The galette-saucisse is a grilled pork sausage rolled in a cold buckwheat galette and eaten in the hand, no plate, no cutlery and traditionally no mustard, the street food of Rennes.
Where to eat it: 5 restaurants across 1 city.
The pairing belongs to Haute-Bretagne and to Rennes in particular, where it moved from country fairs and horse markets into the city's Saturday market and, above all, into the Roazhon Park stands on Stade Rennais match days. The rules are argued about with some seriousness: the galette is served cold and unheated, the sausage is a plain grilled pork saucisse, and the purist version carries nothing else. Rennes crêperies have spent the last decade rewriting it anyway, so the city serves the hand-held original at the Marché des Lices alongside sit-down variants with candied onion, mustard and cheese.
Common allergens: Gluten, Mustard
Tip from the editors. Rennes convention says no mustard and no ketchup, but nobody at the market will stop you. What they will stop you doing is heating the galette.
Crêperie au Marché des Lices sits on the Lices market square and serves the Robiquette, a galette-saucisse with emmental, onions and mustard.
Try: La Robiquette galette-saucisse
Tip: The Robiquette runs €11.90; it opens at noon, so lap the Saturday market first and come back once the stalls have packed up.
Le Plaisir du Breton is one of the named galette-saucisse stands working Roazhon Park in Rennes, rolling the grilled-sausage classic for the match-day crowd.
Try: Galette-saucisse
Tip: It is a roving stand, not a shop; find it outside Roazhon Park on Stade Rennais match days and around the markets.
Maison Delaunay grills galette-saucisse at Roazhon Park in Rennes, a stand the stadium crowd queues at for the pre-match sausage in buckwheat.
Try: Galette-saucisse
Tip: Match days only around the stadium; on Saturday mornings the same ritual runs at the Marché des Lices stands.
Aux Caprices de Suzette on Rue Vasselot in Rennes plates La Rennaise, a galette-saucisse with emmental, onions and old-style mustard, or hands it over to go.
Try: La Rennaise galette-saucisse
Tip: La Rennaise runs €12.30 on the menu; take the plain galette-saucisse away if you want the street ritual rather than a plate.
Madame Claude on Rue de Penhoët in Rennes reworks the galette-saucisse as La Vigneronne, its sausage cooked down in red wine, folded into a paper cone.
Try: La Vigneronne galette-saucisse
Tip: Order the Vigneronne for the revisited version, around €11; purists should stick to the plain sausage from the market stands.
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