Great place I give it a three star general. I love the service. very warm hearted . You get that…read morefeel of joy entering into the store.

Elisabeth's Café is a nice place to relax and chill with you're friends or family around a cup of…read morecoffee or tea and a piece of pie. Moreover, it's located in the Vieux Lille. The shop is really cute and well decorated. There is a bunch of plants, it seems more personalized than the chains you can find in the street (Nothing Hill Coffee, Starbucks...) However, if you'd planned to come there in order to work you need to know that the WiFi isn't functional on laptop. But I recommend it

A cute little local coffee place! If I would live in Lille, I would definitely go there a lot :)…read moreIt is very comfy and the waitress was very friendly!

Very yummy brekky! I opted for the Banana Bread and my fiancé chose the Yoghurt Honey and Muesli…read more Overall really scrumptious and the coffee is fabulous. The decor is beautiful and the staff are very friendly. We ate at Tamper! for breakfast and the only thing I'd say that I would've like would be some savoury options. The breakfast menu is very sweet and although very tasty it would be nice to have a mix. Perhaps Avocado on toast? Something like that. I'd definitely come back, the coffee is beautiful, the food is great and the staff are lovely!

From the owner: Food Truck 100% BIO, Burgers Créatifs, légumes de saison.read more

I have given Le Pain Quotidien chances in Washington DC and Qatar but I always leave somewhat…read moredisappointed. Finally, in France, it has to be good, right? I tried their raspberry tart, since, well, this is the land of delicious and fresh raspberry tarts. It just didn't reach the expectations. It didn't seem fresh and seemed more like the outcome of a factory conveyor belt and not the result of freshly made that morning with uniqueness and perfection. You're in France. Go to a bakery that is not part of a world wide chain and isn't even good anyway. Find one of those French bakeries that are one of it's kind and have been family run for generations while they still exist!

Lovely welcoming café/restaurant on one of Lille's pretty main squares. Seating is at large wooden…read moretables replete with the tantalising in-house selection of large glass jars, containing homemade conserves and nut butters. If you're tempted to try them, I highly recommend the breakfast, based on their delicious country bread which you can tailor to your own tastes, by adding a choice of drinks and more copious items. For me, the highlight was this tasty wholesome bread enhanced with the contents of some of the aforementioned jars. Easily kept me going until the evening! The coffee was good too and it was very tempting to buy some of their scrumptious wares on the way out...

Small but very nice bar. If you want to drink a vodka with friend in a communist style place then…read moreyou found it ! I recommend it.

Non vodkaholic, you can pass by and continue your way, it's gonna be tough!…read moreFor the others, push the door and enter into an all ex-URSS decorated bar. The atmosphere deeply smells communism! A lot of different posters on the wall and portraits of Russian leaders. Now the decor is settled, they have a choice of more than 100 vodkas with different tastes (sweet, spicy, herbal, etc.) that will suit everyone. You can take 10 shots for 27€, I think that's a great way to discover different flavors. My favorite is definitely the herbal and honey: strong taste and sweet at the end in the throat, magical!

EDIT: I've changed my opinion about Holy Cow. Not sure if they were making better burgers in the…read morebeginning or if it's just my imagination. Went in there recently and was completely underwhelmed by my order. Went again, ordered something different, and it was the same disappointment. The service is also a lot less friendly. I'm pretty sure the only reason it was good before was because they were putting extra effort in to make a good first impression. Everyone knows that France does gourmet right and Lille is no exception. As long as you know how to avoid the tourist pits, reasonably priced haute cuisine certainly thrives here. Where France falls short, however, is with quick-serve dining establishments (which is all the average French wage earner can afford or make time for on their daily lunch break). After five years of living in France, I've grown so tired of kebab, over-priced/small-quantity fast food, and bland sandwiches/paninis that I've taken to spending my lunch breaks roaming the streets and alleys just praying to come across something different...substantial....delicious, and worth the price. Yesterday I stumbled upon the recently opened Holy Cow. Today, I ate there. Life is different for me now. For a total of €10 at Holy Cow I received a better hamburger, better fries, and a bigger drink than I did at another (no-to-be-named) burger establishment where I recently spent €20 for an extremely unsatisfying meal (mediocre burger, mediocre fries, and less than a can's worth of soda). Honestly there's nothing like HC in Lille. It's gourmet burgers at slightly-above fast food prices in an atmosphere that falls somewhere between. For me, it's what I've been looking for in quick-dining all these years. I'm over the moon that finally I'll be returning to work after break with a smile on my face instead of a grimace. All we need now is a decent quick-serve Tex-Mex place and I won't be missing America quite as much.

That's a yes! My girl brought me there on a Saturday…read moreafternoon, and I'm glad she did. I took the Spanish burger and it was delicious. Great balance between the steak (which was a little bit too cooked for me), goat cheese / honey and the salsa sauce. The only regret is that there's hot chili announced and it's not hot at all. The fries are very tasty too. There are fountain drinks for those who want syrup water. I'll go back to taste an another one (probably the Mexican one).