Route: Walking tour from Place Graslin with at least four stops: Muscadet and seafood, a buckwheat galette, a fish roll, fondant baulois and rigolettes nantaises
Tip: Departures are at 10:30 from Tuesday to Saturday, so it doubles as lunch; the meeting point is the fountain, not the opera steps.
More food tours in Nantes
Erdre
Bateaux Nantais sails the Erdre out of the Gare fluviale in Nantes at 12:30, a two-and-a-half-hour lunch cruise past the river's châteaux and folies.
Tip: Boarding closes at 11:45 and the boat is back on the quay by 15:00; the spring and summer menus run from 3 April to 29 September.
Erdre
The Bateaux Nantais dinner cruise leaves the Quai de la Motte Rouge in Nantes at 20:30 and works the Erdre and its châteaux for two and a half hours.
Tip: Boarding is at 19:45 and the boat returns at 23:00; weekday seats cost less than weekend ones on all three menu tiers.
Bike'N Tour rides electric bikes out of Place Tour de Bretagne in Nantes for three and a half hours, with three wine tastings and local cheese.
Tip: Riders must be at least fourteen and 1.5 m tall; the season runs Tuesday to Sunday from April to October and daily in July and August.
La Muscadet Experience runs two hours at La Muscadetterie in Nantes, sensory stations on soil and aroma before a tasting of five Muscadet cuvées.
Tip: The tasting closes with two classic Muscadets, two geographical-designation wines and one cuvée of your own choosing.
Chantenay
Little Atlantique Brewery opens its Bas-Chantenay brewhouse in Nantes one Saturday a month, ninety minutes closing on beers poured against cheese.
Tip: Slots run on the first Saturday of the month at 15:00 or 17:00, closed-toe shoes are required and no cancellation is allowed.
Nantes sur un plateau is the short Les Épicuriens walk in Nantes, ninety minutes from the cathedral to Place Royale over seven regional tastings.
Tip: Roughly thirty minutes of the ninety is spent walking, so the pace suits a morning before lunch rather than a full day out.
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