Le Canut et Les Gones can host company meals, seminar lunches and dinners, birthdays, family gatherings and other group occasions, in two private rooms for 12 to 50 guests. The restaurant receives groups from Tuesday to Saturday and builds menus to measure. It is Le Canut et Les Gones, at 29 rue de Belfort in the Croix-Rousse district of Lyon, in the 4th arrondissement.
Seminars and company events
The restaurant offers a group and company package for events such as seminars, team meals and client dinners. Groups can book a private room and agree on a menu with the team ahead of the event. The restaurant takes bookings by phone and publishes a downloadable brochure for companies. Its group page also lists special meals, birthdays and family reunions.
The format suits a working lunch after a morning meeting, a team dinner or a small client event. There is no meeting room, so the venue works best as the meal part of a seminar held elsewhere in Lyon.
Rooms and capacities
The main private room covers 40 m² and takes 20 to 50 guests. The Salle des Horloges covers 20 m² and takes 12 to 20 guests. The brochure gives a general range of 10 to 40 people for groups, so check the exact figure for your layout with the restaurant.
Catering
The cooking follows the seasons and the day's inspiration, and dishes and desserts change often, some daily. The chef, Junzo Matsuno, grows the restaurant's vegetables on land farmed without chemical inputs, after years of growing its herbs and salads. He works only with local, fresh and seasonal produce. Vegetarian and vegan options are available.
For groups, the restaurant offers a three-course menu, with a starter, a main course and cheese or dessert, at lunch from Tuesday to Friday, at Saturday lunch and in the evening from Tuesday to Saturday. Three drinks packages can be added, from a glass of wine per guest with water and coffee to a house aperitif with wine for each table. The team adapts the menu on request.
The restaurant takes orders from noon to 1 pm at lunch and from 7:30 pm to 9 pm at dinner, from Tuesday to Saturday. The last order is taken for everyone at the table at once, so a group arriving from a meeting should plan its timing around these slots.
History and setting
Franck Blanc opened Le Canut on July 1, 1994, with a focus on fresh, seasonal produce and fair value that has not changed in 30 years. The name refers to the canuts, the silk weavers of the Croix-Rousse. The dining room keeps its original canut wallpaper, which Franck Blanc has had reissued with his long-time friend Sébastien Barcet, founder of Le Presse Papier, a firm holding the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant label. Works by the artist Perrine Lacroix hang on the walls.
Getting there
The restaurant is at 29 rue de Belfort, 69004 Lyon, on the Croix-Rousse plateau. The Croix-Rousse metro station on line C serves the plateau. Bookings are taken by phone.
