Eat in Hauts-Pavés, Nantes

Au Petit Raphaël

• ★ 4.5
• French bistro
• €€€

Au Petit Raphaël is a couple-run bistro on Rue des Hauts Pavés in Nantes, careful cooking on regional produce at €27 for three courses at lunch.

Emporietto

• ★ 4.1
• Italian
• €€€

Emporietto crosses bistronomy with Italy on Rue Adolphe Moitié in Nantes, artisan Italian goods set against produce from farms around the city.

Les Cadets

• ★ 4.6
• 1 MICHELIN star
• Seafood
• €€€

Les Cadets in Nantes is the Bernabé brothers' Michelin-starred room on Rue des Hauts Pavés, an iodine-led lunch menu and carte blanche dinners.

Gwaien

• ★ 4.4
• Seafood
• €€€

Gwaien, Breton for Audierne, is Jérémy Guivarch's seafood dining room in Nantes, where over 90 percent of the fish is landed by sustainable boats.

Fricotte

• ★ 4.1
• Café
• €

Order Freshly roasted filter coffee

Fricotte works as neighbourhood canteen, coffee shop and salon de thé on Rue des Hauts Pavés in Nantes, with pastries baked on site each morning.

Bam Bam Café

• ★ 4.0
• Café
• €

Order Espresso with vegan pastry

Bam Bam Café is a neighbourhood coffee shop and canteen on Rue Adolphe Moitié in Nantes, a seasonal card with vegan pastries beside the espresso.

La Petite Boulangerie

• ★ 4.4
• €

Order Pain bio au levain

La Petite Boulangerie was founded by a Meilleur Ouvrier de France baker and works organic grains at Place Saint-Félix in Nantes, café tables included.

Pains, Beurre et Chocolat

• ★ 4.2
• €

Order Gâteau nantais to order

Pains, Beurre et Chocolat bakes organic levain loaves and AOP butter viennoiserie near the Saint-Félix canal in Nantes, and it trades on weekdays only.

Oldü Boulangerie

• ★ 4.1
• €

Order Gâteau nantais

Oldü bakes at Pont du Cens on the northern edge of Nantes, a quarter boulangerie whose gâteau nantais keeps the rum discreet and the crumb moist.

Rosemary

• ★ 4.3
• €€

Order Gâteau nantais scented with rosemary

Rosemary is the pastry salon two sisters run on Rue des Hauts Pavés in Nantes, classics rebuilt with herbs and spices and cut back on sugar.

Maison Juhel

• ★ 4.2
• €

Order Gâteau nantais

Maison Juhel took the prize for the best gâteau nantais in 2022 and still bakes it on Boulevard Robert Schuman in the north west of the city.

Cime Torréfacteur

• ★ 4.7
• Coffee roaster
• €€

Cime roasts specialty coffee on Rue des Hauts Pavés in Nantes, seasonal microlots from Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia and Peru sold in bags or brewed.

Kultivar Café

• ★ 4.4
• Coffee roaster
• €€

Kultivar buys green coffee direct and roasts it on Rue Sylvain Pâris in Nantes, washed, natural and anaerobic lots from Ethiopia and Colombia.

Les Bouteilles

• ★ 4.5
• Wine bar
• €€

Les Bouteilles keeps 1,500 references in its cellar on Rue de Bel Air in Nantes, poured beside plats du jour a short walk from Talensac market.

Les petites cagettes

• ★ 3.8
• French
• €

Greengrocer and weekday lunch counter in one, near the Talensac market, with a card that turns over weekly and a burger that never leaves it.