Quais de Saône à Lyon
Riverside promenade of quays lined with floating bars, terraces and moored barges along a working river.
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This guide to the Quais de Saone in Lyon traces the riverside habit of eating outdoors that locals call a guinguette, starting with a cook known only as La Mere Guy, who began ladling eel stew to rowboat diners in 1759. It reaches further back to Roman barges and wine amphorae pulled from the riverbed nearby, then forward to the frog legs and fried whitebait still served from the peniches and pontoon bars moored along the quay today. Listen for how a two-thousand-year-old working river became the city's favorite place to eat outside.
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