Lyon

Visit Hank Burger Lyon: Fully vegan burgers and comfort food in the center, reliable when you need a quick meal rather than a long reservation.

Visit Toutes les Couleurs: Organic, vegetable-led neighborhood cooking near Croix-Rousse with a strong ethical focus.

Visit Culina Hortus: A polished vegetable-led restaurant whose menu can be made vegan. One of the city’s strongest special-occasion dining rooms.

Visit Like An Elephant: Top-rated fully vegan dining on the Croix-Rousse slopes, with thoughtful seasonal plates and a warm neighborhood room. Reserve.

Visit Laska: Modern plant-based cooking with carefully plated seasonal menus. Verify current service days and reserve.

Try viennoiseries, composed cakes, quiches and Sunday brunch at Les Belles Âmes Pâtisserie, a destination fully vegan French pâtisserie.

Visit AME Café: Fully vegan café and pâtisserie.

Visit Kiji Donuts: Fully vegan doughnuts and sweet bakery treats.

Try brunch, praline brioche, pastries, sandwiches and cakes on the Croix-Rousse slope at Zoï, a fully vegan café, bakery and pâtisserie.

Visit Brasserie Georges: A historic Art Deco brasserie serving classic Lyonnais food.

Explore Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation: A museum of Resistance, occupation and deportation in Lyon’s former military-health school.

Explore Institut Lumière: The Lumière family home tells the story of the invention of cinematography at the first film factory site.

Visit Lugdunum Roman Theatres: The theatres reveal Lyon before France: Lugdunum was a political and religious capital of Roman Gaul. The outdoor ruins are free.

Explore Musée de Fourvière: The basilica’s museum explains the construction and decoration of Lyon’s nineteenth-century hilltop landmark.

Explore Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique: Printing presses, type and graphic design explain Lyon’s historic role in publishing.

Visit Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière: Lyon’s hilltop landmark combines a highly decorated 19th-century basilica with the city’s most instructive panorama across two rivers and the Alps beyond.

Experience Croix-Rousse market & slopes: Follow the morning market downhill through canut passages to understand the silk workers who shaped Lyon’s labor politics and tall-windowed architecture.

Visit Historic Site of Lyon: The protected urban landscape preserves two millennia of continuous development, from the Roman city through Renaissance Vieux Lyon and the silk-working slopes.

Visit Hôtel de Ville & Place des Terreaux: The monumental city hall, Bartholdi fountain and former abbey frame Lyon’s civic center as a sequence of power, art and public space.

Experience Île Barbe: A quiet island with monastic origins and village character, reached along the Saône for a half-day escape from central Lyon.

Explore Grand Parc Miribel Jonage — Le Fontanil: A supervised seasonal lake beach in Grand Parc Miribel Jonage, around 15 km east of central Lyon.