Aux Délices du Faubourg is Boutonnet's neighbourhood bakery in Montpellier, country loaves, grain breads and pastries for the student faubourg.
Tip: Open Sunday morning, which most of the city's artisan bakeries are not; the country bread sells through by noon.
Worth the queue: Country loaf
Au Rythme du Pain ferments organic sourdough slowly on Rue du Faubourg Boutonnet in Montpellier, its loaves also stocked by the La Cagette co-op.
Tip: Boutonnet has two serious bakeries on one street; try this one for levain and Aux Délices for the Sunday pastries.
Worth the queue: Long-fermentation levain loaf
Drapeau Rouge brews on the Faubourg Boutonnet and feeds its own taproom with pub plates and slow-cooked meat burgers, a student-quarter fixture.
Signature drink: House craft beers
Food: Pub food and slow-cooked meat burgers
Tip: Weekday lunch in a working brewery is the quiet way in; evenings fill with the Boutonnet student crowd.
Drapeau Rouge is the Boutonnet brewery-pub, house beers on tap beside slow-cooked meat burgers and a brewing school, open seven days a week.
Tip: One of the few breweries in France where you can also eat a proper weekday lunch beside the tanks.
Drapeau Rouge doubles as a Boutonnet brewpub and a small stage, running brewing courses by day and local bands into the evening on the student strip.
Tip: It is a brewery, a restaurant and a brewing school at once; the beer is made on the premises.