Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Nantes from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Nantes
Nantes has 6 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, spread across several parts of the city. The starred scene includes creative fine dining, seafood, plant-based cooking, and French menus with Asian influence.
Le Manoir de la Régate is a one-star restaurant in Route de Gachet with tasting menu and prix fixe formats. Its wine list is extensive and sommelier-led, and the room holds Star Wine List recognition. The cooking uses Erdre river ingredients and produce from the on-site garden.
Les Cadets in Hauts Pavés holds one Michelin star and works with tasting menu and prix fixe formats. The wine program is exceptional, extensive, and sommelier-led, with Star Wine List recognition. The menu changes weekly, with Atlantic seafood and vegetables supplied by local fishmongers and farmers.
LuluRouget on Île de Nantes holds one Michelin star and offers tasting menu and à la carte formats. Its wine list includes an extensive list. Chef Ludovic Pouzelgues draws on daily deliveries from Atlantic fish markets for his contemporary French cooking.
These rooms use tasting menus or set formats to shape the meal. They cover plant-based fine dining, creative French cooking, and modern bistronomy.
Freia is a creative plant-based French fine-dining restaurant with a tasting menu. Its program includes an extensive list, natural wine, and Star Wine List recognition in 2025 and 2026. The greenhouse setting, herb garden, and panoramic city views frame the meal.
Omija in Cité des Congrès offers a tasting menu and prix fixe format built around creative French cooking with Asian inspirations. The wine list is extensive. Chef Romain Bonnet uses organic local ingredients and foraged elements in a surprise menu.
Les Chants d'Avril in Madeleine - Champ de Mars works with a set menu built on market-fresh regional ingredients. The wine list is extensive, and blind wine tastings are part of the format. It is a bistronomy room focused on Loire Valley produce and technique.
These bistros and bars serve natural wine, with extensive cellar selections at Les Bouteilles and small-producer wines at Le Mirza. The picks cover Talensac and Nantes Centre.
Les Bouteilles in Talensac is a wine-focused French bistro with an exceptional program encompassing 800+ wines and 1,500 references. Natural wine and sommelier-led service accompany carefully sourced seasonal cooking. The restaurant holds Michelin Plate and Star Wine List recognition.
Divine Comédie in Nantes Centre is a wine bar serving natural wine, with Star Wine List recognition. Aurélien, formerly wine director at Frenchie in Paris, curates the selection. The bar was previously known as La Comédie des Vins.
Le Mirza in Talensac is a wine bar featuring small and rare producers, with natural wine and Star Wine List recognition. It also serves food sourced from nearby suppliers. A zinc bar top, open kitchen, and regular crowd define the room.
Nantes has 6 Michelin-starred restaurants and 6 Michelin stars in total in our guide. They are Le Manoir de la Régate, Freia, L'Atlantide 1874 - Maison Guého, Les Cadets, LuluRouget, and Omija.
Talensac has Les Bouteilles and Le Mirza, while Nantes Centre has Divine Comédie. Les Bouteilles combines an extensive list with natural wine and sommelier-led service. Le Mirza focuses on small and rare producers, and Divine Comédie serves natural wine under Aurélien’s curation.
Le Manoir de la Régate in Route de Gachet, LuluRouget on Île de Nantes, and Omija in Cité des Congrès offer tasting menus. Le Manoir de la Régate has an extensive, sommelier-led list. LuluRouget centres its surprise menus on seafood, while Omija uses organic local ingredients with Asian inspirations.
Le Manoir de la Régate, Freia, Les Cadets, Sain, Les Bouteilles, Les Chants d'Avril, Kombu, Bistrot de la Comédie, Divine Comédie, and Le Mirza hold Star Wine List recognition in 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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A nineteenth-century manor on the eastern bank of the Erdre river, Le Manoir de la Régate holds one Michelin star under chef Mathieu Pérou, whose cooking draws heavily from Loire region produce and a pronounced bias toward vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Front-of-house is led by his sister Anne-Charlotte, making this a family operation with clear professional discipline at both ends of the pass.
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Freia earned its first Michelin star in 2025, confirming what Nantes diners had already suspected: chef Philip Pretty's creative menu operates at the sharper end of the city's dining scene. Sitting at the €€€ tier on Boulevard de Berlin, the restaurant pairs a structured approach to modern French cooking with a wine program that earned White Star recognition from Star Wine List in consecutive years.
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Occupying a 19th-century mansion above the Loire with panoramic views of the Île de Nantes, L'Atlantide 1874 holds a Michelin star under Jean-Yves Guého, whose training at Alsace's Auberge de l'Ill and stints in New Orleans and Hong Kong inform a modern French menu where fish drives the agenda. The Loire wine list and guestrooms with river views complete a serious overnight proposition.
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At Les Cadets, brothers at the helm welcome you into a stylish, 1950s‑inspired setting where polished conviviality meets contemporary French craft. Chef Charles Bernabé, shaped by years alongside Christophe Hay and rooted in his Breton heritage and pied‑noir lineage, composes luminous plates from rigorously sourced market vegetables and pristine day-boat catch. Expect a culinary dialogue of clarity and depth—cockles from Morbihan lifted with tuberous parsley and black garlic, a blushing rack of veal with melting shallots, and a baked apple perfumed with sweet clover and cider sorbet—served with gracious ease and a rare lunchtime accessibility that belies the finesse. For the informed traveler, Les Cadets offers a quietly confident table where terroir, memory, and modern appetite converge.
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Michelin-starred LuluRouget showcases Chef Ludovic Pouzelgues' market-driven mastery in contemporary Nantes, where daily selections from Atlantic coast fish markets become inventive French cuisine just steps from the Machines de l'Île.
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Omija sits on Rue Fouré with a creative surprise menu built around organic and traceable produce, from shrimp hauled off Oléron Island to line-caught pollack from Atlantic waters. Chef Romain Bonnet frames his cooking through the five flavours of the Korean omija berry, drawing confident acidic and spicy contrasts that have earned Michelin recognition. The room runs warm and informal, with service precise enough to match the kitchen's ambition.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand and Plate holder on Rue Paul Bellamy, L'Océanide has positioned itself as one of Nantes' most consistent addresses for Atlantic seafood. At a mid-range price point in a city whose coastline access shapes its culinary identity, it draws a crowd that values precise, ingredient-led cooking over ceremony..
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La Mandale has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand in consecutive years (2024 and 2025), placing it among Nantes' most consistent addresses for farm-to-table cooking at the single-euro price tier. Chef David Bizet runs a market-led format on Rue Léon Jamin that rewards advance planning.
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A consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand holder for 2024 and 2025, Meraki sits in Nantes' mid-range modern cuisine tier and punches above its price bracket with consistency that separates it from the city's more casual contemporary addresses. Chef Takumi Sakanaka brings a precision-led approach to a room that draws both neighbourhood regulars and visitors working through the city's serious dining circuit.
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OBBO earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025, placing it in a small group of Nantes addresses that combine serious kitchen craft with accessible pricing. Located on Allée des Tanneurs in the city's former tannery district, it draws strong local loyalty, reflected in. The format reads as modern French bistronomy at the €€ tier, the kind of cooking that competes on precision rather than ceremony.
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P'tite Pomme holds a Michelin Plate (2025), placing it among Nantes' most consistent modern cuisine addresses at the accessible €€ price tier. Situated on Rue de Mayence, the restaurant represents the kind of quietly serious cooking that earns recognition without the theatre of a formal tasting-menu house. For visitors working through the city's dining scene, it reads as a reliable reference point.
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A wine shop by identity and a restaurant by practice, Les Bouteilles at 11 Rue de Bel Air operates where serious cellar selection meets a Michelin Plate kitchen. The €€ price range sits comfortably in the mid-tier of Nantes dining, while back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 confirms this is not a casual side project. For anyone tracking the Loire Valley's wine culture through a meal rather than a tasting flight, this is where to start.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address in Nantes' Champs de Mars quarter, Les Chants d'Avril sits at the intersection of Loire Valley produce and considered cooking technique. Sommelier Véronique François and chef Christophe François run a farm-to-table programme priced at €€, with a wine approach that has earned the restaurant a reputation as one of the city's more distinctive independent rooms.
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Natural wine, a family farm in Guérande, and market-led cooking define Sain in Nantes, where Samuel and Josselin Huitric deliver refined, produce-first plates in a relaxed café–canteen–grocery setting praised by Michelin.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Rue Fouré, Bairoz occupies the mid-range tier of Nantes modern cuisine where cooking precision matters more than ceremony. Two consecutive Michelin Plates (2024 and 2025) confirm its standing in a city with genuine fine-dining ambitions. The price point sits at €€, making it one of the more accessible entries in Nantes' recognised restaurant circuit.
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The kitchen delivers consistency that larger, more expensive rooms in the city cannot always match. The format rewards deliberate, unhurried eating.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Rue Bossuet, Le Bouchon sits in Nantes' mid-market modern cuisine tier, holding consistent recognition across 2024 and 2025. It occupies the kind of position where demand reliably outpaces availability. Plan ahead, arrive with appetite, and expect cooking that earns its place in a city with serious table competition.
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Pickles holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition for 2024 and 2025, placing it among Nantes' most consistent addresses in the modern cuisine tier at the €€€ price point. For Nantes, it represents a compelling mid-tier option between neighbourhood bistros and the city's starred establishments.
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A Michelin Plate recipient in consecutive years (2024 and 2025), Roza brings modern cuisine to Place de la Monnaie in central Nantes, drawing consistent recognition from a growing local dining scene.
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Song, Saveurs & Sens brings Asian contemporary cooking to Rue Santeuil in Nantes, holding a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years (2024 and 2025) under chef Justin Jennings. At the €€ price point, it occupies a distinct position in a city more commonly associated with classical French technique, offering a considered, paced dining format that rewards repeat visits.
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Balthazar runs as a classic French bistro with an open kitchen, an extensive wine list, and local sourcing; aged beef ribs anchor a lunch-or-dinner plan.
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Bistro Melon takes its name from two converging Nantes references: the Melon de Bourgogne grape behind the region's muscadet, and the French word for the English bowler hat. At 6 Rue Copernic, it operates as a neighborhood bistro with a clear sense of local identity, sitting in the accessible tier of Nantes dining while carrying the cultural weight of both the city's wine heritage and its dry wit.
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Occupying a listed townhouse on Place Général Mellinet, Bistrot de la Comédie is the latest project from Cécile and Émeric, the duo behind the well-regarded La Comédie des Vins. The address brings a neighbourhood bistrot sensibility to one of Nantes' most architecturally coherent squares, where the pace of a meal is shaped as much by setting as by what arrives on the plate.
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Maison Maubreuil is a Michelin Selected property on Rue du Roi Albert in Nantes, sitting within the city's small tier of independently characterful addresses that prioritise architectural identity over chain-hotel scale. For visitors approaching Nantes with serious hotel criteria, it warrants direct consideration.
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A MICHELIN Selected hotel occupying a converted 19th-century chapel in central Nantes, Sozo sits at the intersection of architectural preservation and considered hospitality. The property's ecclesiastical bones, vaulted ceilings, stone masonry, give it a structural character that most contemporary hotels in the city's price tier cannot replicate. Located at 16 rue Frédéric Cailliaud, it appeals to travellers who read the building as part of the offer.
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On Rue Crébillon, Nantes's most storied commercial artery, the Oceania Hôtel de France sits where the city's nineteenth-century architectural confidence is most legible. The property occupies a building with real civic presence, placing guests within walking distance of the old quarter, the covered Passage Pommeraye, and the Loire's northern bank. For travellers who want a city-centre address with historic fabric rather than a business-park anonymity, it earns serious consideration.
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A cult address on Nantes' wine map, Divine Comédie at 4 Rue Suffren entered a new chapter in September 2025 when Aurélien Massé, who spent 14 years directing the wine programme across the Frenchie group in Paris, took over its curation. The rebrand carries a celestial twist on its previous identity, La Comédie, positioning it as one of the more credentialled wine bar appointments in western France.
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A zinc bar top, an open kitchen, and a room full of regulars: Le Mirza on Rue Châteaubriand delivers the kind of Nantes bar experience that draws locals, families, and visitors in equal measure. The lively atmosphere signals confidence without pretension, and the programme behind the bar earns the crowd it consistently pulls.
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