La Petite Table - Estaminet Vieux Lille

As its name says, there are indeed small tables, with a very cozy and friendly atmosphere. The staff is very kind and attentive with great service. The food was delicious. It is definitely a place to try while in Lille.

A lovely small place with delicious food. We sat at a small table on the ground floor, ordered different dishes, and the wine they recommended was also very good. You definitely should make a reservation.

The food is delicious! Also the service is amazing, everyone is super nice.

This was a delightful restaurant! We really enjoyed Le Welsh and in a town full of fabulous frites, these were the finest. Great service and ambience, too

What a sweet little place we stumbled upon! The staff were lovely, the food was great, the dessert and drinks selection complement our meal well. Can definitely recommend.

La Petite Table is located in a nice neighbourhood of Lille with lots of artistic shops, luckily we had made reservations in advance, very busy with nice buzz and atmosphere, the food is simple and delicious with reasonable price.

Update due to response from owner: I regret not taking photos of the 2 signs outside on Thursday Feb 12....they both stated Mardi au Jeudi fermeture de la cuisine du 3:30pm a 5pm ( closing of kitchen during those hours Tuesday to Thursday) and Vendredi a Samedi (Friday to Saturday) had no similar notice of closing of the kitchen. I find it distasteful that rather than acknowledging a potential issue with your signage, you've chosen to blame me for 'misunderstanding' and claim I've misrepresented the facts. On Thursday at approximately 15:25, we were looking for somewhere to have food and a drink and noticed the menu and signage outside. The information displayed stated that from Tuesday to Thursday the kitchen is closed from 15:30 to 17:00, while also indicating “continuous service” with opening hours of 11:30 to 21:30. As the kitchen was closing, we chose to get something small from a nearby patisserie and returned at around 15:40 to enjoy a glass of wine, as the restaurant looked very inviting. At that time, we were informed that they are not a bar and that if we wished to have only drinks, we should go to one of the bars on either side. While I fully respect that each restaurant has its own policies regarding service, I would like to highlight that the manner in which this was communicated felt unnecessarily rude and dismissive. It left us feeling unwelcome, which was disappointing given our initial impression of the restaurant. If drinks are not served while the kitchen is closed, it would be helpful for this to be clearly stated on the signage. As it stands, the messaging is confusing and suggests that service continues during those hours. I am sharing this feedback in the hope that both the communication of service hours and the tone of guest interactions can be reviewed, so that future guests do not experience similar confusion.

Nice food, nice place Nice food: The food looks very good and there is a lot to choose from like, chicken breast, salad. Its in a good place and close to a square Nice place: Its a beautiful restaurant with two floors, its a lot of pink and looks very cozy the meals are big and not to expensive.

A cute and cozy little restaurant with good quality tasty food and service with a casual intimate feel. They offer meals that are fixed price appetizer plus main plus dessert, appetizer plus Main, or main plus dessert for a discount off the menu prices. We had the regional specialties of Welsh Complet which was slices of bread and ham covered in a rich mixture of cheddar cheese, mustard, and beer topped with an egg and Carbonade Flamande, a Flemish beef stew made with beer, gingerbread and sugar. Both were served with a generous helping of French fries.

We had dinner at Le Petite Table on Saturday night having taken the precaution of reserving a table a few days in advance. It's a small, nicely decorated, casual dining place with a few tables on the ground floor and four or five more on the top floor which is where I would recommend taking your supper if you have the choice. The menu is split into choices from the "North" and the "South" - as you would expect the southern dishes are a little lighter and have a more Meditteranean flavour while the northern dishes on offer are pretty much the Flemish classics you will find all over town. There is an English menu available if you need help with the translation. The wine list is very compact with a choice of 3 or 4 unremarkable whites and reds around the 20€ mark. There is a reasonable choice of beer including the local trois monts and a few other decent brews by the bottle. We shared a shrimp croquette to start which was quite light and tasty. It came with a cream cheese accompaniment and some nicely presented salad. Good dish to start with and plenty for two to share. My main course of carbonnade flamande was a pretty good version of this local classic but lacked a little bit in terms of depth of flavour. The beef was good but could perhaps have benefited from being teamed up with a more interesting beer in the pot. On the plus side it came with some decent home made frites. B went South and had the carbonara poulet gorgonzola which she declared to be tasty but not a dish to knock the socks off. We were full by this point so we skipped dessert and had a cafe with an armagnac to finish what had been a pleasant but fairly average meal. If you know where to look you will find much better in Lille but I can see why Le Petite Table gets good reviews,that are well deserved, on the tourist websites.

It was Saturday night and we were in serious trouble... Sitting in the park next to Notre Dame de la Trelle we realized that it was 21h, we were starving and we had no reservations. On a saturday in the Lille city center this is a dangerous position to be in. It these kinds of unfortunate circumstances that lead people to make the kinds of decisions that can haunt a person for hours or even days. If we didn't act fast we might find our selves holding a shitty Kebab or even worse...a shwarma! I grabbed my girlfriends arm and fled the park as fast as we could stroll, leaving our friends to pick up wrappings from our afternoon visit to the boulangerie. As we headed down the street we stopped at a number of establishments begging for a table outside. You see despite our eminent danger we were determined to take advantage of the beautiful weather and long spring day. After numerous attempts I was starting to feel destitue when we came to la Petite Table... "Sure, we can accommodate. Give us a minute and we'll bring a table out for you," the manager said (note: this has been translated from french, of course he wasn't speaking english). We were saved! The service took a little while but what can you expect when they build you a friggin table on request and they more than made up for it by being very friendly and dealing with my oh-so-terrible french with not so much as a furrowed brow. I ordered the steak tartare and she ordered the fish. I'm pretty sure she enjoyed her meal but I'm not sure because I was barely able to hear a word she said over the sounds of angles singing in the background every time I put a bit of that delicious steak into my mouth. It was perfectly seasoned and every bit was purely delightful. I am a bit tartare fan and this was hands down the best I have ever had. I officially had a new favorite restaurant in Lille. All in all the food was excellent, the service was very friendly and accommodating the atmosphere, on a beautiful spring night, was top notch. Do yourself a favor and eat here often.

We had dinner at Le Petite Table on Saturday night having taken the precaution of reserving a table a few days in advance. It's a small, nicely decorated, casual dining place with a few tables on the ground floor and four or five more on the top floor which is where I would recommend taking your supper if you have the choice. The menu is split into choices from the North and the South as you would expect the southern dishes are a little lighter and have a more Meditteranean flavour while the northern dishes on offer are pretty much the Flemish classics you will find all over town. There is an English menu available if you need help with the translation. The wine list is very compact with a choice of 3 or 4 unremarkable whites and reds around the 20EUR mark. There is a reasonable choice of beer including the local trois monts and a few other decent brews by the bottle. We shared a shrimp croquette to start which was quite light and tasty. It came with a cream cheese accompaniment and some nicely presented salad. Good dish to start with and plenty for two to share. My main course of carbonnade flamande was a pretty good version of this local classic but lacked a little bit in terms of depth of flavour. The beef was good but could perhaps have benefited from being teamed up with a more interesting beer in the pot. On the plus side it came with some decent home made frites. B went South and had the carbonara poulet gorgonzola which she declared to be tasty but not a dish to knock the socks off. We were full by this point so we skipped dessert and had a cafe with an armagnac to finish what had been a pleasant but fairly average meal. If you know where to look you will find much better in Lille but I can see why Le Petite Table gets good reviews,that are well deserved, on the tourist websites.