Restaurants in Ghent
In keeping with the city's tradition as a center of Flemish culture, many of Ghent's restaurants keep the region's culinary traditions alive and well, in dishes such as the thick, creamy waterzooï op Gentse wijze (a fish or chicken soup that borders on being a stew), and lapin à la flamande (rabbit with beer, vinegar, and currant juice), or if it's the right season, asparagus from the Mechelen area. Prices are generally well below those in Brussels.
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- Ribs
Amadeus
Sure, there are vegetarian and fish plates, but all of Ghent comes here for the all-you-can-eat spareribs dinner: a slab of cooked ribs served on a tray with a choice of sauces and a baked potato. If you're up to it, you can order another and another and another. A bottle of wine is…$Around Town - Meatballs
Balls & Glory
After an afternoon of shopping in the Veldstraat, fuel up nearby at Belgium’s famous meatball joint, which serves up hearty handmade “Glory Balls” stuffed with classic pork, chicken, or veggies. Order one with a side of stoemp (a mash of potatoes, carrots, and seasonal greens) and…$$Around Town - Belgian
Brasserie Keizershof
Convivial and trendy, this retiring yet far-from-shy place on the garish market square has an attractively informal ambience and a positive price/quality ratio. Behind its narrow, hard-to-spot 17th-century facade, even a capacity crowd of 150 diners can seem sparsely dispersed at the…$$Around Town - Flemish
Brasserie Pakhuis
In a town where the Middle Ages are big, this see-and-be-seen hangout is almost modern and certainly hip. In a vast, beautifully restored 19th-century warehouse down a narrow lane, it's replete with painted cast-iron pillars, green pipes and tubing, ceiling fans, track lighting,…$$Around Town - Belgian
De Graslei
For lovely nighttime views over gracious guild houses, choose De Graslei, the place buzzes in many languages and offers a typically Flemish menu of teeming seafood platters or waterzooi served with piles of fries.$$Around Town - International
Holy Food Market
From lunch until late into the evening, hipsters flock to the Holy Food Market, an indoor food hall set in a converted 17th-century chapel replete with stained-glass windows; its 17 stalls hawk everything from Portuguese tapas to sushi to classic moules-frites and the center bar is a…$Around Town - Seafood
Jan Breydel
High honors go to this exquisite restaurant on a quaint street near the Castle of the Counts. Its interior is a garden delight of greenery, white napery, and light woods. Proprietors Louis and Pat Hellebaut see to it that dishes issued from their kitchen are as light as the setting,…$$$Around Town
