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 Nougamandine box and the bean-to-bar slabs are the order.
Bakeries: tours, tastings and classes in Lyon
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Location
Address: 50 Rue de Brest, 69002 Lyon
More bakeries in Lyon
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
Bouillet ★ 4.4
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 ★ 4.7
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
Boulangerie du Palais ★ 4.7
Boulangerie du Palais in Vieux Lyon is the praline-rose specialist run by pastry chef Sebastien Bouillet on Rue du Palais de Justice, with a queue.
Tip: Arrive before 11:00 on weekends for the full counter; the box of six small praline tarts is the form.
Worth the queue: Tarte aux pralines roses