Smoking Dog

Lyon


This bookshelf-lined pub in St-Paul is a great place to sip a quality brew amid a friendly mix of locals and expats. Stop in Tuesday nights (at 9pm) for the popular pub quiz, held in English and French.

It's also a fine place to watch key sporting matches on the widescreen.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Lyon attractions

1. Musées Gadagne

0.06 MILES

Housed in a 16th-century mansion built for two rich Florentine bankers, this twin-themed exhibition space incorporates an excellent local history museum,…

2. Le Petit Musée Fantastique de Guignol

0.07 MILES

The star of this tiny, two-floor museum is Guignol, the Lyonnais puppet famous for its slapstick antics and political commentary. Various animated scenes…

3. Palais de Justice

0.2 MILES

Facing the river in old Lyon, the grandiose neo-classical Palais de Justice is well worth a gander.

4. Musée Miniature et Cinéma

0.21 MILES

This maze-like museum on tourist-busy rue St-Jean provides an unusual insight into the making of movie sets and special effects achieved with the use of…

5. Fresque des Lyonnais

0.23 MILES

Well-known Lyonnais peer out from this beautifully executed seven-storey mural, including loom inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752–1834), Renaissance…

6. Cathédrale St-Jean-Baptiste

0.29 MILES

Lyon's partly Romanesque cathedral was built between the late 11th and early 16th centuries. The portals of its Flamboyant Gothic facade, completed in…

7. Musée des Beaux-Arts

0.31 MILES

This stunning and eminently manageable museum showcases France's finest collection of sculptures and paintings outside of Paris, from antiquity onwards…

8. Place Sathonay

0.31 MILES

At the foot of Croix Rousse, this tree-shaded square has a small village atmosphere, with its bars, restaurants and cafes.