L'Atlantide 1874 Maison Guého overlooks the Loire from Chantenay in Nantes, Jean-Yves Guého's Michelin-starred house for fish and Loire wines.
Tip: The house closes for annual summer congés for roughly the first three weeks of August; ask for a terrace table, where the view runs out over the river mouth.
Bier Market is a shop and tasting bar out on Boulevard Général Pierre Koenig in Nantes, with eight taps standing in front of 1,200 bottle labels.
Signature drink: Eight taps in front of 1,200 bottles
Food: No kitchen
Tip: It closes far earlier than the centre-city bars, so treat it as an early stop or a bottle run home.
Little Atlantique Brewery brews in a converted nineteenth-century oil mill in Bas-Chantenay, Nantes, with a taproom and restaurant attached.
Tip: The restaurant keeps shorter hours than the bar; the terrace looks out over the Loire towards the shipyards.
The Butte Sainte-Anne market sets up Thursday mornings on Place des Garennes in Chantenay, a small produce market above the Loire in Nantes.
Tip: Climb from the market to the Sainte-Anne lookout for the best free view over the Loire and the Île de Nantes cranes.
Little Atlantique Brewery opens its Bas-Chantenay brewhouse in Nantes one Saturday a month, ninety minutes closing on beers poured against cheese.
Tip: Slots run on the first Saturday of the month at 15:00 or 17:00, closed-toe shoes are required and no cancellation is allowed.
Little Atlantique Brewery keeps its Bas-Chantenay bar open to 02:00 from Thursday to Saturday, house beer poured a wall away from the tanks.
Try: Brewery plates with house beer
Tip: The restaurant service finishes at 22:00 while the bar carries on, so order food before the kitchen closes.
Macadam has run its club in the Chantenay port zone of Nantes since 2017, house and techno on Saturday against trance and hardcore on Friday.
Tip: Phones stay in pockets: filming is banned inside. Saturday nights can run through to 09:30.