Balthaz'Art

A really lovely place and the food was excellent ! The staff was friendly, ambience was intimate and relaxed. Everything tasted really good but esp the tartare was one of the best I’ve had. Great drinks and refreshing simple desserts too

What an amazing meal! We stayed nearby when visiting from New York, and this may have been our favorite meal of our whole trip. The service was stellar from start to finish thanks to Alexandre, with creative and inventive dishes showcasing local ingredients. They change the menu quite often, but you can't go wrong. The wine list was also excellent and very affordable. We wouldn't change a single thing about our experience - overall an incredible and creative meal for a very affordable price in a beautiful restaurant, with attentive and friendly service. What more can you ask for?

This was a lovely restaurant. The food was delicious, the staff super friendly (helping our poor French). They made a special vegetarian meal for one of us. And very reasonable lunch €20 for 2 courses or €25 for three courses. Highly recommended. Best meal of our 5 week trip so far, and definitely best value!

The ambiance is very nice. The location, service and taste of the food were amazing. You should definitely come.

We first ate at Balthaz'Art Restaurant 2-1/2 years ago. It was our favorite restaurant on that visit. Now we returned in 2025, the restaurant has been renovated (very charming and cozy), the people were nicer, the food was better. Waouh!

Chef’s menu just blowed our mind. It was a fantastic three courses meal. Every single touch of the dish brings out different flavors with different dressing and sauces. It’s just top notch. One of the best restaurants I have ever tried. ❤️

On the top of the hill of la Croix rouge, this red-painted female-led restaurant warmly welcomes the Lyon visitors. The art here is not only on the walls, but also in the plates, which highlight the chef's creativity. A modern French cuisine interprets traditional recipes blinking at world-class ingredients. The overall quality is good, although slightly disomogeneous: the starters have been a bit disappointing, since great ideas have been wasted into dispropotionate combination of flavours (too much - delicious - curry cream and not enough melon; also a pinch of salty - maybe crusty ham - would have improved the result). On the other side, the main courses (rabbit and beef in this case), have been excellent: perfect cooking skills and smart processings (e.g. the honey fennel). The desserts sided great creations (the apricots one) with other less happy solutions (raspberry and yogurt glass). The service has been very cheerful, sometimes too much, ending up in some brink and inaccurate situations. We did not find any problem to get a place for a Saturday lunch, but in other cases reservation would be useful. The quality/price ratio is a very good deal.

Rather, mediocre place with food delivery instead of food service. Menus: presented in a plastic stand, gives impression of the canteen rather than restaurant. Food: delicious terrine of poultry liver and delicious pumpkin soup. Unfortunately, delicious ends here. Pork was bland, and the pickled cabbage overpowered the rest. Chorizo was hard to inldentify in the potatoes under the pulled pork. Risotto was more like a soup, too runny, rice not cooked well, and flavours were laking any excitement. Beef tartar was plentiful buy the flavours were again missing and as French fries goes, those were roasted potatoes not fries. The biggest disappointment was desserts. Lemon tart (deconstructed) was merely a very acid paâte patissere , made with way too much starch, resembling a glue texture. Chocolate moelleux was overpowered with salt, and it was unpleasant to eat. Chestnut ice cream was delicious, but composition was very basic. Chantilly, as it appeared, was squirted from the can, and it didn't taste good. Service was also on disappointment. No ice bucket was delivered for our drinks, and the buissnes of them making you keeping a cutlery after a starter is a really cheap move (we get it if that is in café, bit not in the restaurant). Overall, the place atmosphere was lovely, but the place needs to up their game.

Delicious and unique! In a town dominated by bouchons, Balthaz'Art offers a refreshing difference. Call ahead for reservations, and enjoy a modern take, with interesting ingredients, on old dishes, as well as an introduction to new favorites. An English menu is available, if needed, and waitresses are happy to explain dishes and make recommendations. Our party was a mixed group with both adventuresome French and more-cautious American eaters present, and we were all very happy with our meals.

Not entirely sure why people rave about this restaurant. Yes, the decor is lovely and the service is friendly. According to my carnivore partner, the food was good but not great nor extraordinairy. I'm a vegetarian, so I judge restaurants by their willingness to come up with a decent vegetarian dish for me since French restaurants very rarely have any on their regular menu. They were happy to make something vegetarian for me - but what I was served was a basic boring omelette with a side of spinach, something I could have made for myself at home. So already not great. But then they made me pay the full price of the regular set menu for it! Not acceptable in my opinion and it definitely doesn't make me want to go back.

What a lovely place, wonderful food, and warm, friendly experience. Balthaz'Art is a casual, intimate, neighborhood place where locals feel at home, but two visitors from California, with barely passable french, were just as warmly welcomed. The food is very much of the fresh, local, seasonal school, a lighter, brighter version of regional southern french cuisine--fabulous. I had a salad of artichokes, peas, beets, and other greens, a main dish of perch (I think) and strawberries and creme fraiche for dessert, while my husband had asparagus gazpacho and a beef daube that they're very celebrated for--not unusual or tricky food, just really good. Beautifully, but not fussily, presented. Friendly advice on wine from our server (who also loaned me a warm wrap when I got chilly). The aperitifs, wine, and calvados for digestif kept our blood flowing nicely. We showed up without a reservation (you should make one) about 9 pm and they were able to seat us outside on a gorgeous spring night; inside, the restaurant feels like an old farmhouse, again lovely but not fussy, unpretentious but special. There were no other reviews in english so I'm gushing on to encourage english-speaking visitors to find their way there (you'll work off half your meal climbing the steep streets and stairs to the top of the Croix-Rousse neighborhood--there's a killer view from the terrasse). And it's not even particularly expensive. For me, even though this is not a self-important high temple of cuisine, it was really a 5-star experience all-round.