived) a healthy dose of cool. Making Artist Residence London, the stylish 10-room boutique hotel, restaurant and cocktail bar, the in-the-know choice for discerning travellers. With each room eclectically decorated with its own personality and […]
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Restaurant Find: The Jane Antwerp
Previously a place of worship set inside an old military hospital, The Jane Antwerp has been transformed into an international gourmet destination of palatial proportions. Three Michelin-starred chef Sergio Herman and Nick Bril helm the kitchen ensuring The Jane consistently turns out artfully composed dishes forming part of the elaborate multi-course degustation menus. Aside from […]
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Cool Shop Find: The Game Designstore Brussels
Situated on a busy street in central Brussels is The Game Designstore, a brightly lit white showroom space tastefully adorned with a curated collection of candy colored contemporary design objects for the modern home. Local aesthetes can enjoy shopping in what feels more like the environs of a design museum than a standard home design […]
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Café Find: Mammouth Brussels
If you happen to be stuck during lunchtime somewhere near Brussels Midi station (an area better known for Starbucks cafés and Ibis business hotels than for trendy lunch spots), an oasis of healthfulness, eclectic design and natural light can be found just a few streets away. Mammouth is a lunchtime café bound to brighten your […]
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Lifestyle Store Find: Hunting And Collecting Brussels
Feeding the desire of today’s ultra-selective, globally influenced and information hungry city folk is no easy task. But for Brusselaars in this community who crave the cutting edge, Hunting and Collecting, a whitewashed 300 sq. meter retail space in the city’s downtown fashion district has been developed to cater for this exact audience. Footwear, accessories, […]
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Boutique Find: Christian Wijnants Antwerp Flagship
In Antwerp, you can’t swing a chic calfskin handbag without bumping into a painfully stylish designer flagship”“ it is, as they say Belgium’s most fashionable city. And local label Christian Wijnants has now joined the ranks with his first Antwerp flagship on Steenhouwersvest in the Sint-Andries district, burrowed between the street’s famously curated antique stores […]
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Café Find: Kolonel Koffie Antwerp
A quick Velo (bike share) ride just south of Antwerp’s city center into the ”˜Het Zuid’ neighborhood (these days is full of stylish boutiques, trendy bars and design cafes) and you should happen upon Kolonel Koffie, a beacon of chic café style that beckons Antwerp’s style-conscious café goers with its striking wood paneled exterior. The […]
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Restaurant Find: Graanmarkt 13 Restaurant Antwerp
In the basement of Antwerp’s chicest concept store, Graanmarkt 13 (a boutique, gallery space and small design hotel) is one of the city’s most lauded restaurants. As with Graanmarkt 13’s other ventures it goes without saying that the restaurant’s interior design and ambience has been undertaken with staunch consideration and detail. However, this in no […]
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Cool Shop Find: Magazyn Antwerp
1 / 1 ( 2 votes ) It does seem rather passé to walk into an interior design store and buy up every piece of furniture, tableware, linen and decorative object to fit out your new home, right? And even if you had the money to indulge in such extravagant shopping behavior, isn’t half the […]
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Food Find: Jitsk Chocolates Antwerp
It’s true that Belgium is heaving with some of the best chocolate known to man but there’s something about the finesse and consideration put into chocolate making at Jitsk Chocolates in Antwerp that makes it stand tall in a market full of over-achievers. For an idea of just how tall the chocolatier stands amongst its […]
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