The Goo Bar is a sure-fire hit for an evening out in Nantes. The striking decor is industrial in inspiration: a motley collection of reclaimed objects (including a four metre-high beer pump!) makes the place unique.
The music is highly eclectic; from jazz to reggae or electro in the blink of an eye. The Goo Bar also has an impressive list of wines from all over the world, including a few very agreeable surprises.

The advantage of staying in this hotel is being a stone's throw from everything in the city centre: shops, pedestrian zones, monuments, good restaurants, and of course the sumptuous Pommeraye passage…
The hotel sometimes organises exchanges with artists who work to spruce up this establishment which is now an important part of the city's identity.
From the entrance right up to the actual rooms, the decor is sober but stylised - the halls were designed by Antoine Auradon, while a number of rooms were embellished by Estève and Boucheton.

Look no further for the candle of your dreams: you'll find it here, in this shop occupying a traditional 18th century building.
The maker of candles and perfumed decorations has fitted the shop out like a real home, with everything from a kitchen, round room, a child's bedroom and several themed areas (flowers, perfumed candles, household decoration) on the ground floor. This is also the only shop in Nantes to stock significant quantities of SIA faux flowers.

Located on the fourth floor of the Nantes Chamber of Commerce building, the Atlantide restaurant commands a panoramic view of the city and of the Loire. Designed by Vilmotte, the creator of the restaurant, to give a sense of warmth and light, it provides the perfect backdrop for the delicious cuisine of chef Jean-Yves Guého, a creative artist who achieves a stunning blend of savours. Examples include sea-bass à la plancha with a hint of tandoori spices, spit-roasted squab and pan-fried lobster chunks.
A truly excellent wine list only adds to the Atlantide's reputation as a leading exponent of gourmet food in Nantes.

The restaurant offers traditional regional cooking from a menu that changes with the seasons and according to what is available on the markets, using only fresh ingredients.
Three dining-rooms welcome guests to the world of 1750; one featuring a fireplace, another a vaulted roof and period furniture.
In what was once a butter dairy, enjoy a roast rack of lamb with thyme served with a piperade of vegetables, before giving in to a sweet soufflé or (and?) a mille-feuille or (and?) a chocolate ice-cream!

This recently renovated building with its summer terrace overlooking the Loire is to be found in the fishermen's quarter. The decoration creates an impression of being on a boat, with wooden walls, port-holes for windows and blue bench-seats; pictures represent scenes of the Loire and different stages of a fishing run.
The cuisine takes its inspiration from traditional sources, choosing fish from the Loire elegantly served, such as lamprey à l'anjou. The wine list offers a selection of Loire wines by the glass, carafe or bottle.

The food is original and sophisticated, based on fresh ingredients, and the menu changes every five weeks: another good reason to keep coming back! The atmosphere is friendly and the restaurant makes a laudable effort to ensure value for money, its aim being to build up a loyal body of regular customers in search of quality. Quality that is expressed to its full in the scallops or the veal sweetbreads.

For over twenty years, Le Flesselles has been one of those addresses passed on by word of mouth in Nantes. On the ground floor, enjoy light meals or a drink in a 50s setting.
On the first floor, the colourful Tiki Bar skips a decade to the 60s.
You might just happen on a surprise concert at aperitif time, or maybe a DJ set or, on the first Saturday of each month, on a café-philosophie session. Whatever's going on, Le Flesselles is a lively spot, well worth a detour.

In a disused biscuit factory once owned by the LU group, Jean Blaise has created Lieu Unique, preserving the industrial heritage of the brick and concrete plant while imposing his own green and red colour scheme. The result is a vast yet welcoming space that still bears the mark of its history.
Now it houses an attractive bar-restaurant where the evenings are enlivened by excellent DJs or scheduled concerts and where, on fine days, the terrace alongside the Saint-Félix canal is an invitation to relax and simply enjoy life.

This is a venue well worth visiting for the originality of its thoughtfully-designed baroque decoration and for the elegant party atmosphere. The setting is somewhere between lounge bar and restrained, with pale colours and white or brown leather furniture, all set off by pink and violet lighting that gives the K Fé In an almost magical air.
There are two complementary rooms, one relaxing and calm, ideal for starting the evening over a cocktail, and the other is the kingdom of the DJs and electro music. Paintings by local artists on the walls add an artistic touch that is perfectly in keeping.

Inside this 18th century stone house, the decoration is modern and sophisticated. The menu changes with the seasons, enabling Le Chaudron to offer creative and extremely varied gourmet cuisine all year round.
Local ingredients figure high on the list, like the pigeon confit in its own juice with arabica and lime, fish such as home-smoked monkfish pie and meat dishes like andouille de guéméné in a spinach cream. Luxury dining at astonishingly reasonable prices.

The wine bar serves a choice of grands crus and prides itself on a highly eclectic wine list (up to 2,000 € (???)!), not to mention a cocktail bar that can rustle up even the cocktails you couldn't find on their list! The style is designer, achieving the Art Deco feel of a 1930s Paris café, with Moroccan wax-finish walls and a marble bar with lighting in tones of red, brown and gold. The welcome is friendly and sincere, and a vast music collection serves up lounge, jazz and electro sounds.

Take a walk along the Chemin des Douaniers coastal path as a coda to a delicious lunch. The restaurant feels welcoming with an understated musical background, and the food, mostly based on fish, is served overlooking the sea that is echoed in every aspect of the decor – blues and saffron yellows, model boats, etc.
The ideal setting for enjoying to the full the restaurant's speciality of sea-bass grilled in it skin brushed with virgin olive oil; afterwards, plump for the guanaja chocolate soufflé with a melting manjari centre.

For over a century, La Cigale has been a rallying point for all those who love the finest food the sea has to offer. Such is the reputation of the place, it comes as no surprise when you cross paths with a celebrity: designed by architect Emile Libaudière, the dining room is decorated in quintessential Art Nouveau style with tapestries, painted ceramics, stained glass and swirls of wrought iron rising up to the ceiling.
Count on a warm, authentic welcome all day long at La Cigale.

This restaurant in Nantes city centre provides all-day service and traditional home cooking, using fresh, spicy ingredients. The atmosphere is simple and friendly: adjoining tables are an invitation to conversations between guests, and the choice of desserts on view is positively distracting!
Try the seasonal fruit crumble to follow on from the tiger prawn risotto.

The tea room offers a choice of 13 types of tea and hot drinks throughout the afternoon.

This is a really family-friendly restaurant: a free child menu for every two adult diners. The setting is modern and relaxed, and you can also take advantage of the covered pool, billiard table, table football and darts.
This Basque-style building in spacious grounds (1 hectare) serves refined and inventive cuisine, such as pressed foie gras with smoked eel and pine-nut cake.

This is the tallest building in Saint-Nazaire, and stands opposite the harbour where the ships come in, and where ships can even be seen under construction. The interior is modelled on a luxury liner, and the paintings on its walls change regularly according to the artist whose works are on display.
The musical background is jazz-based, and jazz concerts are also staged. The bar offers an intriguing selection of cocktails, so you're sure to find the ideal combination to sip as you enjoy the Friday night piano bar session.

The snug decor in the lounge of this classic villa in Pornichet, all wood, rusted steel plate and varnish, gives the bar a suggestion of "gentleman's clubbishness". Music and art are appreciated with enthusiasm at the B A Bar.
Bar music every week, mainly jazz and electro jazz, plus regular live concerts featuring acoustic jazz or French chanson. A permanent exhibition of works by contemporary local artists offers an introduction to some of the sights of the region.

A hundred metres from the beach at La Bernerie-en-Retz, the Zanzibar is a bar-brasserie featuring music and a window open on the world. In the old house made from brick and wood, the Zanzibar serves up world cuisine in a spicy fusion, as well as a heady range of flavoured rums (rhums arrangés).
Rock, jazz blues or French chanson concerts are held every Saturday and in summer the bar becomes a cabaret with a band and an MC. Lively and good-humoured, that's the Zanzibar.

Right in the heart of Nantes, this unusual restaurant is located in what was once a storage room for vegetables. Today, the Maison Baron is made up of a few scattered tables in its gourmet grocery store and a large dining hall with open kitchen. Gastronomers should not miss out on this hip, modern kind of restaurant.
With the renovated glasshouse, the floor space is almost 400 brightly-lit square metres. The cuisine is an homage to the traditions of Nantes while at the same time the menu changes daily, depending on the chef's inspiration. One can ask to visit the establishments impressive wine cellars.

This boutique, with its myriad accessories and decorative pieces, has truly become an institution in Nantes. Ali Babette manages to blend old-fashioned and contemporary through furniture, local designer's works and graphic art. The focus in this shop is the household and everything possibly imaginable inside a house - from clothes to beauty products and soaps, with a grocery section as well.
The boutique is designed to look like an everyday home; indeed, it is hard to shake the impression that one might be intruding…

Designed as a place for leisurely strolling past every possible variety of shop, the Passage Pommeray is renowned as one of the most remarkable structures in Nantes.
Built in 1843, its neo-classical galleries are transformed each night by dramatic lighting that brings out all the splendour of their fluted columns and marriages of glass and steel.
By day, under the immense glass roof, trendy fashion and home design boutiques and craft shops ply their trade under the amused gaze of the statues that have watched the comings and goings here for over a century.

Right in the centre of town, on one of the finest avenues in La Baule, this ultra-chic bar is a night-time haunt featuring DJs, singers and themed evenings with a wide appeal (Brazil, for example). The trendy bar is decorated in wood throughout, with brown leather sofas, red lighting and a terrace with wicker furniture. The style, modern yet warm, is designed to get people in party mood over a glass of champagne, the Nova Bar's signature drink.

This family-run business based in La Baule for the past fifty years and more invites you to try its traditional old-fashioned sweets from A to Z, beginning with the famous "niniches", chewy pulled sugar lollies available in 21 different flavours. Manuel also sells nougatine, nougat, bois cassé (literally, "broken twigs": when you see them, you'll understand!), boiled sweets and Guérande salt caramels.
In summer, its Italian ice-creams and waffles are so popular that the queue regularly stretches out of the door and into the street!