Jeff H.
Yelp
When you are traveling around the most romantic country, you might want to travel around and feel the small town's atmosphere. My friend and I both traveled from Paris to this small town called Lille, it's located about 2 hours north from Paris. It's a nice small town, but please do not come here during the weekend!! You won't find anything to eat or to shop LOL... Learned from the hard way. Teehee, anyway, let's get down to the business!!
My friend looked up this place via Tripadvisory and they get really good rating from all other customer, therefore, we are like, let's try authentic French food in a small town!! Not a bad idea right? You would think, small town, French cuisine, the flavor should kept it all old school and bring out the right aurora from the food & the environment!! That's what I thought to begin with, but dream soon to be destroyed. I am not saying this place is bad, but I might held my standard a little bit way too high from all of my delusional thoughts :p
IF you do not know how to read French, then good luck to figure out what's on the menu!! They do not have any English Translation. Time to eat dirt right? But no, they do only have 1 waiter that speak English! Yes, 1 waiter that can speak fluent English, so please do not be afraid to come and eat here, you won't just eat dirt and drink water.... I promised.
They usually will provide an free appetizer, minced olive with olive oil mix with bread for you.. My friend and I are not big fans with Olive, but the taste of this minced olive & the mixture of olive oil, bring out the right flavor and teased my flavor palette. It help the bread to bring out it's original flavor and the flavor of olive made me felt like i was standing by the olive farm and can smell the fresh olive. It's truly amazing on what they did!!
My main entree is a fish course (sorry i forget what it called) and my friend ordered a lamb dish. For me, my fish is perfectly cooked, but the vegetables on the bottom are quite blend in my opinion. But the broth have great flavor. You may said, "wtf? how is that possible?", and my answer is, idk, i'm not the chef -_-..... The fish & the broth are awesome, the veggies are a let down.
As for my friend's entree, you ordered the lamb, the sauce itself it's great. It's like a combination of sweet & saltiness but each element played with each other and form a perfect harmony. But the lamb it's alright in my opinion. May be the sauce it's way too strong and took away the beauty of the lamb :(
Anyway, this is a good place to eat at. But it's on a more pricy side. You will have good food, but I wouldn't say amazing. If you ever passed by and want to try it out, then do it. Trying new thing is always better than reading about it!