La Cigale is a french brasserie restaurant in Graslin, Nantes.
Editorially verified August 21, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Signature dishes: Seafood platters, Choucroute de la mer
Tip: Open from breakfast to past midnight daily; the tiled front room built by Émile Libaudière is the one to sit in, not the annexe.
Address: 4 Place Graslin, 44000 Nantes
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.
Signature: Weekly changing market card
Tip: Reservation is effectively mandatory at this size; dinner only happens Friday and Saturday.
Lulu le Bistrot is Ludovic Pouzelgues's relaxed second room on the Île de Nantes, bistro classics and Vendée snails under six-metre ceilings.
Signature: Oeufs mimosa, Sole meunière, Gâteau nantais
Tip: The €25 lunch is the value play; the house closes for summer congés from 15 August to 1 September.
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.
Signature: Weekly changing market card
Tip: Reservation is effectively mandatory at this size; dinner only happens Friday and Saturday.
L'Éphémère runs organic, zero-waste bistronomy on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes, a chef, pastry chef and mixologist trio behind the €25 menus.
Signature: Zero-waste seasonal plates
Tip: The three-course menu costs the same €25 at lunch and dinner, unusual for the level; cocktails are taken as seriously as the food.
SAIN is the café, canteen and grocery of brothers Samuel and Josselin in Nantes, cooking from their family's organic market garden in Guérande.
Signature: Farm vegetable plates
Tip: The grocery shelves sell the farm's vegetables, eggs and preserves to take home; natural wines pour by the glass.
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.
Signature: Short seasonal bistro card
Tip: Book ahead, the room is small and the project draws a loyal crowd; the seasonal card stays short and changes often.
Bairoz pairs Estelle Méheust's kitchen with Jérôme Berdelou's pastry on Rue Fouré in Nantes, market lunches then gastronomic menus at night.
Signature: Market lunch, Evening tasting menus
Tip: Lunch menus run €21 to €26 against €52 and €64 dinners; the Loire-heavy wine list favours Nantes-region growers.
