With spring just around the corner, I set out to find a destination to celebrate my birthday. For me, a birthday means good restaurants, and knowing that I wasn’t motivated for a long trip, what better destination than Lyon could fulfill my expectations?
Trains
It’s now a habit and the question no longer even arises, but when it comes to going to Lyon it’s on Trenitalia in executive class.
Hotel
It’s the beginning of the year and therefore the start of my requalification on the Marriott Bonvoy program. I haven’t left Paris for 3 months and my trip to Australia, so I’m a little behind schedule, so there’s no way I’m going to be unfaithful, even if the Intercontinental Lyon Hotel Dieu has been making eyes at me for a long time. Too bad, that’s for another time!
So I’ll have to return to the Marriott Cité Internationale which, while it has its qualities, is beginning to make my stays in Lyon a weary monotony.
Restaurants
It’s here, after all, that the appeal of this trip lies.
I’ll go crescendo with a bouchon to start and a starred one to finish.
For the bouchon, it’s the Bouchon Sully, one of the last authentic bouchons in town and, what’s more, a restaurant with the title of Maitre Restaurateur, a guarantee of homemade cuisine.
For the starred, it will be Mère Brazier. A table that needs no introduction, but whose story I’ll be happy to tell you when the time comes.
All this gives us the following program for articles about this trip.
| # | Type | Post |
| 1 | Diary | Preparing a gastronomic stay in Lyon |
| 2 | Train | Paris-Lyon, Trenitalia, Executive Class |
| 3 | Hotel | Marriott Lyon Cité Internationale |
| 4 | Restaurant | Le Bouchon Sully, Lyon |
| 5 | Restaurant | La mère Brazier, Lyon |
| 6 | Train | Lyon-Paris, Trenitalia, Executive Class |
| 7 | Diary | Debriefing of the stay in Lyon |
