Lyon … hand-wave

Drew.  For weeks people had told us about the famous city of Lyon - the “French culinary capital.”  After weeks in Paris and the Loire, Sara and I were finally ready to start eating some good food.  Instead, what we encountered in Lyon was a kinda French cuisine gone haywire.  Lots of gelatinized vegetables and carby dumplings with sides of mayonnaise.  A couple days later I was relating this story to our friend Nico, who remarked, “Yeah, the French only really stop in Lyon as a waypoint between Paris and the south.  There’s not really anything there.”  

Sara: I actually liked the pike quenelles (not carby dumplings, but fish ones). But man, that food was heavy and sort of rudimentary. We ate A LOT of food in France, but our dinner in Lyon marked the first time I actually felt kind of ill afterwards. Not because it was bad, but because it was so damn dense.