Dance clubs, live music, rooftop bars, speakeasies, LGBTQ+ venues, listening bars and late-night dives in Nantes.
Dance clubs, live music, rooftop bars, speakeasies, LGBTQ+ nightlife, listening bars and late-night dives across Nantes, with where to go and what is worth the late night.
Warehouse is the big electronic room of Nantes at the Hangar à Bananes, three nights a week of techno, house and Latin programming until dawn.
Macadam has run its club in the Chantenay port zone of Nantes since 2017, house and techno on Saturday against trance and hardcore on Friday.
ONŌ Club opens its doors at midnight on Place de la Bourse in central Nantes and runs to 06:00 five nights a week on DJ sets and themed evenings.
New Factory works pop and reggaeton nights on Rue de Rieux in Nantes, with a cheap door and a run from just before midnight through until 06:00.
Stereolux runs two halls beside the Machines de l'Île in Nantes, a music and digital arts venue with programming across indie, electronic and experimental.
Pannonica has been the jazz and improvised music stage of Nantes since autumn 1994, a small room that leans hard on discovery and emerging players.
La Bouche d'Air programmes contemporary French chanson at the Salle Paul Fort in the Talensac quarter of Nantes, seated shows most weeks of the season.
Le Ferrailleur puts concerts on the Loire quays at the Hangar à Bananes in Nantes, then turns into a dance floor for its Nuits Blanches until 04:00.
Le Zygobar is the small live room of the Olivettes quarter in Nantes, with blues and soul gigs and open jam sessions against a beer-led bar list.
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La Guinguette du Belvédère sits on the roof of the Terrasses du Port in Nantes, an open-air bar looking straight down the Loire from the Île de Nantes.
Prohibition hides a New York bootleg-era cellar under the Bouffay streets of Nantes, cocktails and beer with DJ sets running through until 03:30.
Medusa on rue Bon Secours is a cocktail bar dressed like a 1930s club, with about ten original seasonal cocktails that change twice a year, a taste guide to choose by flavour, and a crocodile named Odile hanging from the ceiling.
L'Univers keeps a speakeasy-styled room off Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Nantes, food and concerts early then drinking through to 04:00 at weekends.
Le Montecito is the gay cocktail bar of Nantes on Allée Duquesne, with drag shows and DJ nights on a programme that changes through the month.
Le Plein Sud is described by local press as the oldest gay bar in Nantes, a relaxed terrace room near the cathedral rather than a dance floor.
Le Petit Marais is a long-standing fixture of queer nightlife on the Île Feydeau in Nantes, DJ nights and drag under a lit ceiling.
Voyage Voyage is the audiophile bistro of Maxence Jerusel in central Nantes, with worked acoustics and turntables built into the bar counter itself.
Barberousse pours shooters and planteurs on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes until 04:00, one of the latest doors on the eastern side of the centre.
Havana Café runs Latin nights on Rue de la Juiverie in the Bouffay quarter of Nantes, open every single evening from 18:00 through to 04:00.
La Maison Café fills six rooms of a mock 1970s flat on Rue Lebrun in Nantes, with darts and table football between the concerts and the DJ sets.
Le Marlowe runs through to 07:00 on Rue Saint-Vincent in Nantes, the last door standing in the city centre once every other bar has emptied out.
Le Callaway is a concert café on Rue de l'Émery in Nantes running live sets and DJ nights to 04:00, with a happy hour stretching past midnight.
La Calle is the Latin bar of the Hangar à Bananes quays in Nantes, with live concerts and DJ sets over punch and sangria at happy hour prices.
Australian Café is the beer-led terrace bar of the Hangar à Bananes in Nantes, with live concerts and sport on the screens beside the Loire.
