Madeleine Café is a cafe in Champ De Mars, Nantes.
Editorially verified August 22, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Lunch is small plates rather than a full card, and the room doubles as a gallery and meeting space for the Madeleine quarter.
Address: 7 Rue Pélisson, 44000 Nantes
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.
Signature drink: Korean Dabang coffee and red bean latte
Tip: Bingsu is the summer order and gimbap carries the lunch counter; the playlist and the pale wood room are Seoul to the last detail.
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.
Signature drink: Specialty espresso
Tip: The records racked along the wall are for sale as well as for listening, and the pastries are made for the shop rather than bought elsewhere.
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.
Signature drink: Specialty espresso and house juices
Tip: Adeline and Florian went on to open Horizon Café; Saturday brunch is the busy service and vegan or gluten-free plates are handled.
Curieux Coffeeshop keeps a fully plant-based counter behind its specialty coffee near Commerce in Nantes, sweet and savoury alike made without dairy.
Signature drink: Espresso with plant milk
Tip: Everything on the counter is vegan, which makes it a safe stop if you avoid dairy; the room is small and fills fast at lunch.
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.
Signature drink: Cime roasted coffee
Tip: Sunday brunch runs 10:00 to 15:00 and needs booking; gluten-free and vegan versions are made if you flag it when you reserve.
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.
Signature drink: Locally roasted espresso
Tip: The upper floor is the quiet one and the wifi holds, which makes this one of the better rooms in Nantes for a working morning.
