Les Bouteilles is a wine bar in Hauts Pavés, Nantes.
Editorially verified August 22, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Food program: Plats du jour, crispy tête de veau, grilled monkfish
Tip: Glasses run €3.50 to €15, so the Loire end of the list is the cheap way in; the room stays shut Sunday through Tuesday.
Address: 11 Rue de Bel Air, 44000 Nantes
Obbo is pastry chef Antoine Gaudin's cave à manger on Allée des Tanneurs in Nantes, around 100 French domaines with the Pays Nantais at its core.
Signature pour: A Pays Nantais white by the glass, from about €4
Wine focus: Roughly 100 French domaines with the Loire and Pays Nantais at the core
Food: Inventive small plates and a dessert-led card
Tip: Sommelier Guillaume Claireau runs the glass list; lunch happens Wednesday to Friday only, so an evening booking is the safer plan.
Melon takes its name from Melon de Bourgogne and backs it with more than 200 organic references on Rue Copernic in Nantes, poured by its sommelier.
Signature pour: Antoine Delaunay Muscadet Sèvre et Maine at €5 the glass
Wine focus: Over 200 organic references chosen by sommelier Pierre Brunelli
Food: Bistro plates, lunch set menus, umami-leaning cooking
Tip: Julia Custodio cooks the short card while Pierre Brunelli pours; the house shuts Sunday and Monday and skips Saturday dinner.
Bras de Fer fills a former gallery on Boulevard de la Prairie au Duc in Nantes with natural wine, exhibitions, concerts and a courtyard garden.
Signature pour: Les Enfants Sauvages, the house melon and chardonnay blend
Wine focus: Natural growers plus the house cuvées from an urban winery nearby
Food: Vendée charcuterie and farmhouse cheese boards
Tip: Glasses open near €4 and bottles from €26; the Ferchaud brothers press their own wine less than a kilometre away.
Le Mirza is the neo-retro natural wine counter on Rue Châteaubriand in Nantes, casson tiling, Formica and shared plates until two in the morning.
Signature pour: Ker Ma melon wine at €4.50 the glass
Wine focus: Natural French and imported bottles, glasses from €4.50
Food: Shared plates off the counter, flatbreads and tarte tatin
Tip: Three former Brocéliande colleagues run it, so the pouring is chatty and cheap; the bar stays shut Tuesday and Wednesday.
Vin te faire boire turned a former PMU on Route de Sainte-Luce in Nantes into a cave of close to 300 natural, organic and biodynamic bottles.
Signature pour: A Loire bottle from Benoît Courault or François Saint-Lô
Wine focus: Close to 300 natural, organic and biodynamic references
Food: Artisanal charcuterie, farmhouse cheese, sardine fillets
Tip: Drinking a shop bottle on the spot adds a €6 corkage; the back room runs concerts and karaoke on quiet weeknights.
Le Brocéliande has been Véronique's tiled bistro on Rue Préfet Bonnefoy in Nantes for two decades, natural wine poured across three small terraces.
Signature pour: Panique Générale gamay at €5.50 the glass
Wine focus: Natural wines, glasses from €4.50
Food: Midday bistro formulas, evening plates to share
Tip: Midday formulas run €19 to €24 and evening plates €7 to €18; Saturday opens at 18:00, so it is a night rather than a lunch.
