Eat in Decré, Nantes

L'Éphémère

• ★ 4.2
• French bistro
• €€

L'Éphémère runs organic, zero-waste bistronomy on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes, a chef, pastry chef and mixologist trio behind the €25 menus.

SAIN

• ★ 4.3
• Farm-to-table
• €€

SAIN is the café, canteen and grocery of brothers Samuel and Josselin in Nantes, cooking from their family's organic market garden in Guérande.

Le Reflet

• ★ 4.4
• French bistro
• €€

Le Reflet, founded by Flore Lelièvre in 2016 in Nantes, staffs half its bistro team with people with Down syndrome, Luna Vicariot leading the kitchen.

Pickles

• ★ 4.5
• Modern French
• €€€

Pickles has run gastronomic menus in Nantes since 2014, British chef Dominic Quirke rewriting the card every three weeks around local producers.

Lamaccotte

• ★ 4.3
• Modern French
• €€€

Lamaccotte on Rue Saint-Denis in Nantes cooks seasonal, producer-led menus under Guillaume Maccotta, with Zoé Wastiaux now heading up the kitchen.

Chez les Ducs

• ★ 3.8
• Crêperie
• €

Facing the Château des Ducs de Bretagne, this crêperie lists 128 galette combinations across two rooms and a terrace built for the castle view.

Casa Cruz

• ★ 4.2
• Portuguese
• €

Casa Cruz cooks Portuguese street food on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes, chicken grilled to order with house frites and local baker's bread.

Chaiyo

• ★ 4.1
• Thai
• €€

Chaiyo has held its corner of Rue Armand Brossard for years, cooking Thai and Lao dishes for a room that fills fast on Friday and Saturday nights.

Nota Bene

• ★ 4.3
• Italian
• €€

Between the cathedral and Place Saint-Pierre, Nota Bene bakes a pizza pitched between Roman and Neapolitan on organic flour and natural leaven.

Chez ta mère

• ★ 3.9
• French bistro
• €€

An all-day room near the Tour de Bretagne that opens at eight in the morning and keeps going past midnight, French comfort cooking throughout.

L'Artichaut

• ★ 4.4
• €

Order V60 or Aeropress filter coffee

L'Artichaut gathers a coffee shop, a seasonal canteen and an urban art gallery into one room on Rue du Marais in Nantes, lunch served at midday.

Tokki

• ★ 4.2
• €

Order Korean Dabang coffee and red bean latte

Tokki was the first Korean coffee shop in Nantes, pouring Cime beans beside yuja tea, red bean lattes, croffles and bowls of shaved ice bingsu.

Alaïa Café

• ★ 4.3
• €

Order Specialty espresso and house juices

Alaïa Café pairs a specialty coffee bar with a low-waste boutique on Rue de Budapest in Nantes, lunch and Saturday brunch from local producers.

Chop Chop

• ★ 4.2
• €

Order Locally roasted espresso

Chop Chop runs a two-floor coffee shop and canteen on Rue Saint-Léonard in Nantes, cooking from raw produce with locally roasted coffee at the bar.

Chez les Crèmes

• ★ 4.0
• €

Order Hot chocolate and comfort cakes

Chez les Crèmes is the canteen and coffee shop that Anaïs and Hélène opened near Bouffay in Nantes in 2024, everything on the counter made in house.

Esthète

• ★ 4.5
• Bakery
• €€

Order Gâteau nantais

Esthète works seasonal fruit into precise entremets on Rue Mercœur in Nantes, with a chocolate counter, a tea salon and its own gâteau nantais.

Obbo

• ★ 4.4
• Wine bar
• €€

Obbo is pastry chef Antoine Gaudin's cave à manger on Allée des Tanneurs in Nantes, around 100 French domaines with the Pays Nantais at its core.

Le Cellier

• ★ 4.1
• Wine bar
• €€

Le Cellier opened on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes in 2024, a traiteur counter and grocery holding over 200 natural, organic and biodynamic wines.

Le Labo

• ★ 4.2
• Rum bar
• €€

Drink Tasting rums from Martinique to Mauritius

Le Labo serves rum and creative cocktails out of beakers and test tubes on Rue Léon Blum, holding the deepest tasting-rum shelf in central Nantes.

Barberousse

• ★ 3.7
• Late-night shooter bar
• €

Drink Shooters and planteurs

Barberousse trades in shooters and planteurs on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes and stays open until 04:00 on six nights out of the seven each week.

Le Voyage à Damas

• ★ 4.3
• Syrian
• €

Try Manaïche

Le Voyage à Damas bakes manaïche to order on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes, Syrian and Lebanese flatbreads folded around mostly vegetarian mezze.

Kusadasi

• ★ 3.8
• Turkish
• €

Try House-marinated kebab

Kusadasi grills Greek and Turkish plates by Place du Cirque in Nantes, its kebab built on meat marinated in house rather than a spinning cone.

Baguettes Viet

• ★ 3.9
• Vietnamese
• €

Try Bánh mì and bò bún

Baguettes Viet rolls bánh mì and ladles bò bún on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes, with a plant-based version of most of the card and bubble tea alongside.

OHMYFISH

• ★ 4.2
• Seafood
• €

Try Fish roll in a buttered brioche bun

OHMYFISH runs a seafood street food counter near the cathedral in Nantes, filling butter-toasted brioche buns and cold bowls with the day's catch.

L'Éthiquête

• ★ 4.0
• Vegetarian
• €

A cooperative vegetarian canteen off the Cours des 50 Otages in Nantes, where the bowl of the day costs €12, the burger €10 and small plates from €3.

Waff'n Roll

• ★ 3.7
• Belgian
• €

Liège waffles and a cheap midday formule beside the Tour de Bretagne, eat in or carry out, with Belgian frites and paninis on the same counter.

Mugen Ramen

• ★ 4.5
• Ramen
• €€

Order Tonkotsu shoyu, its pork and seafood broth simmered twelve hours

Mugen Ramen on Rue Fénelon in Nantes pulls its house noodles through a pork and seafood broth simmered twelve hours, behind burnt wood panels.

Les Bottes

• ★ 4.2
• French regional
• €€

Order Pastrami smoked by the urban smokehouse Marché noir, €90 a kilo

Les Bottes is the turquoise-fronted butcher on Rue Saint-Léonard in Nantes, whole animals from small farms hanging behind a glass cold room.

Café Bouture

• ★ 4.0
• Cafe
• €€

Order The pinsa at lunch, or a vegan cake with the coffee

Café Bouture on Rue Maréchal Joffre in Nantes runs a café inside a plant shop, comfort food at lunch and every plant in the room up for sale.

Mimosa

• ★ 4.1
• Brunch
• €€

Order Pancakes, or the salmon plate off the seasonal card

Mimosa on Rue Fénelon in Nantes cooks homemade brunch plates from seasonal, local produce every day of the week, pancakes and salmon leading.

Medusa

• ★ 4.2
• €€

Medusa on rue Bon Secours is a cocktail bar dressed like a 1930s club, with about ten original seasonal cocktails that change twice a year, a taste guide to choose by flavour, and a crocodile named Odile hanging from the ceiling.

Le Plein Sud

• ★ 4.0
• €

Le Plein Sud is described by local press as the oldest gay bar in Nantes, a relaxed terrace room near the cathedral rather than a dance floor.

Le Marlowe

• ★ 3.8
• €€

Le Marlowe runs through to 07:00 on Rue Saint-Vincent in Nantes, the last door standing in the city centre once every other bar has emptied out.