Manitas Lyon – Ceramic Café & Pottery Workshop

Description

A ceramics café in Lyon for your corporate events, creative workshops (pottery, ceramics, modelling, etc.), brunches and/or seminars.

Two venues in one in Lyon: a ‘Ceramics Café’ and a ‘Pottery Workshop’

Manitas is a ceramics café founded in Lyon in 2023, offering a creative and friendly experience.
This hybrid venue combines a ceramic painting workshop with a coffee shop, complemented by a seasonal gourmet menu that is 100% vegetarian.

Ceramic Painting Workshop

Choose your piece, get some inspiration (particularly from our Pinterest boards), select your colours, then create at your own pace, guided by our team, all whilst enjoying a coffee and a treat.
Manitas – café céramique invites you to paint on ceramics to create a unique piece – both personal and practical – to treat yourself or give to someone you love.

A gourmet coffee shop

Fancy trying your hand at ceramic painting whilst enjoying a gourmet break? Discover our savoury menu created by a chef from Lyon, our homemade sweet treats and our drinks sourced from an ethical local supplier.

Types of events available

• Team Building
• Brunch
• Seminars (please note: the venue does not have an overhead projector. You’ll need to bring your own or we can hire one for you)

Organise a private event in a friendly and creative atmosphere: team-building, corporate events, brand launches, influencer collaborations or simply hire the venue to suit your needs.

Capacity:

40 people at a time for ceramic painting,
18 people for pottery modelling

Access:

1 Rue Sainte-Marie-des-Terreaux, 69001 Lyon

Our premises are at the top of the stairs on Rue Sainte-Marie-des-Terreaux. Access for people with reduced mobility via Place des Capucins.
Metro lines A and C | Hôtel de Ville – Louis Pradel
A 3-minute walk from Manitas – l’atelier

FAQ

What is ceramic painting?

We start with a pre-fired (biscuit) item: a mug, plate, bowl, figurine, etc.
Participants paint on it using glazes or special ceramic paints.
The piece is then fired a second time by the workshop (often to be collected a few days later, or sometimes immediately if a rapid-fire kiln or cold glazes are used).

What is a pottery workshop?

You create the object from scratch, using raw clay.
Possible techniques: potter’s wheel, hand-building, coiling, slabs.
This requires proper technical training (particularly centring on the wheel), is messier and more physically demanding.
The piece must then dry, be fired for the first time (bisque firing), possibly glazed, and then fired a second time — so the waiting time before collection is often longer (several weeks).