Le Pain des Jacobins is a bakery in 2E, Lyon.
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.
Address: 3 Rue de l'Ancienne Prefecture, 69002 Lyon
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
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
Bernachon in Lyon's 6e is the bean-to-bar chocolatier founded by Maurice Bernachon in 1953, with a Rue Franklin Roosevelt salon de the and a full pastry.
Tip: The President cake is the order; a slice with espresso at the salon is the form.
Worth the queue: President cake, chocolate, hazelnut praline
Maison Pralus runs the bean-to-bar chocolate house Auguste Pralus founded in 1955, with a Lyon counter at Halles Paul Bocuse for the praluline brioche.
Tip: The praluline (pink-praline brioche) is the dish; a whole loaf travels home.
Worth the queue: Praluline brioche with pink pralines
Jocteur runs a Halles Paul Bocuse counter from the family bakery in Saint-Genis-Laval, with naturally-leavened breads and a long-fermented sourdough loaf.
Tip: Closed Sunday-Monday; pain au levain is the loaf; arrive by 09:00 for the warm batch.
Worth the queue: Pain au levain naturel
Pignol is the multi-generation Lyonnais bakery and patisserie with a Place Bellecour counter for the pink-praline tart, sandwiches and chocolate eclairs.
Tip: The tarte aux pralines (pink praline) is the order; sold by the slice from 11:00.
Worth the queue: Tarte aux pralines
Bouillet on Place de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon's 4e is Sebastien Bouillet's patisserie and chocolate counter, with the city's most-faithful coussin de Lyon.
Tip: The coussin de Lyon (marzipan-and-chocolate pillow) is the order; closed Sunday-Monday.
Worth the queue: Coussin de Lyon
