Ile Barbe: a little green paradise on the banks of the river Saône where the eccentric writer Félix Benoît proclaimed its independence in 1977 - declaring himself, at the same time, the governor of[...]

Ile Barbe: a little green paradise on the banks of the river Saône where the eccentric writer Félix Benoît proclaimed its independence in 1977 - declaring himself, at the same time, the governor of this new territory. A gourmet through and through, he would have been enamoured of the cuisine of Jean-Christophe Ansanay-Alex, who turned this restaurant into one of the best in Lyon with his delicious, elegant recipes such as sea bass in a shell of butternut squash with chestnut milk and white truffle oil. The new governor of the island, that would be him…