L' Atelier d' Yvonne — Restaurant in Lyon

We visited Lyon for a business trip with a coworker and were recommended this street for some excellent dinners.

We wanted to give a second try on some local french cusine and this place seemed to be filled with people and the food looked delicious

We chose the menu "Menu Tradition" for 28,9€ / person which turned out to be a good choice.

I chose for my set: Starter: "Velouté de potiron, escargots persillés" - Pumpkin soup with some herb & garlic Snails Main: "Fricassée de rognons et ris de veau au Porto" - Some kidneys with a sauce of portwine Dessert: Creme dessert

For the wine we chose a 50ish euro bottle of Hértiers Gambert Nobles Rives Crozes-Hermitage from 2022.

The starter was amazing, the texture and taste of the soup were perfect and the snails crowned the whole experience off.

For the main I wanted to try something rather French, so I gave the kidneys a try. For my palate they did not taste so good, however my coworker tried one and to him they were perfect, so while a miss for me personally, a well cooked dish!

For the dessert I took a creme dessert which was very delicious.

Extra credit to our waitress, she was really friendly and helped us as best as possible!

I would recommend...

Wonderful dinner! Outstanding quenelles, service, atmosphere and overall menu.

Staff were apologetic when they sat us next to a table of 20, but it just made the atmosphere lively and didn't affect service at all.

We chose the €23 menu and couldn't have been happier. Yvonne's Plate was a brilliant taster of red-wine poached egg & liver soufflé; the leek salad was sweet and tasty - both were excellent!

For mains, the pork filet mignon was good, but nothing special. The quenelles, however, were glorious - smooth and light, in a rich lobster sauce with a silky liver soufflé on the side, now I understand all the fuss about Lyonnaise food.

Marc was our waiter, Lyon-born and Florida-bred, he was no-fuss and quick with a joke. His English made our night easier, but all of the staff were great.

Definitely recommend, don't walk...

We checked all the restaurants down this really cozy and nice street, I would recommend checking out the street anyway, and I decided to go to Thai one just because of the way it looked due to lack of french speaking a reading myself. It was full so it must be a good sign right?

Was indeed a charming experience. The interior design had a characteristic of its own and the waiter was edgy but friendly. Typical stressed out for such a workload but always kept things interesting and enjoyable small chat. This is more of a good efeedback than anything.

And the food Wow was seriously Impressive. It was on point. Really tasty and at a very very good price. No matter what we ordered it tasted good, the cocktails, the escargot, the main meal. Seriously...