Guidebook for Gent

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Guidebook for Gent

Food Scene

nice food and drinks
27 locals recommend
Ganzerik
29 Druifstraat
27 locals recommend
nice food and drinks
verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry good but you need a big wallet
11 locals recommend
Naturell
10 Jan Breydelstraat
11 locals recommend
verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry good but you need a big wallet
he coffee and tea house of my neighbourhood serving vegetarian pasta or fresh soup. Combine this with a visit to the secondhand store next to it (Haspelstraat 37).
8 locals recommend
Trafiek vzw
37 Haspelstraat
8 locals recommend
he coffee and tea house of my neighbourhood serving vegetarian pasta or fresh soup. Combine this with a visit to the secondhand store next to it (Haspelstraat 37).
Italian mama, no words, just go. If you make the reservation, ask to sit in the front.
8 locals recommend
Shazanna
51 Steendam
8 locals recommend
Italian mama, no words, just go. If you make the reservation, ask to sit in the front.
You want to eat good, not complicated and not expensive: go to this place. The bartender is a good friend of mine. Make a reservation.
55 locals recommend
MULTATULI
40 Huidevetterskaai
55 locals recommend
You want to eat good, not complicated and not expensive: go to this place. The bartender is a good friend of mine. Make a reservation.
Art café and gallery is a nice homely meeting place with freshly made cake, soup, very nice atmosphere!
13 locals recommend
HUSET
49 Hoogstraat
13 locals recommend
Art café and gallery is a nice homely meeting place with freshly made cake, soup, very nice atmosphere!
Great Coffee since 1937!
38 locals recommend
Mokabon
35 Donkersteeg
38 locals recommend
Great Coffee since 1937!
Mooie locatie, lekker eten.
15 locals recommend
Bodo
2 Burgstraat
15 locals recommend
Mooie locatie, lekker eten.

Drinks & Nightlife

at the end of my street: aperitief, Belgian Beers, tapas, ….
17 locals recommend
café congé
22 Fonteineplein
17 locals recommend
at the end of my street: aperitief, Belgian Beers, tapas, ….
The epicentre of the Ghent nightlife scene; the place to dance the night away during the weekend; often free performances.
133 locals recommend
Charlatan
6 Vlasmarkt
133 locals recommend
The epicentre of the Ghent nightlife scene; the place to dance the night away during the weekend; often free performances.
Check there website, if you like electro party's. This is the place!
8 locals recommend
Kompass
12 Ottergemsesteenweg Zuid
8 locals recommend
Check there website, if you like electro party's. This is the place!
A real pub.
16 locals recommend
Afsnis
10 Bij Sint-Jacobs
16 locals recommend
A real pub.
Is located in an impressive one-hundred-year-old monument that houses four stages, four studios (for lectures/exhibitions/rehearsals) and a large café with connecting patio and bicycle parking lot. A great place for a drink or a lunch ànd a great history (check site https://vooruit.be/en/overvooruit)
178 locals recommend
Vooruit
23 Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat
178 locals recommend
Is located in an impressive one-hundred-year-old monument that houses four stages, four studios (for lectures/exhibitions/rehearsals) and a large café with connecting patio and bicycle parking lot. A great place for a drink or a lunch ànd a great history (check site https://vooruit.be/en/overvooruit)
Small music and theatre café run by the non-profit organisation Trefpunt, which launched the renewed Ghent Festivities in 1970. The meeting place for old hippies, do-gooders, curly heads and music lovers.
13 locals recommend
Trefpunt
5 Walter De Buckplein
13 locals recommend
Small music and theatre café run by the non-profit organisation Trefpunt, which launched the renewed Ghent Festivities in 1970. The meeting place for old hippies, do-gooders, curly heads and music lovers.
Not open in july and august. Completly crazy nice place.
De Koepuur
651 Coupure Links
Not open in july and august. Completly crazy nice place.
Nice cosy pub. They serve good wine.
40 locals recommend
Minor Swing
56 Ottogracht
40 locals recommend
Nice cosy pub. They serve good wine.
Check hun facebookpagina. Een aangename plek buiten het centrum.
21 locals recommend
Bar Bricolage
1 Chinastraat
21 locals recommend
Check hun facebookpagina. Een aangename plek buiten het centrum.

Parks & Nature

A green oase, 220 hectare nature.
125 locals recommend
Bourgoyen-Ossemeersen
32 Driepikkelstraat
125 locals recommend
A green oase, 220 hectare nature.
Green
Afsnee
Green
A little lake and a little café. Relax!
De Oude Kale
43 Vijverstraat
A little lake and a little café. Relax!

Arts & Culture

A must see, definately my favorite.
125 locals recommend
Museum of Fine Arts
1 Fernand Scribedreef
125 locals recommend
A must see, definately my favorite.
Modern art.
230 locals recommend
Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art
1 Jan Hoetplein
230 locals recommend
Modern art.
A museum in Belgium’s oldest psychiatric hospital, built in 1857: you’d be crazy not to pay it a visit. In this wonderful oasis you will find a permanent collection that illustrates the history of psychiatry and an international collection of outsider art or art brut. The temporary exhibitions are also always worth visiting.
37 locals recommend
Museum Dr. Guislain
43B Jozef Guislainstraat
37 locals recommend
A museum in Belgium’s oldest psychiatric hospital, built in 1857: you’d be crazy not to pay it a visit. In this wonderful oasis you will find a permanent collection that illustrates the history of psychiatry and an international collection of outsider art or art brut. The temporary exhibitions are also always worth visiting.

Essentials

15 locals recommend
Colruyt Ghent
197 Drongensesteenweg
15 locals recommend
19 locals recommend
Ghent Bio-Planet
134 Drongensesteenweg
19 locals recommend
33 locals recommend
ALDI
12 Brusselsesteenweg
33 locals recommend
In this street you find even on sunday all what you need: meat, vegetables, olives, mint, …en
Bevrijdingslaan
Bevrijdingslaan
In this street you find even on sunday all what you need: meat, vegetables, olives, mint, …en
Get your vegetables, fruits, nice drinks and other fair local products at 'AKKER EN AMBACHT', the grocery just around the corner (Meibloemstraat 86). Open every day except on sunday from 10h to 19h.
Akker en ambacht
86 Meibloemstraat
Get your vegetables, fruits, nice drinks and other fair local products at 'AKKER EN AMBACHT', the grocery just around the corner (Meibloemstraat 86). Open every day except on sunday from 10h to 19h.

Getting Around

Here you can take a taxi or bus 9.
62 locals recommend
Gent-Sint-Pieters station
62 locals recommend
Here you can take a taxi or bus 9.

Entertainment & Activities

You can go there for concerts, party’s, films, exhibitions, etc. - See more at: http://dokgent.be. Crazy place.
9 locals recommend
Dok-Noord
Dok-Noord
9 locals recommend
You can go there for concerts, party’s, films, exhibitions, etc. - See more at: http://dokgent.be. Crazy place.
you need to make a reservation. If you want to give yourself a treat, you should go to Aqua Azul. This sauna center is housed in a really beautiful late art nouveau house.
19 locals recommend
Sauna Aqua Azul
2 Drongenhof
19 locals recommend
you need to make a reservation. If you want to give yourself a treat, you should go to Aqua Azul. This sauna center is housed in a really beautiful late art nouveau house.
If you need to swim during your holidays.
7 locals recommend
Zwembad Rooigem
1 Peerstraat
7 locals recommend
If you need to swim during your holidays.
A sport and recreational park south-west of Ghent. If the weather is warm and sunny go have a swim and enjoy the mini sandy beach!
108 locals recommend
Blaarmeersen
108 locals recommend
A sport and recreational park south-west of Ghent. If the weather is warm and sunny go have a swim and enjoy the mini sandy beach!