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A house of stone and brick, at 5 place aux Oignons.

5 place aux Oignons, 59800, Lille03 20 13 81 64

The etched window of Au Petit Vieux, cafe estaminet, place aux Oignons in Lille.

Our own photograph, November 2024

The house

Number five, place aux Oignons, in a stone and brick house in Vieux-Lille. The dining room is tiny, and that is what gives it its character.

It holds a handful of tables. Frames hung right up to the ceiling, earthenware plates, a carved oak dresser, dried hops on the beams. The façade is its sign: the name of the house is lettered in gold on the glass.

Place aux Oignons is one of the few squares in Vieux-Lille to have kept its cobbles and its low façades. In fine weather, the terrace takes a corner of it, and people share a board in the sun.