Rennes Food Guide

Q: What food is Rennes known for?

Rennes's signature dishes include Galette de sarrasin, Galette-saucisse, Crêpe au caramel au beurre salé, Kouign-amann, Far breton. See our signature dishes chapter for where to eat each.

Q: What are the best food neighborhoods in Rennes?

TableJourney editors map Rennes by district. Centre, Sainte-Anne, Les Lices, Thabor are among the strongest for food, each with its own guide.

Q: Where should I eat fine dining in Rennes?

Editor picks in Rennes include Racines, Ima, Maison Ronan Kervarrec, Le Saison, plus the full fine dining chapter on TableJourney.

Q: Are there food tours in Rennes?

TableJourney covers 4 editor-picked food tours in Rennes, with what each shows you and how much to budget.

Q: Does Rennes have good vegetarian or vegan food?

TableJourney's Rennes dietary chapter covers vegan, vegetarian, gluten_free, halal venues, each editor-picked with what to order and how to ask.

Abstract

Rennes eats buckwheat. The galette de sarrasin is the plate the city is organised around, and the crêperies that serve it run from tourist-facing rooms on Rue Saint-Georges to the Thabor addresses where the queue is entirely local. The city's own contribution is the galette-saucisse, a grilled pork sausage rolled in a cold galette and eaten standing up, born at the country fairs, adopted by the Marché des Lices on Saturday morning and made compulsory in the Roazhon Park stands on match days. Around that sits everything else: France's second-biggest market spilling across Place des Lices every Saturday, the Halles Centrales trading six and a half days a week, bakeries competing openly on kouign-amann and far breton, cider poured from bolées rather than glasses, and Cancale oysters that travel the sixty kilometres inland the same morning. The last decade added a bistro layer the city did not have before: Coquille, Fezi and Cope cooking Breton produce on short weekday menus, with Racines and Ima holding the two Michelin stars in town and Maison Ronan Kervarrec and L'Auberge du Pont d'Acigné holding theirs just outside it. It is a student city, so the money is spent at lunch, and rue Saint-Michel is still known as the rue de la Soif.