Lifestyle

Michelin Guide grants Belgium 11 new stars

21 November 2016

Eleven new Belgian restaurants can boast a Michelin star in 2017. There are also two Belgian three-star restaurants in the famous culinary guide.

The best whisky in Europe is… Belgian!

04 November 2016

‘The Belgian Owl Single Malt 64 Months’ has once again been hailed as the best whisky in Europe in the new edition of the influential ‘Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible’.

‘Specornoos’ wins award at European innovation competition

21 October 2016

Belgian students have received a silver award at the European Ecotrophelia innovation competition in Paris, with their 'specornoos' product.

Sang-Hoon Degeimbre is foreign chef of 2016

19 October 2016

The Belgian chef Sang-Hoon Degeimbre has been named the foreign chef of 2016 by the renowned association Les Grandes Tables du Monde.

Winners of photo contest Focus on Belgium are revealed

03 October 2016

The photo of the setting sun in the port of Antwerp by Thierry Hudsyn and the snapshot of the train station Liège-Guillemins by Lut Moerenhout have respectively won the jury and public award of the ph

Belgian creativity and well-being

Belgium is an open society founded on tolerance. Its central position in Europe, its situation at the confluence between the Latin and Germanic worlds, its multilingualism and its pioneering political, social and religious freedoms have contributed to its cosmopolitan and friendly character.

Belgians like to enjoy life and make sure they do so! So nowhere else will you find so many regional, authentic and colourful beers, with such a contrasting range of tastes and smells. As for the Belgian chocolatiers, they offer products of unrivalled quality and flavour with a well-established world famous reputation. Waffles, spéculoos biscuits, cuberdon candies... Belgium has much to offer food lovers, not to mention its famous chips! Belgium is also the country with the most Michelin-starred restaurants per km² in the world.

Modern and trend-setting, Belgians love beauty. Fashion, furniture and room accessories, Belgian designers adore mixing genres and muddying the waters by tearing down borders! Internationally recognised, Belgian artists have long infiltrated the stores on the smartest avenues of capital cities the world over.

A country of freedoms and innovations, life is good in Belgium where we know how to welcome you so you can discover a lifestyle that's both comfortable and easy-going.

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