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Le Pain Qoutidien
Daily Bread is a city-lunch staple: come here for a fabulous choice of well-topped tartines (thick toast with topping), meal-sized salads and other rustic-styled lunch dishes. Its tiny street terrace buzzes.
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Le Petit Léon
Tables are highly sought after at this soulful old-world bistro - the affordable arm of Michelin-starred big brother Léon de Lyon around the corner. But forget romancing here: the fascinating collections of old clocks, carafes etc are far too distracting.
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Les Muses de l'Opéra
Ride the lift up to the top floor of the opera house - the only spot in Lyon where you can peep into the fabulous interior courtyard of the historic Hôtel de Ville (closed to the public).
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Lolo Quoi
Sleekly kitted out in wood and slate, Italianate Lolo Quoi is trendy, chic and commands a good wait at the bar if you roll up sans réservation . Pasta with innovative sauces is the speciality.
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Maison Perroudon
Smoking is no go at this cake shop where a predominantly female and couple crowd lunches on light salads. Its giant white chocolate and almond-coated tuile (sweet ultra-crispy sail-shaped biscuits of giant proportions) are quite divine, darling.
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Matsuri
For a stylish quick eat look no further than this elegant sushi bar. Flop down on a bar stool and take your pick from the plates of sushi, sashimi, temaki etc that glide past on a sleek conveyer belt.
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Neo Le Comptoir
Pick and mix your own salad ingredients, select a dressing and, while it's being tossed, decide which room you fancy eating in. Find this refreshingly different eating space (with lime green and pink walls) in a bourgeois townhouse.
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Ninkasi Opéra
If meaty burgers with all the garish trimmings or fish and chips is your cup of tea, then this microbrewery-run grub stop is for you. Film screenings, live bands, the odd magic show and so on fulfil its Sunday-evening entertainment pledge.
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Oxalis
Thanks to an Armenian grandmother and a generous dose of far-flung travel, Lyon-born chef Sonia Ezgulian fuses Mediterranean with Asian and African to create a cuisine that stuns, surprises and spans the globe. Wanna' know how to cook an Oxalis-style dinner in 45 minutes or how to make the most of Lyon's Halle de la Martinière? Sign up for one of Sonia's cooking courses.
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Plato
Sweep through thick pink curtains into this stylish plateau restaurant, decked out with contemporary flair and oozing theatre. Inventive dishes - creamy chestnut soup au foie gras or coriander-roasted magret de canard (duck) with an iced turnip and port creation - are even more delicious than their poetic names suggest.
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Poissonerie Vianey
Poissonerie Vianey is the finest in Lyon for fish.
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Seiz'âmes by Garioud
Seiz'âmes flouts a baby-pink Smeg fridge in its entrance and a playful littering of shocking-pink feather dusters, toasters and other design gadgets throughout its dramatic pink interior. Cuisine is a mix 'n' match world affair.
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Yinitial G&G
Tastebuds are kept on the move at this ode to design - a stylish minimalist space with low-hanging table lights, an open kitchen and a world cuisine that throws a pinch of European in the wok alongside Asian.
