French Bistro restaurants in Nantes
21 french bistro places in Nantes we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Nantes · French Bistro across every city.
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Lulu le Bistrot
- ★ 4.4
- €€
- Île de Nantes
Lulu le Bistrot is Ludovic Pouzelgues's relaxed second room on the Île de Nantes, bistro classics and Vendée snails under six-metre ceilings.
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Le Petit Boucot
- ★ 4.3
- €€
- Graslin
Le Petit Boucot seats just 24 covers in the Graslin quarter of Nantes, working a weekly-changing card of creative plates built on seasonal produce.
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L'Éphémère
- ★ 4.2
- €€
- Decré
L'Éphémère runs organic, zero-waste bistronomy on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes, a chef, pastry chef and mixologist trio behind the €25 menus.
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Le Reflet
- ★ 4.4
- €€
- Decré
Le Reflet, founded by Flore Lelièvre in 2016 in Nantes, staffs half its bistro team with people with Down syndrome, Luna Vicariot leading the kitchen.
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Balthazar
- ★ 4.3
- €€
- Graslin
Balthazar is a bistro in the Graslin quarter of Nantes serving aged meats, kidney sautés and saucisse au Muscadet against a Loire-leaning cellar.
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Le Lion et l'Agneau
- ★ 4.1
- €€€
- Champ-de-Mars
Le Lion et l'Agneau on Rue Fouré in Nantes cooks southwest-leaning bistro food, rotisserie birds and gravlax among it, against a broad and fair cellar.
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La Cachette
- ★ 4.1
- €
- Bouffay
La Cachette hides on Rue du Refuge in Nantes with one daily fixed-price menu, half of it vegetarian or vegan, and a doggy bag for skipped courses.
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Bibou
- ★ 3.9
- €€
- Île de Nantes
Bibou runs as bar and bistro together on Quai Hoche in Nantes, serving hearty plates from morning coffee through to a long weekday apéritif.
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Magnum
- ★ 3.8
- €€
- Île de Nantes
Magnum runs bistro classics, rotisserie meats and matchstick frites on the Île de Nantes, open from morning coffee through to the last digestif.
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Au Petit Raphaël
- ★ 4.5
- €€€
- Hauts-Pavés
Au Petit Raphaël is a couple-run bistro on Rue des Hauts Pavés in Nantes, careful cooking on regional produce at €27 for three courses at lunch.
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Le Bouchon
- ★ 4.2
- €€
- 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
- €€
- 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.
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La Reine Margot
- ★ 4.1
- €€
- 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.
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Chez Maman
- ★ 4.0
- €€
- 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.
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Kessecet
- ★ 4.1
- €€
- 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.
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Chez ta mère
- ★ 3.9
- €€
- 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.
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Voyage Voyage
- ★ 4.0
- €€
- 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.
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Les Chants d'Avril
- ★ 4.4
- €€
- Champ-de-Mars
Les Chants d'Avril is a 1950s corner bistro by Champ de Mars in Nantes, Christophe François's mystery menus set against Véronique's Loire cellar.
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Le Café du Marché
- ★ 4.0
- €
- Champ-de-Mars
A worker's table since Pierre and Marie Le Nay took it over in 1946, on a weekly rota: kig ha farz Tuesday, couscous Wednesday, then tête de veau.
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Le Canclaux
- ★ 3.8
- €
- Zola
On the leafy Place Canclaux west of the Nantes centre, this bistro runs without a break from eight in the morning to half past nine, weekdays only.
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Le Bistro des Enfants Nantais
- ★ 4.0
- €
- Malakoff
Jérôme's bistro on Rue Desaix trades on the plat du jour, generous simmered family cooking at prices that keep the room full every weekday lunch.