6e (Foch)

The 6e arrondissement is Lyon at its most quietly affluent: orderly avenues fanning off the Boulevard des Belges, the Parc de la Tête d'Or at its edge, and the spire of avenue Foch lending the district its shorthand name. Dining here skews toward the considered and the grown-up rather than the rowdy — Julien Gautier's M Restaurant and Le Jean Moulin draw a clientele that books ahead and lingers over a long lunch. The streets reward those who already know where they are going; addresses like Sauf Imprévu and Sémantème trade on craft and consistency rather than passing footfall. It is a neighbourhood of professionals and parc-side apartments, where a good table is treated as a fixture rather than an event.