Les Sales Mômes on Quai de l'Ouest in Lille keeps more than 800 board games beside a kitchen of burgers, boards and pastries, on the Deûle waterfront.
Signature: Burgers, Aperitif boards
Order: An aperitif board, ordered while you learn a new game.
Tip: Lunch service is 12:00 to 14:00 from Tuesday to Saturday, and sharing plates start again at 17:00.
Péniche Archimède is a moored barge on the Deûle by the Esplanade in Lille, serving generous bistro plates with the water on both sides of the room.
Signature: Plat du jour, Bistro plates
Order: Whatever the day's plate is, eaten on deck.
Tip: Sunday opens at 10:45, earlier than anywhere else on this list.
Mesa sits on the ninth floor of the ShAke building on Rue de la Chaude Rivière in Lille, a 360 degree terrace bar about forty metres above the city.
Signature drink: House creations, plus a wine and champagne list
Food: Bar plates
Tip: It is the highest rooftop in Lille. Book a terrace table on a clear evening or you will stand.
The Saturday market on Place Saint-Charles serves the Bois-Blancs island quarter of Lille, a small produce and flower market away from the centre.
Tip: Saturday only, and it is over by 14:00. Combine it with a walk along the Deûle.
GONG Cafétéria feeds the EuraTechnologies campus on Avenue de Bretagne in Lille, a weekday canteen of burgers and plates priced for the office crowd.
Try: Burger and fries
Tip: Weekdays only, and it shuts at 17:30 every day except Thursday, when it runs on to 20:00.
Mesa sits on the ninth floor of the ShAke building in Lille, a 360 degree rooftop terrace about forty metres above the Bois-Blancs waterfront.
Tip: It is the highest rooftop in Lille. Book a terrace table on a clear evening or you will stand.