Best Tasting Menus in Ghent

ARNO ristorante

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.

Ce's Arts

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.

DAPPER.

DAPPER. occupies a distinct position in Ghent's south-side dining corridor, where the city's appetite for considered, occasion-worthy restaurants has steadily grown beyond the medieval centre. The address on Ottergemsesteenweg Zuid places it at a remove from the tourist circuit, drawing a local crowd with a specific purpose. For milestone dinners and celebrations, that deliberate distance is often exactly the point.

De Kunst

De Kunst occupies a address on Oudburg in the heart of Ghent's historic centre, placing it squarely within the city's dense concentration of serious independent restaurants. With limited publicly available data on format and menu, it rewards direct enquiry, though its Ghent postcode alone positions it among a dining scene that consistently punches above its size on the European stage.

Epiphany’s Kitchen

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.

Jan Van den Bon

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.

Karel De Stoute

Deep wine list

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.

Kruidtuin

Kruidtuin sits on Kortrijksesteenweg in Ghent, a city that has built a genuine reputation for forward-thinking vegetable-led cooking. Chef Toon Deseyne works across meat, fish, and vegan preparations, always anchored by seasonal produce from his own kitchen garden. The parsnip brûlée with white chocolate and vanilla is a dish worth timing your visit around.

LOF

Deep wine list

LOF operates inside the Ghent Pillows Hotel on Hoogstraat, holding a 2024 Michelin Plate for modern French-leaning cooking that reads clean and precise rather than grand. Asian inflections thread through a produce-led menu at a €€€ price point, positioning it as one of Gent's more considered hotel dining rooms.

Lys d'Or

On Charles de Kerchovelaan in Gent, Lys d'Or earns its Michelin Plate recognition, awarded in both 2024 and 2025, through a focused French kitchen that holds its own in a city with serious dining credentials. This €€€ address occupies a distinct position in Gent's fine-dining tier: classically grounded, consistently decorated, and worth planning around.

Nonam

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.

Oak Gent

1 Michelin star · Deep wine list

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.

Publiek

1 Michelin star

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.

Raaf

On Slachthuisstraat in Ghent's post-industrial fringe, Raaf occupies a stretch of the city where neighbourhood restaurants outperform their addresses. Positioned within a Ghent dining scene that has quietly assembled some of Belgium's most closely watched tables, Raaf draws attention from the same circuit that follows Arbane and Astro Boy. Book ahead.

Restaurant Sin

For those willing to do the groundwork, Sin represents one of Ghent's more intriguing reservations.

Rizoom

Deep wine list

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.

Roots

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.

Sakas

Sakas serves refined Japanese omakase at Lammerstraat 13 in Ghent, with a chef’s counter, an open kitchen, a sake program, and 8- or 16-course omakase menus.

Talloor d'Or

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.

The Mistress

On Baudelostraat in the heart of Ghent, The Mistress occupies a corner of the city where independent dining culture runs deep. With no awards listed and deliberately sparse public information, it sits within the tier of Ghent restaurants that trade on word-of-mouth and neighbourhood loyalty rather than formal recognition. An address worth tracking for those who follow the city's evolving restaurant scene closely.

Vrijmoed

2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list

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.