Barnabé is a bakery in Île De Nantes, Nantes.
Editorially verified August 22, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Unsold bread goes to local charities at the end of the day; the flours are milled nearby and the pastry skips colourings.
Address: 10 Boulevard Babin Chevaye, 44200 Nantes
Maison Arlot Cheng bakes levain breads and pastries near Les Machines de l'Île in Nantes, its gâteau nantais soaked in rum under a crisp glaze.
Tip: The gâteau nantais sells at about €3.40 a slice; soups, focaccia and pies fill the same counter at lunchtime.
Worth the queue: Gâteau nantais
Délicatessaine bakes largely organic patisserie on the Île de Nantes with unrefined sugar throughout, daily vegan cakes and a calm tea salon.
Tip: Low-gluten petit épeautre flour runs through part of the range, and the gâteau nantais is glazed with rapadura sugar.
Worth the queue: Gâteau nantais with rapadura glaze
Délice Végétal is the fully vegan bakery two sisters opened on Quai de la Fosse in Nantes, organic where they can and sandwiches beside the cakes.
Tip: Pistachio rolls and hazelnut chocolate cakes go first, and several Nantes coffee shops buy their pastries from here.
Worth the queue: Pistachio roll
Maison Arlot Cheng bakes levain breads and pastries near Les Machines de l'Île in Nantes, its gâteau nantais soaked in rum under a crisp glaze.
Tip: The gâteau nantais sells at about €3.40 a slice; soups, focaccia and pies fill the same counter at lunchtime.
Worth the queue: Gâteau nantais
Esthète works seasonal fruit into precise entremets on Rue Mercœur in Nantes, with a chocolate counter, a tea salon and its own gâteau nantais.
Tip: The gâteau nantais runs about €3.40 for one and €19.80 for six shares; figs and elderflower drive the late summer card.
Worth the queue: Gâteau nantais
Vincent Guerlais keeps his Rue Franklin shop in Nantes stocked with chocolate work and a soft gâteau nantais finished under a white chocolate glaze.
Tip: The Franklin shop opens Sunday morning until 12:30, and the house also keeps a stall inside the Talensac market hall.
Worth the queue: Gâteau nantais
Délicatessaine bakes largely organic patisserie on the Île de Nantes with unrefined sugar throughout, daily vegan cakes and a calm tea salon.
Tip: Low-gluten petit épeautre flour runs through part of the range, and the gâteau nantais is glazed with rapadura sugar.
Worth the queue: Gâteau nantais with rapadura glaze
Debotté folds chocolate, viennoiserie and a salon de thé into its Rue Crébillon shop in Nantes, with mascarons nantais among the house sweets.
Tip: This is the branch with the tea salon attached, and one of the few Nantes counters open on Sunday morning and again at teatime.
Worth the queue: Mascarons nantais
