GASTRONOMY

Sweet and savoury, rich in spiced sauces, the traditional cuisine is like its region, shared between French, Flemish and English influences depending on the local area.

But it can also be inventive revisiting its local produce with subtle and light touches. For all tastes but always authentic and free of excessive borrowings, it can be appreciated in urban and rural inns and cafes belonging to hotel clubs, veritable fraternities of good eating.

And you will need good authentic products to reconstruct the range of flavours particular to Nord-Pas de Calais.

Where better to find them than here in the many stalls, stuffed Flemish waffles, ice creams with spéculoos (thin almond biscuits), endive liqueurs, Maroilles cheese tart, red herring, endives au gratin, beef stew and potjevleesch (3-meat terrine), Vieux Lille and brittle Mimolette cheeses accompanied by a real craft beer unavailable elsewhere in France?

All rounded off with a brown sugar tart or custard tart with prunes or plums washed down with a nice home-made coffee with genever gin?

Here and nowhere else, so as not to spoil the authenticity and quality of the products!

Restaurants

Shops and Local Produce