38 cheap eats places in Rennes, editor-picked. The best low-budget spots in Rennes: the places editors actually return to. All Rennes food.

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Café Albertine

Drink Filter coffee with the day's cake

Café Albertine runs from breakfast to goûter on Rue du Comte de Lanjuinais in Rennes, a bright vegetarian kitchen of daily plates, bowls and generous cakes.

Bourbon d'Arsel

Bourbon d'Arsel has roasted specialty coffee in Rennes weekly since 2017, a Rue de la Monnaie roastery and coffee shop rated top of the city's coffee bars.

Café 1802

Drink Espresso from the house roast

Café 1802 pairs Renaud's roasting with Fred's bar on Rue d'Antrain in Rennes, specialty beans roasted in Brittany and a daily vegan pastry on the counter.

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Boulangerie Hoche

Order Kouign-amann

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.

Grand Père Jules

Order Caramelised 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.

Pok

Drink Tonka bean latte

Pok is Victor Grousset's coffee shop on Rue de Montfort in Rennes, challah-bread sandwiches and flavoured lattes that earned it a Fooding 2026 listing.

BioCrêp

Try Galette-saucisse

BioCrêp griddles organic galette-saucisse inside the Halles Centrales of Rennes, €3.50 for the plain classic from carefully chosen artisan sausages.

Chez P'tit Louis

Order Valrhona chocolate marquise with salted caramel to finish

Chez P'tit Louis hides behind a pale green facade on Rue Saint-Louis in Rennes, checked tablecloths and a €15 to €19 lunch from the Mirlitantouille team.

Sabibi Pita

  • ★ 4.1
  • Middle Eastern
  • €
  • Centre

Order The falafel pita, crisp outside and soft inside, with house sauces

Sabibi Pita stuffs house-baked pitas with falafel, grilled halloumi and roast vegetables beside the Halles Centrales in Rennes, a 2023 street-food arrival.

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Café Joyeux

Drink House-roast coffee for a cause

Café Joyeux on Rue Vasselot is the Rennes branch of the solidarity chain born in the city in 2017, employing staff with disabilities behind homemade plates.

Au Fin Café

  • ★ 4.1
  • Coffee roaster
  • €
  • Centre

Au Fin Café is the old-school roaster of Rennes, a family shop near the Halles grinding beans to order from Papua, Kenya, Peru and Colombia.

La Rozell

Order A complète on the shaded terrace, one of the biggest in the old town

La Rozell serves galettes non-stop from 11:00 under the beams of a half-timbered house in Rennes, with a shaded sixty-table terrace on Rue de Penhoët.

La Tête Enfarinée

Order AOP-butter kouign-amann

La Tête Enfarinée is a small artisan bakery on Rue de Coëtquen in central Rennes, folding its kouign-amann in AOP French butter, open Sunday mornings.

Café Wunder

Drink Specialty flat white

Café Wunder sits under the Wunder offices near Place Sainte-Anne in Rennes, specialty coffee and homemade sweet and savoury plates in a coworking hybrid.

7 Grammes

Drink Smoothies and specialty coffee

7 Grammes pours coffee, teas and smoothies at the foot of Rue Saint-Melaine in Rennes, with homemade vegan lunch options in a minimalist room.

La Grappe

Drink A cheap, honest glass on the market square

La Grappe pours glasses from €3 on Place des Lices in Rennes, a small wine bar with charcuterie boards that opens Saturday morning for the market crowd.

L'Enchanté

Drink Organic teas with homemade pastry

L'Enchanté brews organic teas and plates fresh seasonal lunches at 2 Rue Saint-Melaine in Rennes, a tearoom with vegetarian and vegan options every day.

Oan's Pub

Drink €5 pints and Breton craft beers

Oan's Pub spreads two terraces below the cathedral quarter of Rennes, €5 pints, Breton beers on tap and bar pizzas that made a local top-12 list.

Le P'tit Vélo

Drink House cocktails across two differently soundtracked bars

Le P'tit Vélo has poured for generations of Rennes students on Place Saint-Michel, two rooms running funk-disco and rock with cocktails until 03:00.

Pique-Prune Cleunay

Order The by-weight starter and dessert buffets around the day's tart

Pique-Prune Cleunay runs an organic vegetarian lunch buffet beside the Biocoop in west Rennes, starters and desserts by weight with daily vegan options.

Les Cafés Breizhiliens

  • ★ 3.8
  • Coffee roaster
  • €
  • La Bouëxière

Les Cafés Breizhiliens roasts specialty lots from Jinotega to Mont Kenya just east of Rennes, selling through the city's fine grocers rather than its own bar.

Crêpe House

Try Galette-saucisse

Crêpe House serves €3.50 galette-saucisse on Place du Champ Jacquet in Rennes, under the leaning half-timbered facades of the old town's photo-op square.

Poutine Bros

Try Poutine with cheese curds and house sauce

Poutine Bros brought France its first poutinerie to Rue de Penhoët in Rennes, Quebec-style fries, curds and homemade sauce served late for the bar crowd.

Sunset Café

Drink €4.50 pints, €3.50 to €4 in the 17:00-21:00 happy hour

Sunset Café anchors the top of Rue Saint-Michel in Rennes with cheap pints, a 17:00 to 21:00 happy hour and a small dance floor at weekends.

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