Aokamo is a japanese fine-dining restaurant in Lille Centre, Lille.
Editorially verified August 3, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Must order: Agedashi dofu, silky fried tofu in hot broth.
Tip: Downstairs runs tachinomi style, standing at the counter, with plates from about 10 euros in the evening.
Address: 25 Rue Pierre Mauroy, 59800 Lille
Ginko in Lille took a Michelin star for vegetable-forward cooking with a Japanese accent, run by two young chefs on Rue de l'Hôpital Militaire.
Order: Flanders pigeon with pak choi kimchi, when it is on the card.
Tip: Reservations are taken by phone only. The wine list leans on natural bottles from women winemakers.
Le Restaurant du Cerisier holds a Michelin star on Avenue du Peuple Belge in Lille, where Guillaume Barengo runs one set menu from an open kitchen.
Order: Whatever the single set menu is running that week.
Tip: There is no a la carte here. The vegetarian version of the Amarelle menu runs at the same 105 euro price, so say so when you book.
Pureté is Gérald Guille's Michelin-starred room on Rue de la Monnaie in Lille, a narrow dining room built around tasting menus and an open pass.
Order: The five-course menu, the shortest way into this kitchen.
Tip: The 55 euro weekday lunch is the cheapest seat in a starred Lille dining room, and it runs Wednesday to Friday only.
Ginko in Lille took a Michelin star for vegetable-forward cooking with a Japanese accent, run by two young chefs on Rue de l'Hôpital Militaire.
Order: Flanders pigeon with pak choi kimchi, when it is on the card.
Tip: Reservations are taken by phone only. The wine list leans on natural bottles from women winemakers.
La Table du Clarance sits in an 18th-century Lille mansion off Rue de la Barre, serving seasonal set menus under panelled ceilings and on a garden terrace.
Order: The Eclats du Soir dinner menu.
Tip: The kitchen changed hands and the room lost its Michelin star after the 2025 guide. It now runs a looser, cheaper card.
Bloempot is Florent Ladeyn's converted carpentry workshop in Lille, cooking Flanders produce hard and plating it plainly on brutalist ceramics.
Order: Red cabbage steak with concentrated meat jus and a cherry quenelle.
Tip: The 37 euro weekday lunch is the cheap way in. Beers come from Ladeyn's own Bierbuik brewpub down the road.
Le Braque on Rue de la Monnaie in Lille is Damien Laforce's room, built on foraging, hunting and line-caught fish, with the kitchen open to a counter.
Order: Line-caught fish handled by the ikejime method.
Tip: Counter seats line the walls under the glass roof and the kitchen is open to the room. Book anyway, because it fills.
