Le Loup, le Renard et la Galette
Readers of Big City Nantes voted this Bouffay crêperie the city favourite for 2025, galettes built on butternut cream, burrata or guacamole.
Bistros, trattorias, taverns and neighbourhood rooms: the mid-tier places where Nantes actually eats.
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Crêperie Sainte-Croix
Trading since 1948 beside the Sainte-Croix belfry, this crêperie spreads over three floors and fills its galettes with scallops and smoked trout.
Crêperie Heb Ken
Running since 1976 and rebuilt for its fortieth birthday, Heb Ken grinds through galettes at lunch and turns into a tea room every afternoon.
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Chez les Ducs
Facing the Château des Ducs de Bretagne, this crêperie lists 128 galette combinations across two rooms and a terrace built for the castle view.
La Crêperie du Bouffay
One of the older galette houses on the pedestrian lanes of Bouffay, generous plates of buckwheat with artisan ciders and a small street terrace.
Le Milan & le Rossignol
Voted fourth best crêperie in Nantes by Big City readers in 2025, a small Grétry room doing classic galettes plus odder seasonal combinations.
Chez Mamie Nénette
Sixth in the 2025 Big City Nantes crêperie vote, Mamie Nénette drops the lace-curtain look and pushes galette fillings well past ham and egg.
La Cantine du Curé
Named by Nantais voters among their favourite crêperies, this Sainte-Croix corner keeps the griddle on from eleven in the morning to eleven at night.
La Gavotte
A small Rue Voltaire crêperie a short walk from Place Graslin, named by Nantais voters among the city favourites and pricing most plates under €10.
Le Bouchon
- ★ 4.2
- French bistro
- €€
- Bouffay
Founded in 1986 in the historic centre of Nantes, Le Bouchon spreads several dining moods around a walled inner garden screened from the street.
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Bistro Melon
- ★ 4.2
- French bistro
- €€
- Graslin
Open since 2024 on the gastronomic stretch of Rue Copernic, Melon works as bistro and wine cellar with over 200 grower bottles on the shelves.
La Reine Margot
- ★ 4.1
- French bistro
- €€
- Bouffay
A long-standing table on Rue de la Juiverie in the old town, traditional French cooking in a narrow room that turns two short services a day.
Chez Maman
- ★ 4.0
- French bistro
- €€
- Bouffay
Chez Maman plays the family-lunch songbook in the old town of Nantes, roast meats and hachis parmentier lightened a little, served every day.
Macoha
Macoha faces the Loire from the north quay of the Île de Nantes, a brasserie room that runs later on Friday and Saturday than most of the island.
Kessecet
- ★ 4.1
- French bistro
- €€
- Malakoff
Elodie and Fabien cook a card that changes every week on the Quai de Malakoff, then flip the room into a living-wine bar with tapas after six.
Sen's
- ★ 4.2
- Vietnamese
- €€
- Bouffay
Sen's works the Vietnamese canon from a small room off Rue Sainte-Croix, pho bo and bun cha Ha Noi alongside plates of assorted spring rolls.
Nota Bene
Between the cathedral and Place Saint-Pierre, Nota Bene bakes a pizza pitched between Roman and Neapolitan on organic flour and natural leaven.
Popolo
A neighbourhood pizzeria on Rue de Coulmiers where every pizza has a vegetarian alternative and the desserts come out of the same small kitchen.
Pizzéria Pinocchio
Pinocchio has kept a steady following on Rue Saint-Léonard in Nantes, a straightforward pizzeria whose card stretches to strawberry and parmesan.
Chez ta mère
- ★ 3.9
- French bistro
- €€
- Decré
An all-day room near the Tour de Bretagne that opens at eight in the morning and keeps going past midnight, French comfort cooking throughout.
Voyage Voyage
- ★ 4.0
- French bistro
- €€
- Bouffay
A bistro on Rue de l'Hôtel de Ville that runs later than most of Bouffay, lunch on three days and a kitchen open until two on Friday and Saturday.
Beau Rêve
- ★ 4.1
- Egyptian
- €€
- Champ-de-Mars
Beau Rêve cooks Egyptian food on Rue Léon Blum in Nantes, a rare thing in the city, with a vegetarian Isis menu of mezze and a main at €18.50.
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