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.
Tip: The Coussin de Lyon assortment box is the city gift; available by weight.
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Location
Address: 11 Place Bellecour, 69002 Lyon
Also in 2e
Le Pain des Jacobins ★ 4.0
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 Chocolatier Lyon ★ 4.0
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
More bakeries in Lyon
Bouillet Freres Lumiere ★ 4.1
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 ★ 4.0
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 Chocolatier Lyon ★ 4.0
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 ★ 4.8
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 ★ 4.6
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 ★ 4.4
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