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.
Le Pain des Jacobins is a bakery in 2E, Lyon.
Editorially verified May 31, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Two small tables only; the tarte aux pralines and the praline-sablee are the order.
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: 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
Jocteur runs a Halles Paul Bocuse counter from the family bakery on the Ile Barbe, with naturally leavened breads and long fermented sourdough loaves.
Tip: Closed 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
Pralus Presqu'ile on Rue de Brest in the 2e is the praluline-brioche counter for the Lyon peninsula, with whole loaves of pink-praline brioche from Roanne.
Tip: A whole praluline loaf travels for a day; ask for the freshly-bagged hot one.
Worth the queue: Praluline brioche, plain and chocolate