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Text: Philippe Lecoq – The Poêlon d’Or belongs to this category of corks where you feel good as soon as you walk through the door.
Is it the careful decor of Murielle Lalle, the boss since 2010, who has just enhanced – as one does with a sauce – an atmosphere already full of history(s), without touching the wooden ceiling and staff covered in red stucko, nor the arch, nor black and white cement tile floor? The prettily set wooden tables are squeezed under large gold-framed mirrors… like the Pan.
Is it the inexhaustible verve at the sustained flow of Yannhusband of the above-mentioned and therefore also boss since 2010, so proud to have been able to settle here, in the former stronghold of Marie-Danielle Reuther ? Proud to have restored the Poêlon to its former configuration by buying the adjoining premises and just reopening the closed door after the war when business was less successful? Also proud to say that one of his predecessors welcomed Jean Moulin and representatives of the Lyon resistance in the small lounge still offered to customers?
Yann who studied humanities in Lyon (Bernard Constantin and Philippe Chavent)
He traveled a lot and changed countries, before choosing to leave the pressure of gastronomy aside to favor pleasure, “friendliness, contact with the customer, proximity, human warmth, everything that is missing a little these days.” He did well.
With Murielle, with Mickaël Lorini in the kitchen, the Poêlon d’Or has retained its soul, its aura of an old wine counter created in 1860, its spirit of the cork that it became between the two wars. A soul in a traffic jam is not nothing. “I’m in the service room, it’s important that the boss is there, you need a face, a presence, an atmosphere. In a traffic jam, you have to be able to come and eat on your own,” explains Yann. Better than a credo, a definition.
The Golden Skillet
29, rue des Remparts d’Ainay
69002 Lyon Ainay
Tel: 04 78 37 65 60
