Lambrecht is the name of Élise's grandmother, who ran an estaminet near Roubaix. Her sugar tart is still on the menu, and so is her rule: “Buying well is already cooking well.”
Élise and Mathis met in a Brussels kitchen. In 2021 they took over an old haberdashery in Old Lille, kept its wood panelling and opened a thirty-seat bistro where everything is made on site, from stock to desserts.
Chef and co-founder
Born in Roubaix, Élise learned to cook with her grandmother before working in Michelin-starred kitchens in Lyon and Brussels. In 2021, she came back north to open Maison Lambrecht: generous, precise bistro cooking with produce from nearby farms.
Front of house and wine, co-founder
Mathis runs the dining room and the cellar. He buys his wines from winemakers he knows, and his beers from breweries around Lille. Ask him for a recommendation: he loves it.
Vegetables. An organic market gardener in the Pévèle delivers whatever is ripe, twice a week.
Cream, butter and eggs. A family farm in the Weppes, twenty kilometres from the bistro.
Cheese. An affineur in the Avesnois: maroilles, aged mimolette, Bergues.
Meat. A farmer in inland Flanders, Flemish red cattle.
Beer. Three breweries around Lille, one of them two streets away.
Wine. Organic and natural winemakers whom Mathis visits every year.
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