Nantes Restaurants

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this is my favorite when in Paris, and it has branches in Nantes, we visited the Place Royale . Very nice friendly service, great italian home made ice cream and coffees. Wonderful.

it has a nice view of the nice square or place royale, and you will be fine to leave the desserts to stop by here as we always do.

Favorite Dish: we have the small 3 flavors cup to the big 5 flavors cones, of all nice flavors all is good here,no need to choose. Coffee is extraordinary.

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This is a landmark chic branchée restaurant of Nantes, the ambiance is refine and the service and food sublime. This is what folks comes to France for ,the food at its best done and presented with tradition at stake.

right in place gasclin across from the theater ,you can't beat the experience. Since 1895 a must in Nantes. The surrealist painters came here like always a table for André Breton or Jacques Prévert. Jacques Demy does the film of Lola in 1961, and the actors/es of the theater make a ritual.

sundays are no problems here,and a nice choice. you can take home and have a boutique for purchases of souvenirs as well. You can combine a meal and a visit to the theater , nice. The salons inside or rooms are just wonderful, enough to go in to see.

Favorite Dish: I have come here on business and enjoy the formule express according to the chef recommendations of the day. The family was brought in for lunch and enjoy the formule chic choc of the day. All here is sublime you can't go wrong. The oysters are magnificents.

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a wonderful seafood restaurant nicely decorated with great service always, in a prime location at place royale just behind the fountain representing Nantes. Glamorous and good food.

They are always reliable all over, our favorite independant chain of restaurants with an Alsacien look and taste but French overall.

you have the choice of inside richly decorated , the heated enclosed terrace, or the outdoor terrace.

Favorite Dish: choucroutes are the best and have try them all, this time it was the choucroute confit de canard or leg of duck. camembert roti with honey, magret de canard or slices of duck very nice from the best part; steack hache or ground steakburger, flamenkuche of goat cheese, all with nice affligem beers and you are done for lunch!!!

It's a nice little creperie near the new hotel Radisson,
only fresh products (half of them organics), staff very friendly, the prices are affordable, and the food is delicious.
They also cater for vegetarian, vegan, and for people who eat gluten-free.

Favorite Dish: The Banoffee crêpe:vanilla ice-cream, salted toffee, banana, whipped cream(home-made)

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I went there because of interior, had frensh breakfast. You can see la cigale ( the cicada ) in multiple tiles in the interior.

Favorite Dish: I remember there was kind of house speaciality thing to put on croissant...it was tasty. Quite expencive but worth it.

The Webb Ellis Rugby bar, was a great place for the rugby fans to meet up before the World Cup. The owner made everyone very welcome, with big screens for people to watch the rugby matches being played in other parts of France..
The bar is decorated with rugby memorabilia from all over the world.

Favorite Dish: We had some lovely Pate from the local market with lots of fresh French bread, they served all types of local food.
They have their own label wine and lots of different beers.

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We were a group of 5 people looking for something cheap to eat, while walking near the train lines we noticed this italian restaurant and we entered inside although the view outside was really bad due to road constructions (pic 1).

There was a big room full of locals. The service was a bit slow but we didn’t really care.
The menu was typical Italian with many salads(7,5-10,5e), pasta and other mains. There’s a great variety of pizzas of course (from 9,8e to 13,9e), we were a group of 5 people so we tried several different ones and we shared. Calzone (pic 2) was nice but cant say the same for the others especially the spicy one that was a killer for the stomach.

I was excited to check the famous crème brulee (pic 3) which was supposed to be homemade but I felt a bit disappointed from that and I missed the amazing crema catalana (they are similar anyway). They also have crème caramel, chocolat mousse, tiramisu and many more (from 4 to 6 euros)

Oh, how lovely are the French people when they don’t know English! :)

We had some funny moments here, it was a morning that we were heading for the wooden elephant but we stopped here for a coffee. There are some tables outside so it was perfect on a sunny day of june. The lady came:
-bonjour!
-bonjour! We would like a cappuccino
-cappuci?
-coffee,
-...
-cafe
-...

She actually said something in French so I followed here inside and she showed me some cups of coffee! I pointed out the big one and I also asked for a sandwich, she seemed she was listening a really unique new word from a place somewhere in the desert of west sahara.... a client came, he heard the dialogue and told her that we wanted a sandwich (which is actually the same word in French...)

5’ later the lady came with a tiny cup of coffee (not the one I pointed at), a big cup of coffee and a sandwich (actually a big peace of fresh bread with jam and pickles! We loughed, we ate the sandwich, we enjoyed the sun and we gave 4,5e for the coffee and the sandwich. It was time to meet the wooden elephant