Good news for all you thirtysomethings: your new youth club has arrived! Hart Cornelis has filled this quiet street in the center of Ghent with distressed leather stools, bright-red school chairs and walls splattered with black candle wax, creating a neighborhood bar with the kind of charm you can’t fake. On tap or by the bottle, expect beers that are almost exclusively local (Dok Brewing Company pale ale at €3.90 for a half-pint, Stroom Brouwers Dirty Boots coffee IPA at €4.60), alongside a handful of foreign wines (Le Fil Rouge, a Beaujolais from Domaine de la Roche, at €9.50 a glass; Shiro, a German skin-contact wine from Niklas Rückrich, at €40 a bottle) and a neat selection of alcohol-free options (Levuur kombucha at €5.50 for 200 ml, Olmi Ferments ginger beer at €6.50 for 330 ml). Effortless apéro snacks include olives and cheeses from Het Hinkelspel, while bigger appetites can tackle a remarkably convincing plant-based protein lasagna (€16.50) that we’d happily order again. · Mina Perlemousse