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What to eat in Lyon: 10 dishes and where to find them
France's gastronomic capital runs on offal, fresh cheese and pink pralines. Here's what to eat in Lyon and which bouchons and market stalls to trust with it.
Cervelle de canut recipe, Lyon's silk workers' cheese
Fresh cheese whipped with herbs, shallot and walnut oil, this cervelle de canut recipe is the cheese course every Lyon bouchon serves its own way.
Lucas Carton reopens in Paris with Cyril Lignac in the kitchen
The TV chef succeeds Hugo Bourny in the listed Art Nouveau dining room on Place de la Madeleine, now owned by Lapérouse Holding, with a promise of classical French cooking.
Burgundy’s earliest harvest in nearly 500 years
Grand cru Montrachet started picking on 13 August, the region’s earliest date in nearly 500 years, as France’s overall 2026 wine crop falls to its smallest since 1957.
Pernod Ricard fiscal 2026 sales fall nearly 4%
The spirits group's organic net sales dropped nearly 4% worldwide and 14% in the US for the year to June 2026, with CEO Alexandre Ricard naming ready-to-drink cocktails a growth priority.
Champagne gets a 15 percent alcohol limit for 2026
After the region's earliest harvest on record left grapes unusually rich in sugar, French authorities raised Champagne's alcohol ceiling from its usual 13 percent.
Pomme du Limousin opens harvest as orchards shrink
Growers began picking Pomme du Limousin apples on September 7, in a Haute-Vienne region that has lost more than half its protected orchards in twenty years.
France wine harvest 2026 set for lowest level since 1957
Hail, heatwaves and drought have pushed national output below 34 million hectolitres, with Champagne and Burgundy hit hardest while Bordeaux gains.
Valence en Gastronomie Festival returns for 11th edition
The Drôme department's food festival runs 10 to 13 September 2026 on Valence's Champ de Mars, with Michelin-starred chefs, wine pairings and roughly 50,000 visitors expected.
French wine harvest heads for its lowest level since 1957
Champagne is down 48% on last year and Pinot Noir by about half, while Bordeaux gained 10% on late summer rain. Volume is short; quality may not be.
Gault&Millau Paris hands its gold to La Table du 11
Jean-Baptiste Lavergne-Morazzani takes the 2027 Gault&Millau d'Or for his Versailles dining room, one of eight prizes handed out days before the guide reached the shops.
Matthias Marc leaves Paris for a lakeside house in the Jura
La Maison des Cimes opened on 29 August at Malbuisson with nine rooms, a gastronomic table over Lake Saint-Point and a wood-fired bistro still to come in November.
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