Parnassus
Ghent, Belgium
The read// why locals go
Parnassus serves affordable contemporary lunches inside a former Franciscan church on Oude Houtlei in central Ghent. The room keeps the bones of the church while the kitchen works in a modern European register with Mediterranean leanings, changing the menu weekly: linguine carbonara one day, vol-au-vent or Moroccan pastilla the next, marinated tofu with noodles, or whatever the market fish happens to be. Vegetarians get a proper dish daily rather than an afterthought, from aubergine chermoula to roasted cauliflower, with vegan plates marked on the menu. It runs as a social employment project of Ateljee vzw, so lunch here funds work placements, and it is a local favourite for that combination of setting, price and purpose.
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Oude Houtlei 122 — Ghent
The read// why locals go
Parnassus serves affordable contemporary lunches inside a former Franciscan church on Oude Houtlei in central Ghent. The room keeps the bones of the church while the kitchen works in a modern European register with Mediterranean leanings, changing the menu weekly: linguine carbonara one day, vol-au-vent or Moroccan pastilla the next, marinated tofu with noodles, or whatever the market fish happens to be. Vegetarians get a proper dish daily rather than an afterthought, from aubergine chermoula to roasted cauliflower, with vegan plates marked on the menu. It runs as a social employment project of Ateljee vzw, so lunch here funds work placements, and it is a local favourite for that combination of setting, price and purpose.
