Where to brunch in Rennes: morning spots worth the queue.
Where to brunch in Rennes. The morning rooms worth the queue, and the kitchens still doing it right at noon.
Oh My Biche serves brunch plates across two Rennes rooms open every day, creamy scrambled eggs, pancakes and waffles, plus a Mail Mitterrand address.
Order: Scrambled eggs, pancakes and the house granola
Tip: No weekend reservations at either address; the hidden back terrace at Puits Mauger is the seat to hunt.
Œuf turns its organic buckwheat crêperie on Rue de Saint-Malo in Rennes into a Breton brunch every Sunday, €24 with a crêpe cake that changes weekly.
Order: The all-buckwheat Breton brunch with the weekly crêpe cake
Tip: Sunday runs in two sittings at 11:45 and 13:45 at €24 a head; book, it is the city's only galette-first brunch.
Le Klub lays out a €23 all-inclusive brunch on Quai Émile Zola in Rennes both weekend days, sweet and savoury plates over the Vilaine embankment.
Order: The €23 all-in sweet and savoury formule
Tip: Both Saturday and Sunday run the formule, rarer than it sounds in Rennes; the quay tables go first.
L'Arrivée runs a €28 French-style Sunday buffet brunch behind the Rennes station on Boulevard de Beaumont, homemade sweet and savoury in one pass.
Order: The €28 homemade French buffet
Tip: Five minutes from the station's south exit, it is the brunch to book before a Sunday afternoon train.
Les Grands Gamins runs terrace brunches on the Mail François Mitterrand in Rennes, a seasonal compose-your-own plate from €21.50 both weekend days.
Order: The compose-your-own plate, €21.50 to €26.50
Tip: The plane-tree terrace on the mail is the point; book outside or come early on sunny Sundays.
Les Fils à Maman brunches under the crooked facades of Place du Champ Jacquet in Rennes, eggs Benedict and pancakes in a 1980s-nostalgia dining room.
Order: Eggs Benedict and the mom's cookie from the €29.50 formule
Tip: Sunday only for the brunch formule at €29.50; the à la carte eggs run alongside if you want a lighter plate.
Café Albertine plates a €24 vegetarian brunch on Saturdays in its bright Rennes coffee shop, seasonal and largely organic from the daily kitchen.
Order: The €24 vegetarian brunch board
Tip: Saturday only and one sitting window, 11:30 to 13:30; the rest of the week the daily veggie lunch takes its place.
Mama Shelter Rennes lays on the city's biggest Sunday brunch above Place de la Trinité, a €42 all-you-can-eat spread with a children's rate at €21.
Order: Work the hot and cold buffets, then the dessert wall
Tip: It is the splurge brunch of Rennes; children four to twelve eat for half, and the rooftop seats are the ones to request.
White Fields Café buffets its Sunday brunch out at Cesson-Sévigné east of Rennes, €28 with pizzas included and a children's rate that suits families.
Order: The €28 buffet, pizzas included, children under ten €11
Tip: The easiest big-table family brunch in the metro area; there is parking, which the centre brunches cannot offer.
BDS runs brunch every day of the week on Quai Lamennais in Rennes, homemade à la carte plates rather than a buffet, from 12:00 and 11:30 at weekends.
Order: The homemade à la carte plates rather than a fixed formule
Tip: One of the few Rennes brunches you can eat on a Tuesday; weekends switch to the 11:30 to 15:00 service window.