La Fonderie Restaurant, ROUBAIX

Housed in a former 19th century iron foundry, this restaurant takes you back in time into the atmosphere of an earlier industrial age. The building’s authenticity has been well preserved. Its walls with their bricks blackened by flames, its structural ironwork stained with the rust of time and its resolutely contemporary décor all combine to make this a place in which past and present sit harmoniously side by side. Everything in the restaurant is designed for the comfort of guests: a convivial bar, wide leather chairs and armchairs, trendy music. Dishes from the resolutely modern and regularly changing menu are prepared in front of you. And moreover, with a little attention you could well spot the restaurant’s founder, there to ensure his guests’ comfort and tranquillity…