How many places to eat gluten-free are there in Ghent?

Find It Fit lists 5 gluten-free restaurants and cafés in Ghent, within a directory of 157 places in the city (103 restaurants, 30 cafés and 24 food shops). This guide picks the 5 with the most verified information.

How do you know a place is gluten-free?

For someone with coeliac disease what matters is not «having a salad», it is cross-contact: a separate fryer and oil, clean surfaces and utensils, staff who know what it is. That is what FACE and Coeliac UK ask for. A menu scores if the place is advised or certified by a coeliac association, or appears in its public list of accredited venues, which I cross-check against Celíacs de Catalunya’s (35), if the whole place is gluten-free (35), if it names its cross-contact protocol (20), for each dish marked gluten-free one by one (3, up to 24), if it declares allergens per dish (8) and if it has gluten-free bread, pasta or beer (8). Lots of battered dishes with no mention of a separate fryer take points off. Every menu is read dish by dish with that criterion and the place gets a score from 0 to 100; in each entry you will see the score, the reason and the dishes that justify it. Never from the name: «healthy», «fit» or «light» do not count.

Do restaurants pay to be on this list?

No. No place pays to appear or for its position. The order comes from how much verified information we have on each one: analysed menu, own description, price worked out from the menu and whether the business has claimed its listing.

The guide is regenerated every day from the Find It Fit database; the month in the title shows the latest review. Places that close or change their menu drop out or move on their own.

What does each place’s score mean?

It is what its menu offers people with coeliac disease or gluten sensitivity, from 0 to 100, with the criterion above. It does not measure how tasty the food is or the service: it measures what is written on the menu. A 60 with many valid dishes and sugar-free drinks is a better starting point than a 20 with «one salad». And it is the order of this list: the first is the one with the most points today.

The 5 best gluten-free restaurants in Ghent (October 2026)

Updated on 13 October 2026 · By Àlex González Iglesias, founder of Find It Fit

Find It Fit lists 157 places in Ghent (Belgium): 103 restaurants, 30 cafés and 24 food shops. Of the restaurants and cafés, 5 are gluten-free, 3 have the menu analysed dish by dish (90 different dishes) and 2 have the price worked out from their menu. This guide picks the 5 whose menu offers the most, for people with coeliac disease or gluten sensitivity.

How we choose

Nobody pays to be listed. Not to appear and not for the order. How we decide which places get in.
What the menu says comes first. For someone with coeliac disease what matters is not «having a salad», it is cross-contact: a separate fryer and oil, clean surfaces and utensils, staff who know what it is. That is what FACE and Coeliac UK ask for. A menu scores if the place is advised or certified by a coeliac association, or appears in its public list of accredited venues, which I cross-check against Celíacs de Catalunya’s (35), if the whole place is gluten-free (35), if it names its cross-contact protocol (20), for each dish marked gluten-free one by one (3, up to 24), if it declares allergens per dish (8) and if it has gluten-free bread, pasta or beer (8). Lots of battered dishes with no mention of a separate fryer take points off. Each place gets a score from 0 to 100 and the list follows that order; under each one you will see why, and the dishes that justify it. Verified information (claimed listing, own description, price from the menu) only breaks ties. The full criterion, with its sources.
Check with the place if you have an allergy or intolerance: menus change and this guide is not medical advice.

The list at a glance

#	Place	Type	Labels	Price	Menu
1	Timelab Eatery	Restaurant	Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free, Lactose-free, Organic	€€€	✓ 7 dishes
2	Amour	Restaurant	Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free, Lactose-free	€	✓ 69 dishes
3	Le Botaniste	Restaurant	Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free	—	✓ 14 dishes
4	Epiphany's	Restaurant	Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free, Lactose-free	—	—
5	Eetoile	Restaurant	Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free, Lactose-free	—	—

One by one

1. Timelab Eatery

Restaurant · Kogelstraat, 34, Gante · €€€

Restaurant in Ghent with vegan, vegetarian, organic, gluten-free and lactose-free options. It offers Groene Curry - Bloemkool - Thaise Basilicum, Rode Curry - Portobello - Kaffir and Laab - Shiitake.