The restaurants worth the trip in Rennes: bistros, neo-classics, neighbourhood favourites, and the rooms locals book first.

Food tour in Rennes

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24 places

Racines

Order Whatever fish course anchors that week's menu

Racines is Virginie Giboire's Michelin-starred room in Rennes, a fish-led tasting-menu restaurant rebuilt in 2020 a few steps off Boulevard de la Liberté.

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Ima

Order The ten-course Interlude if you can give it the whole evening

Ima is Julien Lemarié's Michelin-starred Rennes restaurant, holder of a Green Star too, pairing Breton produce with Japanese technique over three menus.

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Khimaira

Order There is only the surprise menu, €26 at lunch and €52 at dinner

Khimaira runs surprise-only menus off Place des Lices in Rennes, €26 at lunch and €52 at dinner, built on organic and locally grown Breton produce.

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Bistrot Canaille

Order The day's chalkboard main; the carte turns over with the season

Bistrot Canaille on Rue de Saint-Malo in Rennes cooks a rotating seasonal carte, traditional bistro plates reworked with contemporary ideas, noon and night.

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Coquille

Order The seasonal fish of the day from Breton ports

Coquille is Arnaud Guilloux's locavore bistro on Rue Nantaise in Rennes, generous seasonal cooking from Breton producers with a second room in Cesson-Sévigné.

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La Mirlitantouille

Order House-aged ribeye in the evening, when the carte turns classic bistro

La Mirlitantouille on Rue Nantaise in Rennes runs light market lunches and classic bistro dinners, from steak tartare through to aged Breton ribeye.

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Peska

Order Sole meunière with fermented rhubarb and fish jus

Peska is a Mediterranean-leaning fish bistro on Rue Saint-Malo in Rennes, Pauline Iafrate cooking sole meunière and marinated mackerel to order.

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Jozy

Order Barbecued Coucou de Rennes chicken, the local heritage breed

Jozy is a bistro and natural wine bar on Rue Vasselot in Rennes, chef Noé Viviès grilling Coucou de Rennes chicken behind a hundred-bottle cellar.

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Pépin

Order The pâté, the house calling card, with a natural glass

Pépin is the Saint-Germain wine bistro of Rennes, Pierre Clolus and Lucas Parigot pouring natural and biodynamic bottles beside terroir plates.

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Bombance

  • ★ 4.2
  • Wine bistro
  • €€
  • Centre

Order The €39 evening sharing sequence with a biodynamic bottle

Bombance stacks restaurant, wine bar and caviste into one room on Rue de la Chalotais in Rennes, sharing plates built around biodynamic and natural wines.

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Benèze

Order The XL pork and lobster cannelloni, built for the table

Benèze faces the Marché des Lices in Rennes with French-technique tapas, Pierre Eon sending sharing plates like pork and lobster cannelloni until late.

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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.

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Cope

Order The five-course €55 menu at dinner, or the €21 formule at lunch

Cope is Clément Couture and David Pellerin's market-cooking room on Rue Saint-Melaine in Rennes, an Ima alumni kitchen in the old Bercail premises.

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Fezi

Order Hake in squid-ink tempura with braised leeks

Fezi is Cédric Bruneau's organic bistro on Avenue Sergent Maginot in Rennes, a locavore kitchen with sommelier William Nogris pouring natural bottles.

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La Petite Ourse

Order The €28 three-course lunch; the carte changes daily

La Petite Ourse is a lunch-only bistro on Boulevard de la Liberté in Rennes, a Bib Gourmand in the 2025 Michelin Guide for its organic three-course menus.

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Estime

Order Hake with potatoes, chorizo and samphire when it runs

Estime pairs siblings Maxime and Estelle Besnier on Rue du Chapitre in Rennes, a Michelin Bib Gourmand bistro with a €25 three-course lunch.

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Le Galopin

Order Six Cancale oysters, then the 600g lobster with house fries

Le Galopin has run its seafood brasserie on Avenue Jean Janvier in Rennes since 1965, Cancale oysters and whole lobster a short walk from the station.

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Yoko

Order The donburi in the weekday lunch formule, or the €55 blind tasting at night

Yoko is Julien Lemarié's Japanese small-plates room next to Ima in Rennes, donburi and okonomiyaki at lunch and a €55 blind tasting menu at night.

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La Marmite du Saca Saca

  • ★ 4.1
  • Congolese
  • €€
  • Centre

Order Saka saka, the cassava-leaf stew the house is named after

La Marmite du Saca Saca cooks Congolese saka saka and moambe to order on Rue Derval in Rennes, a small evening room with cooking worth the unhurried pace.

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