| You'll find restaurants offering dishes from every region of France and overseas in Lyon. Vieux-Lyon is the area with the greatest concentration of eateries, though you'll find cheaper and less busy ones between place des Jacobins and place Sathonay at the top of the Presqu'île. The possibilities are endless, but on weekends booking ahead is always a good idea. The bouchon, the traditional Lyonnais eating establishment, is the best place to eat quenelles, sausages, tripe and the like. Its name derives either from bouchon (cork), or bouchonner (to rub down). One popular theory has it that wine bottles were lined up as the evening progressed, and at the end of the night the bill was determined by measuring from the first cork to the last. Another explanation, however, is that inns serving wine would attach small bundles of straw to their signs, indicating that horses could be cared for (bouchonnés) while the coachmen went inside to have a drink. There are several bouchons located in the streets between Cordeliers and Terreaux, particularly in rue Mercière.
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