Eat in Graslin, Nantes

La Cigale

• ★ 4.6
• French brasserie
• €€

La Cigale has faced the opera on Place Graslin in Nantes since 1895, an Art Nouveau brasserie of tiles and gilt classed a historic monument in 1964.

Le Petit Boucot

• ★ 4.3
• French bistro
• €€

Le Petit Boucot seats just 24 covers in the Graslin quarter of Nantes, working a weekly-changing card of creative plates built on seasonal produce.

Balthazar

• ★ 4.3
• French bistro
• €€

Balthazar is a bistro in the Graslin quarter of Nantes serving aged meats, kidney sautés and saucisse au Muscadet against a Loire-leaning cellar.

Agapè

• ★ 4.0
• Pizzeria
• €€

AGAPè bakes organic sourdough pizza a step from Place Graslin in Nantes, sourcing most of what goes on top from farms inside its own bioregion.

La Souris d'Agneau

• ★ 4.5
• French
• €€

One of the few Nantes rooms that prints beurre blanc nantais on the carte rather than making it on request, poured over filets de bar at €28.50.

Roza

• ★ 4.4
• Modern French
• €€€

Roza faces the natural history museum in Nantes, Jean-François Pantaleon's gastronomic bistro, which held a Michelin star from 2021 to 2024.

Song, Saveurs et Sens

• ★ 4.2
• Vietnamese
• €€€

Song, Saveurs et Sens near Place Graslin in Nantes plates Nhung Phung's Vietnamese and Thai-leaning cooking in a calm room off Rue Santeuil.

Crêperie Heb Ken

• ★ 4.4
• €

Running since 1976 and rebuilt for its fortieth birthday, Heb Ken grinds through galettes at lunch and turns into a tea room every afternoon.

Le Milan & le Rossignol

• ★ 4.2
• €€

Voted fourth best crêperie in Nantes by Big City readers in 2025, a small Grétry room doing classic galettes plus odder seasonal combinations.

La Gavotte

• ★ 4.0
• €

A small Rue Voltaire crêperie a short walk from Place Graslin, named by Nantais voters among the city favourites and pricing most plates under €10.

Bistro Melon

• ★ 4.2
• French bistro
• €€

Open since 2024 on the gastronomic stretch of Rue Copernic, Melon works as bistro and wine cellar with over 200 grower bottles on the shelves.

Atlas

• ★ 4.0
• Moroccan
• €€

A few steps off Place du Commerce, Atlas serves home-style Moroccan cooking, a spread of couscous and tagines plus charcoal grills, halal and vegetarian.

Café Penché

• ★ 4.3
• €

Order Chemex and V60 filter coffee

Café Penché pours specialty coffee next to a vintage clothes shop off Place Royale in Nantes, with V60, Chemex and Aeropress brews and cakes made in house.

Izi Café Jazz

• ★ 4.1
• €

Order Specialty espresso

Izi Café Jazz sells specialty coffee and jazz vinyl from one counter on Rue Voltaire in Nantes, a spare room of wood and metal built around records.

Tumbleweed

• ★ 4.1
• €

Order Matcha latte with oat milk

Tumbleweed is the first fully vegan coffee shop in Nantes, a 1970s room on Rue Santeuil pouring plant-milk drinks with pastries from Délice Végétal.

Cime Café

• ★ 4.5
• €

Order Espresso from the house roastery

Cime Café is the Rue Santeuil shop of the Nantes roastery of the same name, beans roasted weekly and poured as espresso, filter or sold by the bag.

Vincent Guerlais

• ★ 4.4
• Bakery
• €€

Order Gâteau nantais

Vincent Guerlais keeps his Rue Franklin shop in Nantes stocked with chocolate work and a soft gâteau nantais finished under a white chocolate glaze.

Debotté Crébillon

• ★ 4.3
• Bakery
• €€

Order Mascarons nantais

Debotté folds chocolate, viennoiserie and a salon de thé into its Rue Crébillon shop in Nantes, with mascarons nantais among the house sweets.

Délice Végétal

• ★ 4.2
• Bakery
• €

Order Pistachio roll

Délice Végétal is the fully vegan bakery two sisters opened on Quai de la Fosse in Nantes, organic where they can and sandwiches beside the cakes.

Debotté Gautier Copernic

• ★ 4.0
• Coffee roaster
• €€

Debotté Gautier keeps a brûlerie on Rue de Copernic in Nantes, roasting and selling coffee beside the chocolate counter that made the house's name.

Muscadothèque

• ★ 4.6
• Wine bar
• €€

The Muscadothèque on Quai de la Fosse is the Nantes cave given over to the local vineyard alone, more than 170 wines from 24 nearby growers.

Melon

• ★ 4.4
• Wine bar
• €€

Melon takes its name from Melon de Bourgogne and backs it with more than 200 organic references on Rue Copernic in Nantes, poured by its sommelier.

La Bourriche

• ★ 4.2
• Wine bar
• €€

La Bourriche works one Nantes idea hard on Rue Scribe, oysters from selected producers matched glass for glass with Muscadet and Loire whites.

19:33 Cocktail Experience

• ★ 4.4
• Cocktail bar
• €€€

Drink Destination cocktails rewritten every six months

19:33 pours destination cocktails inside an Orient Express railway carriage a step off Place Graslin in Nantes, and rewrites the card twice a year.

Le Maestro

• ★ 3.8
• Mojito bar
• €

Drink Mojitos from €3.90 in raspberry, strawberry, mango and virgin

Le Maestro is the cheap mojito counter of Nantes on Allée des Tanneurs, pouring raspberry, strawberry, mango and virgin versions with pints alongside.

Morfal

• ★ 4.4
• Mediterranean
• €

Try Pita stuffed with kefta or falafel

Morfal packs Greek and Levantine flavours into pitas near Place Royale in Nantes, filling them with kefta or house falafel, burnt aubergine and tahini.

Marché biologique Villebois-Mareuil

• ★ 4.1

The Wednesday organic market of Nantes fills Square Villebois-Mareuil by the Bourse, certified growers selling vegetables, bread and cheese.

Ker Breizh

• ★ 4.4
• Crêperie
• €

The €8 midday formule at Ker Breizh buys a savoury galette, a sweet crêpe and cider or coffee, on organic Breton flour and Vendée free-range eggs.

Handy

• ★ 4.4
• Brunch
• €€

Order Eggs and pancakes, with the Anatae matcha alongside

Handy runs an all-day brunch card on Rue Voltaire in Nantes, eggs, pancakes and roasted vegetables with matcha from Anatae poured alongside.

Pilgrim

• ★ 4.3
• Brunch
• €€

Order The set Sunday brunch, which changes with the market

Pilgrim brunches on Sunday from its corner of Place Graslin in Nantes, a €27 sitting in a bistro that cooks à la carte the rest of the week.

Amaya

• ★ 4.1
• Late-night
• €€

Try Ceviche, tacos and shared beef cuts

Amaya cooks South American plates and pours pisco and mezcal cocktails on Rue Scribe in Nantes from Thursday to Saturday, running through until 02:00.

ONŌ Club

• ★ 4.0
• €€

ONŌ Club opens its doors at midnight on Place de la Bourse in central Nantes and runs to 06:00 five nights a week on DJ sets and themed evenings.

L'Univers

• ★ 3.9
• €€

L'Univers keeps a speakeasy-styled room off Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Nantes, food and concerts early then drinking through to 04:00 at weekends.