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Belga Queen
A couple of years old but still wearing the crown around town. This big brasserie/restaurant occupies a 13th-century warehouse with a prized canal-side position. Seafood lovers, vegetarians and carnivores are all copiously catered for.
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Brooderie
This rustic tearoom serves wholesome soups as well as sweet and savoury snacks and is a firm local favourite. Beers are available and there is a chessboard for those so inclined.
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De 3 Biggetjes
Situated on 'sow street' in the tangle of lanes making up Patershol 'the three piglets' is a gastronomic gem, with incredible fusion dishes and good-value fixed-price, multichoice menus (around €16 for lunch, and around €29 for a three-course dinner, or around €39 for a four-course evening meal including champagne) in an intimate, white-tableclothed setting.
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De Foyer
Convivial brasserie on the 1st floor of the Publiekstheater, near the tourist office. Overlooking St Baafskathedraal, dine on an array of Flemish meals and snacks including wicked pancakes. The three-course lunch menu (Monday to Friday only) is great value.
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De Gekroonde Hoofden
Spare ribs (in honey, natural, and the house version, sweet and sour) are the speciality of this large, airy restaurant situated footsteps from Ghent's castle. You can fill up on them à la carte (from around €15 ) or as part of all-you-can-eat menus (around €24 .20 to around €37 .70), finished off with chocolate mousse. Staff are welcoming and genuine.
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Eethuis Avalon
Spacious, well-priced vegetarian restaurant with modest décor located close to the Gravensteen. Inside, it's a warren of little rooms, or you can dine outside on a small terrace.
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Etablissement Max
This elegant, pale-pistachio-and-gold brasserie serving refined fare is run by Yves Van Maldeghem whose entrepreneurial family started out with a grand mobile fair stall. Yves bakes waffles using his family's 120-year-old waffle irons, and also makes pancakes and sizzling apple fritters. To bake them yourself, pick up Jan Gheysens' book Belgian Waffles and other treats (2006) here, which contains Yves' family recipes.
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Faim de Toi
New and immensely popular designer restaurant/lounge bar serving contemporary versions of classic cuisine spiced for world tastes. As you'd expect from this burgeoning breed of restaurants, the tone is cool (and the seats are hard plastic).
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Frituur Filip
There's ongoing debate about who makes Ghent's best fries, but you can't go wrong at this place on Pensmarkt - they've been here as long as anyone can remember.
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Het Groot Vleeshuis
Only products from the surrounding province are sold at this medieval butchers' hall, which has been converted into a shop selling artisan products (with free counter tastings of cheeses and meats). That means you won't find Coke on the menu in the attached glassed-in restaurant overlooking the old covered market's ceilings strung with hams, but you will find local brews, apple wine and, naturally, meat galore.
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La Malcontenta
One of many restaurants in the quaint Patershol quarter. This one specialises in high-quality cuisine from Spain and the Canary Islands.
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Marco Polo
This rustic slow-food restaurant looks like it's been lifted out of Piedmont's vine-ribboned hills. Peer from the communal wooden tables in the beamed dining room to the open kitchen to watch the chefs prepare market-fresh Italian classics (chalked daily on the blackboard menu).
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Marco Polo Trattoria
Part of the Italian 'slow food' drive, combining organic produce and candlelit surroundings. Both the atmosphere and the well-priced meals are highly recommended.
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Mosquito Coast
Dine on world dishes - from tapas to kangaroo steaks to stir-fries - in mosaic-tiled velour booths on the mezzanine, or in the bamboo-shaded courtyard or roof terrace at this large, airy 'travel and adventure café'. Stop by any time for a house mojito and a browse through the guidebooks in the bar filled with licence plates, road signs, currencies, maps and globes.
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Pakhuis
Soaring iron girders, interior balconies and a vaulted glass ceiling make this former warehouse a sublime setting for a Bloody Mary and/or a meal. Pakhuis excels in seafood (sea bass with puréed artichokes and vermouth sauce, say, or grilled Scottish salmon); wide-ranging seasonal choices might include lamb stew in Barbera wine, or organic pasta with black truffles.
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Panda
For a more formal vegetarian setting, there's the excellent Panda, hidden behind an organic food shop. Step down to canalside for a cosy and peaceful location, and enjoy a good selection of well-presented, tasty dishes.
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Simon Says
Inside one of Ghent's only Art Nouveau buildings, this creative little newcomer has gold futuristic flying objects hand-drawn on its turquoise walls by celebrated contemporary Antwerp artist, Panamarenko. Great for light organic lunches and snacks and Fair Trade coffee. Simon also runs a state-of-the-art two-room B&B upstairs. Located just north of Vrijdagmarkt.
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Souplounge
The premise at this brightly-lit eatery with perspex furnishings is simple and satisfying: a choice of four soups each day accompanied by bread and butter and fresh fruit. It also has filled baguettes and salads.
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Tasty
Good variety of light meals and delicious fresh juices are available at this little funky eat-in/takeaway joint.
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Tête-à-Tête
Stars twinkle and candles shine in this refined little restaurant that manages to marry lace curtains and modern décor in a winning way. Book a table in the enclosed terrace for canal views, and enjoy typical Belgian cuisine made with aplomb.
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