Avalon

This place is amazing. This is truly fine cuisine. Everything was prepared with such care, the flavours were distinguished and the portion was exactly right. I feel that this place might be the best and most efficient full-service restaurant there is in Ghent.

I visited Avalon over 50 times already and they did not disappoint once.
Friendly staff, honest and vegan food, delicious soup, cosy, childproof and best sugarfree desserts ever! This is a must taste when you are in Ghent!

Visited in October 2016.

Avalon is nowadays 99.0% vegan; as, according to the staff everything but the coffee with milk is free from animal-based ingredients (hope someday soon they'll stop serving milk).

In their menu they have plates such as a seitan stew, a lasagna or a daily plate. Price is around €18; but I think it's fair.
We had the daily plate and the seitan, and both were yummy.

Staff was friendly and attentive; and the atmosphere was nice too. Too bad it only opens for lunch.

Avalon is located behind the Castle of the Counts, so if you get a window seat, you'll get a nice castle view too. :)

All-in-all, it's a great place to go if you're in Ghent.
If they were fully vegan, they'd get 5 stars...

i had a great experience at Avalon's. it seems that it changed to be a vegan restaurant.
the place is just so cosy with an interior terrace really peaceful. The food was amazing. I had a mix of many vegan "incontournable".

I came to Avalon because happy cow marked it as vegan so I didn't double check when I ordered. Afterwards my boyfriend ordered a coffee and it came with cows milk...makes me questions whether my meal was actually vegan.

I checked the menu and it says vegetarian so I don't know why it is marked as vegan on Happy cow :(

We were lucky enough to visit when Ghent Festival was on so the restaurant was open in the evening. Nice terrace to sit out and enjoy the warm weather and lovely food. I had a seitan stew which came with loads of sides and it was all delicious. Dessert was a trifle, which want quite what I'd call a trifle in the British sense but was tasty nonetheless. Very enjoyable.

Updated from previous review on 2016-08-01

Beautiful green patio!

Prices are around €16. The stew had a nice taste : )

Avalon has been around for a while now and offers a real vegan restaurant experience - not just a few snacks, but a complete menu. The place is cosy and the staff is very friendly.
Assuredly the first place to test in Gent.

We had lunch at Avalon today. It was really delicious and the staff was nice. The price is okay, espacially because it is local organic food. In addition the restaurant looks really cozy and the people I saw seemed to be really friendly and down-to-earth. So if you visiting Gent have lunch at Avalon, you will not regret it!

I don't have to use much words to rate this restaurant: the food is really good, fresh and every bite is a tastebomb in your mouth. Prices are good.

If you want to be certain that there's a choice in menu, come early as some of the dishes may be sold out if you're late.

Had a lovely wholesome vegan lunch. Two options either lasagne or daily dish, i opted for the daily dish which consisted of chilli, polenta, roast squash, fritter & celeriac slaw all lovely and filling but not too big for pudding! I had the chocolate mousse which was also yummy. Friendly staff and nice decor.

Avalon was one of our culinary highlights of Ghent - I can't understand why it's only open at lunchtimes! It was full when we visited, so I'd recommend booking a table. Despite how busy it was, service was fast and friendly and it was a nice relaxed dining experience.

The food was really fresh, and everything was colourful and well-balanced. I had bourginon seitan, and my partner had the vegetable pie - both were delicious. We also had the desserts, which weren't quite in the same league as the mains. We also got a tiny pot of chocolate mousse with our cups of tea, which earns it the full five stars!

It’s difficult to understand why Avalon don’t want to make use of their nice premises (which would suit an evening meal), and talented chef(s) to open more hours. As it is, unless during the festival, they only open at lunchtimes, and even then only on 5 days. The service and atmosphere were great. We had a pleasant but unremarkable onion soup (slighly thin), but then an exceptionally good dagschotel (which translates as dish of the day but in Flanders and the Nethelands is really a combination of small amounts of many different items put together by the chef to work as a whole. Avalon’s was really unusual, perfectly cooked and well presented, and made us very glad that we had finally managed to find oursleves in the centre of Ghent at lunchtime. Would definitely go back.
Updated from previous review on Sunday October 05, 2014

Our party of 4 travelling from US located this place via Happy Cow.They had 4 daily specials but one was sold out (@about 1:30 PM)so we ordered 3 specials for the table and a large bowl of freshly made soup.Interesting chai latte pudding. She spoke perfect english.
Place was fairly full but waitrees spent a lot of time answering questions.We left with her reccomendation for dinner.

This is one of the best vegetarian restaurants I have been to in Belgium. Prices were reasonable for the quality of the food, and the servings were generous. They were super busy when we went, but the service was still prompt and staff were attentive. The vegan chocolate cake they had was really really good, and what's more, there were 3 vegan dessert items.

My husband and I ate here for lunch yesterday. We are both vegetarian but my husband does not eat anything that contains egg. Avalon catered for our requirements as it is vegan.

It was nice to eat somewhere where we were spoilt for choice as to what to eat! We had one platter which consists of a bit of everything. It had a pastry pie, vegetables with delicious dressing and chick peas. We also had a tofu vegetable pie which came with vegetables and salad. The food was absolutely delicious and very filling! The portios were generous.

We are from the UK and have a great rang of veggie/vegan places to eat but this was one of the nicest places we have been too. The food was tasty and service was great!

We had the chocolate brownie for pudding which was delicious! Very soft and tasty,

All in all a fabulous dining experience!

Would strongly recommend.

Very much enjoyed our meal at Avalon, and the previous reviews have done a nice job describing the place. It is a beautiful resto, ina great location. Though i dont share an earlier reviewer's notion that this is the best place in Europe - not close, really - it is a very solid option. It is very close to being vegan, and we had no trouble finding things here. The plat du jour was a little dull, though everything was well cooked. Not exciting with plain lentils and such. Better was the grilled seitan steak with roasted potatoes. Yum! Desserts sounded amazing but we were full. Would definitely come back.

I loved my lunch at Avalon, everything about this restaurant put a smile on my face- the friendly and helpful staff, the homely decor, the location next to the castle and of course the very delicious, yet real and wholesome food. My partner and I shared a table with two locals who informed us that Avalon is indeed the best vegan restaurant in Gent, and I would say that it could be one of the best vegan restaurants I've ever eaten at! What I liked about my lunch (the tofu pie/ quiche) was that it was served with a variety of sides, each with a distinct flavour that brought out the original taste and goodness of the ingredient. My partner loved his tempeh rueben, which was also served with the various sides. The deserts were also really great... I couldn't resist the walnut tart! All in all, I'd highly recommend eating at Avalon, its the type of restaurant you could fall in love with, the food was made with so much care and thoughtfulness.