Restaurant in Douai, France
Michelin-recognised; worth the detour from Lille.
La Table des Échevins is Douai's strongest case for a serious dinner at the €€€ tier, holding a Michelin Plate in 2025 and a 4.5 Google score across 387 reviews. The kitchen focuses on Côte d'Opale fish and local vegetables, with a dedicated lobster menu in season. Booking is easy compared to Paris equivalents, and the room — former antique premises with marble fireplaces and contemporary design — earns its price.
At the €€€ price point, La Table des Échevins delivers modern French cooking of a standard that is rare in Douai — and rare enough in the wider Nord-Pas-de-Calais region that it earned a Michelin Plate in 2025. If you are travelling through northern France and want one serious meal without crossing into Paris price territory, this is where to book. It holds a 4.5 Google rating across 387 reviews, which, for a mid-size city restaurant operating at this level, signals consistent execution rather than a one-off spike.
The setting does real work here. The room occupies former antique dealers' premises in the heart of Douai, and the bones of the building — marble fireplaces, architectural vestiges of an earlier era , have been kept rather than stripped out. Layered against these are deliberately contemporary design choices: circular banquettes, considered light fittings, swivel chairs. The result is a room that reads as confident rather than conflicted, where the old and new coexist without one apologising for the other. For food-focused travellers who have eaten their way through [Arpège in Paris](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/arpge-paris-restaurant) or [Maison Lameloise in Chagny](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/maison-lameloise-chagny-restaurant), the room at La Table des Échevins will feel like a provincial discovery that has been thought through properly.
The cooking centres on two clear strengths: fish from the Côte d'Opale and vegetables from local producers. This is not a kitchen chasing global ingredients , it is a kitchen that has committed to its geography. The Côte d'Opale, roughly 80 kilometres to the northwest, gives the kitchen access to North Sea fish with a different character from Atlantic or Mediterranean sources: firmer-fleshed, cleaner in flavour, well-suited to precise modern technique. When the season turns, the menu dedicates itself to lobster , a focused, single-ingredient commitment that tells you something about how the kitchen thinks. If you are visiting between late spring and early summer, that lobster menu is the specific reason to time your visit accordingly. This places La Table des Échevins in the company of restaurants like [Auberge du Vieux Puits in Fontjoncouse](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/auberge-du-vieux-puits-fontjoncouse-restaurant) and [Bras in Laguiole](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/bras-laguiole-restaurant) in its commitment to a defined regional identity , smaller in scale and ambition, but operating from the same philosophical premise.
Chef Jérôme Prévost brings relevant credentials to this project. He is a local figure who trained as sous-chef at Le Cerisier in Laventie, a Michelin-recognised address in the same region. That background matters because it means the cooking here is not imported ambition parachuted into a provincial town , it is a chef who understands the supply chains, the seasonal patterns, and the producers of this specific part of France. The Michelin Plate in 2025 reflects that the guide has taken notice.
If you are visiting as part of a broader French food journey that includes restaurants like [Flocons de Sel in Megève](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/flocons-de-sel-megve-restaurant), [Troisgros in Ouches](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/troisgros-le-bois-sans-feuilles-ouches-restaurant), or [Mirazur in Menton](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/mirazur-menton-restaurant), La Table des Échevins functions as a well-priced counterpoint , a place where the ambition is real but the financial commitment is significantly lower. It also sits neatly within a Douai visit that might include stops covered in [our full Douai restaurants guide](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/douai), [our full Douai bars guide](https://www.joinpearl.co/bars/douai), and [our full Douai hotels guide](https://www.joinpearl.co/hotels/douai).
One structural note worth knowing: La Table des Échevins is part of the same group as Boterzing, a sister venue serving simpler bistronomy. If your group includes guests who want a less formal or less expensive meal, Boterzing is the obvious redirect. For the main event , the serious cooking, the designed room, the Michelin-Plate-level execution , La Table des Échevins is the address. Booking is rated Easy, which means you are unlikely to face the multi-week lead times common at restaurants of equivalent quality in Paris. That is one of the practical arguments for seeking out this kind of provincial table rather than defaulting to the capital. Bear in mind that hours and phone details are not publicly confirmed in our data, so contact the restaurant directly to verify service times before planning your evening around a late dinner. The restaurant is at 10 Rue de la Massue, 59500 Douai.
For explorers building a northern France itinerary, this is a table that rewards the effort of going slightly off the beaten circuit. Compared to the significant prices at three-star addresses like [Paul Bocuse in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/paul-bocuse-lauberge-du-pont-de-collonges-collonges-au-mont-dor-restaurant) or [Les Prés d'Eugénie in Eugénie-les-Bains](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/les-prs-deugnie-michel-gurard-eugnie-les-bains-restaurant), La Table des Échevins offers serious cooking with considerably less financial exposure. You can also explore [our full Douai experiences guide](https://www.joinpearl.co/experiences/douai) and [our full Douai wineries guide](https://www.joinpearl.co/wineries/douai) to round out a stay in the area.
| Venue | Cuisine | Price | Booking Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Table des Échevins | Modern Cuisine | €€€ | Easy |
| Plénitude | Contemporary French | €€€€ | Unknown |
| Pierre Gagnaire | French, Creative | €€€€ | Unknown |
| Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen | Creative | €€€€ | Unknown |
| Kei | Contemporary French, Modern Cuisine | €€€€ | Unknown |
| Le Cinq - Four Seasons Hôtel George V | French, Modern Cuisine | €€€€ | Unknown |
Side-by-side comparison to help you decide where to book.
The venue database does not confirm a bar dining option at La Table des Échevins. Given the €€€ price point and the room's design — circular banquettes, swivel chairs, a formal converted antique dealers' space — this reads as a sit-down restaurant rather than a counter-dining setup. check the venue's official channels to confirm before planning your visit.
No specific dietary policy is confirmed in available data. What is known is that the kitchen focuses on fish from the Côte d'Opale and vegetables from local producers, so pescatarians and vegetable-forward diners will find the menu skews in their direction. Contact the restaurant ahead of booking if you have serious restrictions — at the €€€ level, kitchens at this standard generally accommodate with notice.
No dress code is stated, but the setting — marble fireplace, designer fittings, a Michelin Plate kitchen — signals a room where guests dress up rather than down. Think dinner-out clothes rather than business formal: put-together but not black-tie. Douai is not Paris, so the atmosphere is likely more relaxed, but turning up in casual weekend wear would feel out of step with the room.
Boterzing, which is part of the same restaurant group, offers simpler bistronomy cuisine at a lower register — a sensible step-down if the €€€ price point at La Table des Échevins is too steep. For Michelin-starred cooking in the broader Nord region, Le Cerisier in Laventie (where chef Jérôme Prévost formerly worked as sous-chef) gives useful regional context. There is no direct like-for-like competitor at this standard currently documented in Douai itself.
Yes. The combination of a Michelin Plate (2025), a formally designed room with marble fireplace and designer furnishings, and a €€€ price point makes this one of the stronger special-occasion cases in the Douai area. The seasonal lobster menu, when available, adds a clear occasion anchor. For a birthday or anniversary dinner in northern France outside of Lille or Paris, this is a credible choice.
At €€€, yes — provided you are after modern French cooking with clear sourcing credentials (Côte d'Opale fish, local producers) in a room that justifies the spend. The Michelin Plate (2025) confirms it clears a recognised quality threshold. It is not a destination to compete with Paris's big tables, but as a serious dinner in Douai or a detour stop in the Nord, the value case holds.
The database confirms a dedicated seasonal lobster menu, which is the clearest signal that tasting-format eating is a priority here. If you visit in lobster season, that menu is the obvious order. Outside of that, the kitchen's focus on Côte d'Opale fish and local vegetables suggests a tasting menu built around well-sourced produce rather than technique-as-spectacle. At €€€, it is priced seriously — book the full format rather than à la carte if you want to see what the kitchen does at its best.
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