Article: A corking good time; Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrivE. Enjoy it best in Lyon, the gourmet heart of France...

Byline: MIKE NORTH

LYON is the place for getting your nose in the trough. In the gastronomic capital of France, 22 restaurants shine under full Michelin starlight, quite aside from places where bread and cheese translate to a feast; and charcuterie, boulangerie and patisserie taunt waistlines unashamedly.

Culture vultures have rich pickings: this Unesco World Heritage site boasts a chocolate-box basilica feeding the faithful from one hill, vast 18th-century silk merchants' houses woven into another, plus Europe's largest concentration of Renaissance architecture, so splendidly restored that the Medicis would plead for reincarnation. Enough for starters? ...

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