Food Day Trips from Nantes

Food destinations within easy reach of Nantes. worth the train, the rental car or the early start.

Worth the trip

15 to 30 min by tram-trainTram-train Nantes to Clisson, one an hour

Famous for: Muscadet cellars, a wooden market hall and a craft brewpub

Clisson sits half an hour up the tram-train line from Nantes, an Italianate town of Muscadet cellars, a wooden market hall and the Hellcity brewpub.

On the Nantes to Clisson tram-trainTram-train from Nantes, Le Pallet stop

Famous for: Musée du Vignoble Nantais and Muscadet tasting

Le Pallet, a tram-train stop south of Nantes, holds the Musée du Vignoble Nantais, where the galleries on Muscadet end in a guided tasting session.

First vineyard stop on the tram-trainTram-train from Nantes, La Haie-Fouassière stop

Famous for: Fouace baking and Muscadet Sèvre et Maine

La Haie-Fouassière is the first vineyard stop out of Nantes, a village that lent its name to the fouace and throws a Muscadet weekend each autumn.

On the Nantes to Clisson tram-trainTram-train from Nantes, Gorges stop

Famous for: Cellar tastings at Château du Bois-Huaut

Gorges, on the Nantes to Clisson tram-train, is where Château du Bois-Huaut pours Muscadet and thirteen other grape varieties with the winemaker.

80 km west of NantesTrain from Nantes to La Baule in under an hour, then bus

Famous for: Salt marshes, fleur de sel and guided paludier walks

Guérande lies 80 km west of Nantes, 2,000 hectares of salt pans worked by paludiers who hand-rake fleur de sel and the coarser grey sea salt.

End of the Guérande peninsula rail lineTrain from Nantes to La Baule in under an hour, then TER on

Famous for: Covered market, quayside fishmongers and the criée

Le Croisic closes the Guérande peninsula west of Nantes, with 27 food traders under its halles and fishmongers selling straight off the criée.

A river shuttle hop across the LoireNavibus Loire from Gare Maritime to Trentemoult Roquios

Famous for: Quayside terraces in a painted fishermen's village

Trentemoult in Rezé faces Nantes across the Loire, a painted old fishing village whose narrow alleys open onto lively quayside terraces at dusk.