Coffee shops, bakeries with seats and the places Nantes lingers in over a cortado.

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Café Penché

Order Chemex and V60 filter coffee

Café Penché pours specialty coffee next to a vintage clothes shop off Place Royale in Nantes, with V60, Chemex and Aeropress brews and cakes made in house.

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L'Artichaut

Order V60 or Aeropress filter coffee

L'Artichaut gathers a coffee shop, a seasonal canteen and an urban art gallery into one room on Rue du Marais in Nantes, lunch served at midday.

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Boëma Café

Order Filter coffee from a Breton roastery

Boëma Café brews specialty coffee from a Breton roastery in a bright room off Rue des Halles in Nantes, brunch and focaccia lunches every service.

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Horizon Café

Order Rotating single-origin filter

Horizon Café works as coffee shop and bean cellar on Rue Léon Jamin in Nantes, about thirty specialty references rotating through the brew bar.

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Madeleine Café

Order European specialty espresso

Madeleine Café pours European specialty coffee in a converted warehouse in Nantes, pastries from Maison Arlot Cheng and art on the tall walls.

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Tokki

Order Korean Dabang coffee and red bean latte

Tokki was the first Korean coffee shop in Nantes, pouring Cime beans beside yuja tea, red bean lattes, croffles and bowls of shaved ice bingsu.

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Izi Café Jazz

Order Specialty espresso

Izi Café Jazz sells specialty coffee and jazz vinyl from one counter on Rue Voltaire in Nantes, a spare room of wood and metal built around records.

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Alaïa Café

Order Specialty espresso and house juices

Alaïa Café pairs a specialty coffee bar with a low-waste boutique on Rue de Budapest in Nantes, lunch and Saturday brunch from local producers.

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Curieux Coffeeshop

Order Espresso with plant milk

Curieux Coffeeshop keeps a fully plant-based counter behind its specialty coffee near Commerce in Nantes, sweet and savoury alike made without dairy.

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GLAZ

Order Cime roasted coffee

GLAZ takes its name from the Breton word for blue-green, pouring Cime coffee with a daily three-dish lunch and Sunday brunch near Tour Bretagne.

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Chop Chop

Order Locally roasted espresso

Chop Chop runs a two-floor coffee shop and canteen on Rue Saint-Léonard in Nantes, cooking from raw produce with locally roasted coffee at the bar.

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Les Triplettes

Order Barista coffee with house patisserie

Les Triplettes puts a pastry chef, a barista and a third friend in one Nantes room, patisserie counter in the morning and canteen at lunchtime.

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Fricotte

Order Freshly roasted filter coffee

Fricotte works as neighbourhood canteen, coffee shop and salon de thé on Rue des Hauts Pavés in Nantes, with pastries baked on site each morning.

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Tumbleweed

Order Matcha latte with oat milk

Tumbleweed is the first fully vegan coffee shop in Nantes, a 1970s room on Rue Santeuil pouring plant-milk drinks with pastries from Délice Végétal.

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Les Bien-aimé.e.s

Order Loose-leaf tea and citron de Corée

Les Bien-aimé.e.s is a café-librairie off Bouffay in Nantes, feminist and ecological writing downstairs and a quiet tea room on the floor above.

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Café sur Cour

Order Coffee on the courtyard terrace

Café sur Cour hides a large courtyard terrace behind a Mellinet corner in Nantes, a daytime café that turns to tapas and concerts after work.

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Cime Café

Order Espresso from the house roastery

Cime Café is the Rue Santeuil shop of the Nantes roastery of the same name, beans roasted weekly and poured as espresso, filter or sold by the bag.

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Chez les Crèmes

Order Hot chocolate and comfort cakes

Chez les Crèmes is the canteen and coffee shop that Anaïs and Hélène opened near Bouffay in Nantes in 2024, everything on the counter made in house.

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Bam Bam Café

Order Espresso with vegan pastry

Bam Bam Café is a neighbourhood coffee shop and canteen on Rue Adolphe Moitié in Nantes, a seasonal card with vegan pastries beside the espresso.

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Saguaro Coffee

Order Iced ube latte

Saguaro Coffee picked up where Canyon closed a few doors away in Nantes, pouring cold brew, affogato and coloured lattes beside grilled cheese.

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