Coup de Main on Rue Saint-André in Lille is a small kitchen and wine shop in one, a short card of small-producer cooking with a sommelier on the floor.
Signature: Sharing starters, Vendanges tasting menu
Order: The six-course Vendanges menu at dinner.
Tip: Lunch menus run 22 and 25 euros, dinner 70 euros. The wine shop keeps longer hours than the restaurant.
Le 49R occupies a restored 17th-century mansion on Rue Royale in Lille, Antoine Coutier's tasting menu upstairs and a dining bar for a glass downstairs.
Signature: Single seasonal tasting menu
Order: The single menu, which is the only option in the evening.
Tip: The evening runs one menu only. The dining bar takes walk-ins for a glass and a snack.
La Brasserie du Cerisier is the ground-floor room under the starred kitchen on Avenue du Peuple Belge in Lille, a weekly market card and a cocktail list.
Signature: Weekly market menu, Signature cocktails
Order: The market menu, rewritten every week.
Tip: It shares an address and a phone line with the starred dining room upstairs, so specify which one you want.
De Rode Koe on Rue des Trois-Mollettes in Lille cooks a fresh-produce card that leans vegetarian and vegan, with fish, meat and house burgers alongside.
Signature: Ravioles, House burgers
Order: The ravioles, from the vegetarian half of the card.
Tip: Plates land around 15 euros. Saturday runs non-stop from 11:30, which is unusual in Vieux-Lille.
The Vieux-Lille branch of Le Broc sits on Place Louise de Bettignies, the same cheese-led card of fondue, raclette and tartiflette in a wood-lined room.
Signature: Fondue, Tartiflette
Order: Fondue, if there are at least two of you.
Tip: Both Lille branches keep the same hours and the same card, so pick on location alone.
Bacio Divino on Rue Saint-André in Lille cooks a dinner card of Italian classics six nights a week, and turns the room over to brunch every Sunday.
Signature: Lasagne, Antipasti
Order: Traditional lasagne, from the standing card.
Tip: Dinner runs Monday to Saturday. Sunday belongs entirely to the all-you-can-eat brunch.
Le Barbier qui Fume on Rue de la Monnaie in Lille smokes its own meat, onglet and Quebec-style brisket, and runs a weekday lunch formula at 18.50 euros.
Signature: Beef onglet with shallots, Quebec-style brisket
Order: Beef onglet with shallots, from the smoker.
Tip: Weekend service runs non-stop from 10:00, which is unusual for a smokehouse.
Le Porthos on Rue de la Monnaie in Lille is a brick-walled estaminet cooking the regional card: carbonade, potjevleesch and welsh, served all day at weekends.
Signature: Carbonade flamande, Potjevleesch
Order: Carbonade flamande, with the house frites.
Tip: The kitchen runs 12:00 to 14:00 and 19:00 to 22:00 on weekdays, then straight through from 12:00 to 22:30 on Saturday and to 22:00 on Sunday.
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.
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.
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.
Le Lion Bossu occupies a 1681 brick house off Place du Lion d'Or in Lille, where Laurence Coué cooks classical French menus under exposed beams.
Order: The Grand Gousier menu, the 70 euro long form of the kitchen.
Tip: The 50 euro menu is the sensible order. The Grand Gousier at 70 euros is the longer version of the same classical kitchen.
Au Vieux de la Vieille spills onto the cobbles of Rue des Vieux Murs in Lille, the terrace estaminet locals send visitors to for carbonade and welsh.
Signature: Gratin de la Vieille, Carbonade flamande
Order: Gratin de la Vieille, a pancake baked with endive, ham and maroilles.
Tip: The courtyard terrace fills first on a warm evening. Plat du jour runs at 9.90 or 14.90 euros.
Chez la Vieille on Rue de Gand in Lille is the maroilles house of the strip, a cluttered estaminet where the cheese turns up in almost every course.
Signature: Croquettes au maroilles, Poulet au maroilles
Order: Maroilles croquettes first, then the chicken in maroilles sauce.
Tip: Same family runs four estaminets in Lille. This is the one to pick if maroilles is the point of the meal.
L'Estaminet du Welsh on Rue de Gand in Lille builds its whole card around welsh, a dozen versions of cheddar melted in beer over bread and frites.
Signature: Welsh au maroilles, Potjevleesch
Order: The welsh au maroilles, if you want the northern version rather than the cheddar one.
Tip: Closed Wednesday and Thursday at lunch. A vegetarian welsh is on the card.
La Petite Table has run on Rue de la Monnaie in Lille since 2003, a small estaminet doing carbonade, welsh and potjevleesch properly by hand.
Signature: Carbonade flamande, Potjevleesch
Order: Potjevleesch with the house frites.
Tip: Finish with the spéculoos mousse rather than the café gourmand.
Les Compagnons de la Grappe hides down a corridor off Rue Lepelletier in Lille, a courtyard terrace serving welsh, carbonade and grilled meat non-stop.
Signature: Welsh, Onglet frites
Order: Onglet frites, cooked over the grill.
Tip: The kitchen runs straight through the afternoon, which makes this the answer to a 16:00 arrival.
La Ch'tite Brigitte on Rue des Bouchers in Lille is Clément Richevaux's estaminet, built on the northern dishes his grandmother Brigitte cooked.
Signature: Croque-monsieur au maroilles, Rollmops
Order: The maroilles croque-monsieur, or the mixed northern platter.
Tip: The room takes bookings only, and it spreads across two shopfronts on Rue des Bouchers.
Bierbuik is Florent Ladeyn's brewpub on Rue Royale in Lille, wood-fired Flemish street food downstairs and the Bloemeke estaminet menu upstairs.
Signature: Frites sauce maroilles, Flamiche
Order: Frites with maroilles sauce, from the ground-floor brewpub counter.
Tip: The upstairs Bloemeke runs a three-course estaminet menu at 30 euros. Beers use Mont des Cats hops.
Chez Raoul on Rue de Gand in Lille is named for the singer Raoul de Godewarsvelde, an estaminet of chicken in maroilles, fricadelle and charcuterie boards.
Signature: Gratin de chicons, Welsh au maroilles
Order: Gratin de chicons, endives baked in ham and béchamel.
Tip: Closed Monday and Wednesday lunch. Saturday runs a long afternoon service then reopens late.
Au Soyeux on Rue de Gand in Lille runs 44 covers of ch'ti cooking, potjevleesch and carbonade with maroilles croquettes and roasted bone marrow.
Signature: Potjevleesch, Croquettes au maroilles
Order: Potjevleesch, the jellied terrine of four white meats.
Tip: Only 24 seats indoors plus a 20-seat terrace, so book for a weekend evening.
Chez Ronny on Rue de Gand in Lille is a 1970s-dressed estaminet named for the northern artist Ronny Coutteure, cooking northern French and Belgian plates.
Signature: Welsh, Boulets à la liégeoise
Order: Boulets à la liégeoise, the Belgian meatballs in sirop de Liège.
Tip: Sunday is lunch only, and it runs on bookings. It is the newest estaminet on this stretch of Vieux-Lille.
L'Estaminet Lillois on Rue de la Barre in Lille pours around twenty regional beers and cooks carbonade, potjevleesch and chicken in maroilles.
Signature: Poulet maroilles, Welsh pain d'épices
Order: The welsh made with pain d'épices instead of plain bread.
Tip: Closed Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday is dinner only and Sunday is lunch only.
L'Arrière Pays on Rue Basse in Lille builds open-faced sourdough tartines and regional plates, with a lunch formula that still lands under 14 euros.
Signature: Tartine en boîte, Regional cheese boards
Order: The tartine en boîte, cured ham under melted camembert with walnuts and raisins.
Tip: Two tartines run 10.90 euros and three run 12.90, which is about the cheapest sit-down lunch on this stretch of Vieux-Lille.
La Piazzetta opened on Rue de la Barre in Lille as a fresh-pasta counter and Italian grocery, run by a chef who came from Big Mamma's La Bellezza.
Signature: Fresh lasagne, Ravioli
Order: Whatever ravioli is rolled that morning.
Tip: Lunch only, five days a week. There are very few seats, so come early or take the pasta away.
Estaminet La Vieille France on Rue de Gand in Lille seats 65 and cooks the northern canon, carbonade, blanquette de veau, potjevleesch and pot au feu.
Signature: Carbonade flamande, Poulet au maroilles
Order: Carbonade flamande, cooked long in brown beer.
Tip: Closed Tuesday and Wednesday at lunch. Sixty-five covers fill up, so a weekend evening needs booking.
Paddo Café on Rue du Cirque in Lille brought Antipodean brunch north, ricotta pancakes and avocado toast alongside properly pulled specialty coffee.
Signature drink: Flat white
Tip: No reservations at all, and the kitchen stops an hour before the room does.
Tamper! sits on the pedestrian cobbles of Rue des Vieux Murs in Lille, an espresso bar working filter, siphon and piston alongside salads and quiches.
Signature drink: Filter coffee, siphon or pour-over
Tip: Beans are graded to a minimum of 85 points, so ask which single origin is on filter today.
Elizabeth's on Rue Basse in Lille has run as an English tea room since 2011, scones with orange marmalade, cupcakes and a Sunday brunch service.
Signature drink: Pot of tea, poured properly
Tip: Sunday brunch runs 11:00 to 13:45 and books out, so reserve a table rather than walking up.
Oxalis et Bergamote on Rue d'Angleterre in Lille is a pastry counter and tea room, hazelnut granola and cinnamon rolls with a chicory latte to match.
Signature drink: Chicory latte
Tip: Sunday hours are short, 10:30 to 12:30 only, and the counter empties fast.
Maison Scarlett on Place des Patiniers in Lille is a pastry counter and tea room of tartelettes, pavlova, madeleines and cannelés, with savoury plates too.
Signature drink: Flavoured latte
Tip: Quiches and burgers run alongside the pastry, which makes this a workable light lunch stop.
Aux Merveilleux de Fred started on Rue de la Monnaie in Lille, and this counter still sells the meringue and cream pastry that gave the brand its name.
Tip: Buy the small size and eat it standing. The cream collapses within the hour.
Worth the queue: The merveilleux
L'Ogre de Carrouselberg on Rue des Vieux Murs in Lille builds the prettiest pastry in the city, from the Fraisier de Phalempin to trays of P'tits Pouchins.
Tip: The shop closes annually from 12 to 23 August, so do not plan a mid-August visit around it.
Worth the queue: Le Fraisier de Phalempin
Vianney Degruson bakes sourdough and organic breads on Rue Saint-André in Lille, with viennoiserie laminated in AOP butter and a counter of galettes.
Tip: Their bread supplies other Lille kitchens, including the banh mi counter on Avenue du Peuple Belge.
Worth the queue: Pain d'épices
Boulangerie Brier on Rue Esquermoise in Lille bakes the regional canon, cramique au sucre, palet de dame and a vanilla-filled gaufre of its own.
Tip: This is the cheaper place to try a gaufre fourrée before you queue at the famous one up the street.
Worth the queue: Gaufre fourrée à la vanille
Maison Miettes on Rue Lepelletier in Lille is a small pastry counter in the middle of Vieux-Lille, open six days a week from mid-morning to early evening.
Tip: It opens at 10:30, later than the bread bakeries, so it is an afternoon stop rather than a breakfast one.
Worth the queue: Seasonal tartelettes
Boulangerie Mosin on Rue Colbert in Lille is a weekday-only bakery of tradition baguettes, croissants and apple turnovers, with cakes made to order.
Tip: Weekdays only. This is a workers' bakery, not a weekend destination.
Worth the queue: Chausson aux pommes
Oxalis et Bergamote on Rue d'Angleterre in Lille bakes cinnamon rolls, financiers, brioches and flan, and pours a chicory latte to go with them.
Tip: Sunday is a two-hour window only, 10:30 to 12:30. Everything else is afternoons.
Worth the queue: Cinnamon roll
Maison Scarlett on Place des Patiniers in Lille runs a pastry counter of tartelettes, pavlova, madeleines and cannelés, with savoury plates at lunch.
Tip: The savoury side, quiches and sandwiches, makes this a workable lunch as well as a cake stop.
Worth the queue: Cannelés
Méert has traded on Rue Esquermoise in Lille since 1761, and its flat waffle filled with Madagascar vanilla sugar is still the counter's signature.
Tip: The waffle is meant to be eaten at room temperature, not hot. The tea room at the same address opens at 12:00 Tuesday to Friday and at 10:00 on Saturday and Sunday.
Worth the queue: The Méert waffle
Le JaJa on Rue Saint-André in Lille pours from a visible cellar, wines by the glass with generous boards of charcuterie, cheese and seafood.
Signature pour: Whatever the sommelier is pouring blind
Wine focus: Glass-pour list with a visible cellar
Food: Composed sharing boards
Tip: The in-house sommelier runs blind tastings. Ask when the next one is rather than guessing.
Au Gré du Vin on Rue au Péterinck in Lille is a red-brick cellar with a paved terrace, biodynamic bottles drunk among the racks with small plates.
Signature pour: A biodynamic white from the shelf behind you
Wine focus: Biodynamic and organic growers
Food: Gravlax, truffle and tapenade plates
Tip: It shuts by 19:30, so this is an aperitif rather than a late-night room.
Les Frères Pinard on Rue des Vieux Murs in Lille is a wine bar and grocery in one, where you compose your own board from the shelves before you sit.
Signature pour: A bottle chosen from the vaulted cellar downstairs
Wine focus: Regional French list across two floors
Food: Build-your-own cheese and charcuterie boards
Tip: The vaulted cellar downstairs is the quieter room. Ask for it when you arrive.
La Cave à Manger de Jacques Dumas on Rue des Bouchers in Lille sells growers' bottles to drink in or take away, with charcuterie boards alongside.
Signature pour: A grower's bottle taken from the shelf
Wine focus: Independent vignerons
Food: Mixed charcuterie boards
Tip: Evenings only, five nights a week. Bottles cost the same to drink in as to carry out.
Joker on Place Louise de Bettignies in Lille rewrites its cocktail list every week around house-made juices, syrups, purees and its own infusions.
Signature drink: The Mayagarita, built on Tequila Patron Silver
Food: Drinks only
Tip: The card changes weekly, so ask what came in rather than ordering from memory.
Little Havana on Place Maurice Schumann in Lille is the city's mojito room, a Cuban-themed bar running the drink through a long list of fruit variations.
Signature drink: Mojito, in white peach or basil and strawberry
Food: Charcuterie platters
Tip: It traded as Le Draque before this. Order a flavoured mojito rather than the classic.
Bartown on Rue Saint-Sébastien in Lille serves gourmet tapas boards beside house cocktails named for city landmarks, Eglise Caipi and Tour Mojito among them.
Signature drink: House cocktails named for Lille landmarks
Food: Tapas boards
Tip: The room is small and fills after 21:00 at weekends. Go early for a seat at the bar.
Le Quai des Bananes on Rue Royale in Lille is jungle-dressed and loud, pouring large-format tropical drinks with its own kitchen counter attached.
Signature drink: Large-format tropical cocktails
Food: Banana Kitchen, the in-house food counter
Tip: The alcohol-free list runs past forty mocktails, which is rare at this scale in Lille.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brasserie Célestin brews on Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Vieux-Lille and runs guided visits with tastings, with a beer shop on Rue Esquermoise.
Tip: The 14:00 Saturday visit runs in English. Book it rather than turning up.
Bierbuik on Rue Royale in Lille brews on the ground floor under Florent Ladeyn's estaminet, rotating short-run beers made with Mont des Cats hops.
Tip: The beers change constantly because they are brewed in small batches. Ask what is on before you sit.
La Luck on Rue Princesse in Lille started as a bar and bistro and now brews its own beer on site, alongside cocktails and a natural wine list.
Tip: Weekend service starts in the morning, so the house beer can be a brunch drink here.
The Place du Concert market is the Vieux-Lille one, three mornings a week of organic and regional produce with Asian and North African stalls between them.
Tip: Sunday morning here is calmer than Wazemmes and a short walk from the estaminets on Rue de Gand.
Bernard et Léon on Rue de la Clef in Lille is a bowl canteen named for the founders' two grandfathers, open at lunch only and priced under 16 euros.
Try: Bowl formule
Tip: Lunch only. The bowls take their names from the two grandfathers who gave the place its name.
L'Estaminet du Welsh on Rue de Gand in Lille runs a lunch menu at 12.90 euros and a plat du jour from 9.90, built around a dozen welsh variations.
Try: Welsh au maroilles
Tip: The plat du jour starts at 9.90 euros, which is the cheapest sit-down welsh in Vieux-Lille.
Au Vieux de la Vieille on Rue des Vieux Murs in Lille runs its plat du jour at 9.90 or 14.90 euros, maroilles gratin included in the cheaper price.
Try: Gratin de la Vieille
Tip: The 9.90 euro plate is a full meal. The terrace on Place aux Oignons costs nothing extra.
L'Estaminet Lillois on Rue de la Barre in Lille prices its regional card from 13 euros, carbonade and potjevleesch with twenty local beers to drink alongside.
Try: Carbonade flamande
Tip: It opens five days only, closed Monday and Tuesday, so check the day before you plan around it.
Estaminet La Vieille France on Rue de Gand in Lille feeds 65 covers of carbonade, poulet au maroilles and potjevleesch at neighbourhood prices.
Try: Poulet au maroilles
Tip: Closed Tuesday and Wednesday at lunch, which catches out a lot of visitors.
Smokey Banh Mi on Avenue du Peuple Belge in Lille sells a pork banh mi at 11.50 euros, meat smoked on site and bread from a Vieux-Lille bakery.
Try: Banh mi au porc
Tip: At 11.50 euros this is the best value sandwich in Vieux-Lille.
Arancini Lovers on Rue Saint-André in Lille fries Sicilian rice balls to order, a cheap and filling walk-up lunch in the middle of Vieux-Lille.
Try: Arancini
Tip: Two arancini and a coffee makes a lunch for well under 10 euros.
Costaud on Place du Vieux Marché aux Chevaux in Lille builds sandwiches to order by day and turns to shared plates at night, across three floors.
Try: Sandwich Costaud
Tip: The garlic and cheese bread at 9.50 euros is the order to add if you are two.
Paddo Café on Rue du Cirque in Lille brought Antipodean brunch north, ricotta pancakes and avocado toast alongside properly pulled specialty coffee.
Order: Ricotta pancakes, from the all-day breakfast card.
Tip: No reservations at all. The kitchen stops at 16:00 even though the room stays open.
Bacio Divino on Rue Saint-André in Lille runs an all-you-can-eat Italian brunch every Sunday at 32 euros, in two sittings, with lasagne included.
Order: Traditional lasagne, from the hot side of the brunch.
Tip: Two seatings only, 11:00 and 13:00. Under-eights pay 15 euros.
Le Barbier qui Fume on Rue de la Monnaie in Lille smokes its own meat and keeps the kitchen running until midnight, seven nights of the week.
Try: Beef onglet with shallots
Tip: The weekday lunch formula is 18.50 euros. Weekends run non-stop from 10:00.
La Broche on Rue de Gand in Lille keeps its spit turning to 00:30 on Thursday and Friday, chicken marinated a day and confited for three hours.
Try: Kebab from the spit
Tip: Saturday runs non-stop from 11:30 to midnight, which is the longest service on Rue de Gand.
Bierbuik's brewpub on Rue Royale in Lille runs to 01:00 on Thursday and Friday and to 02:00 on Saturday, and the kitchen stops at 23:30 then.
Try: Frites sauce maroilles
Tip: On those three nights the bar outlasts the kitchen, so order food before 23:30.
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 whole quarter.
Try: Kebab
Tip: It sits on the bar strip, which is why it stays open to midnight all week.
Costaud on Place du Vieux Marché aux Chevaux in Lille runs to 01:00 from Thursday to Saturday, shared plates replacing the daytime sandwich card.
Try: Sandwich Costaud
Tip: Evenings turn to sharing plates. The sandwich card is a daytime thing.
La Planque hides down a staircase off Rue des Trois Mollettes in Lille, a vintage cellar where cocktails and half-litre beers both cost 5 euros.
Tip: There is no sign worth looking for. Find the staircase, then keep going down.
Le Privilège on Rue Royale is the best known LGBTQ+ bar and club in Vieux-Lille, with a dancefloor, drag shows and karaoke on Wednesday nights.
La Capsule on Rue des Trois Mollettes in Lille sells no mainstream lager, running 28 taps of lambics, sours and small-brewery beer instead.
Tip: The operator counts more than 300 different beers across a year, so the taps change constantly.