Part-Dieu
Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse
Lyon's covered food market and the city's cathedral of eating — the place to graze on quenelles, praline tarts, artisan cheeses, and charcuterie alongside chefs shopping for their restaurants.
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What to do in Lyon, right now.
Lyon is France's kitchen — bouchons, covered markets, two rivers. Appricio hands you the one table, market stall or riverside stroll that fits the moment.
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Restaurant · Presqu'île, 1st arrondissement
Le Garet
A century-old certified bouchon near Terreaux that carries on unfussy Lyonnais cooking — quenelles, salade lyonnaise, carafe of Beaujolais — without any concession to tourism.
Restaurant · Presqu'île, 1st arrondissement
Le Café Des Fédérations
Red-checked tablecloths, dried sausages overhead, generous portions and a decades-long reputation as the bouchon that most reliably delivers the full Lyonnais experience.
Croix-Rousse
Association des commercants de la croix rousse
A self-guided wander through Lyon's network of secret silk-workers' passageways — longer and more atmospheric here than in Vieux Lyon, connecting courtyards, stairwells, and whole hillside blocks.
Café · Croix-Rousse (1er)
La Boîte à Café
The café arm of Lyon's pioneering Mokxa roastery, tucked on the slopes of Croix-Rousse — small, sincere, and the closest thing the city has to a specialty-coffee institution.
Landmark · La Croix-Rousse
Traboule et Cour des Voraces
A monumental six-storey open-air traboule courtyard — once the nerve centre of Canut silk-worker uprisings — with a grand staircase that feels more stage-set than residential building.
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