The best bars and cafés Allier

Open-air lounge bar located along the voie verte at the entrance to Abrest Park. Perfect for a break after a hike, but also for a drink or an evening out with family and friends. Choice of tapas, charcuterie and cheese boards made with local produce, and a wide selection of ice cream sundaes with or without alcohol, as are the cocktails. Concerts and themed evenings. Dynamic family team. Local breakfasts, night markets, guinguette evenings and all-terrain scooter rentals.

This friendly place with its atypical decor is both a bistronomic restaurant and a cocktail bar, where you can relax around low tables and sofas. A "gueuleton" corner with its brazier allows you to seize Charolais and Aubrac meats from local producers. There's also a choice of over fifty ice creams and sorbets, all made by local artisans. Share moments with friends aboard one of the 2 aperitif boats. Mussels and French fries, mojito and Brazilian evenings, in partnership with La Mousse Bourbonnaise, concerts, beach with deckchairs.

In this warm tea room, smiles, sweetness and kindness are the order of the day. Choice of organic teas from the other side of the world. Hot chocolate beaten in the old fashioned way accompanied by a home-made pastry. During the summer months, Bernadette prepares small menus, including her specialty, the medieval pie, and a brunch by reservation. She also prepares iced teas, fruit smoothies with cream and ice cream, and all kinds of iced soups with vegetables from the garden. On the store side: jams, gingerbread, loose teas, herbal teas, tableware.

In a 15th century half-timbered house, here is a gourmet coffee shop inspired by the old general stores of Quebec. It is a meeting place to chat or read in the heart of old Vichy. Stop by in the morning to enjoy a good organic hot chocolate. At noon, you will be offered small dishes, sandwiches and soups, and for snacks, pastries and a menu of drinks from distant countries or fair trade recipes. You can also have a brunch! What a pleasure to find a delicatessen with products from Auvergne and the world.

The Academy is above all the ideal place for all billiard addicts, the room dedicated to the game is superb, fans will be delighted, and as proof there is always a crazy world. The music is equally excellent and in very good taste. The atmosphere remains calm and friendly even during sports broadcasts. As for the restaurant, in the evening until midnight and a half, the chef prepares a quality cuisine whose specialities are grilled meats, but you will also find mixed salads, prawns, ribs of pork and barbecue sauce, fajitas, hamburgers and homemade desserts to be enjoyed on the pleasant terrace. The place is also famous for its choice of beers and cocktails. Always smiling welcome.

A relaxing spot nestled in the Parc des Bourins, on the banks of the Allier. It's a great place to enjoy a leisurely lunch or dinner in the shade, with your feet up in the grass and a hearty butcher's cut accompanied by French fries and salad, or an à la carte dish. In the afternoon, you can relax in the colorful deckchairs, or enjoy the pétanque and children's play areas. Start the evening with music and a charcuterie or cheese board, accompanied by a rosé, beer or cocktail. Friendly staff and professional service.

Bar-restaurant-guinguette on the waterfront, near the Bellerive bridge. Ideal to relax, have a drink, snack, eat and have fun. Pleasant shaded terraces with sofas, where mixed salads, pizzas, burgers, boards to share, accompanied by cocktails, beers, wines, sodas are served. Burgers and pizzas are available à la carte and to take away. Out of season, inside, Savoyard fondue evening, charcuterie platter, frog legs. Fenced playground, petanque, ping-pong, chess, mölkky, mini-golf. Concerts.

This 2.0 concept combines a beer and wine bar with a tapas bar, featuring 28 self-service draught beers, plus 16 types of wine, just for tasting or a full glass. Regular new arrivals of regional and world craft beers and wines from Burgundy, Languedoc, Italy... Domaine Lafage du Roussillon. Selections of arranged rums. Lunchtime choice of burgers and fish and chips. Board games, darts, competitions, concerts, theme evenings, match broadcasts, etc. Evening tapas, planks, pintxos, sandwiches.

Situated along the banks of the Allier, right next to the Moulins Bain facilities, it's an ideal place to relax, far from the hustle and bustle of the city, perfect for spending a pleasant evening with friends, settled on deckchairs or in the thick cushions of the benches made from recycled pallets, on the covered terrace, with its Mediterranean air. Sunnys pockets, ice creams, waffles and hot and cold drinks. At aperitif time, a cocktail menu accompanied by charcuterie and cheese boards. Evenings are filled with music, DJs and goodies.

Just a stone's throw from the historic district, enjoy a moment of relaxation with friends in this charming tea room, set to a background of delicate classical music, where you can savor home-made pastries, carrot cake from Nantes and chocolate cake, accompanied by tea or other hot or cold beverages served by Jean-Philippe. Snacks at lunchtime, vegetarian savoury tarts and mixed salads. Sunday brunch. Exhibitions of new works every quarter. Philosophy café. And don't forget the kids, who can even take home a bear.

Nice coffee-shop offering savory dishes, fresh salads, wraps, quiches, gratins, aperitif boards, soups with multiple flavors with seasonal vegetables and the chef's desires. On the sweet side, brookies, a perfect alliance between brownies and cookies, cheesecakes, creamy layer cakes, homemade ice creams, milkshakes, colorful cupcakes. Saturday brunch with savory toast, scrambled eggs, a cookie and a praline brioche. Choice of hot and cold drinks. For the aperitif: plate to share and cheese cookies from Comptoir aux Fromages and charcuterie.

This themed bar boasts a warm welcome, a superb zinc roof and a hard rock decor reminiscent of Irish pubs. Beer lovers will appreciate the friendly selection of beers, including authentic Guinness, cherry beer, mixers (alcohol and soft drinks), whiskies and whiskeys, including Jack Daniel's Apple lemon tonic, gins, rums, ti-punches, a choice of cocktails, shooters and digestifs. An area is dedicated to darts competitions where the winner is handsomely rewarded. The perfect place to relax between happy hour, sports broadcasts and concerts.

This is the place to go for breakfast, and above all for a gourmet break where you can put together your own snack of crêpes, waffles, bubble waffles, brioches perdues and pommes d'amour. Choice of traditional ice cream sundaes, Italian sundaes, gourmet frozens with a choice of toppings, artisanal ice creams and granitas. To accompany softs, coffees, viennoiseries, lattes macchiato, iced or hot teas, chocolates, smoothies, bubble teas, milkshakes, beers, cocktails with or without alcohol or wine by the glass according to arrivals. Smiling welcome and service.

Ideally located opposite the Four Paths shopping Mall, Le Morny, both brasserie and tea lounge, is the perfect place to take a coffee in the morning by touring the daily press, then lunch on the thumb at noon or at any time of the day, with homemade dishes and fresh products. Take a break in the afternoon to taste their Viennese Nutella chocolate specialities, with milk jam and home chantilly. Enjoy the covered terrace season. A stop is needed!

This lounge bar in the heart of the historic district offers a choice of seven boards, including one vegetarian with baby vegetables and dried fruit, as well as a whole range of drinks. Throughout the year, intimate concerts feature a variety of music - guitar, blues, pop, rock... and in summer, on the terrace in front of the pedestrian square, perfect for sharing a gourmet board and a glass of wine, not forgetting the Beaujolais Nouveau evening. Don't forget to reserve your place. Sports fans can enjoy sports broadcasts while sipping a beer and nibbling on a snack.

A team of girls is at the helm of this charming tea room offering sweet treats from breakfast to afternoon tea, as well as a unique menu at lunchtime, while allowing disabled workers to enter the world of ordinary work. Everything is made with local and seasonal products, to take away in the evening. A bright room, decorated in an industrial style with raw materials: stone, bricks and wood. Pleasant shaded terrace. A real place of conviviality as we like it. Privatization and group reservations possible.

This atypical bistro-style place has two rooms and a terrace perfect for sipping a cool drink on summer afternoons, while enjoying a musical moment with artists from very different worlds. Philippe and Sylvie also prepare good small dishes in sauce and without fuss, spit-roasted hams, served with a smile, for lunch and dinner, and are at your disposal to prepare a snack at any time of the day. Musical evenings and after-dinner parties at home, in a warm atmosphere, at very low prices. Animations for children.

Unavoidable bar-brewery located at the edge of the pond of Sault. At noon, on the slate, mixed salads, tapas, tartars, brochettes, burgers and desserts. In the evening, beautiful butcher's cuts grilled on the barbecue with fries, to be enjoyed on the sheltered terrace. A list of artisanal and flavored beers. Animations for young and old like the American day with car and motorcycle exhibition, braised chicken and rock concert, or luminous and pyrotechnic drone show. Reception of groups and seminars. On weekends, out of season, it is the ideal place for a coffee

Quietly installed on the shaded terrace, in the afternoon, make your choice among the ice cream sundaes, smoothies, pancakes, waffles, everyone will find his happiness. To be enjoyed on the spot or to take away. The amateurs will also find a card of artisanal beers. In the evening, treat yourself with the suggestions on the plate, the planks of cold cuts and cheeses, the antipasti and the vegetable dips to be accompanied by a good bottle of the region. The IGP Auvergne Collection Salers red or rosé and the corent l'Auvergnologue rosé will make you spend a nice evening.