Gigi29

Thank you for your suggestions. Perhaps I should say that we were in Paris for New Year's Eve 2002 and found that every restaurant there (ordinary ones, nothing special) had only 100 euro dinners that night. So my assumption is that the same will be true in Lyon. Any suggestions about how I could find out in advance if that is true? Our French is good enough to enable us to read menus and order, and to allow us to communicate slowly. We would have trouble participating in an ordinary conversation among French-speakers. Does that change your advice? I was very intersted in comments I found here about a place called Poivre Ane. Would that, or something like it, be good for this situation? Thank you.

My husband and I will be spending five days in Lyon beginning Dec. 31. Because we will be arriving in the afternoon of New Year's Eve, I'd like to make a reservation at a good restaurant before we leave home. Can you please recommend a place? We will be staying near Place Bellecour. We would like to find a place where the atmosphere is fun and relaxing and where we, complete strangers with limited French, will feel part of the fun and not like outsiders. As a pair of oldies, we probably won't last much beyong 1:00 a.m. We would like to limit the cost of dinner to about 100 euros per person. We would really appreciate some suggestions. Thanks!