La Cave Café Terroir — Restaurant in Lyon

Lunch blessed by Carthusian monks at the temple of Chartreuse in Lyon aka the unmatched Cave Cafe Terroir. The food was kissed by the hands of angels. From the amuse of chicken stock and sweet potato puree, to the housemate terrine, the tart tartine of caramelized shallot with flakey pastry that you can hear shatter with the slightest fork pressure, the melt in your mouth over the top decadence of braised beef cheek and foie, to the cheese that i was too stuffed to finish. But OMG the Chartreuse! MOF, Elixir 1605, and the coup de grace the Cuvee of Green Chartreuse releases going back over 3 decades. 🥹

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I can only give it the elusive 6/5 fuegos.

Thank you to @cyril_mntg for the rec!

Thank you to the wonderful and sweet staff for making my lunch a truly unforgettable culinary experience that i will treasure for the...

1 orange wine by the glass. Some other natural wine.

The Mamadeta is a cocktail drunk during the Santa Tecla Festival in Tarragona, Catalunya. Its name likely derives from “mamar” (sucking), emphasizing the drink’s easy consumption.

It’s made by mixing yellow Chartreuse—a herbal liqueur originally created by French Carthusian monks in the 18th century—with lemon granizado (lemon slush). The result is a cold, sweet, and slightly herbal cocktail that’s bright greenish-yellow in color.

Even though I've lived in Barcelona for a few years, I've never been to Tarragona, and never heard of this drink. Chartreuse is made in the Alps near Lyon and is very popular in...

I think we must have been invisible this evening when we were shown to our table. We sat for 20 minutes while others who arrived after us were promptly served. The 3 of us thought we were in some café in Paris where waiters love to dance around tourists like it is some game. We had happily spent nearly 300 euros earlier in the day for lunch at a nearby related restaurant so this experience was a most unexpected. That was a service and food service expected for a visiting guest or local alike. Unfortunately la cave was just a a bad memory. We got up and left without so much as a glance from the 4 or 5 staff members standing...