Lunch at Carnegie Hall?

Don't ask why, but the place we stopped by for lunch was called (get this) Carnegie Hall. Which is sort of like opening up a steak house in the U.S. and calling it "Opera Bastille" and hoping no one gets the joke. I explained it to a French person, who was shocked to hear that a steak house could share a name with a concert hall.

Apparently, this place is famous for its steaks and there's actually an open kitchen area where slabs of beef hang on meat hooks and a butcher prepares the steaks for that day's meal right on-site. So it is pretty fresh and good meat, in theory.

The meal itself was nice. A nice large salad to start the meal, then a 6 oz steak served with green beans and potatoes au gratin, followed by a dessert of apple tart, ice cream and coffee. The steak was a little bit overdone (my colleagues and I asked for "à point" (medium-rare) but ended up with "bien-cuit" (well-done); another person who had asked for "saignant" (rare) ended up with something done medium) but it was nice to have a real steak for the first time here in Lyon. Oh, and to go with the meal, some very nice red wine.

Incidentally, this restaurant is near the Stade Gerland area where I go to watch the OL soccer games on weekends. Evidently there's a lot of eateries in this area and I might go and eat there with some classmates next week Wednesday before we watch the OL team take on Kiev in a Champions League match.