Please recommend: 1 or 2 star michelin restaurant in Lyon

Kasper wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

You are a little south of the main part of the city, the nearest starred restaurant is Les Trois Domes at the Sofitel, I haven't eaten there for dinner but I stayed there and had a drink in the bar, It is a gorgeous room and view. a little less fancy and three blocks further are several restaurants near the Place Bellecour including BOcuse's bistro, Le Sud (I liked the little place next door (to the left as you face Le Sud) nothing fancy but a good meal for the money.

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Look for the wines of J.L. Chave (located in Mauves just north of Tournon) they make some excellent wines including the US retail @$25-30 Offerus St Joseph

A couple 'must visit' winemakers when you're in Tain Hermitage;

• Chapoutier - cellar right in town. we just visited a couple weeks ago.
• Jaboulet - cellar just out of Tain (south). Only open in the morning between 10.30 and noon, or something like that, or by appointment.

Both are outstanding winemakers.

Ric

While you are there, feel the label!

(It will make sense when you do!)

pk

That's cool, isn't it? I've not seen any other winemakers that do that.

Just so happens we had a bottle of Chapoutier St. Joseph's 'Deschants' just last night!

I'm not sure if it's got a star yet, but I can highly recommend Les Adrets in the old city. The food is superb, it's fairly casual and it's got a great wine list. When we dined there in '01, we got a bottle of the '98 Graillot Crozes-Hermitage off the list. My lapereau brochette was awesome and the French couple next to us wanted to know how we'd found our way there (a friend in Lyon told us).

Jaboulet and Chapoutier are OK to visit (somewhat like a CA tasting room), but if you can speak any French, I'd try making an appointment with some smaller vignerons. Chave might be hard to see, but most others will meet you if you arrange your visit in advance. Those visits are far more interesting to me.

HTH Mark Lipton (posting from the departure lounge at Tokyo Narita)

Mark Lipton wrote in news:e8kptl$n8t$1 @nntp.aioe.org:

It has one fork (casual) and good value menu listing by Michelin

the Cave Cooperative is also fairly big modern and unlike any vinyard I have been to in France, this is not the place that you see locals pulling up to fill plastic jugs from what looks like gasoline dispensers, but they have a large tasting menu.

I wish I could remember the name of the wine store in Tournon that I stopped at very good selection of local wines and staff that knew each one well (IF you go tho the train monumentthere will be a row of shops facingthe waterfront, it is in that row and has a cavey kind of look to it.

Salut/Hi p.k.,

le/on Thu, 6 Jul 2006 20:51:53 +0100, tu disais/you said:-

Helps if you're blind drunk at the time.

Heh... I saw (and felt) the first braille label years ago.

Les Adrets. It's on the list. I like your description of the place. I like Graillot too, btw. He and Chave (Yann) are my favorite producers of crozes, even though the Le Rouvre 2004 (formerly téte de cuvée) strikes me as a bit too mordern.

I do speak a bit of French. We've previously visited small producers in Cornas (Alain Voge e.g.) - however, as we haven't done very much planning in advance, I'm not even sure which day we'll go to Tournon/Tain yet. How long in advance does one normally have to make the appointment?

This would be it, right?

Adresse :

Thank you for the advice!