The fastest, cheapest, frequently best food on Lille's streets.
Vendors, food trucks and stalls: the cheapest, fastest, frequently best food in Lille.
Friterie Meunier works the square outside Lille Flandres station, the regional frites chain serving croquettes, burgers and fish and chips to order.
Try: Frites with fricadelle
Tip: It runs straight through to 22:30 every day, which makes it the reliable pre-train plate.
Friterie des Lilas on Rue Saint-Gabriel in Lille cuts and fries its potatoes on the premises, with fricadelle, sandwiches chauds and burgers alongside.
Try: Frites cut and fried on site
Tip: Nothing here is frozen or vacuum-packed. Sunday is dinner service only.
La Friterie du Splendid on Place du Mont de Terre in Lille is a neighbourhood baraque, frites cooked properly and served with sauces made in house.
Try: Frites with house sauces
Tip: Weekends are evening service only, and the queue builds fast after 19:00.
Bierbuik's ground-floor counter on Rue Royale in Lille does Flemish street food over wood fire, and the frites in maroilles sauce is the house classic.
Try: Frites sauce maroilles
Tip: Eat downstairs at the brewpub counter rather than booking the estaminet upstairs.
La Broche on Rue de Gand in Lille marinates its chicken for a full day and confits it on the spit for three hours before it ever reaches the bread.
Try: Kebab from the spit
Tip: The kitchen runs to 00:30 on Thursday and Friday, which is late for Rue de Gand.
Nomás on Rue Nationale in Lille runs Mexican street food seven days a week, tacos and burritos built to order across two services every day.
Try: Tacos and burritos
Tip: Open every day of the week, which is unusual for a small kitchen in Lille.
UNIK Kebab on Rue de Thumesnil in Lille Moulins runs to midnight every night, with a complete kebab menu at 8.90 euros that feeds the whole quarter.
Try: Menu kebab complet, €8.90
Tip: Midnight closing seven nights a week makes this the Moulins answer to a late finish.
The Vieux-Lille branch of UNIK Kebab on Rue Royale serves until midnight every night, a few doors from the busiest bar strip in the quarter.
Try: Kebab
Tip: It sits on the same street as the brewpub, which is exactly why it stays open until midnight.
Salon UBU on Rue Pierre Mauroy in Lille makes onigiri and onigirazu to order, a lunchtime-only counter that most visitors walk straight past.
Try: Onigiri and onigirazu
Tip: Saturday is the only day it stays open into the afternoon.
Smokey Banh Mi on Avenue du Peuple Belge in Lille smokes its own meat and buys its bread from the Degruson bakery up the road in Vieux-Lille.
Try: Banh mi au porc, €11.50
Tip: Everything is made in house except the bread, which comes from a named Lille bakery.
Arancini Lovers on Rue Saint-André in Lille fries Sicilian rice balls to order, with a different filling promoted every month alongside the regulars.
Try: Arancini
Tip: Ask what the monthly special is. Cacio e pepe has been one of them.
Les Fishtons on Rue des Bouchers in Lille fries Boulonnais fish for a small room of fish and chips, plus a crispy fish burger with Flemish compote.
Try: Fish and chips
Tip: The fish comes off the Boulogne boats, which is the whole point of eating it this far north.
Kitchen Market fills a floor of the Tanneurs centre in Lille with sixteen stalls, Greek souvlaki, ramen, Neapolitan pizza and northern frites side by side.
Try: Sixteen stalls, from souvlaki to ramen
Tip: Individual stalls shut an hour before the hall does, so order by 22:00.