The best bars and cafés Vendée

A unique place that we love! In the middle of the marshes, an old oyster hut transformed into an oyster bar and nautical base. Both a bar with a small restaurant service (oysters, tapas...), here you can also book canoes, stand-up paddles or fishing on board. You can walk on the Vertonne and Auzance rivers in the heart of the marshes or head for the ocean. We love the sofas with their colourful cushions, made from wooden pallets. The view on the marshes is great! Success oblige, book now!

L'Équipage is a lively place to be right from the morning, at the foot of the beach. We love it for its warm welcome and top-notch service, its terrace overlooking the ocean, and its low prices! The bar is bright and warm, and the menu is excellent: wines by the glass, several draught beers, but the speciality remains rum, with a wide range of ti-punches and cocktails. Accompanying the menu are home-made accras and samoussas, and tapas (home-made rillettes and terrines, cheeses...). After the beach, an ice cream or crêpe break. A sports fan, David offers sports broadcasts on the big screen.

Overlooking the Marais Girard beach, La Paillote d'Eliott is both a bar offering food and a grocery store selling local produce. We like the original design of the terrace, made from wooden pallets and decorated with lanterns. Here, just off the beach, you can share an aperitif with friends over tapas, sardines, cheese platters and fish rillettes (available from the grocery store), with a cocktail. The menu also includes pasta salad, burgers and fish and chips. A great place to go at any time of day!

Created more than 40 years ago, Manu's café-restaurant is located in a picturesque corner, facing the port of Le Bec. The room overlooks the oyster huts. A simple, rustic setting to enjoy oysters directly from the oyster farmers opposite, at any time. In addition to oysters, fish rillettes, mussels, or squid blanquette, try the speciality: mussels à l'époyenne, cooked on a bed of pine needles in a specially designed mussel oven, giving a unique flavour. Seafood platters on reservation. Concerts in summer.

Kouign amann in the land of brioche: it was a daring gamble, but it paid off. It has to be said that the Breton specialities served in this café-tea room are truly delicious. This coffee shop is a family business run by Bretons Frédéric and his father Franck, and the pastries are all homemade. The decor is cosy, and you choose your pastry from a large central table, right in front of the open lab. Other specialties include far aux pruneaux (soft and fragrant), gâteau breton, available in 9 recipes, and Jean.No, an apple cake to die for.

A 4,000 m² leisure complex that includes a bowling alley, laser game, bar, restaurant, sports club and seminar rooms. On the ground floor there is a bowling alley with 12 lanes equipped with computerized scorers and adapted to all levels of play. Challenges at weekends and entertainment with prizes to be won. On the other side of the lounge bar, a Laser Game. Equipped with jacket and laser gun, plunge into an abyss-coloured maze full of obstacles and special effects. Objective: score maximum points by aiming at the bright targets on your opponents' jackets.

Set right on the beach, this Belle Époque-style house with its green shutters houses a bar and restaurant. Inside, the spirit of an old café reigns: large family tables for a convivial atmosphere, marine-style lamps, traps and fishing nets, a large sail on the ceiling and watercolors on the walls. Whether you choose the large dining room for its old-fashioned atmosphere or the panoramic terrace overlooking the sea, you won't fail to be impressed by the setting! Enjoy a drink or eat seafood specialities in a place that has retained all the charm of yesteryear.

It's at La Chaume that we meet Jean-Luc, one of the local figures! The tone is set: here you are in the "principality of Chaum"! With his colorful personality and his cheeky manner, he brings this unusual setting to life! Here, the Chaumois, no stranger to local anecdotes, rubs shoulders with the tourist intrigued by this Chaumoise enclave, and all gather around crisp slices of life, sharing oysters, cochonnailles... A place with vintage decor and that little extra: regular concerts. A simple little place, but an evening full of encounters!

Next to the ferry terminal, this bar-restaurant enjoys a panoramic view of the ocean. Tasteful contemporary decor, short, simple menu, local and seafood products including oysters that can be eaten at any time of day. Several spaces, between the bar downstairs, and upstairs, the restaurant part at the end of which extends a terrace with a view of the bridge that connects the continent to the island of Noirmoutier. If you are in a hurry because of the imminent departure of your boat for Yeu, opt for the quick meals: omelettes, croque-monsieur...

This tea room is located in the shadow of the church, in the center of Saint-Jean. To his head, smiling, Sebastien Caudal and Daniel. As pastries, fine pastries and pastries are made home, like chocolates, caramels, jams, etc. Among the lighthouses: The Chocotarte (a chocolate background, burnt cream and fruit), a dozen of home macarons (salted butter caramel, lemon, pralé, etc.), Charnet (Breton sanded, vanilla cream), the raspberry raspberry, and of course the brioche, the spoil and the flank. It's a marquee year. Sébastien has made a specialty of pastries from the pastry range, like the religious to salty butter caramel. Cakes that have the common point of generosity, such as their creator, one of the emblematic desserts is the rum baba. There are also creations, such as Le Pêché montois (black chocolate foam, caramel, chocolate mousse milk, hazelnuts). In winter, you can taste these delicacies in the small room, accompanied by one of Damman teas or a Viennese chocolate. They will leave the place in summer to ice desserts, vacherine or ice-cream (about ten perfumes), to take away or to enjoy on the terrace.

Here's an address that, although hidden away in an industrial zone, has several assets, starting with its industrial-look setting, imagined by Jérémy and Marine. The restaurant, which doubles as a wine and tapas bar, also boasts quality home cooking and low prices. Whether you're looking for a menu of the day, or just getting off work for an aperitif-tapas with friends, La Romazière can be enjoyed without moderation. A fine range of wines: its wine library offers over twenty wines by the glass from all over the world, to accompany homemade sweet or savoury tapas.

The Monkey Place is a place to be at any time of day: in the morning for a coffee, lunch or tea with friends, or after-work, over one of our signature cocktails, sharing mezzés or charcuterie and cheese boards. For dinner, we invite you to discover world cuisine in a chic tropical atmosphere. Every Friday, we take over one of the cozy spaces surrounding the central bar, to enjoy quality concerts in an eclectic musical style. And don't miss the all-you-can-eat mega brunch! In short, we love it!

Nestling on the banks of the Oudairies pond, Le Park, guinguette 2.0, is an atypical place. A place for life and fun, where groups of friends gather for a drink to play pétanque, shuffleboard, darts or Corn Hole, watch a match, enjoy a concert or DJ set, or dine on delicious street food. On sunny days, the beach and its deckchairs lining the pond are packed. Weather uncertain? Take advantage of the covered tent! A multi-purpose venue, unique in the Vendée, that can be hired for private events.

In the heart of the pedestrian street, the Bahiana opens onto an exotic and exotic setting: two beautiful central bars, large comfortable red benches, good cocktails. With its 20 or so springs, it is a must see. This rum distillery is a real invitation to travel. Bahiana's specialities, the numerous surprising and explosive macerations: ginger, passion fruit, coconut, pineapple, but also its rums and excellent cocktails nicely presented..

Your main accessory to come here will be a pair of sunglasses, since in Sables-d'Olonne, the comet's passage can be observed all year long. In the heart of the embankment of Sables-d'Olonne, the large and beautiful terrace facing the sea attracts. One comes there to have breakfast or coffee with a newspaper in hand, a refreshment in the afternoon, or to nibble for lunch and dinner, facing the ocean while perfecting one's tan. La Comète has a contemporary look with dominant gray and turquoise colors, recalling the colors of the ocean.

The place is atypical and original: every night owl knows the Bar des Artistes. More than a bar, Le BDA is above all a café-concert that organizes concerts and improvisation sessions every week from September to May. The outdoor stage then takes over, every Friday in summer, on the terrace under the cherry trees of Place Résistance. In short, this lively year-round venue has a soul. On Saturday evenings, you have to elbow your way to a seat. The clientele is young, but all generations mix.

In the Halles de la Vie, it is one of the bars that cannot be ignored in Saint-Gilles. A bar-apéro doubled with a cellar. All the bottles from the cellar are available at the bar! Only products from the cellar are sold here. Other assets: a vast terrace as if sitting on the water at high tide, with a magnificent panoramic view of the river and the port, about 400 wine references, a selection of wines by the glass, 150 whiskies, 50 rums and 300 different beers... And to accompany all this, boards of cold meats and cheeses, to enjoy the aperitif.

On the Place Nap', this glass roof at the foot of the pool where the ibis is located is the setting for this bar-restaurant. When the weather is fine, it unfolds a terrace facing the foot of the kiosk. The door opens onto a large space where the glass and aluminium of the structure are mixed with Scandinavian-style blond wood furniture. The place is made of different spaces with, next to the main room, another one opening onto a covered terrace overlooking the pools. On the bar side, the menu displays traditional drinks that you can accompany with one of the dishes on the menu.

It's the place to be in Les Herbiers, to meet up with friends over a Guinness and enjoy memorable evenings listening to live music! Le Barbatruc (Le Barba for regulars) has all the assets of a typical bar with an Irish accent: a good musical atmosphere, a setting filled with the stories of each customer, a friendly atmosphere and a diverse clientele. A daytime antechamber for Herbretais regulars, it also welcomes people wishing to enjoy a dish of the day in the dining room or on the square's terrace in fine weather.

Take your passport for the Albanera Café. The decoration illustrates the Latin-Cuban atmosphere. With its three rooms to change the atmosphere, not forgetting the pretty interior terrace, you can organise your stay as you wish. You can also sip a cocktail at the bar, take over the large room for dinner and dancing or even enjoy the small lounge. Gaël and his team will warm up the place and make you sway on the floor. By the way, do you know what "Albanera" means? Well, it's an Argentinean tango position.