Potjevleesch is a signature dish of France; we have verified places to eat it in Lille. Four white meats set cold in a lightly vinegared jelly and eaten straight from the pot with hot frites, which melt the jelly into a sauce as you go. Start with where to eat Potjevleesch in Lille.
Potjevleesch · Lille
Four white meats set cold in a lightly vinegared jelly and eaten straight from the pot with hot frites, which melt the jelly into a sauce as you go.
The name is Flemish for little pot of meats, and the dish is recorded in Taillevent's Viandier of 1486 as already popular around Dunkerque. Westhoek farmers made it in winter, preserving good cuts with wine, vinegar and spice rather than salt or smoke, and ate it cold in the fields at harvest. Purists use rabbit, chicken and pork; a fourth camp adds veal. It reaches Lille from the coast and is now a fixture of every estaminet card on Rue de Gand.
Where to eat in Lille:
- Estaminet Au Soyeux
- La Petite Table
- L'Estaminet du Welsh
- Au Georges V
- Le Porthos
Where to eat Potjevleesch in Lille: the editor picks