4/11.- Vieux Lyon, restaurants Eating in one of the restaurants in Lyon is a reason enough to come to this French city. Thanks to the quality of the local ingredients, nowhere tastes the world famous Lyonnais cuisine better than here. Lyon, with its more than 1000 restaurants, has a culinary offer as rich and varied as the most demanding gourmet can dream of. From Paul Bocuse to the humble "bouchons" (the little bistros or small restaurants serving traditional Lyon cuisine), everywhere you will enjoy the local pastime: eating out. The authentic bouchon offer local, family cooking in the popular style, using cheap ingredients (offal, seasonal vegetables...); host is often surly (though warm-hearted) and the customers tend to be elbow to elbow at table; and there must be wine served in a (46 cl) glass pot, the quintessential Lyon container. The first evening in Lyon our WinSoft hosts took us to Vieux Lyon, to a bouchon Potatoes (8 bis place Saint Jean), just by the Saint Jean Church. We had a chance to taste some of the Lyon specialities. The girls (from left to right are: Violeta, Safia, Cathy, Delphine and Caroline. Lyon's inhabitants are so fond of good food that the saying goes in the Presqu'ile Peninsula, "that to seduce a woman, it is wiser to take her to the restaurant than to take her dancing ot to a movie"... => next