Restaurants & pubs

Small music and theatre café run by the non-profit organisation Trefpunt, which launched the renewed Ghent Festivities in 1970.

Brown beer pub where you can enjoy a chat; owned by a beer expert.

Pub with a glorious past and a beautiful decor. The ideal place to have a chat. Known for its poetry readings, conferences, stand-up comedy,...

Café Albatros is a cosy traditional pub at Ghent’s Vrijdagmarkt square. It is well known for its hand crafted beer, aperitifs, cocktails and...

Brown beer pub with a 15th-century basement where you can enjoy a quiet, intimate chat. In this local pub you cannot just go for a regular beer....

Beer café and eatery where you can have a pint after watching a film. Impressive interior and beer tap
with a large round bar under an old...

You can visit the classical Irish pub in Ghent reminiscent of the establishments you find in every major European city. The menu features savoury...

Legendary intercultural jazz café in Ghent, which has been an established value in the city for over 30 years and claims to have been a pub since...

“Brown café” in an old, beautiful medieval interior decorated with cartwheels.

What is now the smallest café in Ghent, used to be the tripe house, where less well-off people could purchase entrails.

The alternative Studio Skoop Cinema and bar form one unit. True film lovers will immediately feel at home here. The quiet café with excellent...

This cheerful pub is an homage to Ghent theatre actor and director Romain Deconinck, whose theatre company used the adjacent Minard theatre as...

“Brown pub”, very popular among beer lovers and tourists; take a seat at the bar!

This unconventional hairdressers with a difference includes both a traditional barber and a café.

The oldest café in Ghent with a beautiful brown interior and some of that typical Ghent arrogance, known for pouring the best draught beers in...

Student-like (cheap and plentiful) snack and chat café.