Vieux Lyon

Vieux Lyon is the Renaissance core at the foot of Fourvière — cobbled streets, pastel façades, and the secret traboules that thread between buildings down to the Saône. It is the city's most touristed quarter, and much of its dining trades on the postcard, but the addresses worth keeping are serious ones. Anthony Bonnet's Les Loges occupies a glassed Renaissance courtyard inside the Cour des Loges hotel, and Au 14 Février brings a Michelin-starred French-Japanese sensibility to a narrow old-town room. Alongside them, Daniel et Denise Saint-Jean upholds the bouchon tradition with Joseph Viola's hands on the pâté en croûte. Come for the stones, but choose your table with care.