The place is quite ....the food is delicious, crunchy and hot... they prepare it quickly.... a high…read morerecommended place

This was one of our best meals. If you're looking for an affordable, fun, filling lunch or dinner…read more-- this is it. We recommend the combo platter (called "pour 2" or "pour 3") with a few sides. Good beer, good cocktails, friendly service, and great music. Loved it!

Awesome comfort food that's familiar yet different! I was craving some spicy food after being in…read moreFrance for 2.5 weeks, and this place totally hit the spot. This place could easily be at home in the Mission District in San Francisco (it's certainly hip enough) but just has that French sensibility (Mint-infused water, Padron Peppers upgrade to your fries). Highly recommended for both locals and visitors to Lyon!

Not sure why we stopped for fast food chicken. But we did and it was pretty damned good. Get…read moreyourself some...

Who doesn't love rotisserie chicken? Delicious. Chicken…read moregood. Potatoes good. A few salads to choose from. Wraps, plates, canned drinks and wine.

From the owner: Un restaurant de poulet grillé et beaucoup plus! Une dose de…read morepoulet grillé pour les gourmands et les gourmets, Une dose d'authenticité pour les puristes, Une dose de voyage pour les curieux, Une dose de partage pour tous les amoureux du poulet !

This is a five star and a two star restaurant all at once…read more On North African food - total five stars all the way. Don't miss this establishment if you are anywhere near Charpennes. They also do globalized fast food like burgers, chicken strips and tacos. That is where the two stars fits in. Absolutely positively avoid the fast food globalized menu. But if you are looking for doner kebabs, This is the place you TOTALLY want to go to. Don't even think about going anywhere else. * * * Villeurbanne has a very large North African community. There are fine Moroccan, Algerian and Lebanese restaurants all up and down the street, along with utterly superb halal butchers - and a few very fine European-style French restaurants with excellent North African owner-chefs. Villeurbanne has good eating. There are many fast food doner kebab places. However, if you look at the doner kebab places, Most have anywhere from zero customers to two or three customers. Topkapi is always packed. It has a ton of customers day and night - any time that the restaurant is open. Nearly all the customers are North Africans. People who know their North African food clearly give Topkapi a big thumbs up. * * * Kebabs or "gyros" as Americans call it are much better in France generically. In France, all the doner kebab places serve kebabs that are 100 percent veal. In America we use beef. PLUS French veal is absolutely positively superlative. American veal is awful. Doner Kebab places all make their own kebabs in house. So the quality of the meat itself is a huge part of the story. * * * So ANY French doner kebab place will have a fundamentally better kebab than will the same establishment in the United States. Now we add what Topkapi does that puts their sandwiches over the top. a) They put an amazing char on their veal kebabs. b) The kebabs are served with generous quantities of caramelized onions. The effect of a) plus b) is to give you a dish that tastes remarkably like very very good bacon. No Moslem establishment would serve bacon because pork is absolutely forbidden. But the light taste of veal rather than beef pushes their kebabs towards the taste of the "other white meat". The charring and the spicing gives you the savory quality of American bacon. In fact, the taste is much much better than American bacon because it is not greasy and fatty the way American bacon is. You also don't get salt masquerading as flavor. So the veal kebab gives you a "better" bacon. Much much much better. * * * Now add to this very thick very fine pita bread. Not the typing paper thin pita breads we get in the United States. Now char that bread the same way you charred the veal. * * * You have die and go to heaven stuff. * * * Topkapi serves thirteen sauce options with the kebabs. Avoid Western options (such as a nearly tasteless gruyere sauce.) DO go with North African options. They have a harissa that is absolutely positively outstanding. * * * Perfect kebabs. Perfect vegetables. Perfect pita. Perfect sauce. * * * If I lived in Villeurbanne, I would eat here once a week. Even as it is, I try to sneak in a meal from Topkapi whenever I can. A good doner kebab is a great thing.

Delicious burgers, fast service and acceptable pricing. Also the restroom is for single and shared…read moreuse.

Let me tell you Yelpers a story about a girl from Texas who lives in Lyon. This girl moved here…read morefrom Austin, TX - a vegetarian's heaven - and was extremely disappointed by most food she was offered at restaurants. Her standards began to drop. She became concerned that fresh, flavorful, vegetarian food was something only to be found in her kitchen from here on out. But then she stumbled upon Big Fernand, completely by accident, and had an epiphany. A delicious, delicious, epiphany. At the bottom left of the front page of Big Fernand's menu, you will see an entry title "Le Lucien". It is advertised as the "burgetarian": a portobello mushroom, with Tomme cheese, sundried tomatoes, pickled onions, chives, and a cocktail sauce. It is served on a fresh-tasting bun with sesame seeds and actually comes with 2 portobello mushrooms for extra thickness. The sauce did not taste like what I consider "cocktail sauce" (that red stuff you dip shrimp in), but whatever it was was tasty. And there was so much cheese - between the two mushrooms (to hold them in place, I assume,) and more on top. Divine! The portobello mushroom "burger" was something I was definitely missing over here. I ordered the menu, (of course,) so I got fries and a drink - all for 13€. The drink I ordered was a Ginger Orange Bionade - a malt beverage (with no alcohol - just deliciousness.) And then there's the fries. SEASONED FRIES, Y'ALL. I didn't think I would ever taste seasoned fries again in my life. Wait, let me say it again. THEY HAVE SEASONED FRIES. That felt good. I devoured the perfectly crisp and flavored little potatoes, dipping some in the "bbq sauce" they gave me (which did not look anything like the bbq sauce I'm used to but tasted just like it somehow!) So five stars for an amazing vegetarian lunch experience, complete with the attention of the entire staff who were all very friendly and even wrote "Texas Forever" on my burger wrapper. You guys rock. I'll be back.

Best pakora in town, good fries too. These guys have been at it for years, and somehow always…read moremanage a smile despite the insane amount of business they do. Very often the atmosphere inside is quite packed, but I've had more than one fun conversation with people I've met there due to the limited seating. I grew up in Asia, if you're not used to (real) hot sauce, opt for the Pili Pili (which is quite good), but if you want to become a hiccuping dragon, their hot "sauce indienne", like their pakora, is excellent.

Very good "Tandoori poulet" with exotic spices. Not expensive. :) There is some place inside to…read moreseat.