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Typical restaurant of Lyon
A "bouchon" is a cork in French, it is a typical restaurant in Lyon which usually serves traditional regional cuisine. The old bouchon is perfectly decorated with red and white tablecloths, wooden tables and benches that you share with your neighbors. In general, the tables are very wide, seat two or twelve and you end up sharing your dinner with people you do not know, chatting and drinking Beaujolais or Cote du Rhone wines of the region. Generally they are in older buildings in indoor rooms with stone columns, summer is nice as it is usually fresh inside. Now bouchons have disappeared from the modern areas of Lyon, but remain in the Vieux Lyon area, the medieval district, where there are plenty.
Bouchons offer an outside menu which is generally very cheap, but if you ask for the a la carte menu it may be expensive. Between courses, there is much pork, sausages, meat, wine sauce dishes and the famous quenelles, which are like sausages but ground and drenched in a creamy sauce. Beware if you do not like intestines, because there's usually a lot, but the menus are often in English.
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