Restaurant
Le Café du Peintre - Chez Périer
11 locals recommend,
Location
50 Bd des Brotteaux
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Tips from locals
"The finest quenelle de brochet, a golden, potato-shaped pike soufflé floating in a sea of creamy lobster sauce, is served at Florence Périer’s Café du Peintre. It is one of the traditional recipes Mère Périer picked up from her mother and grandmother. All of her immediate family work in Lyon’s restaurants – photos of them as children hang alongside mirrors and old wine boxes on the bouchon walls. The cafe serves a mâchon (a selection of pork products washed down with a jug of Beaujolais) at nine in the morning, although for most dishes Périer admits to using “healthier, lighter ingredients” nowadays. At lunchtime, the place is full of lawyers, tourists and locals...."
"The finest quenelle de brochet, a golden, potato-shaped pike soufflé floating in a sea of creamy lobster sauce, is served at Florence Périer’s Café du Peintre. It is one of the traditional recipes Mère Périer picked up from her mother and grandmother. All of her immediate family work in Lyon’s rest…