Ginko is a modern french fine-dining restaurant in Lille Centre, Lille.
Editorially verified August 3, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Must 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.
Address: 70 Rue de l'Hôpital Militaire, 59800 Lille
Rouge Barre is Steven Ramon's room on Rue de la Halle in Lille, a red and black space over two floors running creative regional cooking off a market card.
Order: Whatever the market card lists as the fish of the day.
Tip: Book ahead, because the two floors fill fast. Lunch service is easier to get into than dinner.
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.
Rouge Barre is Steven Ramon's room on Rue de la Halle in Lille, a red and black space over two floors running creative regional cooking off a market card.
Order: Whatever the market card lists as the fish of the day.
Tip: Book ahead, because the two floors fill fast. Lunch service is easier to get into than dinner.
Solange on Rue d'Isly in Lille writes a new menu every week, seasonal French cooking crossed with Asian seasoning in a small, quietly elegant room.
Order: The weekly menu, which is rewritten every seven days.
Tip: The card changes weekly, so ask what came in rather than arriving with a dish in mind.
Chez Georges is a dinner-only auberge on Rue Saint-André in Lille, terracotta-toned and cooking northern terroir with tight technique and maceration wines.
Order: The tasting menu, which is where this kitchen argues its case.
Tip: Dinner only, six nights a week. Glasses start around 8 euros and lean heavily on macerated whites.
