EBG Rating: 7.8/10

Choice/Quality of Drinks:
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Simple Antwerp fare at this deliberately stripped back brown café. A few taps with a bottle selection of Belgian classics. Stock, if perfunctory alternatives.

Style/Décor:
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An ur-typical brown café, one room corner setup with worn wooden furniture and preserved bar area, tiled floor. Decorated with posters advertising the latest concerts.

Atmosphere/Character:
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Popular with a range of ages, there is a stolidity that attracts both old and new, central location not hurting either. A throwback venue for atmosphere, which is both dusty, social and lively depending on custom and time of day.

Amenities/Events:
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Limited outdoor seating, snacks, board games.

Value For Money:
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Fair for the centre

Description:
If you were to show someone an example of a brown café, De Kat would not be far away from the most typical of the genre. One room corner café with worn light wood fittings, a patina of age and some splendidly aged elegant features at the bar and across the floor in the shape of classic Antwerpse tiling. The custom is mixed from a core crowd of older regulars to a similarly loyal younger crowd who use it as a fashionable hangout, signs of which are evident by the film posters on the wall. You could do better in Antwerp, a little bit here and there, but you could also do miles, miles worse. One of the best pubs in the city.