To the East, he's licensed out his name to eight brasseries in Japan.

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And brasseries like this one will always do well.

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Lille springs to life at night: taverns and brasseries start to fill from around 11 pm, when tourists and locals share stories in the wooden-walled drinking holes off the Grand Place and throughout Vieux-Lille.

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