35 editor picks in Montpellier.
35 cafe places in Montpellier we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Montpellier · Cafe across every city.
Drink Cold brew
Coldrip Food and Coffee anchors Montpellier's speciality-coffee scene from Rue Glaize, avocado toast, matcha pancakes and eggs Benedict beside the filters.
Café Bun brews named single origins like the Ethiopian Gotiti behind the opera in Montpellier, a busy coffee room with brunch plates and vegan options.
Drink Chai latte
Blend serves croque-monsieurs, cheesecake and chai lattes on the steep medieval Rue du Bras de Fer in Montpellier, a canteen-café hybrid with a cult cookie.
Drink Chai latte
Groove Café overlooks the Lez river in Montpellier with pies, tartines and parfaits, a daytime brunch room ranked among the city's best-loved cafés.
Day trip · 5 hours
Discover the charm of Pic Saint Loup on this guided tour from Montpellier. Taste local wines, visit two wineries (only one if it is sunday) and savor a delicious meal ...
Day trip · 3.5 hours
In a typically Mediterranean landscape, discover two of the region’s greatest treasures on this unforgettable half-day experience combining fine wines, fresh oysters, ...
Day trip · 4 hours
Drive through the Mediterranean countryside, passing by Pic Saint-Loup and visit 2 vineyards. Learn about the art of making wine and take a short wine tasting.
Drink Flat white
Nina Café plates avocado toast with dukkah, Turkish eggs and pancakes on Rue Jacques d'Aragon in Montpellier, a nutrition-minded brunch kitchen.
Drink Latte
Bonobo stacks photogenic pancakes and eggs Benedict on Rue Saint-Guilhem, the Montpellier old town's most-queued weekend brunch room since 2017.
Drink Smoothie
Auden runs a flexitarian daytime kitchen on Rue en Gondeau, serving açaí bowls, salad rolls and waffles all built around vegetables rather than meat.
Drink Cappuccino
Amazone Coffee Shop bakes vegan and gluten-free brownies, banoffee and pancakes on Boulevard du Jeu de Paume in Montpellier, locally sourced and organic.
Drink Filter coffee
Napoléon Dynamite pours brunch on Place de la Canourgue in Montpellier, outsized pancakes and vegetarian plates on the old town's prettiest square.
Order Ricotta and lime cheesecake
Ikonka pairs pastry-counter bakes with coffee on Rue du Faubourg du Courreau in Montpellier, weekly quiches and a small terrace outside the Écusson.
Café Solo has roasted its own beans on Rue Saint Guilhem in Montpellier since 1991, Ecuadorian and Guatemalan origins beside a hundred teas.
Le Petit Moulu brews single-origin coffee with pancakes, brioche perdue and waffles on Rue de l'Université in Montpellier's student quarter.
Drink House-roast espresso
Cafés Bibal is Montpellier's heritage roaster, trading since 1955, and this Rue Jacques Coeur boutique pours and sells the house roasts in the old town.
De la Sierra Coffee Roasters won best coffee shop in France at the 2025 Paris Coffee Show, roasting and pouring V60s in Montpellier's Port Marianne.
Order Alfajores
Station Sucrée pours coffee beside its Argentine alfajores and brookies on Rue de l'Université in Montpellier, a sweet stop in the student streets.
Order Alfajores
Station Sucrée bakes alfajores, brookies and dulce de leche pastries on Rue de l'Université in Montpellier, billed as France's first Argentine pastry shop.
Order Ricotta and lime cheesecake
Ikonka runs a pastry counter and café on Rue du Faubourg du Courreau in Montpellier, layered croissants, weekly quiches and a lime-ricotta cheesecake.
Order Whichever poppy seed or cheesecake bake is out that morning.
Ikonka bakes Central European cakes in Figuerolles, an outlier in a city of French patisserie and open seven days on the Faubourg du Courreau.
Order A bag of single-origin beans ground to your brewing method.
Cafés Bibal roasts and sells from a boutique on Rue Jacques Coeur, a coffee merchant in a city that mostly reads roasteries as coffee shops.
Order A dulce de leche alfajor with a coffee, taken at the counter.
Station Sucrée sits on the university strip of Rue de l'Université and sells alfajores, medialunas and Argentine pastries at student prices.
Order A slice of the day's bake with a long coffee, taken at the counter.
Ikonka bakes Central European cakes and savoury plates on the Faubourg du Courreau, a Figuerolles counter open seven days at student-friendly prices.
Order Eggs Benedict with the house hollandaise and a side of roast potatoes
Bonobo has run Montpellier's busiest brunch since 2017 from a plant-filled room on Rue Saint-Guilhem, eggs Benedict and bowls served every day.
Order A seasonal bowl with cold-pressed juice, or the vegan banana bread
Auden cooks a short seasonal brunch card on Rue en Gondeau, bowls, wraps and cold-pressed juices with every dish adaptable to a vegan order.
Order Matcha pancakes with the filter coffee flight alongside
Coldrip pairs Montpellier's most serious filter coffee with a full brunch card on Rue Glaize in the Ecusson, avocado toast, pancakes and eggs Benedict.
Order A mezze-leaning brunch plate with fresh juice on the terrace
Groove Café brings a Mediterranean brunch to Port Marianne on Rue Shirin Ebadi, salads, tea-room baking and a terrace open every day of the week.
Order The full brunch formula with speciality coffee and house granola
Amazone runs a coffee-shop brunch on the Boulevard du Jeu de Paume, granola bowls, eggs and pastry plates built around its own espresso programme.
Order Avocado toast with a poached egg, plus a flat white to follow
Napoléon Dynamite works the prettiest square in Montpellier, Place de la Canourgue, with a coffee-shop brunch card served on the plane-tree terrace.
Order French toast with seasonal fruit and a pot of filter coffee
Nina Café is the neighbourhood brunch room for Port Marianne, a small kitchen on Rue Jacques d'Aragon closing at 15:15 six mornings out of seven.
Order A slice of the Polish-inspired bake with a long coffee at the counter
Ikonka doubles as a Figuerolles bakery and a brunch counter on the Faubourg du Courreau, open seven days a week with Sunday service running to 14:30.
De la Sierra Coffee Roasters roasts in Montpellier's Port Marianne and took best coffee shop in France at the Paris Coffee Show 2025 for the cafe side.
Café Solo has roasted on Rue Saint Guilhem in Montpellier since 1991, single origins from Ecuador to Indonesia turned on the same machine for decades.
Cafés Bibal has roasted for Montpellier since 1955 from its Saint-Aunès factory, and this Rue Jacques Coeur boutique sells the roasts in the old town.
Café Bun sells named lots like the Ethiopian Gotiti and Brazilian Jaguar from its Rue des Etuves room in Montpellier, one of the city's coffee references.
Le Petit Moulu serves single-origin roasted coffee with brunch bakes on Rue de l'Université in Montpellier, cited among the city's coffee references.
Coldrip runs the most serious filter programme in the Ecusson from Rue Glaize, brewing single origins to order alongside its all-day brunch card.
