Café du Peintre
Lyon, France
The read// why locals go
Café du Peintre has served coffee and the lunchtime plat du jour on Place Carnot since 1934. It works as a neighbourhood café first: workers in the morning, a single changing dish at midday, a terrace on the square for the rest of the day, with prices around €14. On Friday mornings it serves the mâchon — the old Lyonnaise breakfast of charcuterie and a glass of wine, a tradition that predates the café itself and survives in fewer and fewer rooms. Ordinary in the best sense, and still doing the job it opened to do.
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Place Carnot 3, 69002 — Lyon
The read// why locals go
Café du Peintre has served coffee and the lunchtime plat du jour on Place Carnot since 1934. It works as a neighbourhood café first: workers in the morning, a single changing dish at midday, a terrace on the square for the rest of the day, with prices around €14. On Friday mornings it serves the mâchon — the old Lyonnaise breakfast of charcuterie and a glass of wine, a tradition that predates the café itself and survives in fewer and fewer rooms. Ordinary in the best sense, and still doing the job it opened to do.
