The typical little French brasserie I guess I can't say A lot about how things normally are or go…read morein this restaurant since I went here during the annually 'braderie' event de Lille.
During this weekend they have a little fixed menu.. I've read about the wines they serve but even the wines are narrowed down to red, white and rosé. And are all bottles drafted from the tap or cask, I'm not really sure if its the former or the latter since I've not seen them do this. But we had some insects in our bottle.. After giving the waiter notice our bottle was quickly replaced by a new one without any fuss. But it was possibly a bottle that stood outside the night before and wasn't properly washed before refilling.
Anyway to get to the food, some of us had the moules or mussels which is a big thing in Lille at this annual event I've been told 500 tons of this stuff Is eaten, you can literally see them served anywhere at any price as low as 7€ for 1kg, but they are all little orange (French) mussels and I think they also use a B quality for the event. So I went with onglet a l'echalotte, onglet is a cut that nobody used to want.. It's cheap and most of the time the butcher himself took it home for that reason. But it has a lot of taste and when prepared properly isn't chewy as you might expect. I enjoyed it a lot, and was pretty happy with the choice I made.
On the other hand the mayonnaise they served was a big disappointment, bad and thick. Fortunately I didn't need it, there was enough Charlotte sauce to accompany the fries.
Overall an ok experience, but not a wow.
