Order The vol-au-vent with chicken and veal sweetbreads
Le Nabuchodonosor on Rue Hoche in Rennes runs breakfast to bistro dinner, Joris Lebigot cooking stuffed cabbage, mole mackerel and sweetbread vol-au-vent.
Order The €39 evening sharing sequence with a biodynamic bottle
Bombance stacks restaurant, wine bar and caviste into one room on Rue de la Chalotais in Rennes, sharing plates built around biodynamic and natural wines.
Order Hake with potatoes, chorizo and samphire when it runs
Estime pairs siblings Maxime and Estelle Besnier on Rue du Chapitre in Rennes, a Michelin Bib Gourmand bistro with a €25 three-course lunch.
Order The €36 single evening menu, rewritten for every service
Le 2 Rue des Dames seats diners in the old kitchen of a 17th-century Rennes mansion, the Moreau brothers writing one short locavore menu per service.
Order Saka saka, the cassava-leaf stew the house is named after
La Marmite du Saca Saca cooks Congolese saka saka and moambe to order on Rue Derval in Rennes, a small evening room with cooking worth the unhurried pace.
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La Table de Balthazar is the dining room of Rennes' Balthazar Hôtel and Spa, where Benjamin Jourdren runs vegetable-led modern menus from €52 to €78.
Order One of the 35 galettes named for a famous Georges; pick your Georges
Crêperie La Saint-Georges on Rue du Chapitre in Rennes names its 35 galettes after famous Georges, a design-led room in the half-timbered old town.
Order A savoury galette in 100 percent IGP Breton buckwheat, naturally gluten free
Crêperie Sarrasin faces the Halles Centrales in Rennes with galettes rolled from 100 percent IGP Breton buckwheat and largely organic French ingredients.
Order The falafel pita, crisp outside and soft inside, with house sauces
Sabibi Pita stuffs house-baked pitas with falafel, grilled halloumi and roast vegetables beside the Halles Centrales in Rennes, a 2023 street-food arrival.
Order A mixed sharing board late, when most Rennes kitchens have closed
Le Gorille Bleu keeps its bistro kitchen running to 23:30 beside the Saint-Pierre cathedral in Rennes, homemade plates and boards from local producers.
Order The house tonkotsu-style bowl; broths simmer long and it shows
Hanami Ramen simmers its broths under lanterns and Japanese masks beside the Halles Centrales in Rennes, chef Mitsuhashi's bowls made from local produce.
Also on this listLa Marmite du Saca Saca
Order Kouign-amann in salted Breton butter
Pâtisserie Le Daniel is the Meilleur Ouvrier de France house of Laurent Le Daniel in Rennes, running since 1998 with its flagship facing the Halles Centrales.
Order Caramelised kouign-amann
Grand Père Jules bakes 100 percent house sourdough on Rue de Nemours in Rennes, pastry chef Estelle and baker Kevin carrying on from the Coupel family.
Order Kouign-amann, plain or apple
Le Fournil des Halles bakes a three-generation kouign-amann recipe near the Halles Centrales in Rennes, alongside far breton and buckwheat galettes.
Order Kouign-amann
Maison Bouvier runs its pâtisserie and chocolaterie across Rennes, the Place Toussaints shop as flagship and a counter in the Hoche Visitation centre.
Order Kouignettes in a dozen flavours
Maison Larnicol stacks its bite-size kouignettes on Rue Le Bastard in Rennes, the Breton chocolatier founded by Meilleur Ouvrier de France Georges Larnicol.
Order Gâteau Jégado and numbered chocolates
Durand Chocolatier works from the Hôtel Barré on Quai Chateaubriand in Rennes, selling numbered chocolate squares and a folded, caramelised butter cake.
Order AOP-butter kouign-amann
La Tête Enfarinée is a small artisan bakery on Rue de Coëtquen in central Rennes, folding its kouign-amann in AOP French butter, open Sunday mornings.
Au Fin Café is the old-school roaster of Rennes, a family shop near the Halles grinding beans to order from Papua, Kenya, Peru and Colombia.
Le Tire-Bouchon has poured natural wine in old Rennes since 1993, a pioneering bistro at the corner of Rue du Chapitre with homemade market cooking.
Also on this listBombance
Drink €5 pints and Breton craft beers
Oan's Pub spreads two terraces below the cathedral quarter of Rennes, €5 pints, Breton beers on tap and bar pizzas that made a local top-12 list.
Drink Smoked Old Fashioned
Le Melody Nelson mixes serious cocktails on Rue Saint-Thomas in Rennes, a rock-and-roll room pouring smoked Old Fashioneds until 03:00 Wednesday to Saturday.
Also on this listBouchon
Try Galette-saucisse
BioCrêp griddles organic galette-saucisse inside the Halles Centrales of Rennes, €3.50 for the plain classic from carefully chosen artisan sausages.
Try Galette-saucisse
Crêpe House serves €3.50 galette-saucisse on Place du Champ Jacquet in Rennes, under the leaning half-timbered facades of the old town's photo-op square.
Try La Vigneronne galette-saucisse
Madame Claude on Rue de Penhoët in Rennes reworks the galette-saucisse as La Vigneronne, its sausage cooked down in red wine, folded into a paper cone.
Try Seasonal bistro galette-saucisse
La Robiquette in Rennes takes its name from the galette-saucisse's original nickname and plates a €16 seasonal bistro version built on Breton sausage.
The Halles Centrales put a daily covered market in the middle of Rennes, 28 fishmongers, cheesemongers, butchers and greengrocers under the Criée's 1922 roof.
Le Marché à Manger is the Rennes food market that takes over La Criée on the first Sunday of the month with a dozen cooks and food trucks trading from 11:00.
Try Classic and vegetarian poutines
Poutine Bros brought France its first poutinerie to Rue de Penhoët in Rennes, Quebec-style fries, curds and homemade sauce served late for the bar crowd.
Also on this listBioCrêpSabibi PitaLa Rozell
Order Eggs Benedict and the mom's cookie from the €29.50 formule
Les Fils à Maman brunches under the crooked facades of Place du Champ Jacquet in Rennes, eggs Benedict and pancakes in a 1980s-nostalgia dining room.
Order The homemade à la carte plates rather than a fixed formule
BDS runs brunch every day of the week on Quai Lamennais in Rennes, homemade à la carte plates rather than a buffet, from 12:00 and 11:30 at weekends.
Try Choucroute, beef chartreuse, tartares
Brasserie de la Paix serves on Place de la République in Rennes from 07:00 to a strict 23:15 every day, choucroute and brasserie classics all week long.
Also on this listLe Gorille BleuPoutine BrosLa RozellLe Melody Nelson
