Book luxury hotels in Brussels with Small Luxury Hotels of the World for a mélange of exuberant Gothic and Baroque alongside futuristic European government buildings. You’ll encounter Hergé’s eccentric Tintin comic strips and humorous Magritte abstracts, and feast on divine champagne truffles and sugary waffles.
Luxury things to do in Brussels
King Leopold II decided to give Brussels an elegant face-lift when he commissioned the regal Parc Cinquantenaire’s endless colonnades and arches. For vintage Brussels, step into Palais Mondial’s glass pavilion for the royal Bentley collection at Autoworld classic car museum. Stay in hotels near Grand-Place’s market square where you can admire the ornate, gable-fronted Baroque guildhalls.
Luxury shopping in Brussels
As you sashay between the gentrified Renaissance arcades in opulent Galeries Saint-Hubert shopping centre, you’ll be drawn into luxury Brussels boutiques like Longchamp with its sumptuous leather tote bags. A 15th century mayor’s mansion is now an emporium of high-end lingerie boutiques, chic sportswear and couture designers like Galliano and Armani at 2be mall. Medieval merchants’ shop windows around Grand-Place are draped with displays of delicate toile-patterned Brussels lace, originally woven for queens.
Gourmet Brussels
Stylish, parquet-floored bistros serving up white wine marinated moules marinières in the high-end Uccle district. Rub shoulders with the local bruxellois jet set over fresh lobster in brasseries in Art Nouveau townhouses. Then finish the evening with tall glasses of fizzy gueuze beer and Trappist monastery ales at lounges in Ixelles’ medieval back streets. You can take your pick of gourmet Brussels’ al fresco cafés on Place du Châtelain square, where you can spoil yourself with local delicacies like stewed offal and rabbit.
Choose a luxury hotel in Brussels with Small Luxury Hotels of the World and discover leafy boulevards and grand, medieval squares in this cosmopolitan city. Mingle with highbrow eurocrats over Belgian haute cuisine in your gentleman’s club-style boutique hotel in the heart of the European Quarter.