Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Ghent from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Ghent
Our guide counts 3 Michelin-starred restaurants in Ghent and 4 Michelin stars in total, citywide. Vrijmoed, Oak Gent, and Publiek are those restaurants, and each serves a tasting menu.
Vrijmoed in the historical center holds two Michelin stars (2026). Chef Michaël Vrijmoed cooks creative modern fine dining around vegetables, fermentation, and a vegetarian Purs menu with exotic influences. The restaurant serves a tasting menu. The wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list. Star Wine List included Vrijmoed in 2025.
Oak Gent in the historic center holds one Michelin star (2026). It is a 24-seat restaurant. Chef Marcelo Ballardin serves inventive tasting menus that fuse local ingredients with Asian, Mediterranean, and South American influences. The wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list.
Publiek in Gent holds one Michelin star (2026). Chef Olly Ceulenaere runs an atypical bistro with an open kitchen, creative tasting menus, and a set menu in a homey loft. The cooking follows a whole-plant approach shaped with local growers. The wine program is sommelier-led, with an extensive list that includes natural wine.
Citywide, 11 restaurants in our guide carry exceptional wine programs, including Italian, natural, sake, and sommelier-led lists. Gillis in Ghent city centre holds the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in that set.
Gillis in Ghent city centre holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026, and the wine program is exceptional. The restaurant pairs in-house dry-aged steaks from around the world with an extensive Italian wine selection, served a la carte. Chef Bram Candries works in a sharing format. Star Wine List included Gillis in 2026.
Wijnbar ONA in Binnenstad has an exceptional wine program and a sommelier, and it serves small plates. The restaurant specializes in over 30 biological, biodynamic, and natural wines by the glass from small winegrowers, and the owners visit vineyards personally. Star Wine List has included Wijnbar ONA each year from 2023 through 2026.
Debra in Binnenstad has an exceptional wine program with an extensive wine list, and Star Wine List included it in 2026. The restaurant serves a la carte fine dining by Jason Blanckaert, including langoustine tartare and monkfish in a seaweed crust. Its latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026.
Karel De Stoute in Patershol has an exceptional, sommelier-led wine program with an extensive list and wine pairings. Chef Thomas De Muynck cooks modern French cuisine with subtle Asian influences. The formats are a tasting menu and a prix fixe. The latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026. We're Smart World gave the restaurant 3 Radishes in 2025.
Tasting menus in our guide sit at starred restaurants and at Plate and garden kitchens. Roots in the city center, Rizoom in Patershol, Lys d'Or in the Arts Quarter, and Jan Van den Bon in Stationsbuurt-Noord are four of those tasting menus.
Roots in the city center serves creative tasting menus and a set menu using local seasonal ingredients, including tubers, legumes, and edible weeds, plus a full vegetarian menu. The wine program has an extensive list and natural wine. The latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026. We're Smart World gave Roots 3 Radishes in 2025.
Rizoom in Patershol serves tasting menus and small plates of woodfire seafood, using Japanese techniques such as koji fermentation and umami-driven sauces, from an open kitchen. Chef Yves Kerckhoffs leads the restaurant. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list and a sake program. The latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026.
Lys d'Or in the Arts Quarter serves tasting menus and a prix fixe. Chef Ignace Wattenberge blends classic Belgian-French techniques with contemporary twists and engages with diners in the room. The wine program is sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list. The latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026.
Jan Van den Bon in Stationsbuurt-Noord serves French-Belgian fine dining as tasting menus and prix fixe. Chef-owner Jan Van den Bon emphasizes vegetables grown in the restaurant's own garden, each prepared individually for specific flavors and textures. The wine program is sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list. We're Smart World gave the restaurant 2 Radishes in 2025.
Our guide counts 3 Michelin-starred restaurants in Ghent and 4 Michelin stars in total, citywide. They are Vrijmoed in the historical center, Oak Gent in the historic center, and Publiek in Gent. All three hold their stars for 2026. Vrijmoed serves a tasting menu of creative modern fine dining. Oak Gent serves inventive tasting menus. Publiek serves creative tasting menus and a set menu from an open kitchen.
Gillis in Ghent city centre holds the Wine Spectator award in our Ghent guide: Best of Award of Excellence for 2026. The award sits with an exceptional wine program and an extensive Italian wine selection, paired with in-house dry-aged steaks and served a la carte.
Exceptional wine programs in our guide include an extensive Italian selection at Gillis in Ghent city centre, biological, biodynamic, and natural wines by the glass at Wijnbar ONA in Binnenstad, and sommelier-led extensive lists at Vrijmoed, Oak Gent, Karel De Stoute, LOF, Arbane, and Per Bacco. Wijnbar ONA pours over 30 of those wines from small winegrowers. Rizoom in Patershol adds a sake program to an extensive wine list. Per Bacco in Binnenstad also keeps a dedicated wine shop.
Tasting menus in our guide include Vrijmoed in the historical center, Oak Gent in the historic center, Publiek in Gent, Karel De Stoute and Rizoom and Nonam in Patershol, and Roots in the city center. Lys d'Or in the Arts Quarter, LOF in City Center, and Jan Van den Bon and Kruidtuin in Stationsbuurt-Noord also serve tasting menus. Several of these restaurants add a set menu, a prix fixe, or small plates beside the tasting menu.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Two-Michelin-starred Vrijmoed Gent elevates vegetable-forward cuisine to extraordinary heights, where Chef Michaël Vrijmoed's innovative fermentation techniques and seasonal Belgian ingredients create memorable tasting experiences within an intimate Art Nouveau townhouse setting.
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Oak holds one Michelin star and appears in both the Opinionated About Dining Classical and Top Restaurants in Europe rankings for 2025, placing it among Ghent's most recognised fine-dining addresses. Situated in a renovated building on Burgstraat in the city centre, the kitchen under Marcello Ballardin applies a product-focused Modern European approach with particular discipline around vegetable preparation and flavour combination.
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Holding a Michelin star in both 2024 and 2025, Publiek on Ham 39 sits within Gent's compact tier of destination restaurants where vegetable-forward cooking meets precise technique. Chef Olly Ceulenaere works directly with local growers to shape a menu built on whole-plant philosophy, placing it alongside peers like Vrijmoed and Oak Gent at the €€€ level of the city's fine-dining conversation.
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On Hoogstraat, a short walk from Ghent's medieval centre, Gillis operates at the sharper end of Belgium's contemporary meat-focused dining scene. Chef Bram Candries built his reputation around dry-aged beef and a sharing format that anchors the meal in Flemish tradition without retreating into nostalgia. A White Star from Star Wine List and a 2025 ranking in the World's 101 Best Steak Restaurants confirm its position among Belgium's most seriously regarded tables.
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Bar Bask brings Basque and Spanish contemporary cooking to a Gent canal-side address, earning a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2024 and an Opinionated About Dining Casual in Europe listing in 2025. The kitchen, run by Sam D'Huyvetter, Gilles Bogaert, and Jordin Michiels, operates Monday through Friday from 6 pm, with Saturday and Sunday service off the table. At the €€€ price point, it sits in a different tier from Gent's starred tasting-menu circuit.
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On a quiet Ghent square, Elders operates within the city's growing vegetable-forward dining scene at an accessible price point. Chef Tom Pauwelyn shapes menus around market availability, earning back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. At €€ pricing, it sits well below Ghent's upper-tier creative tables while drawing from the same regional, seasonal produce philosophy.
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Le Baan Thaï holds back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition for 2024 and 2025, placing it among the more consistent value-led restaurants in Gent's competitive dining scene.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand-recognised Spanish taberna in Ledeberg, Taberna Bask brings the small-plates tradition of the Basque Country to a neighbourhood better known for Flemish cooking. it sits in a distinct niche: serious Spanish cooking at a mid-range price point, in a city where the high-end tends toward French and Modern Flemish.
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Karel De Stoute occupies a quiet address in Ghent's medieval core, serving Modern French cuisine with a pronounced commitment to vegetables that has earned three Radishes in the We're Smart Green Guide alongside consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. Chef Thomas Demuynck's kitchen operates in the €€€ tier, placing it alongside Souvenir and Publiek in Ghent's mid-to-upper dining bracket rather than the city's top tasting-menu tier.
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DOOR73 sits on Hoogstraat as the sister address to Oak, one of Ghent's most recognised modern kitchens. Under chef Eric Ivanidis, the format shifts from Oak's fine-dining register to a sharing-plates concept built around international comfort cooking with an unusually strong vegetable programme. Two consecutive Michelin Plate recognitions confirm the kitchen's consistency at this more accessible price point.
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Nonam sits on Sluizekenkaai in Ghent's canal district, holding consecutive Michelin Plates for 2024 and 2025 with a €€€ price point that tracks its modern cuisine peers in the city. Chef Karel van Oyen's kitchen places vegetables at the centre of the plate with an ambition that points toward a fully plant-based format.
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At Vrouwebroersstraat 5 in Gent, Roots earns its Michelin Plate through a kitchen that leans on tubers, legumes, and edible weeds rather than luxury proteins. Dishes like celeriac with egg yolk and pork throat reflect training at Volta and Publiek, two addresses that shaped much of Gent's current creative cooking scene. A full vegetarian menu is available alongside the main format.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Nieuwewandeling that draws Asian technique into conversation with Belgium's vegetable-forward dining culture. Chef Yves Kerckhoffs has built a €€€€ restaurant that Ghent's plant-focused identity seems to be pulling in a particular direction, with Michelin noting the potential explicitly. Bookings at this price tier in Ghent warrant planning ahead.
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Talloor d'Or holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 and sits on Ledebergplein in the close-knit neighbourhood of Ledeberg, just south of Ghent's centre. The kitchen works in the Modern Cuisine register at a €€€ price point, placing it among Ghent's more serious mid-tier tables.
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Louis Verstrepen's sleek Ghent ristorante near Akkerhage translates Italian traditions through a Belgian lens, with an emphasis on ingredient sourcing and seasonal discipline. The compact space and limited seating suggest a chef-led format where the menu shifts with market availability.
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Boon occupies a lovingly restored former ice cream parlour on Geldmunt, where Sara Van Damme's breakfast and lunch menu centres on fresh vegetables, seasonal salads, and quiches with reliable vegan options. The setting alone, ornate tiling, original fittings, and the quiet confidence of a well-kept historic interior, makes it one of the more considered daytime stops in central Ghent.
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Ce's Arts on Filips van Marnixstraat brings a Parisian bistro sensibility to Ghent's dining scene, with Chef Cederic De Mey steering a limited menu that leans into plant-based cooking with more conviction than most. The format is deliberate and compact, the ambition clear. It occupies a niche in Ghent's increasingly varied restaurant culture, sitting closer to the neighbourhood bistro tradition than to the city's more formal dining tier.
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That credential places it firmly within the city's wine-forward dining tier, where the list is as considered as the food on the plate.
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On Burgstraat in central Ghent, Epiphany's Kitchen positions itself within Belgium's growing plant-based dining conversation, serving colourful, flavour-led vegan dishes in a city already sympathetic to that direction. The kitchen operates with a stated commitment to quality and environmental purpose, making it a reference point for visitors looking beyond conventional Flemish restaurant fare.
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A plant-forward sharing table on Ottogracht, Ferri earns 2 Radishes in the We're Smart Green Guide for cooking that treats seasonality and local sourcing as structural commitments rather than marketing positions. The menu is built around simply prepared vegetable-led dishes, and the house-made kombuchas and kefirs signal a kitchen that thinks in fermentation as much as in fire. The room reads honest and unhurried, which is precisely the point.
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Jan Van den Bon in Ghent occupies a distinct position in Belgium's serious dining tier, shaped by a family lineage in which vegetables, herbs, and aromatic seasonings are central to how food is conceived. The kitchen integrates a broad range of ingredients into cohesive, layered preparations. Situated at Floraliënlaan 22, it represents Ghent's quieter, ingredient-led fine dining tradition alongside neighbours like Boon and Ferri.
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Occupying a 1724 townhouse and its 20th-century neighbor on pedestrianized Hoogstraat, Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel Reylof Ghent places 156 rooms within walking distance of the city's medieval waterfront. Empire-style public spaces, a sustainability-forward infrastructure, and two in-house dining options position it firmly in Ghent's upper-mid boutique tier, from around $203 per night.
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A neo-Gothic former post office on Ghent's medieval Graslei waterfront, 1898 The Post converts 37 rooms across a preserved historic shell into dark, textured accommodation with a personality closer to a film set than a conventional boutique hotel. The Cobbler cocktail bar and The Kitchen for breakfast and afternoon tea round out a property that earns its address rather than just occupying it.
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A patrician 18th-century mansion on Oude Houtlei converted into one of Ghent's most architecturally coherent B&Bs, The Verhaegen occupies the kind of canal-adjacent address that puts medieval towers and Graslei within a short walk. The house retains its period bones, ornate plasterwork, painted ceilings, original joinery, while functioning as a working guest property in a city that rewards slow, room-by-room discovery.
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Ganda Rooms & Suites occupies a historic address at Houtbriel 18 in central Ghent, earning Michelin Selected status in the 2025 guide, a recognition that places it among a curated tier of Belgian boutique stays. The property sits within walking distance of the city's medieval canal quarter, making it a considered choice for travellers who want architectural character alongside proximity to Ghent's dining and cultural circuit.
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Hotel Harmony occupies a canal-side position on Kraanlei, one of Ghent's most architecturally considered streets, and carries a MICHELIN Selected designation for 2025.
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Yalo Urban Boutique Hotel Gent occupies a position on Brabantdam that places it within easy reach of Ghent's medieval canal belt and the city's concentrated stretch of independent shops and restaurants. Selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025, it operates in the smaller, design-conscious tier of Ghent accommodation, where scale is deliberately limited and the guest experience is correspondingly more personal than at the city's larger properties.
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The Ghent Marriott occupies a central position in Drabstraat, placing it within walking distance of the Graslei waterfront and the city's medieval core. As a full-service Marriott property in one of Belgium's most visited canal cities, it serves as a practical base for both leisure and business travellers who want chain-hotel reliability alongside access to Ghent's independent dining and cultural scene.
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't Dreupelkot on Groentenmarkt is Ghent's most concentrated jenever bar, a narrow, standing-room proposition that stocks several hundred varieties of the Dutch-Belgian grain spirit. It operates at the intersection of local drinking culture and serious spirits collecting, drawing regulars who treat the back shelf as a reference library rather than a drinks list.
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Crystalline Ice Rink sits at Warmoezeniersweg 20 in Ghent, bringing seasonal ice skating to one of Belgium's most architecturally layered cities. The rink operates as part of Ghent's broader winter programme, drawing locals and visitors into the city centre during the colder months. For context on the wider Ghent scene, see our full city guide.
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