Vieux Lyon: Make a flan or a mille-feuille with puff pastry
Welcome to the heart of Old Lyon, in a cozy cooking studio where you will learn how to make a praline flan or a mille-feuille, as well as homemade puff pastry.
Antoinette Pain et Brioche is a bakery in 7E, Lyon.
Editorially verified May 31, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: The praline brioche is the order; closed Sunday-Monday; the shared loaf travels for a day.
Welcome to the heart of Old Lyon, in a cozy cooking studio where you will learn how to make a praline flan or a mille-feuille, as well as homemade puff pastry.
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Address: 117 Rue Sebastien Gryphe, 69007 Lyon
Boulangerie Saint-Paul in Vieux Lyon is the 1899-founded boulangerie on Place Saint-Paul, where a relaunch under Maison Farine took regional vice-prize.
Tip: The pain au chocolat is the order; arrive before 11:00 for the warm batch.
Worth the queue: Pain au chocolat and country baguette
Boulangerie Marcel on Rue Bugeaud in the 6e is pastry chef Mathieu Jullien's bakery, where trompe-l'oeil fruit patisseries (Granny Smith, lemon.
Tip: The trompe-l'oeil Granny Smith is the signature; arrive before 11:00 for the croissant pick.
Worth the queue: Trompe-l'oeil fruit patisserie
Voisin on Place Bellecour is the Lyonnais chocolatier founded in 1897, the originator of the Coussin de Lyon: a cushion-shaped almond marzipan filled.
Tip: The Coussin de Lyon assortment box is the city gift; available by weight.
Worth the queue: Coussin de Lyon (almond marzipan)
Bouillet on Avenue des Freres Lumiere in the 8e is the Monplaisir-side patisserie counter for Sebastien Bouillet's praline tart, macarons. Family-friendly.
Tip: Tarte aux pralines by the slice and the macaron line of the day are the order.
Worth the queue: Tarte aux pralines and macarons
Le Pain des Jacobins between Marche Saint-Antoine and Place des Jacobins in the 2e is Hugo's contemporary boulangerie running quality country loaves.
Tip: Two small tables only; the tarte aux pralines and the praline-sablee are the order.
Worth the queue: Tarte aux pralines and country loaf
Weiss on Rue de Brest in the 2e is the Saint-Etienne chocolatier founded in 1882, with the Lyon flagship counter and the Nougamandine praline as the city.
Tip: The Nougamandine box and the bean-to-bar slabs are the order.
Worth the queue: Praliné Nougamandine