Le Brazier Wine Bar

Le Brazier Wine Bar is the bar and wine-focused space of La Mère Brazier, the celebrated Lyon restaurant founded by Eugénie Brazier. It is presented on the restaurant's official website as one of the distinct spaces of the house, alongside the main dining room and the upstairs salons. The bar is described as featuring a superb counter whose mosaic takes on the appearance of a tapestry, and it invites relaxed conversation over a glass of wine and one of the house specialties. Some guests, the site notes, swear by it alone, drawn by its intimate and warm atmosphere. La Mère Brazier itself is a century-old institution and a double-starred restaurant where Chef Mathieu Viannay welcomes guests. The establishment is described as a place charged with memory, secrets and a singular architecture, offering cuisine woven from love of product, reinvented tradition, transmission and sharing. The wine bar thus functions as the more casual, convivial extension of a historic gastronomic address in Lyon. The parent restaurant traces its identity to Eugénie Brazier, born in 1895 in La Tranclière in the Ain, who rose from a farming family and domestic service to become one of the most celebrated figures in French gastronomy. In 1933 she earned three stars for the two restaurants she had opened in Lyon and at the Col de la Luère, a singular achievement for a woman of her era. That heritage underpins the brand of La Mère Brazier and its wine bar today.

Le Brazier Wine Bar is part of La Mère Brazier, a restaurant brand whose history begins with Eugénie Brazier. Born in 1895 in La Tranclière in the Ain department, she lost her mother at age ten and was placed on farms to tend cows and pigs. At nineteen she became an unmarried mother, was driven from her family by her father, placed her son Gaston with a wet nurse and left for Lyon. There she found work with a bourgeois family and replaced the cook when the latter fell ill, discovering her vocation. On her employer's advice she was hired by Françoise Fayolle, better known as the Lyonnaise 'mère' Fillioux. This apprenticeship proved foundational: at a time when women were not allowed to train in cooking, her employer transmitted far more than recipes and techniques, teaching her how to manage an establishment and select products. Eugénie Brazier went on to open restaurants in Lyon and at the Col de la Luère. In 1933 she was awarded three stars for both establishments, a performance described as singular and, for a woman simultaneously starred for two restaurants, unequalled to this day. The official history notes that Marie Bourgeois received the same reward that year and that Alain Ducasse later repeated the feat. La Mère Brazier today is described as a century-old institution that has never been in better health, a double-starred restaurant where Chef Mathieu Viannay invites guests to live an enchanted interlude. The house preserves its memory, secrets and singular architecture, with a main dining room, small upstairs salons that retain their original locations and volumes, and a bar. It is within this preserved and intimate setting that Le Brazier Wine Bar operates, offering a counter adorned with mosaic that resembles a tapestry and a convivial space for a glass of wine and house specialties.

• 1933

  Eugénie Brazier earns three stars for her two restaurants in Lyon and at the Col de la Luère.

• 1895

  Eugénie Brazier is born in La Tranclière in the Ain.

Intimate, warm wine bar attached to a historic double-starred Lyon restaurant.

• Wine by the glass

  Wine served at the bar counter.

• House specialties

  Specialties of La Mère Brazier available at the bar.

1. 1→ La Mère Brazier · Restaurant Gastronomique étoilé à Lyonlamerebrazier.fr
2. 2L’Histoire d’Eugénie Brazier, fondatrice du Restaurant La Mère Brazier à Lyonlamerebrazier.fr
3. 3Le Brazier Wine Barwikidata.org