Pâtisserie Le Daniel is a bakery in Centre, Rennes.
Editorially verified August 21, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Order before 14:00 online and collect the next day; the Rue de la Monnaie boutique by the Lices is the quieter pick-up.
Address: 19 Rue Jules Simon, 35000 Rennes
Grand Père Jules bakes 100 percent house sourdough on Rue de Nemours in Rennes, pastry chef Estelle and baker Kevin carrying on from the Coupel family.
Tip: There is a second shop at 21 Rue Saint-Hélier if you are on the station side of town.
Worth the queue: Caramelised kouign-amann
Le Fournil des Halles bakes a three-generation kouign-amann recipe near the Halles Centrales in Rennes, alongside far breton and buckwheat galettes.
Tip: Their kouign-amann is sold in packaging that keeps it three weeks, the one Breton pastry that survives a suitcase.
Worth the queue: Kouign-amann, plain or apple
Maison Bouvier runs its pâtisserie and chocolaterie across Rennes, the Place Toussaints shop as flagship and a counter in the Hoche Visitation centre.
Tip: Monday afternoon and Sunday openings close in July and August; the Visitation branch keeps longer standard hours.
Worth the queue: Kouign-amann
Maison Larnicol stacks its bite-size kouignettes on Rue Le Bastard in Rennes, the Breton chocolatier founded by Meilleur Ouvrier de France Georges Larnicol.
Tip: The kouignette is the travel-size kouign-amann; the rum-raisin and salted-caramel-apple versions are the ones to mix into a bag.
Worth the queue: Kouignettes in a dozen flavours
Pâtisserie 16h30 is Marion Juhel's bakery and tea salon on Rue Hoche in Rennes, Gault&Millau's Grand Ouest pastry trophy winner in 2020, closed Mondays.
Tip: The kouign-amann is folded with Beurre de Madame from Pacé, churned from Froment du Léon milk; it sells out on weekend afternoons.
Worth the queue: Kouign-amann in Froment du Léon butter from Pacé
Boulangerie Hoche bakes one of Rennes' benchmark kouign-amann at 17 Rue Hoche, and its pastry team has riffed the galette-saucisse into a tribute cake.
Tip: Rue Hoche holds this bakery, 16h30 and the Nabuchodonosor in one block; come hungry and compare kouign-amann.
Worth the queue: Kouign-amann
Grand Père Jules bakes 100 percent house sourdough on Rue de Nemours in Rennes, pastry chef Estelle and baker Kevin carrying on from the Coupel family.
Tip: There is a second shop at 21 Rue Saint-Hélier if you are on the station side of town.
Worth the queue: Caramelised kouign-amann
Le Fournil des Halles bakes a three-generation kouign-amann recipe near the Halles Centrales in Rennes, alongside far breton and buckwheat galettes.
Tip: Their kouign-amann is sold in packaging that keeps it three weeks, the one Breton pastry that survives a suitcase.
Worth the queue: Kouign-amann, plain or apple
Maison Bouvier runs its pâtisserie and chocolaterie across Rennes, the Place Toussaints shop as flagship and a counter in the Hoche Visitation centre.
Tip: Monday afternoon and Sunday openings close in July and August; the Visitation branch keeps longer standard hours.
Worth the queue: Kouign-amann
Maison Larnicol stacks its bite-size kouignettes on Rue Le Bastard in Rennes, the Breton chocolatier founded by Meilleur Ouvrier de France Georges Larnicol.
Tip: The kouignette is the travel-size kouign-amann; the rum-raisin and salted-caramel-apple versions are the ones to mix into a bag.
Worth the queue: Kouignettes in a dozen flavours
