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Vegan restaurant in Lyon: plant-based food at a historic bouchon
A fully plant-based table in a Lyon bouchon feels unlikely — and yet. At Aux Trois Maries, on rue des Trois-Maries, terroir cooking also knows how to be seasonal and vegetable-led. Here's how we welcome vegan and plant-based diners, gluten-free on request.
In short
Aux Trois Maries is not an exclusively vegan restaurant: it's a historic Lyon bouchon that chose to open its kitchen to plant-based diets. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options appear on the menu, built around seasonal produce and terroir vegetables. The cooking is homemade, and our team gladly adapts a dish for a vegan table. The best thing is to tell us when booking: we'll advise you and prepare your visit to our Vieux-Lyon house. A real bouchon, with a real place for the plant-based.
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Can you eat vegan in a Lyon bouchon?
The Lyon bouchon carries a reputation for generous, meaty cooking — charcuterie, offal, quenelles. That's true, and it's its story. But to reduce a bouchon to its charcuterie is to forget the other side of Lyon cooking: market vegetables, fresh herbs, honest preparations where the garnish is never a mere afterthought.
At Aux Trois Maries, we took that other side seriously. Without giving up who we are — a bouchon true to its roots — we opened the menu to diners who eat plant-based, by conviction, by diet or simply by the mood of the day. A vegan table finds real food here, not just a plate of side vegetables.
Let's be honest: we're not an exclusively vegan restaurant, and we don't claim to be. We're a house where the plant-based has its place, prepared with the same care as the rest of the menu. For a fully plant-based table, a word when booking lets us welcome you in the best conditions.
Plant-based on the menu, dish by dish
The menu makes room for seasonal vegetables: butternut velouté with chestnut shavings, seasonal mushroom risotto, dishes built around market vegetables and fresh herbs. All plates that can be adapted in a vegan version, without any animal produce — the risotto, for instance, is served without cheese —, simply by mentioning it when ordering.
Our logic is product first: a fine market vegetable, cooked honestly, beats any industrial substitute. We'd rather offer you a sincere plant-based plate — seasonal, of the terroir — than tick a box with a soulless dish. That, too, is the bouchon spirit.
As our dishes are homemade, adapting is often possible: removing a cheese, swapping a garnish, composing around the vegetables of the day. The simplest is to speak to your waiter or tell us in advance — we organise ourselves so your table is never the forgotten one.
Lyon terroir, without animal produce too
The terroir around Lyon isn't only charcuterie. It's also the market gardening of the Monts d'Or and the Rhône valley, the seasonal fruit and vegetables, the herbs and oils that scent bistro cooking. That raw material lends itself wonderfully to a plant-based plate, losing nothing of its Lyon anchoring.
Working the plant-based in a bouchon isn't betraying tradition: it's rediscovering an often-forgotten part of it — the frugal mâchon and the vegetables of the Croix-Rousse market. Seasonal cooking, sincere and direct — exactly the spirit we try to serve, whatever is on the plate.
Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free: a table for each
Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free: these needs are different, and we distinguish them. A vegetarian dish may contain egg or cheese; a vegan dish excludes all animal produce; gluten-free avoids wheat and its derivatives. Saying it clearly avoids misunderstandings and lets us point you to what really suits you.
We regularly welcome mixed tables — a vegan diner, a quenelle lover, a child, someone avoiding gluten. That's the everyday of an open restaurant, and it's exactly where a bouchon that made the plant-based effort makes full sense: everyone eats what they like, at the same convivial table.
Do you have an intolerance or a strict requirement? Flag it when booking. We don't promise a certified trace-free kitchen, but we do everything to compose a meal faithful to your diet, prepared with care by the kitchen.
Eating vegan well at Aux Trois Maries
A few markers so your plant-based visit is a success, whether you're a long-time vegan or simply curious about a plate without animal produce.
Tell us when booking
A word when booking changes everything: we anticipate, adapt a preparation and welcome you without improvising. It's the best way to guarantee a fine plant-based plate on the day.
Talk to your waiter
Our team knows the menu and what can be made without animal produce. Do ask: a dish can often be served vegan by removing or swapping an element.
Follow the season
The menu follows the seasons, and that's where the plant-based shines. The vegetables of the moment, cooked at home, make honest, generous plates — the bouchon spirit applied to the plant-based.
Where to eat vegan in Vieux-Lyon
Vieux-Lyon, a UNESCO-listed Renaissance quarter, lines up tourist bouchons along rue Saint-Jean and rue des Trois-Maries. Finding a table that genuinely welcomes vegan diners, without relegating them to a meagre share, is rarer there than it seems. That's precisely what we strive to offer.
Steps from place de la Baleine and Saint-Jean cathedral, our house is among the oldest bouchons in the city. Coming here means tasting the atmosphere of a real bouchon — white linen, chequered floor, upstairs room beneath the mouldings — while knowing a plant-based plate awaits you.
Want to specify your diet before coming? Our pages dedicated to vegetarian and gluten-free options detail our approach, and a simple call is enough to prepare your table. We'll be glad to show you that a bouchon can also be a fine plant-based address.
Frequently asked
Vegan restaurant in Lyon: your questions
Is Aux Trois Maries a vegan restaurant?
No: Aux Trois Maries is a historic Lyon bouchon that offers vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options. It's not an exclusively vegan table, but the plant-based has a real place here, homemade with seasonal produce.
Are there vegan dishes on the menu?
Yes: the menu makes room for seasonal vegetables — butternut velouté, mushroom risotto (served without cheese in its vegan version), market vegetables — several of which can be served vegan. As the cooking is homemade, adapting is often possible by mentioning it when ordering.
Should you give notice for a vegan table?
It's strongly advised. A word when booking lets us anticipate, adapt a preparation and welcome you in the best conditions, especially for a fully plant-based table.
What's the difference between vegetarian and vegan with you?
A vegetarian dish may contain egg or cheese; a vegan dish excludes all animal produce. We clearly distinguish the two to guide you towards what suits your diet.
Do you also offer gluten-free dishes?
Yes: gluten-free options appear on the menu. Flag your intolerance when booking so the kitchen can compose an adapted meal, prepared with care.
Where is the restaurant to eat vegan in Vieux-Lyon?
We're on rue des Trois-Maries, in Vieux-Lyon (Lyon 5th), steps from place de la Baleine and Saint-Jean cathedral, in one of the oldest bouchons in the city.
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Looking rather for a vegetarian table? Discover our approach on the vegetarian restaurant Vieux-Lyon page.
Book your vegan table on rue des Trois-Maries
Book online, or call us stating your diet: we'll prepare your visit to our Vieux-Lyon bouchon.