The best French cuisine restaurants Loire-Atlantique

La Cour du coin (restaurant, café, bar) is one of those places that give a neighborhood an identity, celebrating social ties. You can even see it in the food! A weekly travel menu offers original dishes (varying daily), fine cuisine and fresh produce (with a vegetarian option). In the evening, it's snack time and microbrewery beers. The decor is as relaxed as the owners, with turntables and warm music. Note that the terrace is a must on sunny days, when events are sometimes held.

Run by Vincent, this brasserie-caterer located next to Les Halles celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2022! In addition to the menu of the day served at lunchtime during the week, L'Océanic offers a short but varied menu of meats, grills, tartars and carpaccios, fish, mixed salads and fish & chips to be enjoyed on the large sunny terrace. For burger lovers, there is the Curé Nantais burger, but the establishment is famous for its excellent mussels and French fries with Oceanic sauce! Theme evenings: paella, sauerkraut of the sea, couscous, calf's head...

There are some places where you just want to come back again and again! Let's head for La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, in the "Erdre active" business park, where this beautiful building with its black "Philmore" frontage is home to several different businesses! We're at a craft brewer's, where Bérenger and Médina give us a warm welcome! Here, you can observe the production process before tasting Philmore's organic beers! Enjoy blondes such as Jazz, citrus Britpop, Ambrée Cumbia, Blanche Klezmer, Afrobeat ginger hibiscus, or Brune Blues! Beers with a nod to music, like the regular concerts that take place here! Seasonal beers too, with blond Punk, fruity blackcurrant Soul, amber and thyme New Orleans, Celtic, Raga, IPA, Reggae and Christmas beers. The venue, which is also a beer bar, is also a great place for entertainment, with themed evenings (sports broadcasts, board games, karaoke) and concerts! What's more, Philmore also offers beers from brewer UMAMI, with Thibaut's unique creations and refined tastes using a "pre-fermentation" method for some of the ingredients in his beers. Tasting available! Last but not least, Thibault is also a chef: "beer pairing" dishes are planned for the near future. Come and see for yourself!

What a pleasure it is to literally feast in the heart of downtown Nantes, just a stone's throw from Graslin, with very reasonable prices and formulas! You have to go to the Voltaire street, near the Dobrée Museum or the Natural History Museum of Nantes. Here we are welcomed with a smile by Marina who serves us in this discreet little restaurant. She is supported in life and in work by Jonathan, the chef, for our greatest pleasure. He concocts good traditional dishes 100% home-made. Meat and fish come from the MIN or from small local producers. Freshness, quality of products and the chef's touch do the rest! Carpaccio of salmon gravlax, old-fashioned veal blanquette, hake or monkfish depending on the arrival, always served with beautiful accompaniments (old-fashioned rice, small vegetables from the market, salads), it's good and hearty! The chef is renowned for his homemade foie gras, which won him the Papilles d'or prize (culinary competition organized by the Paris Chamber of Commerce). The guests will be tempted by a tea or a gourmet coffee, a tiramisu, a chocolate mousse with several textures and chocolate flavors according to the chef's inspiration. Dishes can be ordered on the spot or to take away and continuously from Wednesday. It is also a bar with a beautiful wine list, draft beers and sublime aperitif boards (raw milk cheeses, farmhouse) and cocktails for convivial evenings. The welcome is top notch, the bar is bright: you feel good. Possibility of privatizing the place for about twenty people. Good music too!