40 cheap eats places in Nantes, editor-picked. The best low-budget spots in Nantes: the places editors actually return to. All Nantes food.

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Cime Café

Drink 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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L'Artichaut

Drink 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.

Horizon Café

Drink 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.

Les Triplettes

Drink 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.

Morfal

Try Pita stuffed with kefta or falafel

Morfal packs Greek and Levantine flavours into pitas near Place Royale in Nantes, filling them with kefta or house falafel, burnt aubergine and tahini.

Ezope

Try Sourdough focaccia sandwiches

Ezope bakes its sourdough focaccia daily on Rue Léon Blum in Nantes, splitting it around rotating seasonal vegetable fillings for around €10 a serving.

Soba et Sarrasin

Order Soba salad or soba ramen, with a black sesame mochi after

Soba et Sarrasin is the buckwheat workshop near Place Canclaux in Nantes, sarrasin noodles, onigiri and mochi made behind a glass laboratory.

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Café Penché

Drink 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.

Alaïa Café

Drink 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.

Casa Cruz

Casa Cruz cooks Portuguese street food on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes, chicken grilled to order with house frites and local baker's bread.

Barnabé

Order Pain au levain

Barnabé bakes organic levain breads and low-sugar pastry on the Île de Nantes, one of four shops the house runs across the city, open every day.

Tokki

Drink 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.

Curieux Coffeeshop

Drink 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.

Chop Chop

Drink 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.

Saguaro Coffee

Drink 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.

BAO DAO

Try Gua bao

BAO DAO on Rue de la Clavurerie in Nantes was the city's first fully Taiwanese counter, steaming gua bao and pulling bubble tea daily until 22:00.

Bercail

Try Organic sourdough sandwiches

Bercail, little sister to Broussaille, builds €8 sandwiches on organic sourdough on Rue des Olivettes in Nantes, with seasonal daily specials.

OHMYFISH

Try Fish roll in a buttered brioche bun

OHMYFISH runs a seafood street food counter near the cathedral in Nantes, filling butter-toasted brioche buns and cold bowls with the day's catch.

Izi Café Jazz

Drink 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.

Fricotte

Drink 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.

Tumbleweed

Drink 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.

Moloss

Moloss builds proper casse-dalle sandwiches near Feydeau in Nantes at €9.50 apiece, or €11.50 to €15 once you add the sides that make it a full lunch.

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