The best Italian pizzerias and restaurants Rhône

To discover the good addresses, do not hesitate to expand your horizons. When you discover Pompéi in this part of the Lafayette courts near Villeurbanne, it is a real eruption of flavours that is on your plate. Le Pompéi, it is a real Italian restaurant run by authentic Italian who can share their love of the typical dishes of a country full of sun. In this Ristorante Italiano, beautiful decor and a wall decorated with a fresco that reminds us of the origin of the sign, you can enjoy the warm welcome of Antonio, all the freshness and the generosity of the preparation of Franco. You can start with the famous Antipasto iltaliano Pompéi, a nice variation around the Italian charcuterie and marinated vegetables served with white pizza, a delicious Crocantini di capra, crispy goat and its fig jam, or a nice breaded mozzarella. As for the pizzas, you can see the "Classiques", with the delicious and perfectly composed pasta, the "Gourmandes", including the Roberto with mushrooms and raw ham. But the menu is much wider, with a large selection of pasta, gratins, like these lasagnes alla campana, fish, including a bouillabaisse in Italian way, or good meats, including this Franco topped with raw ham and Parmesan. Homemade desserts and wine list from here that does not forget the good chianti. You must be guided to Pompei to be surprised by the magic of Italy, the real one.

Ti amo, io sono, ti amo. Futé is always in love with Mamma and even more when it hears Umberto Tozzi's hit in this room of another age where you feel so good. Mamma is the Italian restaurant, an osteria, that we dream of. The terrace belongs to our favourites in this Rue Pleney which is transformed into a pedestrian street in summer. The small scorching heat of this summer allowed us to appreciate an aperitivo in a very warm evening. Aperol Spritz, Italian cold meats and cheeses at each round! When you will read these lines, it will be time to find refuge in a vintage room where Formica tables, a splendid checkered floor and objects which captivate our attention, like this screen that plays white and black films with the beautiful Marcello or these 100% Italian toilets reign. Well, this is before you are served the 100%-homemade dishes. The products are remarkably fresh, the speck is delicious and whether you choose to treat yourself with a bruschetta mozzarella rocket and pesto, homemade antipasti, first-class pizzas or an Italian seasonal dish, to end with a limoncello pannacotta, happiness remains the same. The wine list, which is often organic, is in harmony with the dishes. We should note that the service is particularly pleasant. An address that is permanently among our favourites.

" Home made ", this is how Casareccio can be translated from this 6 th Arrondissement Italian restaurant. It should be said that we could also add "trattoria" before this sign, so everything is "made in Italy" in this facility which offers fresh products, cheeses, cold meats… Italian. Terrace with olive trees, sober interior on two levels, blend of old and modern, wooden oven to cook pizzas and grill meats, nothing missing to transport us on the other side of the Alps. A nice choice of pizzas to enjoy on site or to take away, but above all a beautiful menu of Italian gastronomy from pasta to envy: Maruzzella maruzzella, fettuccine al pesto, ravioli ai funghi di bosco, al lasagna… to homemade desserts, to a agnello di forno, the traditional scaloppa Milanese or parmigiana, without missing the osso-buco and the saltimbocca alla romana. An authentic Italian house, where even chocolate served with the coffee is Italian! for our greatest pleasure. Italian service, smiling and efficient.

This is the terrace where you have to come and drink its Aperol Sipped with an orange slice in it. Finally, if there is still room on the terrace, for in a short time the restaurant of Cyrille Monnet - cross to the Three Maries, the case friendly - has been successful. It is therefore prudent to book at lunchtime to have the right to enjoy an excellent dish of the day at 12 € and the colours of Italy, the north preferably, realized with fresh fresh produce and revisited according to the chef's Lyon inspiration. A daily gastronomic delight and other suggestions for pleasure with a genovese basilico gran, pig feet, beans and ceps, or a ris risotto risotto, Scottish Coquilles and wild asparagus. It is impossible to predict what you will find on the slate on the day of your visit, because you will not miss coming, but it is certain that happiness will be on your plate! A friendly atmosphere, it laugh in a frame where every detail (and music) has its importance, a little in the way of a stopper that would have crossed the Alps. A great success and a real discovery recommended by the Smart.

In your opinion, who can an Italian say "I love you"? His girlfriend, mother or acciughe (grandmother)? All three, bravo! With a preference for grandmother Maria who has passed on the best taste of her country to Luigi, the chef who makes us share his delicious recipes. And if Jérémy's grandmother was not Italian, it must be recognized that the other membre's pizza is delicious. An atypical setting - look at the ceiling - a small room that delivers souvenirs from Italy to enjoy a map that divides between traditional cuisine and pizza. On both sides, even concern for quality and origin of products. Small prices and fine achievements in plates with dishes of the day to the names that make them dream, like these ricotta chicken polpettone and wrapped poulet in a speck of speck… Not forgetting the gnocchis according to the seasons, such as this surprising and delicious summer pears, the famous Bobo pizza or Torta della mama to finish. In this area where eating can be complicated, an address should not be missed.

In the centre of Caudataires, the Cabalesta takes us to the small Italian villages, where the kitchen does not cheat with tradition. Cabaleta means "Arc-en-ciel" in Piedmontese dialect for an address that offers French cuisine only to the menus of the day. Yolande, the owner of the places in the kitchen, is a pure Italian who makes a point of only working fresh products and preparing homemade dishes. Whether you settle in the large and pleasant air-conditioned room or on the quiet garden side terrace, the same map of authenticity is discovered. Of course, we start with the wide choice of pizzas with original recipes, such as this Félicia, the name of Yolande's grandmother, made up of fresh tomatoes, garlic, parsley, parmesan, pecorino, olive oil and oregano. We also love to choose 2 of the 4 cheeses of its pizza from the same name, between gorgonzola, dough, roquefort or the goat according to its preferences. If the pizzas are delicious, they should not let us forget the specialities coming from small Italian villages like this wonderful Macaronade to savour. Possibility to organize thematic evenings, group meals, birthday… A smart address with Italian colours.

At Paolino, a well-known area of the area where it is imperative to book at noon, every day we place a point of honour to serve you with a generous sun full of sunshine. Two beautiful air-conditioned rooms, one on the mezzanine, inviting us to Italy, and an efficient service that makes us feel "as at home" in a friendly atmosphere. At every meal, the pleasure is the same and if one comes back every lunchtime to taste the many specialities of the house, including the famous pizza pizzas and crispy, fragrant and full of plates like this Gilberto, this Paolino or this Zucchine with its pickled zucchini. It is with envy that we wait on Thursday and Friday evening to explore the map. Maxi-salads, including a wonderful antipasti at 9,50 €, pasta, of course, fish and meat with an Italian-style veal steak. As the culmination of a delicious meal, the desserts are home-made (4 hours daily) and it would be a serious mistake not to succumb to tiramisu decline according to the seasons. Paolino welcomes groups, even schools, to organise event meals. Address should not be missed.

A small corner of Italy full of delicious discoveries: antipasti, fresh pasta, home-made ravioli stuffed with meat, mushrooms, vegetables or cheese… at noon, we turn for lunch in front of the chilled window, between Secco pasta shelves, regional wine bottles and large black and white photos of Italian actors. A genuine atmosphere of trattoria. The rest of the time, the grocery store delivers its treasures: in addition to fresh pasta, charcuterie, cheese, plethora of marinated antipasti (dried tomatoes, artichokes of artichokes, anchovies, mushrooms…), local pastries encartonnées, several homemade sauces and a minute grated Parmesan for maximum aromas on the plate. In short, a nice neighbourhood address, which deserves to be stopped.

After years in Lyons, Smart realized that he often crossed Saint-Priest, ignoring that this city had a "city heart", an old village that deserved to be discovered. Surrounded by several car parks, this village of Saint-Priest houses a charming small square, just steps from the castle, on which the large shaded terrace of the Pizzeria du Village opens. A soft terrace that makes us forget the hustle and bustle of the city and offers the necessary relaxation for lunch and dinner after work. Smiling home when you go into a large, resolutely contemporary room, in grey tones with red and black chairs. From the entrance, you can't miss the traditional wooden oven and the pizzaïolo prepares tasty pizza from twenty to the map. Alsatian, Norwegian, Florentina, Lyon, Country, Oriental, they are making us travel with compositions based on quality ingredients. But the map doesn't stop at pizza and you can enjoy antipasti, salads of different sizes, risotto aux and Madras curry, pasta, a milanese beef tartar or Milanese veal steak. The desserts are house with chocolate profiteroles or ice nougat. The most of this address, a children's space for them to play while parents eat. A pleasant discovery.

Not always easy to put life in this neighbourhood of De, yet just steps from the Share Dieu and the Halles de Lyon. The good idea of Adrian Pendola and Khaled Stud is to have transformed a walk into a modern version, paying tribute to an exceptional woman. Vita, this is the aunt's forename of Adrien. It is this woman, of Sicilian origin, who is discovered in vintage photography on her Vespa adorning the "ristorante" wall. In addition, the à la carte special pizza recipe has been prepared by Thierry. On the side of traditional cuisine, the Sardinian chef, Davide, spoils us with typical Italian dishes, with incursions on his island. We settled in a room in the red and white tiles— the red is very present, but there's also wood— and we start with a few homemade faits, before you get the balance to the pizzas or the dishes with gambas gambas on a rocket bed and soup in the pistou, trofie hetero polpette in salsa all'arrabbiata, orecchie di elefante went Milanese… This is accompanied by a good Italian wine and ends with a tiramisu worthy of the name. A novelty noticed by the Smart.

Somewhere between the Seven Paths and the Jonage Canal, an unexpected address arose between two industrial stores. Well, when you know the neighborhood's "potential" and the number of hungry at noon in search of quality restoration. This "ristorante" in the Italian air has invested a beautiful house to innovate in Lyon with an Italian buffet concept. And it's pretty successful. The terrace gives a Roman holiday air to our lunch and the rooms, with red and black tones, a checkerboard on the ground for the restoration part on the thumb, are worthy to appear at the competition of the Lyon Shop Design. It is fine, but is it good? Caffe Piqueras offers every day something like 24 entries, one could say antipasti & Cie, 13 hot dishes and 13 desserts, for a formula at 17 €, wines not included. So the choice is there, but the quality? She too. The flavours vary according to the seasons, but we have been able to enjoy a plateau plateau, a mini pick of aubergines, pasta with sauces, well-attached verrines and a more than correct terracotta panna. Wines transalpine in accompaniment. A genuine original address to change its habits at lunchtime.

Franco Provvedi is not here to act. Although he is a talented actor with Italian accents, he opened Bocca di Rosa (title of a song: " La chiamavano bocca di rosa, Metteva l'amore, metteva l'amore"…) to make you discover Croix-Rousse inhabitants (and Lyonnais who wish to go up there) the pizzas alla romana. A dough mind worked mainly made with Italian flour and with a good leaven that takes all its time to rise the dough, topped with products directly from Italy (from the Marche region to be precise) and local vegetables. Enjoy a moment of gourmandise and good humour in a restaurant inviting you to stay on the spot to feel like in Italy than to take home pizza (al taglio, very fashionable at the moment). Romarino, Cippola, Margherita, Parmiggiana, Bufalina… Everyone finds their happiness accompanied by a glass of wine, of course Italian. There's a small delicatessen putting on sale the Marche products to bring home the best of Italy. A mouth and a new address to hug tight.

Italy is fashionable and the farfalle make a mess! This address "to the taste of the day" shows beautiful assets to seduce us. First of all, we are attracted by its terrace on the shaded sidewalk of a charming avenue. But you should not miss the particularly successful garden of the main room - woody notes, bright touches of orange, ice, flat screen broadcasting fashion shows, butterflies in pasta… - and the more intimate mezzanine. Another success, the plate. The salads are generous, the pasta is really good with their sauce, the tasty gnocchis, the lasagna as it should be, the tartar with its little potatoes well seasoned, the well-stuffed pizzas and the maison house are simply eat. A place that has managed to capture the spirit of the neighborhood well.

What is beautiful this Edgar-Quinnet square and how pleased it is to have found, at one of its ends, this Italian store-restaurant held by a happy female band, from the kitchens to the service. A nice terrace from the beautiful days and the friendly room, its stall with antipasti, cheeses and meats and its high slate where the formulas of the day are announced. A cuisine based on the quality of the Italian products offered in a generous salad served in a superb dish or in fine sauces. Sausage plates, vegetables or cheeses complete the offer of the day. But we must not miss the tiramisu house, one of the few that can be said to be better than ours… To lick the bottom of the dish, is it not Madam? Address especially appreciated by Petit Smart.

Never crash into your couch without a Black Box. At the controls of the four addresses, including a "Rose" at H7 Confluence: Lucas. It was quite naturally in Naples that Lucas became passionate about pizza. His dough is home-made, his pizzas are cooked over a wood fire and his ingredients come from Italy, such as the mozzarella di bufala D.O.P. Spritz around a plate "among friends" of Italian cold cuts and grilled vegetables before moving on to the pizza. Pomodoro or bianca, all the compositions are envious.