Chris did some web searching and found a silk screening shop to visit, L’Atelier de Soierie. It turned out to be an enormously interesting place, one of our highlights in Lyon. The shop consists of a workshop downstairs where they do all of their silkscreening, as well as a small retail shop upstairs. A young lady who spoke excellent English spent most of an hour with us, describing and demonstrating each of the silkscreening steps. At the end we couldn’t resist so we bought several beautiful silk items from the shop.
We had lunch at a nearby bouchon, Chez Paul. Earlier in the week we had dinner at Daniel et Denise, which is a bit upscale, but Chez Paul was a different experience, more like the original working class bouchons from which the modern bouchons evolved. The food was served family style, which perplexed us at first. The waiter brought out two huge bowls, one with lentils and the other with marinated ox cheeks. There were only four of us and we didn’t know how we would ever eat so much food, especially with more courses to come. But after we had spooned our portions onto our plates the waiter took the bowls and passed them on to the people at the next table, and so on throughout the restaurant. It was that way throughout the entire meal, all the way through dessert, a huge bowl of applesauce, prunes in red wine, and a long creme caramel from which we each took a slice. It turned out to be a memorable lunch and we were all glad we went.
