Cramique is a signature dish of France; we have verified places to eat it in Lille. A Belgian enriched brioche loaf studded with raisins, sliced thick and eaten with butter at breakfast or with an afternoon coffee. Start with where to eat Cramique in Lille.
Cramique · Lille
A Belgian enriched brioche loaf studded with raisins, sliced thick and eaten with butter at breakfast or with an afternoon coffee. Sugar-pearl versions exist too.
The word goes back to 1257, when cremmiche was used at an abbey in Nivelles as a measure for flour or bread. Cramique itself appears in Brussels in 1831. It is Belgian by origin and standard across the Nord and Luxembourg, sold by every serious bakery in Lille and eaten at breakfast or as a four o'clock snack. Toasted, it also turns up beside foie gras. Lille bakeries make it both plain with raisins and in a sugar-pearl version called cramique au sucre.
Where to eat in Lille:
- Aux Merveilleux de Fred (Gare Lille Flandres)
- Boulangerie Brier
- Banana Drama
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