This inexpensive brasserie at the south end of Rue de la Charité next to the Perrache train station is one of the city's largest and oldest, founded in 1836 but now in a palatial 1925 Art Deco building. Meals range from hearty veal stew or sauerkraut and sausage to more refined fare. The fare is less than creative and, like the setting, a bit impersonal—stick with the great standards, such as saucisson brioché (sausage in brioche stuffed with truffled foie gras)—but the ambience is as delicious as it comes.
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