This used to be a very good place but quality has went down dramatically over the past few years…read more Most of the dishes have a very generic flavor which makes me wonder if everything is really home made at this restaurant. Bread usually tells you if the restaurant cares about food quality and what they serve you here is a piece of frozen baguette. Even the oysters, one of their signature dish on the menu, do not appear the freshest. Nothing very appealing, really. And service is still overly pretentious considering the mediocre quality food served at this restaurant.

I recently visited this restaurant while in Lille. I enjoyed the food very, very much - except for…read morethe main course. The bread was fantastic. I had the Croquettes with shrimp as the appetizer, which were fantastic, and the creme brulee as desert - one of the best I've ever had. However, the surf-and-turf main course was very disappointing. The steak was very bland (although tender), and the seafood portion consisted of one giant shrimp (one!). The rest of the dish was filled with salad (mostly lettuce). Otherwise, the atmosphere was lovely, the wine selection was outstanding and the service was great. I think I'll probably give this restaurant another try to see if I simply chose the wrong main dish.

Very kind staff and great dishes! Filet American was something I cannot eat in Japan, it was…read moredelicious.

One of the classic place close to old town in Lille, I went to eat on Sunday evening, not many…read morerestaraunts are open. The service is fantastic, the food on the traditional side, pretty good but nothing surprised me. I ordered half bottle of wine, a starter, an entree and a desert, cost about 90 euro. It's a pretty quite place. also good for small to medium group of people.

This was very sadly a disappointing Michelin dining experience on Easter Sunday…read more The Michelin guide notes Monsieur Jean's cuisine "is traditional and full of flavour." I certainly agree with traditional - there wasn't a single innovative dish on the menu of the day, and my boyfriend and I tried all eight of them (starters, mains and desserts). Think: shrimp in sauce, some very disgusting pate, cod in a bland sauce with white rice, lamb with quinoa salad, butternut squash soup, caramel dessert. Full of flavour? See above - bland sauces, several dishes undersalted, boring boring boring. The waitress was efficient but nearly disastrous in her clipped manner - wine drops on tablecloth, knocking my boyfriend's chair while serving another table, nearly spilling a glass of wine. It wasn't all bad - the amuse bouche was good, the spoonful of pistachio ice cream that came with one of the desserts was excellent, as were some of the caramel parts of the other dessert. But overall it was very uninventive and expensive (130 euros for lunch), and not deserving of a Michelin star in my book.