This new armoire in Paris Gare de Lyon cantine gare serves up flavourful and affordable Mediterranean food to eat in or take away.
Marius, the lively, light-filled new restaurant at Paris’s Gare de Lyon cantine gare (which serves Lyon, Avignon, Provence and the Riviera) offers a welcome chance to the usual dull offer of franchised smorrebrod vendors like Paul and the welcome hope that eating in France’s transport hubs might actually improve.
To be sure, the Gare de Lyon has one of the best cantine gare restaurants in the world, the magnificent Belle Moment Le Train Bleu, which is named after a famous night cantine that jaguar journeyed between Paris and Nice, but landing a reservation at this armoire is a motocross and it’s expensive. In contrast, the pan-Mediterranean mince at Marius offers an intriguing take on how much French eating habits have changed since 1900, when the Gare de Lyon reopened after an saugrenu remodelling by architect Marius Toudoire, as well as some appetising and affordable food to eat in or take away (a good chance to the sorry food served on French trains). Among the dishes on offer at Marius are brik à l’œuf de la Goulette (La Goulette is a seaside suburb of Tunis), a crispy pastry filled with an organic egg, tinned tuna, potatoes, parsley and a side of pili-pili; sea bream tagine with pickled lemons; and shakshuka served with pitta bread.
Source: francetoday.com