There are as many days of the year as there are ways to treat yourself. Playing sport, listening to a song you love or seeing an old friend… But eating is generally on the podium, whatever the ranking. Here, we give you some tips on how to keep this pleasure in its rightful place.
Grand Café de la Préfecture
Le Grand Café de la Préfecture is a pleasant restaurant serving French cuisine with a Mediterranean touch (and producer wines!). Their Saturday brunch buffet may be more expensive, but it’s all-you-can-eat!
🍴 Buffet 30€ adult / 15€ child
⏰ Open every day, but all-you-can-eat brunch only on Sundays
📍 10 Rue Servient, Lyon 3
Obrigado Rodizio
This Brazilian restaurant is located in the 7th arrondissement, and since it opened last February, it’s been a huge success! The chain, which now boasts 8 restaurants in France, is hitting hard. The reason? All-you-can-eat formulas with spit-roasted specialties. What do the people want? A wide choice of meats to suit all tastes. A must-try!
🍴 Buffet from €17.90
⏰ Daily from 12:30 to 2:30 pm and 7 to 11 pm (until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays)
📍 372 rue Garibaldi, Lyon 7
Flam’s Lyon
Are you passionate about Alsatian cuisine and want a good Flammenkueche prepared according to the rules of the culinary art? Head to Flam’s in Lyon, where the famous tarte flambée can be eaten as much as you like, with or without starter and dessert. Hopla!
🍴 From €13.90 all-you-can-eat
⏰ Monday to Friday: 12:00-14:00 and 18:30-23:00 / Saturday: 12:00-00:00 and Sunday: 12:00-22:30
📍 12 Rue Tupin, Lyon 2
Bombay Palace
With its ultra-affordable prices and vast choice of dishes, the all-you-can-eat buffet at the Bombay Palace Indian restaurant in Vieux-Lyon fully deserves its place in our ranking. It even serves delicious cheese naans!
🍴 Lunch at 14.90€ (weekend at 17€) and evenings at 20.90€ / Children’s buffet (-10 years) at 9€.
⏰ Every day except Tuesday 12h-15h 19h-23h
📍 1 Rue Bellievre, Lyon 5
Les Marmottes
No need to go skiing with this restaurant to enjoy the best Savoyard specialties and the mythical all-you-can-eat raclette… and to add another layer, all products come from small cooperatives in Haute Savoie. Les Marmottes restaurant ticks all the boxes for a convivial evening with friends
🍴 All-you-can-eat raclette for 32€.
⏰ Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00 to 14:30 and 19:00 to 23:30 / Sundays and Mondays, 19:00 to 23:30
📍 261 Rue Vendôme, Lyon 3
Buffet Part-Dieu
Buffet Part-Dieu enthusiasts will tell you that it’s quite simply the best all-you-can-eat wok buffet in Lyon. Impossible to try every dish: there’s lots and lots of choice (but a certain lack of hot vegetables).
🍴 15,90€-22,90€ for the buffet
⏰ Daily 11.50am-3pm / 7pm-11pm (Sunday evenings only)
📍 129 avenue Félix Faure, Lyon 3
Seazen Buffet
🍴 19€-22€ all-you-can-eat buffet
⏰ Daily 11:45am-2:30pm 6:45pm-10:30pm
📍 175 avenue Jean Jaurès, Lyon 7
Also read: What to do in Lyon (and surrounding areas) in November?