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1 Must see within Liège

¡Toma!

One Michelin star — creative South-American-inspired cooking on the Sauvenière, one of the city's two starred tables in the 2026 guide.
Boulevard de la Sauvenière 70, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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2 Must see within Liège · Beer & breweries

Le Pot au Lait

The Carré's mythic, wildly decorated bar — #8 in The European Bar Guide's Top 100 of 2025; big beer list, often-free gigs, open till 4am.
Rue Sœurs-de-Hasque 9, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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3 Must see within Liège · French & brasserie

As Ouhès

The busiest of the Place du Marché café-restaurants (the name is Walloon for 'the birds') — generous Walloon specialities like rabbit stewed in beer and big boulets on a terrace facing the Perron.
Place du Marché 21, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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4 Must see within Liège · Belgian & Flemish

Café Lequet

One of Liège's oldest cafés and the locals' answer to 'where for boulets?' — boulet-frites in sauce lapin is the house institution; a past Diamond Boulet winner of the Gay Boulet brotherhood.
Quai sur Meuse 17, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Une Gaufrette Saperlipopette

Artisan waffle shop in the Mineurs quarter since 2010, making traditional pearl-sugar Liège waffles with good butter and eggs; also a house range of ice creams.
Rue des Mineurs 6, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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6 Must see within Liège · French & brasserie

Héliport Brasserie

One Michelin star — a 'brasserie gastronomique' set, per Michelin, in a pretty little castle some 10 km outside the centre (address Allée des Érables), all old beams and a summer terrace; creative French cooking.
Allée des Érables, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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7 Must see within Liège · French & brasserie

Le Bistrot d'en Face

Michelin Bib Gourmand bistro behind the Goffe market hall — a lyonnais-style room serving generous Liège and French bistro classics.
Rue de la Goffe 8, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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8 Must see within Liège · Beer & breweries

Brasserie C

Liège's own city microbrewery since 2012, tucked at the foot of the Montagne de Bueren — brews Curtius (the city's blonde), Black {C} and Smash {C}; tours and tasting workshops, taproom Thu–Sun.
Impasse des Ursulines 14, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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9 Must see within Liège

Grand Curtius

The early-17th-c. red-brick mansion of the arms merchant Jean Curtius on the Meuse, reopened in 2009 as one museum merging archaeology, weaponry, glass, decorative arts and Mosan religious art over 5,000 m².
Quai de Maastricht 13, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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10 Must see within Liège

Palais des Princes-Évêques

The 16th-c. palace of the Prince-Bishops who ruled Liège for eight centuries, dominating Place Saint-Lambert; today the Palais de Justice, its arcaded first courtyard is open to walk through.
Place Saint-Lambert, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Montagne de Bueren

The 374-step stairway (1881) cut straight up the hillside from Hors-Château to the Citadelle, built so soldiers could reach town without the alleys — Liège's emblem and its best free climb, with a panorama over the roofs and the Meuse.
Montagne de Bueren, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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La Boverie

The city's fine-arts museum in a 1905 Exhibition palace on the Boverie island park, with a glass extension for blockbuster shows run in partnership with the Louvre; Ingres, Monet, Picasso and the Walloon school.
Parc de la Boverie 3, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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Cathédrale Saint-Paul et son Trésor

Gothic cathedral since 1802 (after the revolutionaries razed Saint-Lambert); its Trésor holds the reliquary bust of Saint Lambert and the gold reliquary Charles the Bold gave in penance for sacking the city.
Place de la Cathédrale, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Église Saint-Jacques

Former Benedictine abbey church with a flamboyant-Gothic nave under a dazzling painted star vault, a Romanesque westwork and a Renaissance portal — Liège's most beautiful interior.
Place Saint-Jacques, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Place du Marché & le Perron

The old market square in front of the 18th-c. town hall 'La Violette', ringed by café terraces; the Perron fountain at its centre is the symbol of Liège's civic liberties since the Middle Ages.
Place du Marché, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Marché de la Batte

Every Sunday morning since 1561: Belgium's oldest and biggest street market stretches 2 km along the Meuse quays — fruit, Herve cheese, live poultry, flowers, books, and péket and gaufres to keep you going.
Quai de la Batte, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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17 Must see within Liège · French & brasserie

La Maison du Péket

The péket temple in restored 18th-c. houses off Place du Marché — dozens of flavoured jenevers by the glass, and in its Amon Nanesse restaurant Liège dishes cooked with péket; the boulets here were filmed for Darley Newman's PBS travel series.
Rue de l'Épée 2, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Tchantchès et Nanesse

Outremeuse taverne named for the city's puppet hero and his wife — terroir cooking, boulets in sauce lapin and the folklore of the 'free republic' quarter.
Rue Grande-Bêche 35, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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Le Petit Bougnat

Outremeuse institution in the heart of Roture — terrace across the square in summer, all-night French-song sing-alongs in winter; the tourist office calls it essential.
Rue Roture 17, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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Collégiale Saint-Barthélemy

Romanesque collegiate church with a twin-towered westwork, home to Renier de Huy's baptismal font (c. 1107–1118) — a lost-wax brass basin on ten oxen, a masterpiece of Mosan art.
Place Saint-Barthélemy, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Gare de Liège-Guillemins

Santiago Calatrava's white steel-and-glass vault (2009) — a station with no façade, just a 160 m canopy over the tracks; worth the detour even if you arrive by car.
Place des Guillemins 2, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Archéoforum

Under Place Saint-Lambert: the excavated foundations of the vanished Cathedral of Saint-Lambert (razed 1794), a Gallo-Roman villa and finds back to the Mesolithic — the city's birthplace, walked underground.
Place Saint-Lambert, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Coteaux de la Citadelle

86 ha of terraced hillside orchards, vineyards, stairways and alleys between Hors-Château and the Citadelle — Liège's green lung, laureate of the Council of Europe Landscape Award; walk the Terrasses des Minimes for the views.
Coteaux de la Citadelle, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Le Carré

Liège's famous pedestrian nightlife block between the Boulevard de la Sauvenière and Pont d'Avroy — some thirty bars in four little streets, packed with students and the whole city at weekends, with no fixed closing time.
Le Carré, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Merry

Gault&Millau-listed neo-gastronomic table on Rue des Carmes — bold, precise cooking that follows the seasons.

Rue des Carmes 15, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Pépin

Gault&Millau's 2026 Walloon H!P (hip & trendy) winner — concept, atmosphere and quality on the Esplanade Simone Veil.

Esplanade Simone Veil 2, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Boulets à la liégeoise 1 — Photo: Marianne Casamance · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

27 Must see within Liège · French & brasserie

Le Dernier Ragot

Two-time Diamond Boulet winner of the Confrérie du Gay Boulet (2005, 2006) — classic boulets in sauce lapin with proper frites, near the Carré.

Rue des Clarisses 12, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Côté Cour Côté Jardin

Warm, all-homemade Outremeuse brasserie whose boulets won the Confrérie du Gay Boulet's Boulet de Cristal in 2021; also good vegetarian dishes.

Boulevard de la Constitution 48, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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29 Must see within Liège · Belgian & Flemish

Magma

Michelin Bib Gourmand (2024) in Outremeuse — chef Tom Foguenne's farm-to-table cooking from local organic producers with a natural-wine list; one of two Liège Bibs announced in 2024.

Rue Porte aux Oies 43, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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30 Worth the detour within Liège · French & brasserie

Sébastian

Michelin Bib Gourmand since 2025 — farm-to-table, creative French cooking in the Carré near the cathedral.

Rue de la Cathédrale 25, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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31 Worth the detour within Liège · Beer & breweries

Les Brasseries de Liège (Légia)

The brewers of Légia — the beer named for the river that gave Liège its name — born at Brasse & Vous in Rocourt and now brewing on the Quai sur Meuse.

Quai sur Meuse 19, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Musée de la Vie wallonne

The Province's folk-life museum in the 17th-c. Friars Minor convent — a century of Walloon everyday life, crafts, dialect and the Liège puppets (with marionnette shows).

Cour des Mineurs, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Musée Tchantchès

Museum of the 'Free Republic of Outremeuse' devoted to Tchantchès, Liège's cheeky wooden-puppet hero — his costumes, the Bisscheroux marionettes and puppet shows in season.

Rue Surlet 56, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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Musée d'Ansembourg

An 18th-c. merchant-banker's mansion on Féronstrée kept as a period house museum — Liège furniture, Cordoba leather wall-hangings, tapestries and stucco ceilings of the prince-bishops' golden age.

En Féronstrée, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Maison de la Métallurgie et de l'Industrie de Liège

Industrial-heritage museum in the old Espérance-Longdoz steelworks — a working 17th-c.-style forge, blast-furnace models and the story of the coal and steel that made Liège.

Boulevard Raymond Poincaré 17, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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Collégiale Saint-Jean-l'Évangéliste

Founded c. 980 by Notger, Liège's first prince-bishop, who is buried here; an 11th-c. west tower fronts the 18th-c. rotunda church, and the cloister walls are lined with canons' tombstones — freshly restored.

Quartier de l'Île, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Théâtre de Liège en 2015 — Photo: CrucialFriend · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

37 Worth the detour within Liège

Théâtre de Liège (Émulation)

Liège's main playhouse in the neoclassical Société libre d'Émulation building (Julien Koenig, 1934–39; the 1779 society's first hall was burned in the 1914 reprisals) — classified 1998, rebuilt by Pierre Hebbelinck & Pierre de Wit and reopened Oct 2013 with a 557-seat hall, bar and the Baci restaurant.

Place du Vingt-Août 16, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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38 Worth the detour within Liège · French & brasserie

La Cuisine de Yannick

Michelin Bib Gourmand on Féronstrée, the museum street — a short seasonal set menu at a keen price.

En Féronstrée 111, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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39 Worth the detour within Liège · Beer & breweries

Brasserie de Jupille (Jupiler)

Birthplace of Jupiler, Belgium's best-selling pils — AB InBev's giant Meuse-side brewery in Jupille, visitable by reservation (breweryvisits.com).

Rue des Anciennes Houblonnières 2, 4020 Jupille (Liège), Belgium

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40 Worth the detour within Liège · French & brasserie

Enoteca

Michelin Bib Gourmand Italian enoteca on Rue de la Casquette in the centre; also a Culture Trip lunch pick.

Rue de la Casquette 5, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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41 Worth the detour within Liège · French & brasserie

Le Verre Bouteille

Wine bar on the pedestrian Rue de la Casquette, one of the tourist office's picks for an apéritif and a Culture Trip best bar of Liège.

Rue de la Casquette 13, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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42 Worth the detour within Liège · Café & brown café

Grand Maison

Fashionable brunch-and-lunch address on the Goffe quay — simple healthy plates and a big terrace looking over the Meuse.

Quai de la Goffe 37, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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43 Worth the detour within Liège · French & brasserie

Les Sabots d'Hélène

Small bistro in the Carré on both Moustique's boulets list and sommelier Eric Boschman's nine best Liège restaurants.

Rue Saint-Jean-en-Isle 18, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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44 Worth the detour within Liège · Beer & breweries

La Grand Poste

Liège's former central post office on the Meuse, reopened in Sept 2023 after four years' renovation as Liège's first food market — seven independent counters, a bar pouring beers brewed on site, coworking and the ULiège journalism campus upstairs.

Quai sur Meuse 19, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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La Cité Miroir

The 1930s Sauvenière swimming baths, an Art Deco modernist landmark, reborn as a civic culture centre with exhibitions on memory and citizenship (incl. the permanent 'Plus jamais ça!' Holocaust route).

Place Xavier Neujean 22, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Opera Royal, Liège — Photo: Pigloo24 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

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Opéra royal de Wallonie

The 1820 neoclassical Théâtre royal, Wallonia's opera house, with a modern rooftop extension; Grétry's heart is in an urn at the foot of his statue outside.

Place de l'Opéra, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Aquarium-Muséum

The University of Liège's aquarium (2,500 fish in some 50 tanks) and zoological museum in the 19th-c. Institut de Zoologie on the Meuse — a whale skeleton, dioramas and a cabinet of curiosities.

Quai Édouard Van Beneden 22, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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Collégiale Saint-Denis

One of Liège's seven collegiate churches (founded c. 987) with a fortress-like Romanesque tower; inside, a carved Brabant altarpiece of the Passion of St Denis (early 16th c.).

Place Saint-Denis, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Memorial interrallie de Cointe - 09 — Photo: Vberger · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

49 Worth the detour within Liège

Mémorial interallié de Cointe

The Interallied Memorial on the Cointe hill: a 75 m tower and a basilica raised in the 1930s by the WWI Allies to honour the 1914 defence of Liège — the lift up the tower gives the city's best panorama.

Cointe, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Basilica of Saint-Martin on Publémont, Liège — Photo: Joseph Fussell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

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Basilique Saint-Martin

10th-c. collegiate church rebuilt in Gothic style (1506–42) on the aristocratic Mont-Saint-Martin — where the feast of Corpus Christi (Fête-Dieu) was first celebrated in 1246; 16th-c. stained glass and calvary.

Mont-Saint-Martin, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Trinkhall Museum

In the heart of Parc d'Avroy, a museum of ~3,000 works of 'situated art' made in workshops by artists with mental disabilities — one of the most original collections in Belgium.

Parc d'Avroy, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Hotel de Ville de Liège, portique et façade. — Photo: Valérie VM · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

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Hôtel de Ville de Liège (La Violette)

The 1714–18 town hall known as 'La Violette', its Louis XIV façade on the Place du Marché hiding a sumptuous interior of marble, stucco and grisailles.

Place du Marché, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Parc d'Avroy

Five-hectare landscape park in the city centre with a pond, statues and remarkable trees (a Cedar of Lebanon, bald cypresses, plane-tree alleys); the Trinkhall Museum sits in it.

Avroy, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Jardin botanique de Liège

The University's former botanical garden (c. 3 ha), now a city park with some 400 trees including fifteen Belgian 'champion' specimens — sequoias, ginkgo, Japanese zelkova — and 19th-c. glasshouses.

Centre, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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En Roture (Outremeuse)

Outremeuse's narrow restaurant lane — one cooking smell after another, small cafés and terraces, the nerve centre of the quarter's nightlife a step from the Meuse.

En Roture, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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56 Worth the detour within Liège · Beer & breweries

Taverne Saint-Paul

Old-world tavern a few steps from the cathedral, ranked #76 in The European Bar Guide's Top 100 European bars — a charming room from another era.

Rue Saint-Paul 8, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Au Point de Vue

Old-school brasserie looking onto the Opéra royal; its boulets won the Confrérie du Gay Boulet's Diamond Boulet in 2008.

Place Verte 10, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Au Moriane

Michelin-selected and Gault&Millau-listed: Sébastien Lambert-Carabin's contemporary cooking of local produce in a monumentally renovated 17th-c. building on En Neuvice, near the Batte.

En Neuvice 55, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Grand Café de la Gare

Gault&Millau-listed modern brasserie facing the Guillemins station — consistently high quality across a wide menu.

Gare des Guillemins 20c, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Baci

Gault&Millau-listed restaurant inside the Théâtre de Liège — lively contemporary Mediterranean cooking that follows the seasons.

Place du Vingt Août 16, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Chez Philippe

Boulets specialist near the Sauvenière — several house sauces and generous frites, simple wines.

Rue Haute-Sauvenière 39, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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La Mairie de Saint-Pholien

Family-run Outremeuse table by Saint-Pholien serving Belgian and Liège classics, boulets included.

Rue des Écoliers 16, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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63 Worth the detour within Liège · Café & brown café

Utamu Coffee'n Pastries

Specialty coffee bar on Rue du Palais serving only East-African coffees with Belgian pastries given an African twist; named among Belgium's ten best specialty cafés in the European Coffee Trip awards.

Rue du Palais 2, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Le Cabochon

Michelin Bib Gourmand in Longdoz — a good-value, market-driven bistro menu across the river from the centre.

Boulevard Émile de Laveleye 191, 4020 Liège, Belgium

65 Worth the detour within Liège · French & brasserie

Folies Gourmandes

Gault&Millau-listed French restaurant on Rue des Clarisses near the Carré.

Rue des Clarisses 48, 4000 Liège, Belgium

66 Worth the detour within Liège

Walio

Gault&Millau-listed: chef Vincenzo Calderone goes back to his Puglian and Sicilian roots with honest, full-flavoured cooking in the reconverted Val-Benoît.

Val-Benoît, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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La Cantina

Gault&Millau-listed Italian restaurant by Saint-Denis, cooking for three decades.

Rue Saint-Denis 2, 4000 Liège, Belgium

68 Worth the detour within Liège

Les cinq étoiles

Gault&Millau-listed Chinese restaurant on the Ourthe quays at Angleur.

Quai des Ardennes 99, 4031 Angleur (Liège), Belgium

69 Worth the detour within Liège

Sauvage

Gault&Millau-listed: chef Hyun Frère's creative, refined cooking on the Route du Condroz.

Route du Condroz 151, 4031 Angleur (Liège), Belgium

70 Deep cut within Liège

Musée des Transports en commun de Wallonie

Old Vennes tram depot full of Liège trams, trolleybuses and buses from horse-drawn days on — a nostalgic stop now the city's new tram is running again.

Rue Richard Heintz 9, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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Passerelle La Belle Liégeoise

The 294 m footbridge (2016) linking Guillemins station to the Boverie park across the Meuse, named after the revolutionary feminist Théroigne de Méricourt.

Passerelle La Belle Liégeoise, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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72 Deep cut within Liège · Café & brown café

Constantin Café

Small high-ceilinged coffee bar opened 2022 on Rue des Mineurs, styled like a brutalist antique shop by Volga's co-founder; pours Wide Awake (one of Belgium's best roasters) single origins.

Rue des Mineurs 21, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Collégiale Sainte-Croix

Notger's collegiate church of 979 with a rare Romanesque west choir — currently closed for a long restoration, but the building site opens for themed guided visits.

Centre, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Musée Grétry

The Outremeuse birthplace of composer André-Modeste Grétry (1741), with his instruments, scores and period furnishings.

Outremeuse, 4020 Liège, Belgium

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Le Forum

Historic concert and comedy hall on Pont d'Avroy, one of Liège's main live-music venues.

Rue Pont d'Avroy, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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76 Deep cut within Liège · French & brasserie

Caudalie

Michelin-selected contemporary French table run by sommelier Élodie Timmermans — the wine list is the point.

Rue Saint-Jean-en-Isle 6, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Danieli

Gault&Millau-listed, accessible restaurant where the main product takes centre stage, often cooked over the barbecue. Revived by Yann Stroobant (ex-Cabale) at the 1987 Hors-Château address (Le Fooding).

Rue Hors-Château 46, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Le Concordia

Gault&Millau-listed bistro-brasserie on Rue des Guillemins, one of Moustique's 12 Liège addresses for boulets and regional dishes.

Rue des Guillemins 114, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Cabale

Gault&Millau-listed restaurant at Rue des Mineurs 6 that introduced Georgian cuisine to Liège (Moustique).

Rue des Mineurs 6, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Moment

Gault&Millau-listed wine and cocktail bar on Rue Bonne Fortune, also promoted by the city's tourist office.

Rue Bonne Fortune 17, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Caffè Internazionale

Italian café on the pedestrianised Rue de la Casquette, known for its pastrami sandwich and coffee.

Rue de la Casquette 17, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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La Cantinetta

Michelin Bib Gourmand trattoria in Grivegnée, east Liège.

Rue Haute Wez 191, 4030 Grivegnée (Liège), Belgium

83 Deep cut within Liège · French & brasserie

Riva

Michelin-selected restaurant on the Esplanade Albert Ier.

Esplanade Albert Ier 7, 4000 Liège, Belgium

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Al Piccolo Mondo

Michelin-selected Italian restaurant on Rue Grétry, across the river from the centre.

Rue Grétry 24, 4020 Liège, Belgium

Around Liège 60 places · area 2 of 2

Spa & Francorchamps · Huy · the Meuse · Herve plateau · Val-Dieu · Blegny-Mine

1 Must see within Around Liège · Beer & breweries

Abbaye du Val-Dieu

The only abbey brewery still brewing inside its abbey walls in Wallonia's Pays de Herve — Val-Dieu ales poured in the abbey tavern; Saturday guided abbey + brewery tours with beer and Herve cheese.

Val-Dieu, Aubel, Belgium

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Brasserie Grain d'Orge

Family brewery at the Three Borders in Hombourg — Joup, Brice and the Aubel triple; pub with food Wed–Sun, cheese shop, and Saturday tours.

Rue Laschet 3, 4852 Hombourg (Plombières), Belgium

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Collégiale Notre-Dame de Huy

Gothic collegiate church on the Meuse with the great rose window 'Li Rondia' and a treasury holding Mosan reliquary shrines of the 12th–13th c.

Huy, Belgium

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Pouhon Pierre-le-Grand

Victor Besme's 1880 octagonal pavilion over Spa's most famous iron-rich spring, named for Peter the Great who took the cure here in 1717 — taste the water, see the Livre d'Or painting of famous curistes.

Spa, Belgium

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5 Must see within Around Liège

Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps

The 7 km Ardennes circuit of the Belgian Grand Prix since 1921 and its legendary Eau Rouge–Raidillon climb; tours, a museum in Stavelot abbey and race weekends all season.

Route du Circuit, Francorchamps (Stavelot), Belgium

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6 Must see within Around Liège

Grottes de Remouchamps

Show cave on the Amblève at Aywaille — a walk through vast chambers ending in what the caves bill as one of the longest underground boat rides in Europe.

Remouchamps, Aywaille, Belgium

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The Château du Val-Saint-Lambert, Seraing — Photo: Velvet · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

7 Must see within Around Liège

Château du Val-Saint-Lambert (Cristal Discovery)

The former Cistercian abbey on the Meuse at Seraing where Val-Saint-Lambert has blown lead crystal since 1826 — the Cristal Discovery visit shows glassblowers at work and two centuries of pieces.

Esplanade du Val, Seraing, Belgium

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8 Must see within Around Liège

Thermes de Spa

The modern glass thermal baths on Annette-et-Lubin hill, reached by funicular from the town centre — naturally carbonated Spa waters in the town that gave every 'spa' its name, a UNESCO Great Spa Town of Europe since 2021.

Colline d'Annette et Lubin, Spa, Belgium

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Exterior of the Abbey of Stavelot — Photo: Paul Hermans · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

9 Must see within Around Liège

Abbaye de Stavelot

The former prince-abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, its 11th-c. church foundations laid open, now three museums: the Principality's history, Guillaume Apollinaire, and the Spa-Francorchamps circuit museum of F1 cars and bikes.

Abbaye de Stavelot, Stavelot, Belgium

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10 Must see within Around Liège

Fort de Loncin

The most famous of Brialmont's ring of forts: on 15 Aug 1914 a German 'Big Bertha' shell blew up its magazine and entombed 350 defenders — the crater, the crypt-necropolis and a scenographic museum relive the moment.

Fort de Loncin, Ans (Loncin), Belgium

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11 Must see within Around Liège

Préhistomuseum de Ramioul

A 30-ha prehistory park around the Ramioul cave above the Meuse — hands-on flint-knapping, fire-making, reconstructed camps and a hunting trail; plan half a day.

Rue de la Grotte 128, 4400 Flémalle, Belgium

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12 Must see within Around Liège

Grand-Place de Huy & Li Bassinia

Huy's lively main square in front of the town hall, centred on Li Bassinia, the bronze fountain whose oldest parts date from 1406 — one of the 'four wonders' of Huy with the Rondia rose window, the bridge and the castle.

Grand-Place, 4500 Huy, Belgium

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13 Must see within Around Liège

Le Roannay

One Michelin star — the province's flagship table, a family hotel-restaurant by the Spa-Francorchamps circuit; chef Mathieu Vande Velde's produce-and-terroir menus.

Rue de Spa 155, 4970 Francorchamps, Belgium

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14 Must see within Around Liège

Un Max de Goût

One Michelin star on the Ourthe quay at Comblain-au-Pont — creative, flavour-forward cooking in a small riverside house.

Quai de l'Ourthe 17, 4170 Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium

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15 Must see within Around Liège · Vegetarian & vegan

Arabelle Meirlaen

One Michelin star plus a Green Star — Arabelle Meirlaen's intensely vegetal 'intuitive cuisine' built on her potager in the Condroz; Gault&Millau prize-winner 2025.

Chemin de Bertrandfontaine 7, 4570 Marchin, Belgium

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16 Must see within Around Liège

La Chocolaterie Darcis

Jean-Philippe Darcis — 'ambassador of Belgian chocolate' and pioneer of the macaron in Belgium — runs his shop, tasting room, workshop and a walk-through chocolate museum near the centre of Verviers.

Esplanade de la Grâce 1, 4800 Verviers, Belgium

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17 Must see within Around Liège

Blegny-Mine

One of the four UNESCO 'Major Mining Sites of Wallonia' and one of only a handful of European coal mines you can still descend — ex-miners guide you 30 and 60 m down the shafts of the Trembleur colliery (closed 1980).

Blegny-Mine, Blegny, Belgium

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18 Must see within Around Liège

Fort de Huy

The Dutch-built (1818–23) citadel crowning the rock above the Meuse at Huy — a Nazi prison and Gestapo jail in WWII, now a memorial museum with sweeping river views.

Fort de Huy, Huy, Belgium

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19 Must see within Around Liège

Le Coq aux Champs

One Michelin star in a converted Condroz farmhouse at Soheit-Tinlot — refined, seasonal country cooking.

Rue du Montys 71, 4557 Soheit-Tinlot, Belgium

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20 Must see within Around Liège

Pollen

Gault&Millau-listed table of the Naxhelet estate — chef François Durand cooks from the estate's own vegetable garden.

Rue Naxhelet 1 (Domaine de Naxhelet), 4520 Wanze, Belgium

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21 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Château de Jehay

A fairytale 16th-c. moated castle with a chequerboard sandstone-and-limestone façade, owned by the Province; the interior is closed for long-term restoration but the gardens and park are open.

Jehay-Bodegnée, Amay, Belgium

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Belgium, Reinhardstein-colorcorrected — Photo: Enricopedia · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

22 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Château de Reinhardstein

A 1354 castle on a rock spur above the Warche gorge, rebuilt in 1969 as the archetypal fortress — 75-minute guided tours of armour, tapestries and furniture, plus the Reinhardstein waterfall walk.

Château de Reinhardstein, Ovifat (Waimes), Belgium

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23 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Château d'Aigremont

Early-18th-c. Liège château high above the Meuse at Les Awirs, classified exceptional heritage — guided visits of its panelled rooms, a staircase of restored trompe-l'œil paintings and French gardens.

Rue du Château d'Aigremont 1, 4400 Flémalle, Belgium

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24 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Cascade de Coo

Belgium's best-known waterfall on the Amblève near Stavelot, with a chairlift up to the Montagne de Lancre viewpoint above.

Coo, Stavelot, Belgium

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FranchimontCastleRemainsOfKeep — Photo: David Edgar · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

25 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Château de Franchimont

Ruined medieval fortress on a rock above Theux, seat of the old marquisate of Franchimont; its towers and casemates can be explored.

Theux, Belgium

Hohes Venn - panoramio (7) — Photo: TMbux · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

26 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Signal de Botrange

Belgium's highest point (694 m) on the Hautes Fagnes plateau — the gateway to the raised-bog boardwalks of the High Fens nature reserve.

Signal de Botrange, Waimes, Belgium

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27 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Musée de la Ville d'eaux (Villa Royale)

In Queen Marie-Henriette's Villa Royale: the story of Spa as Europe's 'Café of Europe' resort, with the painted-wood 'Jolités de Spa' souvenirs; the Spa horse museum is in the stables.

Villa Royale Marie-Henriette, Spa, Belgium

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Gileppe dam wall and reservoir — Photo: Prof-Declercq · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

28 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Barrage de la Gileppe

One of Europe's oldest dams (inaugurated 1878), crowned by the 13.5 m sandstone Lion of the Gileppe; free access to the crest, the panoramic tower and lakeside walks.

Barrage de la Gileppe, Jalhay, Belgium

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Malmedy JPG02 — Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons (resized)

29 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Malmundarium

The restored former monastery of Malmedy, now the town's heritage and visitor centre.

Malmedy, Belgium

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30 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Centre Touristique de la Laine et de la Mode

In a former Verviers textile mill, the story of the wool town that dressed Europe — from fleece to yarn, historic Verviers-built machines and the wool merchants' office.

Rue de la Chapelle 30, 4800 Verviers, Belgium

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31 Worth the detour within Around Liège

La Roseraie

One Michelin star since 2024 for chef Marie Trignon's table in Modave, in the Liège Condroz.

Route de Limet 80, 4577 Modave, Belgium

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32 Worth the detour within Around Liège · French & brasserie

La Chapellerie

Michelin Bib Gourmand at Petit-Rechain (Verviers) — a keen-priced seasonal menu.

Chaussée de la Seigneurie 13, 4800 Petit-Rechain (Verviers), Belgium

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33 Worth the detour within Around Liège · French & brasserie

Au Dos de la Cuillère

Michelin Bib Gourmand in Verviers, the old wool town on the Vesdre.

Rue Jules Cerexhe 10, 4800 Verviers, Belgium

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34 Worth the detour within Around Liège · French & brasserie

Le Coin des Saveurs

Michelin Bib Gourmand in Verviers.

Avenue de Spa 28, 4800 Verviers, Belgium

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35 Worth the detour within Around Liège

L'Epicurien

Gault&Millau-listed table in Herve, capital of the cheese country.

Rue des Martyrs 15, 4650 Herve, Belgium

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36 Worth the detour within Around Liège

BASTA!

Gault&Millau-listed (and Michelin Bib Gourmand) Italian with Sicilian accents and an open kitchen, in Wanze.

Chaussée de Tirlemont 118, 4520 Wanze, Belgium

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37 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Le Grand Maur

Gault&Millau-listed modern French restaurant on the Barisart road out of Spa (Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2024).

Rue de Barisart 209, 4900 Spa, Belgium

38 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Un air de famille

Gault&Millau-listed: in an elegant natural-stone building, chefs Sami Chebil and Deniz Bâg mix tradition and modernity with precise, balanced plates.

Place du Perron 36, 4910 Theux, Belgium

39 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Antoine

Gault&Millau-listed: chef Mirko Radermeker's inventive cooking of local products with international accents, in Eupen.

Stendrich 21, 4700 Eupen, Belgium

40 Worth the detour within Around Liège

L'Air de Rien

Gault&Millau-listed: a renovated farmhouse in the Ourthe valley cooking local artisans' produce over a wood fire.

Place du Vieux Tilleul 14 (Fontin), 4130 Esneux, Belgium

41 Worth the detour within Around Liège

L'Olivier des Sens

Gault&Millau-listed: Narbonne-born chef Manuel Béjar brings the French south to Tilff on the Ourthe.

Avenue Laboulle 18 (Tilff), 4130 Esneux, Belgium

42 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Le Cadre Culinaire

Gault&Millau-listed: Grégory Baruthio Muller's seasonal French cooking with a southern lilt, in Huy.

Rue des Rôtisseurs 4, 4500 Huy, Belgium

43 Worth the detour within Around Liège

Cyrano

Gault&Millau-listed intimate restaurant in the Hôtel Ravel — reservation only.

Rue de la Gare 23 (Hôtel Ravel), 4950 Waimes, Belgium

44 Worth the detour within Around Liège

La Menuiserie

Gault&Millau-listed: chef David Simons cooks local produce and garden vegetables in Waimes.

Champagne 12, 4950 Waimes, Belgium

45 Deep cut within Around Liège

Lac de Warfaaz

Spa's 19th-c. reservoir lake in the woods just north of town — pedal boats, fishing and an easy lakeside loop.

Lac de Warfaaz, Spa, Belgium

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46 Deep cut within Around Liège

Domaine provincial de Wégimont

The Province's 22-ha leisure park around the moated Wégimont castle on the Herve plateau — open-air pools, boating, minigolf and picnic lawns; a favourite family day out from Liège.

Domaine de Wégimont, Soumagne, Belgium

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47 Deep cut within Around Liège

La Maison Thaï

Michelin Bib Gourmand since 2025 — Thai cooking in the Condroz village of Ouffet.

Grand'Place 2, 4590 Ouffet, Belgium

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48 Deep cut within Around Liège

Murmure

Gault&Millau-listed creative bistronomy in Verviers.

Avenue Peltzer 41, 4800 Verviers, Belgium

49 Deep cut within Around Liège

Au Clair Obscur

Gault&Millau-listed restaurant on Place Albert Ier in Verviers.

Place Albert 1er 5, 4800 Verviers, Belgium

50 Deep cut within Around Liège

Le Chat Volant

Gault&Millau-listed restaurant on Verviers' Place du Marché.

Place du Marché 6, 4800 Verviers, Belgium

51 Deep cut within Around Liège

Utopia

Gault&Millau-listed — worldly cooking built on local products, in Seraing.

Rue Chapuis 40, 4100 Seraing, Belgium

52 Deep cut within Around Liège

Table Rase

Gault&Millau-listed family restaurant in Theux, warm welcome and accessible cooking.

Avenue René Lange 18, 4910 Theux, Belgium

53 Deep cut within Around Liège

Le Basilic

Gault&Millau-listed restaurant near the basilica of Chèvremont in Chaudfontaine.

Rue de Chèvremont 91, 4050 Chaudfontaine, Belgium

54 Deep cut within Around Liège

Hexa-Gone

Gault&Millau-listed cocktail bar-restaurant in Herstal — bold creations and tapas.

1ère Avenue 66, 4040 Herstal, Belgium

55 Deep cut within Around Liège

Couleur Rouge

Gault&Millau-listed fusion kitchen in Eupen — French classics lightened with Asian notes.

Gospertstraße 22, 4700 Eupen, Belgium

56 Deep cut within Around Liège

La Table Toquée

Gault&Millau-listed warm restaurant in Tilff.

Avenue des Ardennes 107 (Tilff), 4130 Esneux, Belgium

57 Deep cut within Around Liège

Le Coq en Pâte

Gault&Millau-listed elegant Italian restaurant on Aywaille's square.

Place Joseph Thiry 41, 4920 Aywaille, Belgium

58 Deep cut within Around Liège

La Table de Maxou

Gault&Millau-listed — an original Italian-meets-Vietnamese kitchen in Huy.

Route de Hamoir 87, 4500 Huy, Belgium

59 Deep cut within Around Liège

Au Cheval Blanc

Gault&Millau-listed countryside bistro with a mountain-chalet feel in Waimes, near the Hautes Fagnes.

Rue du Centre 20, 4950 Waimes, Belgium

Closed — kept for the record 60

Qualia — CLOSED

Gault&Millau-listed (13.5/20, Nov 2023) gastronomic table in the little Château Peltzer, Verviers — CLOSED August 2024 (Paris Match).

Avenue Peltzer 41, 4800 Verviers, Belgium

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How we choose

Named sources recommend every place; review sites never do. Each is pinned to its door and status-checked. Closed places stay, marked closed.

Must see: The places to plan a visit around, graded within each area.
Worth the detour: Strong picks, worth going out of your way for.
Deep cut: For the curious: smaller, odder, more local.

Within each area: by tier, then by named sources, never by popularity. We don’t add ratings, prices or opening hours of our own.

Follow changes — an RSS feed of every closure and status check in this guide.

About this guide

144 places in 2 areas, each recommended by at least two independent sources (40 in all) or one institution such as Michelin.

Every place was checked open and pinned between 3 Oct and 16 Oct 2026. Closed places stay, marked closed.

Photos for 39 places; the rest show a designed cover.

How we choose → Insights →

59 sights and 85 places to eat across Liège and the Meuse valley — from the 374 steps of the Montagne de Bueren, the Prince-Bishops' Palace, the Grand Curtius and La Boverie to the Sunday Batte market, Outremeuse and Calatrava's Guillemins station, out to Spa, Francorchamps, Huy, the abbey of Val-Dieu and the UNESCO coal mine at Blegny. A food canon all its own: boulets à la liégeoise in sauce lapin, the pearl-sugar gaufre de Liège, salade liégeoise, péket, sirop de Liège and Herve cheese.

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Liège 84 places · area 1 of 2

¡Toma!

Le Pot au Lait

As Ouhès

Café Lequet

Une Gaufrette Saperlipopette

Héliport Brasserie

Le Bistrot d'en Face

Brasserie C

Grand Curtius

Palais des Princes-Évêques

Montagne de Bueren

La Boverie

Cathédrale Saint-Paul et son Trésor

Église Saint-Jacques

Place du Marché & le Perron

Marché de la Batte

La Maison du Péket

Tchantchès et Nanesse

Le Petit Bougnat

Collégiale Saint-Barthélemy

Gare de Liège-Guillemins

Archéoforum

Coteaux de la Citadelle

Le Carré

Around Liège 60 places · area 2 of 2

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Web-searched in French and fact-checked