Esthète is a bakery in Decré, Nantes.
Editorially verified August 22, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: The gâteau nantais runs about €3.40 for one and €19.80 for six shares; figs and elderflower drive the late summer card.
Address: 1 bis Rue Mercœur, 44000 Nantes
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
La Petite Boulangerie was founded by a Meilleur Ouvrier de France baker and works organic grains at Place Saint-Félix in Nantes, café tables included.
Tip: It closes on Wednesday, opens at 06:45 the rest of the week and keeps a tea salon beside the bread counter.
Worth the queue: Pain bio au levain
Pains, Beurre et Chocolat bakes organic levain loaves and AOP butter viennoiserie near the Saint-Félix canal in Nantes, and it trades on weekdays only.
Tip: The gâteau nantais here is heavy on rum and needs ordering ahead; the shop shuts entirely at the weekend.
Worth the queue: Gâteau nantais to order
ArnO bakes organic breads and prize-winning croissants on Rue de Verdun in the old quarter of Nantes, with everything made on site each morning.
Tip: It stands a minute from the château, which makes it the practical breakfast stop before the ramparts open to visitors.
Worth the queue: Croissant
