Sésame bakes on Route de Sainte-Luce in east Nantes with organic flours, viennoiserie made in house and a coffee counter for the morning queue.
Tip: It opens seven days from 07:00, which is unusual out here; Sunday service stops at 13:00 once the bread runs out.
Worth the queue: Flan
Café Machin roasts on Route de Sainte-Luce in east Nantes, equatorial origins sold to the city's coffee shops and shipped to home subscribers.
Tip: There is no counter to sit at; L'Artichaut and other Nantes rooms pour the beans, and bags ship from the roastery itself.
Sources from: Ethiopia, Guatemala, Rwanda, Brazil, Colombia, Peru
How they serve: Whole bean retail, Subscription
Vin te faire boire turned a former PMU on Route de Sainte-Luce in Nantes into a cave of close to 300 natural, organic and biodynamic bottles.
Signature pour: A Loire bottle from Benoît Courault or François Saint-Lô
Wine focus: Close to 300 natural, organic and biodynamic references
Food: Artisanal charcuterie, farmhouse cheese, sardine fillets
Tip: Drinking a shop bottle on the spot adds a €6 corkage; the back room runs concerts and karaoke on quiet weeknights.
Marché de Doulon takes over the old village square in east Nantes every Sunday morning, a neighbourhood market with rotisseries and oyster stands.
Tip: Doulon keeps a village feel the centre lost; go hungry and build a Sunday lunch from the stalls.
Bottière Chénaie holds an evening market every Wednesday in east Nantes, its producers selling into the after-work crowd from 16:00 onwards.
Tip: One of the few Nantes markets you can hit after work; stalls skew towards direct-from-farm producers.
Marché de Toutes-Aides is the Wednesday morning market of the Saint-Donatien side of Nantes, compact and quick to walk on Place Victor Basch.
Tip: Small but efficient; combine with Doulon's Sunday market if you are staying east of the centre for a week.