The best French cuisine restaurants Rhône

French people are complainers, pretentious, unfaithful, inconstant… As many clichés, sometimes motivated, which would say that Café Français does not always ensure a smiling service, does not always offer an excellent value for money and a cuisine that does not always meet our required criterion. And yet, Café Français certainly deserves more praises than critics. First, there is the campsite. Located on the quiet Place Poncet, within walking distance from Bellecour and every Lyon sites, Café Français is part of the must-gp for tourists and Lyon residents. The large terrace is a bargain, especially as it is completed by a veranda heated in winter and air conditioned in summer. The indoor rooms are beautiful and the cellar is a real paradise for wine lovers, especially from the region with beautiful bottles and grand crus, or spirits. Menu of tapas to nibble with a glass of good wine. As for the cuisine, the salads are always the stars on the summer menu, including a Salade du Sud-Ouest with homemade foie gras and marinated duck breasts. Of course, the house offers its Café Français burger and its Louchebem burger. Traditional pike quenelles, velvet crab cream, the casseroles of mussels or marinated salmon tartare. Cheeses from Mère Richard, caramel cream, coffee tiramisu, pancakes and waffles to finish in delicacies. In the end, a good address in the heart of Lyon.

An address "perched" on the heights of Croix-Rousse, offering the passing gourmets an exceptional view of the city, but above all a traditional "family house"-style house within a totally unique setting. Because before you even enjoy the Maison Villemanzy cuisine, you first enjoy its décor with beautiful old woodwork, its warm flooring, its veranda and its terrace so far from the bustle of our world… The whole is highlighted by a service run by the excellent Christine and Guillaume Mouchel, the owners of the places. In this dream decor, the cuisine is that of a bistro displaying a short and seasonal menu (6 starters, 6 dishes and 6 desserts) to honour the local products and current recipes: Lyon- style chicken livers cake, warm Dauphiné ravioli salad and Greek-style lemoned mushrooms or a skate terrine with citrus to start. In the same spirit, a Cassolette of hot sausage and steam vegetables with herbs vinaigrette or a Roast cod fillet and risotto, lemon marinade with basil and organic olive oil. Meals and wine pairings are a success. A house of tradition which always surprises us.

Very close to the city and in the heart of a business district, which continues living after offices' closure, but so far from it when you are on one of the most beautiful terraces or in this huge dining room opening onto the world, that L'Ouest is, according to our personal taste, the most successful of the Bocuse brasseries and one of the best in the city. A perfect combination of wood and glass, union of traditionnal and contemporary, exceptional place where you can admire a stunning cellar and the cooks at work throughout the dining room, L'Ouest also provides outstanding service. From the reception to the bill, no flaw and attention to every details at any time to make our mealtime a magical moment. With colleagues, groups, family (children are very well received, congratulations) or two as lovers, the dining room suits all needs. Like the menu, where Cédric Boutroux invites us to discover flavours from elsewhere, but also highlights local products. Culinary journey with Caribbean cod fritters, prawn spring rolls, or a Serrano Trevélez raw ham. Lyon return with a beautiful pan-fried veal liver or the Bresse chicken roasted on a spit. Italian pastas an a minute de thon albacore with Asian flavours. Do not miss the wonderful waffles or the Vacherin with red berries. Wine list accordingly. A modern-day address with yesterday's values, we love.

It is the unmissable meeting point of Place Ambroise-Courtois. Market day or not, you can be at the Industry at any time of the day to enjoy the huge terrace (which is not set up on market days) giving a dolce vita look to this beautiful area, once industrious, which also saw the advent of cinema. If the weather doesn't allow you to sit outside, you can find a well-fitted room where you can feel comfortable, for two people, in a corner, and among friends to share a bench seat. Friendly welcome, efficient service, the industry works daily to receive us well and you quickly become familiar with the place, observing the posters and other objects related to the former industries of the neighbourhood (the factories Calor and then Seb were nearby). When it comes to the cuisine, the dishes are generous and the simple and efficient menu keeps its promises, respecting the flavours of the products prepared. On the menu: A scallop terrine with muscadet, a salmon tartare or a traditional cervelle de canut "comme au mâchon". Salads in two sizes for meal. Coming up next, a home-seasoned tartare cut with a knife, a pièce du boucher, a hot Beaujolais pistachio sausage or a local traditional andouillette with mustard sauce. It's so rare that it deserves to be mentioned, the desserts are homemade, like these seasonal pies or chocolate chips. Not "bright", but an industry that manufactures neighbourhood life and good weather.

Let's just say that Marguerite is one of 8 Brasseries breweries. If one could hope better for this wonderful place after a resounding start, say that today it offers a price-price ratio that makes us hesitate (despite a drop in tariffs this year, still an effort! Some can do better for cheaper, certainly in less prestigious premises…). Nevertheless, the terrace and the garden of this bourgeois house at the beginning of the th century offer a splendid setting at our meal, which the residence of Marguerite Lumière (the wife of Auguste Lumière) receives us in a sumptuous decor to savour a cuisine of fine tradition prepared by Chef Francesco Santin is fun to revisit the tradition of such a bourgeois cuisine. This summer: Scandinave-marinated salmon, soup of melon servie with ice-cream, a plancha bar net, a pan-fried beef fillet, or a peanut baked veal nut. A romantic, romantic address that lends itself to dinner dinners as well as business meals, family meals and other receptions thanks to five privatisables lounges. One of the few (the only ones) addresses of "prestige" in this neighbourhood, the true village, yet easy of Monplaisir.

" Lyon is small for those who love, like us, such a great love. " Not to pay homage to Marcel Carmé's masterpiece when you climb on the plateau of the Croix-Rousse to go to the Children of Paradise. In light retreat from the boulevard, at the corner of two streets, we discover a nice summer terrace and a dominant beige and brown tones room for an atmosphere that succeeds the modern bet to be both refined and user friendly. The hotel's lovely guest house, which makes every effort to make our meal a special moment, even at noon. In slate, seasonal lunches and a map that mixes the pleasures of both here and elsewhere: Successful cod acras or a medallion of pan-fried foie gras on caramel apple. Beautiful fish, including a cod back to both citrus fruits or mullet fillets with ginger, as well as roasted lamb chops to the goat and coriander a carry of Indian chicken for flavours. A fine selection of wines with a glass, the music is bercer and you become a festival in the light of the projected short films. New of the year, all dishes are now available.

What could you get to the Cross-Rousse to come and eat lunch at the Boulevard du Boulevard? Of course, if you are told that homemade lasagna are among the best we have eaten and that Chile is of the same ilk, it is a first incentive to get out of your home. But the real reason that will make you go to the plateau, to this neighborhood bistro that has been in place for a long time in the middle of the cross of the Croix-Rousse, is that it has been renovated with a lot of taste by a true roussien that makes it a spirit of conviviality as you love them. On the benches of the large hall, on the colourful chairs of the large terrace, sheltered in the adjoining rooms, you also enjoy a warm welcome. Whether you're a market day for refreshment, ice or drink, or you're setting up for a full and generous meal, the smile is always the same and it's not uncommon to share its good mood with neighbors. A true bistro to the free food that cultivates something rare: happiness.

This Nord (French for "North") is quite relative, since it is located in the heart of the Lyon Peninsula. The first brasserie open by Paul Bocuse - already 23 years ago with the takeover of Le Nord, famous Lyon brasserie inaugurated in 1907 by Edouard Herriot - is thus in a side street, within walking distance from Rue de République. One of the signatures of the Brasseries Bocuse is the verandas that allow you to enjoy the show of a little dark street throughout the year. You will undoubtedly prefer the traditional and cordial room. As usual, flawless reception and service to offer us the opportunity to taste "traditional", like the place. The upper floor offers private lounges where it is pleasant to discuss with colleagues or in family in a cosy atmosphere. You settle down on the red seats and you discover the specialties of an almost unchanging menu that are, according to the seasons, the sauerkraut and the Burgundy snails with parsley butter. Here, the cuisine known as "middle-class" is in its kingdom and you come to enjoy the suggestions of the Chef Franck Barrouilhet: warm sausage with pistachio in brioche, duck foie gras terrine, a mix of griddled fillets of market fish, a pike quenelle with lobster sauce, the chicken fricassee of calf kidneys with mustard... Without forgetting the Grandmother waffles which have contributed to the reputation of the place. A very classic address, in the best sense of the word.

From the station of Brotteaux and its amazing decor, we look towards Dombes and Bresse. A brasserie with a refined buffet station's setting with a small advertising train going around the room and many "attractions" which make this place a truly "different" one. One of the breweries at the cardinal points on behalf of Paul Bocuse and one of the most convivial. Chef Cyril Marlard prepares great classic with a Caesar salad of the East, a Bömlo salmon marinated in Scandinavian way, a very delicious homemade foie gras cooked in earthenware or the Lyon-style pan-fried thinly sliced veal liver, veal liver in Lyon's way, the Bresse chicken roasted on a pit, without missing the very traditional rum baba. A serious address as all the Bocuse brasseries.

When we go to the family, it is not always a pleasure. There, it is the opposite and you go to this family a smile to the lips - after having reserved, it is more prudent than to take a place by a distant cousin - and the desire to stomach to taste a good dish of season. If time permits, we take advantage of the terrace overlooking a small street, or you can take refuge in a trendy bistro room with family portraits hanging across the walls. Kitchen side: respect for products, simple but refined flavours, fine dishes, fine cuts for which we take the time. Please note that the family always offers a vegetarian dish. This summer, when the heat didn't open up the appetite especially, a round zucchini stuffed with small vegetables, eggs and roasted potatoes made it (the appetite of course). It's always fresh with herbal hake or a thigh of crystallized can to tomato oil, to finish with apricot clafoutis and dough cream. A Smart family is happy to take the time of a meal.

On the long avenue of General de Gaulle, at the height of the road of Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or (a car park is at the beginning of this road), Limonest looks like a village, with the church square and, next to the Butcher's Room. Held by Josiane, always there to delight his customers, and Georges Bush, once butcher and then restaurateurs at Plane in Champagne for 13 years, the Butcher's Exhibit is the meat specialist. Friendly and shaded terrace protected from traffic, two cosy rooms to settle comfortably. On the map, the specialities are called rib or tender rib from the Bistrot (on-site), served with a succulent pick potato to the ceps. Don't miss the homemade burger in the Saint-marcellin. Pleasant wine list.

This summer, there are always buoys on the terrace. However, there is no risk of drowning. The Rhône is not far, but come on! Chez les Garçons is the relaxed class. It is the sweet way in which you are asked your first name when booking -because you should book not to fall into the water - and in which you are welcomed in a simple way, as a friend who comes to eat at home.  Chez les Garçons is a bouchon even down to its decoration, with an incredible number of heteroclite objects that perfectly blends together. Good taste, it's everywhere. The small summer terrace is a boon, but the dining room is a refuge where everyone finds their way. You feel comfortable. Bruno and Patrick are lovely people who pamper you before, during and after the service, always with a kind word. On the menu, as in true bouchons, you won't find necessarily Lyon specialties but fresh ingredients and the daily specials are really Lyon ... in tune with the times. It is thus difficult to tell you what you will eat, according to the inspiration of the market and the season, but Futé enjoyed an Oriental Pie served with a mint sauce, semolina and salad. A treat. The lemon pie, homemade of course, at the time of dessert, was excellent. Impressive with simplicity and kindness.