Le Potager des Halles

Went here with 2 friends and dishes were a hit and miss. Salmon rillettes was amazing, malgret de canard was overcooked, pork dish was nice, volaille was ok, green tea dessert was good, chocolate millefeuille was burnt. Good staff, nice atmosphere.

Amazing french restaurant cooking very fresh dishes, they have lunch menu on special board which you can check out outside the restaurant next to the main entrance together with regular menu, please see picture. Lunch menu only available for 2 hours between 12:00 - 14:00, usually very full and busy. The restaurant is next to sightseeing spot Famous mural of historic local figures, restaurant is closed on Monday. Staff can speak english, both menus are only in french. Price is accurate.

Delicious and affordable... Love the lunch set menu.. Lovely desserts and friendly waitresses. This is one restaurant i fully recommend.

Were here just for a fast coffee. The staff ist kind and the coffee is very good - like in Italy 🇮🇹🤤 You have also an amazing view to one of the famous painted walls. The prices are also good. That weren’t your last coffees here

Very busy, but great food at accessible price. The grilled calamari and octopus dishes were excellent. Only one waitress at lunch but she was efficient and yet still friendly and attentive. It was a nice change from the very heavy, creamy dished of bouchon.

Nice place with outside seating and an affordable menu with daily specials. Try the duck confit!

Very warm atmosphere. The best dishes i ever eaten

A really, really, really good restaurant with exquisite food. I never had a better octopus or a tastier pigeon. Our waiter, Benjamin, was extremely knowledgable and lind-hearted: he selected the bio-wine depicted whose spicyness was heavenly. I will definiyely be back.

Trying to find a place in Lyon that my wife and I would enjoy AND my two sons (12 and 15) is a tall order. The classic Lyonaisse "bouchon" (with their adventurous "snout to tail" dishes was out of the question for my boys). Meanwhile, the last thing in the world my wife and I wanted was an American tourist trap serving hamburgers and pizzas. We were thankful for Le Potager des Halles! An amazing meal of high quality, unique and creative shared plates (asparagus, octopus, steak, ravioli) and friendly, attentive service. It was a beautiful night in June so we sat in the outdoor sidewalk tables - with a slight view of the river. This place is awesome.

Ok, this was the worst lunch we had during three entire weeks in France last summer, and that is including a Catalan waiter down in Collioure who had stuck his fingers in our salads to pull out the croutons after we told him once again..."but we can't eat gluten." In French, bien sûr. I'm not sure what the stars and Michelin ratings are on the door of the Potager des Halles have to do with it or what the deluded positive reviews are all about....but my husband and two sons and I arrived very hungry after the Fourvière. And all I can be sure of is after waiting a while for water... they took a bunch of stuff out of the compost and put it on four plates and called it salade! Some slimy smoked salmon, dried prosciutto, some over cooked and old salmon salad with too much mayo, gray avocado, some wilty rancid greens, some watery mozzarella and some old ratatouille that was meant to be thrown to be thrown out last week...with pine nuts. All piled on a plate. Odd combination. No one inside seemed to be working at all. Except one slightly strange waitress. I am an autoimmune type one diabetic, and when I pulled my pen to give myself some insulin, which I needed to do at the table as it seemed we couldn't go inside (that part was confusing; the doors had tables in front of them and no one inside) the waitress became so fascinated she asked me several times if I was a diabetic or what was I going to give myself? I had my two young sons with me and I must admit I was baffled--did she think I was shooting heroin at lunch? Or did she hope I was shooting heroin and want me to offer her some? The rest of the lunch was misery, and she was snarky...it was un désastre!

The food is very good. The service is performed by young, unsupervised servers, who could stand some basic lessons in restaurant service and civility. No Management was apparent, otherwise I would have told them about the lack of any knowledge on the wine list, the total lack of follow up on the meal, the failure to respond correctly to a request for the bill, and the generally snarky attitude of the servers. Kind of a shame in a city that has SO much good food.