hello
he's licked lick the camera
you give it a good clean
just give it a good clean
i'm jesse behind the camera is will and
together we are top jaw now we haven't
been abroad together in a long time but
we are finally
somewhere where we can't speak the
language well we are back in france in
lille which i kind of feel is like paris
is more laid-back younger cousin big
thanks to hello lil for putting this
together super close to belgium and it's
kind of a hybrid of the two you can see
that in the architecture the attitude
here and of course the copious amount of
beer it's very strong beer it's an hour
and a half from london quicker to get
here than many places in the north of
england and it is hella different
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she dropped our bags in the uber cool
mama shelter and it's a bit early but i
think it's time for some lunch
maybe a little blond beer some little
blonde lads in
mama shelter
restaurant got some little sharers
little finger foods fried squid with
spicy mayo flaffle some fries with some
local cheese called marwa and mama's
croque monsieur we said we wanted one of
those will we're going straight in with
the good stuff cheers bro it's the light
lunch then mate cheesy and buttery
french night of cooking they've got a
huge club we're 15 kilometers from
belgium here in lille so naturally
there's a lot of good beer flying around
i really want today and this whole trip
really to be as french as it could
possibly get will
so french
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this little square here is the absolute
centre of lille and the architecture is
exactly what i wanted
she's finding it a bit nippy as well i
think
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down yet another little beautiful
cobbled street we're here for olga the
carousel burg again french accent
but this lovely little fine pastry shop
the speciality here
is something called the petit pusher
translated to little
chicks don't know why there's no chicken
them vanilla and orange blossom cream oh
that's a bit of me
oh that's beautiful a strawberry and
pistachio pavlova my absolute childhood
doc dessert of choice oh come on well a
few places in the world where they serve
pastries like they're tiffany engagement
rings
from one bakery to another but they are
very different this isn't there you've
got to get a hold of yourself
the facade and the interior are stunning
and remarkably unchanged from when it
was first opened in 1849 these guys make
an iconic waffle that's gorgeous and
it's going to go very well with this
here espresso
stay at that nose
yeah well
you know you've got to do what you're
doing yeah it comes with territory bro
crap will damage
got a lot of sugar in my system just
caught into my veins
makes you get a present for the girls
so as it turns out we actually did get
presents for the girls
all by our design they will do you pick
wisely uh yeah um do you have any idea
what's in them no were they given to you
and now you're going to re-gift it not
know
how to mouse
eight percent will
no messing yeah like pints of wine
cheers one prayer cheers buddy what your
beards look like milk
mango milk
short little walk down from that
cathedral we're at the capsule
these guys have
more craft beers on tap than i have
pairs of pants
i've gone for baraka an american ipa
nice and chilled five percent that's
lovely go for alice dog another ipa a
bit more punchy eight and a half percent
that's lovely we went with the regress
no way which is sour
boy and that's kind of strong at like
seven percent that really gets to get
used to and a smashbox
that's the bully that you want to avoid
at fourteen and a half percent this is a
belgian strong dark ale
and it is strong and then it's dark
right about 10 minute cab out of lille
to this place we're in the outer skirts
of town at this old textile factory
for brick house
brick
house
car two guys who absolutely loved craft
beer
they learned about brewing and started
brewing loads of craft beer right here
oh he's doing the thing again they
paired up with papa raphael which is
like the primo
pizza place in lille
it's because i've got white trousers on
still lively with my legs
oh mate
these are actually naughty boys bro
okay so we've wanted a yankee trouble
and an under acid oh stickers a yankee
trouble
and an under acid
ipa
sour boy actually this is a knife all
the beers served here are brewed on site
in those big tanks they're unpasteurized
through those taps past our eyes and
into our gobs
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this pizza is lenored
which is after a very famous northern
french food dish which is essentially
like a cheese soup melty cheese bread
ham onion the works and this is
leprechaun
spicer boy beautiful
that's so easy to drink the yankee
trouble
under acid i'm not into it as much as
the ipa those who like their kind of
fruity ciders
you'd be really into the sour beers it's
not the ipa that i live and breed will
you try that brilliant cheers yankee
trouble i can't pull this down my
trousers for days a b-e-a-a beautiful
ipa that slips down faster than your
nan's knickers
brilliant sorry
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there's a lot of beer here
i love that like a lot of beer places
don't just have like a handful of beers
on tap they have
more taps than they have patrons but
they're strong
bye
everybody catches up on you there he is
how you feeling well all right bro i'm
all right
what are we doing today today we're
visiting a couple of micro breweries all
right yeah absolutely and uh we're going
to
a market we're going to a couple of food
courts big energy big atmosphere
big assortment of food
banging top jaw content will
that is
phenomenal probably one of the best
coffees of 2021 well not the best yeah
it is really good their magic beans are
doing it for me we love espresso we love
coffee we love good coffee shops and
we've sniffed out the best one in lille
tampa exclamation mark packing it down
packing down the ground in the
portafilter that's called tampering
tampa
very lovely bristolian as well that
works here which is really good for our
french yeah straightforward smells
illegal yeah beautiful mate a little
oatmeal banger oatmeal banger for the
lads
banger for the lads there aren't that
many espresso style coffee bars in lille
but we do know that tampa is a brilliant
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the building behind me used to be a very
premium upmarket department store but
about a year ago they turned it into a
food court making it a bit more top-jaw
ready
this is the grand sun or as we all like
to call it the grand scene
the grand sea
food courts are great we love a food
court sit relax have a couple of beers
and grades buying a bit from lots of
different food vendors you don't need to
stick to one
never stick to one
have you have you got any beer that's
under 10
alcoholic volume
no
there's no one there mate
you told me to do it
first through the day yeah it's after
midday
so we can stick a pail for the mail down
my mouth we have three beautiful
colorful packed tacos from la gorita i
can't believe it very well we have a
margarita though we like the large rice
it's giving us it's given us ideas
doesn't it fish balls kind of looks like
apple but it's
from mercy good flavors strong this
right here we're very excited about this
is the big bountiful ceviche fish taco
shocker blocker how about a pork taco oh
yeah that was very good but henry viii
just gorging right i think the tank is
full well that was a good feed well a
food tank's full mate that is a good
point general attack's never full
what do you do when you're in the middle
of lille and you own a townhouse a big
townhouse
kind of live in it and have some really
epic parties
or you can turn it into a brewery
a micro brewery and have some really
epic parties
we're doing a beer tasting and we have
nine beers in funtime they all sound
very exciting and learning more about
what a double ipa is basically it means
it's very strong the session ipa that's
the far more relaxed gentleman's beer
that you can drink all day or we can
just try drinking double ipa all day and
see that takes us
so this is brewed with lychee rose and
poppy seed called the heroine awesome
double ipa means just double the
strength not necessarily double the hops
as the x salt is brewed with orange
blossom
that is my favorite this is ladies given
that name because it's made with 10
different hops
local hops german hops uk hops and the
first one was brewed in this tank here
it's the first beer that amari ever
produced and it's his best seller
blonde baby
i'm feeling very heady um well i think
we're sort of you know done here for
beers if not
that was
awesome every saturday sometimes in the
weekdays you get a full lesson on how
you brews beer as well as a tasting
session if you fancy just sampling some
of the beer like we have you shop down
there sells it all
tuesday through saturday all day fill up
a case you gotta have the ginger one
i like that one
we're exploring a new city
new town we'd like to find those streets
that are the if in doubt go to streets
rue royale is exactly that it's that you
can't go wrong kind of street we're here
for bear brick this place is a very pink
very minimalist flemish restaurant
i pulled it as a push
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help the male coming right up
in this pale pink
palace beer
wick a flemish term for beer body they
have blond beers white beers ipa
pales
on tap i'm just laughing the variety of
beer bro very cool in here but i fancy
watching me a while go by what'd you say
will
we got zucchini caviar some local
cheeses little heritage tomatoes some
sort of pepperoni sausage and some
beautiful bread this is great mate
what the devil is this big thing here a
little homemade fries with some local
cheese super strong when it's raw but
when it's cooked it's nice and mellowed
down this is from beach like a pizza
with lamb smoked cheese and this is
courgette flour tempura oh boy
we're in a new part of lille
not new to them new to us this is muck
and we are here for la frisch
about a 10 minute cycle car ride away
from the center of lille this place is
worth making the journey for four food
vendors in there two bars good music and
a hell of a good time let's kick the
bloody doors off of which there is none
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i got a big pint of moscow mule brother
with a couple of wheat straws looking
after the world one cocktail at a time
this is philippe starred lafrish owner
of lafrish and he's giving us a tour
going for a sergeant pepper and a dirty
barbecue we've got texas barbecue sauce
with very crispy grilled bacon cheese
salad and their big contour hash burger
yeah boy it's been a long time it's not
a good burger like a long time this one
is a sergeant pepper pepper sauce on a
cheeseburger
oh mama yeah
because they like grill the cheese you
basically was a little grilled cheese
bits throughout which is
beautiful things
this is legal toilet cute little caravan
serving up frets and legends i've got to
order in french because apparently the
guy doesn't see any english and that's
fair enough because we are friends
go one more extra spot yes sexy business
and in here we have truffle cheese we
have bacon rather than ham and we have
egg
and some other good cheesy business
oh good and this one is the snickers
caramel chocolate mousse chocolate sauce
and some peanuts dessert to warm the
soul will
dessert to warm the soul
hello
it's licked
lick the camera
you give it a good clean
give it a good clean
just on a little road off the ground
plus we have just
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this is a bakery owned and run by damien
and constance they launched last year
one week before the lockdowns began but
they've survived and they thrived and
we're here for some little bunch of
baked goods and some of their beautiful
coffee which we've heard is
pretty top-notch
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day three third and final day we've done
a bit of a 48 hours bridged over three
days what's in the kishman
today is great we've got almond cream
hazelnut mousse jean duja which is like
a combination of chocolate hazelnut
icing sugar got some plum and some
actual whole hazelnut on it yep
very good
very good indeed my man
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some of you may know that i am super
into cars well i know cool facts about
the citroen 2tv will so when i heard
that we were going to have a tour of
lille in a french car from the 1960s i
was particularly excited post second
world war they had a lot of scrap metal
and everything they didn't know what to
do with it
they turned them into these
this is archie not the car
the bloke
and he is our tour guide for today gonna
drive us around lil and show us a lot of
the historic landmarks and tell us some
stories on how lil has got to where it
is today
we're having a great time in the 2cv and
we've been into that whoa
now i've got to get out and walk
this is
babe it's a relaxed yet very high-end
restaurant specializing in meat and beer
we're about to meet tevo the owner and
he's going to sit have lunch with us
we're all this is our final meal of our
little trip oh mate and then back to
london but i think it's going to be a
belter
so we have to let us burn this is it
cooking this is bone marrow so served
within the bone i think it's gonna be
delicious and i think that's what this
spoon is for pig's ears and i can't tell
you how smoky and like paprika this
smells beautiful putin a french canadian
kind of dish 24 hours in cambridge got a
hung out to dry and they commented out
and i'm very sorry to all the french
canadians out there this is actually
made using cheddar from our country and
their gravy that they make with all the
bones from all the meat
that's gorgeous
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i did say this was a meat restaurant
that's exactly what we got beef elbow
big hunky steak cooked beautifully rare
just how this guy likes it oh boy tata
fish roe seaweed and in the middle of it
is some cheese you know babe's kind of
own version of it yeah
how's it go it was like whipped cheese
loads of chives bunyan beautiful it's
incredible tebow thank you very much
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met some awesome people had some great
beer some fantastic food gonna be sad to
leave very sad mate but
home's only an hour and a half away so
we can always pop back in our time big
thanks to hello lil and the guys there
and martian for putting this together
and working with us on this and then god
will tell them what to do subscribe
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