Eat in Lyon
Search Lyon dishes by craving — cervelle de canut, le mâchon, quenelle de brochet and more.
6 dishes worth going out of your way for in Lyon, 2 of them vegetarian. Each one lists where to eat it, because the dish and the room that does it well are not the same question.
Leave room for Tarte aux pralines.
Le mâchon and Saucisson brioché are a breakfast thing here, and sell out by mid-morning.
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Fromage blanc beaten with chopped chives, parsley, shallot, garlic, salt, oil and vinegar until it is light, and eaten cold with bread or a boiled potato.
€6–10
Best around: Rue du Major Martin, Presqu'île and Rue Pizay, Presqu'île
Not a dish but a meal: a plate of charcuterie — rosette, jésus, sometimes tripe or a quenelle — with bread and a pot of Beaujolais, eaten mid-morning, sitting down, in a bouchon.
€20–30
Best around: Rue Tramassac, Vieux Lyon
Pike, egg and a flour-and-butter panade beaten to a paste, shaped into a long oval and poached — at which point it swells to several times its raw size — then baked in a crayfish sauce until the top browns.
€16–26
Best around: Rue Guynemer, Ainay — across the Saône from Vieux Lyon and Rue du Major Martin, Presqu'île
Curly frisée dressed in a mustard vinaigrette, with bacon lardons, croutons fried in the same pan and a poached egg on top that you break so the yolk becomes half the dressing.
€10–16
Best around: Rue Guynemer, Ainay — across the Saône from Vieux Lyon and Rue du Major Martin, Presqu'île
MildA whole cooking sausage — often pistachio-studded — poached, wrapped in brioche dough and baked, then cut into thick slices and served warm.
€5–12
Best around: Rue Guynemer, Ainay — across the Saône from Vieux Lyon and Cours Lafayette, Part-Dieu
A pastry shell filled with pink pralines — almonds coated in cooked sugar dyed a deep pink — melted down with cream into a thick, sticky, brilliantly coloured filling.
€4–8 a slice
Best around: Rue du Major Martin, Presqu'île and Rue Tramassac, Vieux Lyon
