Le Galopin is a brasserie restaurant in Gare, Rennes.
Editorially verified August 21, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Signature dishes: Cancale oysters, Whole lobster with fries
Must order: Six Cancale oysters, then the 600g lobster with house fries
Address: 21 Avenue Jean Janvier, 35000 Rennes
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.
Signature: Donburi, Okonomiyaki
Order: The donburi in the weekday lunch formule, or the €55 blind tasting at night
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.
Signature: Saka saka, Moambe chicken
Order: Saka saka, the cassava-leaf stew the house is named after
Origines brews its own beer inside the old Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Rennes and serves committed bistro cooking beside the climbing hall, noon until midnight.
Signature: Bistro plates with house-brewed beer
Order: Whatever is on cask from the in-house brewhouse with the day's plate
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.
Signature: Line-caught fish tasting menus
Order: Whatever fish course anchors that week's menu
Ima is Julien Lemarié's Michelin-starred Rennes restaurant, holder of a Green Star too, pairing Breton produce with Japanese technique over three menus.
Signature: Interlude ten-course tasting menu
Order: The ten-course Interlude if you can give it the whole evening
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.
Signature: Surprise menu
Order: There is only the surprise menu, €26 at lunch and €52 at dinner
