Brotteaux

Brotteaux is the elegant pocket of the 6e where the old Belle Époque train station — now a brasserie and event hall — still presides over the place Jules Ferry. The streets are wide and leafy, the buildings handsome, and the dining ambitious in a way that feels assured rather than showy. Takao Takano works a refined Franco-Japanese register that earned two Michelin stars, while Christophe Roure's Le Neuvième Art brings precision and architecture to the plate a few streets over. Even the everyday pleasures here run to the serious — Bernachon, Lyon's revered bean-to-bar chocolatier, has its house on the cours Roosevelt — so the neighbourhood rewards both the dinner reservation and the afternoon errand.