Chez Hugon — Restaurant in Lyon

Chez Hugon is the quintessential Lyonnaise bouchon in which to find France's soul served on a plate, day after day since 1937. The economical three course menu priced at 28 euros offers a diverse range of classic fare such as jambon persille, lentilles saucisson chaud, tablier de sapeur and quenelle de brochet prepared perfectly.

We started our meal with exquisite rillette of geese, ham and parsley terrine, warm cervelas sausage served on lentils and the most perfect salade Lyonnaise imaginable.

For main courses, we had chicken with crayfish, tete de veau with sauce gribiche, veal sweetbreads meuniere and an epic quelles of pike in a crayfish sauce. One month later and I am still haunted by how feathery light and tasty the quenelle was. We drank several pots of delicious Beaujolais wine.

For dessert we had tarte tatin, tarte au praline, chocolate mousse and oeufs a la neige.

We ate at Paul Bocuse a few days later and I am not sure that experience, though on the complete other side of the spectrum of dining, was any better.

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A taxi driver told us we had to experience authentic Lyon cuisine at a type of restaurant classified as “Bouchon Lyonnaise,” because Lyon is the gastronomic capital of France. We found Hogan by walking past it and as we tried to decipher the French menu we were discouraged at the effort. The woman inside was not eager at first to help, but when we circled back to try again with Google translate, she invited us in! I asked about the “brain” dish and she assured me it’s not brain but a fresh cheese from the region’s silk workers. With relief, we sat down in the tiny dining room to one of the best meals and culinary adventures we’ve had in all our travels! It was all familiar but completely unique and delectable! Highly recommend, and I plan to learn how to make the Salade...

This place is wonderful, and the food is prepared in the traditional style of Lyon. The entire restaurant is 7 tables, and patrons are asked to share a table with strangers in order to fill the restaurant to capacity. The most wonderful part about the restaurant is the style of the menu, including, if I translate correctly, face of beef, face of veal, neck of veal, blood sausage, cow stomach sausage. Visitors to Lyon should try at least one of these, no matter what images of horror the names invoke.Worth mentioning: the restaurant will fill up after 8PM, so try to get there before then. The menu, as of January 2013, is fixed price €25, not including wine. The spacing of the tables does not allow for any customers over 300 pounds, it's...