Antwerp · Belgium · Kosher-friendly, in the Jewish quarter
Staying in the Antwerp Jewish quarter
Hotels and apartment lets in the streets between Central Station and the diamond bourses, inside a kehilla of some twenty thousand people with a full week of shuls, shops and schools.
No kosher kitchen — listed for where it stands, not for its food.
- This is the strongest position in Western Europe for a Shabbos away from home: several shuls to choose from, butchers and bakers within a few blocks, and a community that lives there rather than visits.
- Ask about the eruv locally. Do not assume it from anything printed here.
- Brussels is forty minutes by train and Bruges an hour, so the sightseeing works from here — the reverse does not, because Brussels has far less kosher food.
Distances measured from Shomre Hadas — the Hollandse Synagoge, Bouwmeestersstraat, not from the building itself.