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Maison Éléa

The story of Maison Éléa

An expression of French elegance.

A small dining room on the Quai des Lanternes in Lyon, one menu each night, and a kitchen that cooks with what the morning’s market brings.

A dining room with tables laid with wine glasses, woven upholstered chairs, concrete pillars and backlit shelves of glass domes

Our story

A former bargemen’s inn on the Saône

A long dining room at dusk: white-clothed tables with candles and glasses, burgundy banquettes, pale stone walls with brass lamps and tall windows on the right
AI-generated image, made with Kling

Maison Éléa opened in a former bargemen’s inn on the Quai des Lanternes. The room holds eleven tables and twenty-four guests a night, and the kitchen is open to it, so the evening sounds like a house and not a restaurant.

The cooking is French at heart: fish from the Saône or the lakes of the Ain, poultry from the Bresse, country bread with butter churned in the house, and cheese chosen with you from the trolley.

Every table is served the same menu at the same pace. It lets the kitchen give each plate its full attention, and lets the whole room share one evening.

A chef with wavy fair hair, in a white jacket and dark apron, tasting from a spoon beside a copper saucepan on a gas stove
Élise at the stove, tasting before service AI-generated image, made with Kling

The chef

Élise Vautrin

Élise Vautrin trained in Burgundy and spent eight years cooking in Lyon’s bouchons before opening her own room.

She cooks one menu each night, built around what the growers on the Croix-Rousse market bring in that morning, and she finishes the plates herself at the pass.

Great cuisine begins with respect for every ingredient.

Élise Vautrin

Our philosophy

A table laid for dinner with lit candles, glasses and greenery, in a softly lit dining room of wooden tables and chairs

Join us at the table

Seven courses over an evening of around three hours, Wednesday to Saturday, and lunch on Sunday.

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