Artchives is a bar in Vauban Esquermes, Lille.
Editorially verified August 17, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Food program: Urban canteen menu
Tip: The hanging changes, so the drinks list and the walls both move. Ask what is up before you order.
Address: 74 Rue Jacquemars Giélée, 59800 Lille
The View is the top-floor hotel bar on Rue Pierre Mauroy in Lille, looking straight over the Opera and the roofs of the centre with a creative card.
Signature drink: The Aga'tea, plus a daily changing Decouverte
Food: Bar snacks
Tip: The bar runs mixology workshops for guests. Book those separately from a table.
Le Noao on Rue de Weppes in Lille pours classics and revisions, Old Fashioned through Basil Smash, with tapas and a vaulted cellar bar underneath.
Signature drink: Basil Smash, from the revisited classics
Food: Tapas
Tip: The basement room hosts themed nights and can be booked out, so check what is on downstairs.
La Planque hides down a staircase off Rue des Trois Mollettes in Lille, a vintage-dressed cellar where cocktails and half-litre beers both cost 5 euros.
Signature drink: Cocktails and 50cl beers, both at 5 euros
Food: Drinks only
Tip: There is no sign worth looking for. Find the staircase, then keep going down.
Amor Amor occupies a former private mansion on Rue Royale in Lille, a hundred-capacity cocktail room with DJs, live performers and a tapas card.
Signature drink: Cocktails, wine and champagne
Food: Tapas
Tip: It works as a bar early and a dancing room late. Come before 22:00 if you want to talk.
La Capsule on Rue des Trois Mollettes in Lille sells no mainstream lager at all, running 28 taps and a bottle list of lambics and sours instead.
Signature drink: Kriek de Ranke, from the bottle list
Food: Drinks only
Tip: The operator counts more than 300 different beers across a year, so the taps change constantly.
La Luck on Rue Princesse in Lille pours creative cocktails and natural wine, and now brews its own beer on the premises alongside a bistro card.
Signature drink: House-brewed beer
Food: Bistro plates and weekend brunch
Tip: Weekend opening starts in the morning, which makes it one of the few Vieux-Lille bars that does brunch.
