Le Braque — Restaurant in Lille

I chose this restaurant for my birthday lunch and I was not disappointed. Being a relatively new restaurant during my time of visit (11 Sep), there were some teething issues, like the power cuts, but nothing really serious to distract from dining experience.

I especially appreciated the service staff and chef making the effort to adapt the portion sizes to accommodate a single diner like me who wanted to try many dishes. Thank you very much!

The interiors where bright, yet warm and inviting. Personally the table setting was slightly too bare for my personal liking and could be softened a little to better complement the interiors and style of service. Table bread quality could also be better.

My absolute favourite has to be the fried sweetbreads with iodized gibrish sauce. The sweetbreads were cooked perfectly and did not have the usual overpowering smell and taste of offal. It was also genius to pair the mineral notes of both sweetbreads and oysters. Perhaps the only thing I could nitpick would be that the sweetbread could be cut into slightly smaller pieces to reduce the richness and increase the breading to sweetbread ratio.

Overall the dining experience was good from both the food and service perspectives, especially for a new...

Extremely weird and rude attitude towards dietary requirements. Vegetarians or anyone who has any dietary requirements AVOID. We booked this for an anniversary meal, when you make the booking you can give notes. Since there's no menu on their website we specified one of us was vegetarian. We arrived at our booking at 730, and the place was completely shut, it looked closed which was concerning. We came back 10 minutes later. The guy said he tried to contact us by phonecall (he didnt, and if this was the case and you couldn't reach us then why not email, or text). In the end there was literally not one dish for a vegetarian. The guy told us the fish was 'ethically sourced' and that we should just try it, which is very patronising and disrespectful. I appreciate that this is a meat/fish restaurant - but that's on you to contact us first. We left a note, you didn't reach out to us. Thankfully we found a table at Ginko which has a full vegetarian tasting menu as well as great meat and seafood options, and had a far better atmosphere. Did not like the dismissive attitude, in 2023 a Michelin recommened restaurant should be able to make some vegetarian dishes with several...

We were hoping to have a Michelin-starred meal during our latest visit to Lille but the three city-centre restaurants were all closed. Instead we went to Le Braque. Our experience was mostly good with just a few rough edges.

The food was fantastic. We chose the seven course option and it was all delicious, particularly the pigeon, the veal dish and the green beans with the fish mousse. We also went for the four glasses of wine option and they were all very good. The dining area is nice and felt like a buzzing bistro more than a stuffy high-end eaterie.

Service was..... inconsistent. It wasn't bad or rude at all. However we had a few very long waits between courses, particularly during the desserts. At one point we were served a course we'd already had. There were only three servers working and they were all very busy so it's forgivable. Feels like an extra staff member would come in handy.

Great food, great atmosphere, service just needed a bit...