eat like Bourdain
🇫🇷 Lyon
4 places across Parts Unknown
Every Place Bourdain Visited in Lyon
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Rue Des Archers
Tony ate sabodet (sausage made from pig’s head, tongue, and beef) with Chef Georges Reynon and Chef Daniel Boulud.
L'Institut Restaurant
Rue De La Charité
One of the nation's greatest culinary schools, started by Paul Bocuse. Tony and Daniel Boulud tried the poulet en vessie (chicken cooked inside a pig’s bladder).
Café Comptoir Abel
Rue Guynemer
Tony ate here with Chef Boulud and Bill Buford, a former fiction editor at The New Yorker. They had quenelle de brochet en gratin maison (gratin dumplings)
Bouchon Comptoir Brunet
Rue Claudia
Bill Buford called this "a very male tradition," called the Franc Machon. They ate Blanquette de Veau (slowly stewed neck and shoulder of veal with mushrooms served over rice); bread, Beaujolais wine.
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