Guidebook for Gent

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Guidebook for Gent

Food Scene

The apartment is right on top of this great Italian restaurant. It's not the cheapest but I know with certainty that it's real Italian food. It's very cosy and the food is delicious!
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Aperto Chiuso
82 Sleepstraat
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The apartment is right on top of this great Italian restaurant. It's not the cheapest but I know with certainty that it's real Italian food. It's very cosy and the food is delicious!
Great sushi in a very common interior. Best in the neighbourhood!
Ikura Sushi
7 Oudburg
Great sushi in a very common interior. Best in the neighbourhood!
Best cakes and cookies in town! Try everything!
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Julie's House
13 Kraanlei
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Best cakes and cookies in town! Try everything!
Original Ghent concept where you can eat in on the communal tables or take out their delicious handcrafted meat- or veggieballs, served with 'stoemp' (mashed potatoes) or salad. Try their homemade ice
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Balls & Glory
35 Rue Henri Maus
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Original Ghent concept where you can eat in on the communal tables or take out their delicious handcrafted meat- or veggieballs, served with 'stoemp' (mashed potatoes) or salad. Try their homemade ice
Great place for an all natural lunch. Salad, soup, quiche, sandwiches, hot chocolate, they have it all. Sit upstairs near the window and watch the people on the busiest square of Ghent.
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EXKi Gent
14 Korenmarkt
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Great place for an all natural lunch. Salad, soup, quiche, sandwiches, hot chocolate, they have it all. Sit upstairs near the window and watch the people on the busiest square of Ghent.
Eat your breakfast or brunch here. Really authentic food with delicious bread. Try the bowl of hot chocolate!
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Le Pain Quotidien
10 Kalandeberg
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Eat your breakfast or brunch here. Really authentic food with delicious bread. Try the bowl of hot chocolate!
Comparable to Le Pain Quotidien for breakfast and brunch but they also have great lunches.
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Pain Perdu
9 Walpoortstraat
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Comparable to Le Pain Quotidien for breakfast and brunch but they also have great lunches.
Now newly owned and named Retraite, this great local bar/restaurant is worth a visit. Open in the weekends from 16 - 1h. Come here for dinner, a drink or to dance.
De Retraite
210 Sleepstraat
Now newly owned and named Retraite, this great local bar/restaurant is worth a visit. Open in the weekends from 16 - 1h. Come here for dinner, a drink or to dance.
Healthy vegetarian and vegan burgers, crunchy salads and fresh and delicious smoothies. Yum!
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Tasty World
1 Hoogpoort
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Healthy vegetarian and vegan burgers, crunchy salads and fresh and delicious smoothies. Yum!

Essentials

If you cross the street from the apartment, on your left you have an alley (De Geyterstraat), you can walk all the way through the apartments and you'll be at this grocery store in less than 2 mins!
Lidl Gent - Fratersplein
11 Fratersplein
If you cross the street from the apartment, on your left you have an alley (De Geyterstraat), you can walk all the way through the apartments and you'll be at this grocery store in less than 2 mins!

Drinks & Nightlife

Great place to go partying! 2 rooms with different musicstyles, from old school hip hop to metal. You can find it all in 'de Charla'. Have fun!
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Charlatan
6 Vlasmarkt
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Great place to go partying! 2 rooms with different musicstyles, from old school hip hop to metal. You can find it all in 'de Charla'. Have fun!
Fancy and overly delicious cocktails! Walking distance from apartment so let yourself go!
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Jigger's
16 Oudburg
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Fancy and overly delicious cocktails! Walking distance from apartment so let yourself go!
Tiny bar where they only serve jenever (genever/genièvre). Hosted by Pol, a small fat and funny man who knows everything about his more than 200 sorts of jenever. Great to start the evening with!
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't dreupelkot
12 Groentenmarkt
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Tiny bar where they only serve jenever (genever/genièvre). Hosted by Pol, a small fat and funny man who knows everything about his more than 200 sorts of jenever. Great to start the evening with!
Very central bar where you'll find more locals than tourists. Sometimes it turns into a dancebar but mostly you can hang out and drink beers till early in the morning.
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het Spijker
3 Pensmarkt
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Very central bar where you'll find more locals than tourists. Sometimes it turns into a dancebar but mostly you can hang out and drink beers till early in the morning.
Cosy and again very central bar. Great taste in music, I love to come here after I saw a movie in The Sphinx.
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Manteca
2 Cataloniëstraat
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Cosy and again very central bar. Great taste in music, I love to come here after I saw a movie in The Sphinx.
Kitsch day bar where you can enjoy oldies on vinyl. Must stop by here!
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Pink Flamingo's
55 Onderstraat
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Kitsch day bar where you can enjoy oldies on vinyl. Must stop by here!

Sightseeing

Great museum on everyday life throughout the years. Maybe not for English speakers but if you understand Dutch this small museum will be a very pleasant surprise. Take a photo in the cool photobooth!
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알레인의 집
65 Kraanlei
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Great museum on everyday life throughout the years. Maybe not for English speakers but if you understand Dutch this small museum will be a very pleasant surprise. Take a photo in the cool photobooth!
This beautiful renovated art-deco swimming pool will be great for a late night swim. Open from 7h - 22h30. €6 or €3,3 if under 25 or more than 65 years.
Badhuis van Eyck
This beautiful renovated art-deco swimming pool will be great for a late night swim. Open from 7h - 22h30. €6 or €3,3 if under 25 or more than 65 years.

Arts & Culture

Great cinema with a variety of films, from well known Hollywood films to small indie Scandinavian movies. It has small cinema halls but they are very cosy.
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Sphinx Cinema and Cafe
3 Sint-Michielshelling
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Great cinema with a variety of films, from well known Hollywood films to small indie Scandinavian movies. It has small cinema halls but they are very cosy.
Always something to do at Vooruit; parties, big and small concerts, workshops, films. The big 'lunchroom' like bar is full of locals and tourists. Great place to be!
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Vooruit
23 Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat
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Always something to do at Vooruit; parties, big and small concerts, workshops, films. The big 'lunchroom' like bar is full of locals and tourists. Great place to be!

Shopping

Shop here for lovely authentic, basic but functional kitchen- and bathroomware. Natural materials and they also sell great cookies (Breton biscuits). You'll wanna buy everything here!
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Dille and Kamille
15 Hoornstraat
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Shop here for lovely authentic, basic but functional kitchen- and bathroomware. Natural materials and they also sell great cookies (Breton biscuits). You'll wanna buy everything here!
Original Ghent lingerie store. Since I've bought my first bra here two years ago, I've not wear any other bras yet. Cool store with great personal service. All Belgian made lingerie!
La Fille d'O
21 Burgstraat
Original Ghent lingerie store. Since I've bought my first bra here two years ago, I've not wear any other bras yet. Cool store with great personal service. All Belgian made lingerie!
Lovely shop for home decoration or gifts. Look for their Animaux Speciaux products and be amazed by the glass bells full of stuffed insects and fish.
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Piet Moodshop - homestore
94 Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat
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Lovely shop for home decoration or gifts. Look for their Animaux Speciaux products and be amazed by the glass bells full of stuffed insects and fish.
If you don't know this store you will fall in love with this Dutch chain store. They sell everything, from make up to home deco to working materials and bicycle accessories to clothes and food.
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HEMA
3E Korenmarkt
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If you don't know this store you will fall in love with this Dutch chain store. They sell everything, from make up to home deco to working materials and bicycle accessories to clothes and food.
Great store unlike most other in Ghent with a big collection of affordable international labels.
Paleis
Great store unlike most other in Ghent with a big collection of affordable international labels.

Everything Else

The only crossfit place in Ghent but thanks to the nicest owner, Dimitri, it may be the best in Belgium! Join the free trail lessons on Friday at 20h and on Sundaymorning at 10h, no need to call in.
Crossfit Gent
2c Waterstraat
The only crossfit place in Ghent but thanks to the nicest owner, Dimitri, it may be the best in Belgium! Join the free trail lessons on Friday at 20h and on Sundaymorning at 10h, no need to call in.