Creative Lunch Club is a global community for people working in the creative industries. Whether you are a graphic designer, a photographer, a marketer, or a filmmaker, the Creative Lunch Club gives you the chance to regularly meet other creatives in your city for lunch.

Silversquare has seven coworking locations across Brussels, all designed in collaboration with local artists and designers. The Central location, in an art deco building above Brussels Central Station, is particularly good. Reliable, well-run spaces that work for both focused work and networking.

Palazzo is a 500m² creative workspace in Saint-Gilles, set in a converted garage. Alongside shared desks and private workstations it has music studios and artist studios to rent, making it a genuinely mixed creative community. Good crowd, good neighbourhood.

Factory Forty is a coworking space in Brussels' Forest district, set in a former workshop complex with a large garden, vegetable patch and pond. It primarily serves creatives — architects, designers, journalists and freelancers — in a relaxed, community-focused setup. One of the more pleasant places to work in Brussels.

Volta is a convivial pizza and drinks spot in Ixelles with a relaxed supper club atmosphere. It draws a creative crowd, the drinks list is well put together, and the energy on a Friday night is reliably good.

MOK is a specialty coffee roastery and bar in the Dansaert district, founded by two-time Belgian Cup Tasters Champion Jens Crabbé. Set in a former art gallery, the interior is beautifully minimal and the coffee is seriously good. One of the best places in Brussels to work for a few hours or just have a proper cup.

Bozar is Brussels' Centre for Fine Arts, housed in Victor Horta's landmark building. The program is multidisciplinary and reliably ambitious — exhibitions, concerts, film, architecture, talks — and the building alone is worth the visit. One of the most important cultural institutions in the country.

WIELS is a contemporary art centre in a striking 1930s former brewery in Forest, designed by avant-garde architect Adrien Blomme. In the years since it opened, it has become the go-to for serious contemporary art in Brussels, with a strong international program and one of the best café terraces in the city.

MIMA — the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art — is a contemporary art museum beside the canal in Molenbeek that focuses on street art, music culture, skate culture and the broader visual language of internet-age creativity. If you want to understand where contemporary visual culture is actually coming from, this is the place.

Xavier Hufkens is one of Brussels' most respected contemporary art galleries, with three spaces in the city. The Saint George gallery occupies four floors of a beautiful building and represents artists including Berlinde De Bruyckere, Thomas Houseago and Sterling Ruby. A serious gallery with a consistently strong program.

MAD Brussels is a fashion and design platform in the Dansaert district that supports emerging Belgian designers through residencies, events and showcases. It also hosts the Brussels Jewelry Week and the MAD Parcours. A good place to discover what's coming next in Belgian design.

CENTRALE is a contemporary art space inside a former power station at Place Sainte-Catherine. The program mixes photo art, video installations, textile work and everyday objects with a focus on social and cultural themes. A good space in a great location.

Passa Porta is Brussels' international bookshop and literary house, with a strong selection of fiction, poetry and art books alongside a regular program of readings, talks and events. A proper literary institution that also happens to be a great place to browse for an hour.

Beursschouwburg is a multidisciplinary arts centre in the heart of Brussels, in a building that blends 19th-century architecture with contemporary interventions. The programme covers theatre, performance, music, dance and visual art with a consistent focus on contemporary and experimental work. One of the more interesting cultural programmers in the city.

Design September is Brussels' month-long design festival held every September, with over 100 events across the city including exhibitions, open studios, conferences and market days. It's the best time of year to see the breadth of Belgian design talent and get into spaces that are normally closed to the public.

Brussels Design Market is one of Europe's most important vintage design markets, held twice a year at the Gare Maritime on the Tour & Taxis site. It brings together hundreds of dealers in 20th-century furniture, lighting, ceramics and objects, in one of the most impressive industrial spaces in the city.