The best bars and cafés Bayonne Baiona

There's no age limit to having fun with family and friends, with a multitude of board games! There's nothing more convivial than meeting up in a playful space where you can also enjoy refreshments while playing family games, atmospheric games, card games, board games or detective games. This cosy space, lined with cushions, offers all kinds of games for children and adults alike. Situated in a pedestrian street in the heart of historic Bayonne, you'll discover this unique play area in the Basque Country.

It is easy to find, because next to the town hall, and very recognisable by its doors with etched windows and its green including trefoil... Was the bike hanging from the ceiling served to Lisdoonvarna, whose management is indicated on a sign on the post is set right in the middle of the room? Perhaps the boat even made it possible to cross the Ocean... A heterogeneous objects of alba, neon signs boasting Guinness and Beamish framed with the newspaper cuttings, remember that here, you are in Ireland. The service is therefore done at the bar: eleven pressure and about as many whiskies can be enjoyed in front of the giant screen, while nibbling, or listening to the concert given every weekend...

Not to be missed at mealtimes (see section), this bodega is also a must for aperitifs or in the evening. A real pleasure in this absolutely superb place, - rusty walls on the bar and the walls, bluish lighting... Gilles Lafitte, master restaurateur, is at the helm, with his tonic team. To make you live a good moment around a classic sangria or more sophisticated cocktails - Piña Colada, Caïpirinia, etc... - fresh fruit juices but also wines, especially by the glass, in an eloquent menu on which you can read this little sentence by Baudelaire, taken from the Fleurs du Mal, illustrating the Journal des vins, originally presented on a stand: "I feel immense joy when I fall into the throat of a man worn out by work and his warm chest is a sweet bomb where I enjoy myself much better... than in my cold cellars! ».

Wine bar, bistro-style tasting bar where you'll enjoy a choice of pintxos, tapas and sharing plates for aperitifs, made with local produce and cheese platters just a stone's throw from the Nive river. With friends, La Karafe takes you on an oenological and gustatory voyage, with over 150 carefully selected wine references. Throughout the year, the establishment promotes the work of artisan winemakers and encourages organic and biodynamic winemaking. So, red, white or rosé, with pintxos, tapas and slates to accompany.

The club offers a range of facilities including Jacuzzis, steam rooms, saunas, billiards and glory holes. It also has 11 rooms, some with locks and others open to all. Le Cinquième Élément regularly organizes themed evenings, such as mixed evenings, evenings for couples and taboo-free evenings. Women, transsexuals and transvestites are invited, and admission is free all year round to all evenings. Entrance fees vary according to the day and type of visitor.

On the banks of the River Nive in the heart of Bayonne, a rest'o counter that's often fully booked... and a new-generation tapas bar, just like the famous tapas bars of our Spanish neighbors. A rest'o comptoir-bistrot-cave where you'll discover not classic tapas, but raciones to be enjoyed in small quantities over a drink, as an aperitif or simply for a meal. Tapas complete with pintxos. Squid rabas, roasted camembert, mackerel rillettes, salmon gravlax...

In the heart of historic Bayonne, a stone's throw from the cathedral and after a day full of sightseeing, or in the morning for breakfast, Oloa coffee shop is an ideal, gourmet and intimate address to enjoy, inside or on the terrace, its specialties of organic, local, gluten-free and healthy products. Organic coffees, fresh fruit juices, organic smoothie with cold juice extractor... or a break just as tasty for a sweet or salty snack (or both!) with a tempting menu of bagels, bowls, and gluten-free pastries.

A strategic location for this bodega, Bayonne's oldest, on the banks of the River Nive, a stone's throw from Les Halles. It's also a beautiful place, always crowded. It's not for nothing that the setting is warm and inviting, with its long bar topped with hams and Espelette peppers, wooden tables, slates and soft lighting. Simple aperitif or meal? Xipirons with ham a la plancha, pan-fried porcini mushrooms with egg yolk, risotto with ewe's cream pastry, beef rib (1 kg...) matured for 4 weeks, "home-made" for all hours of the day and long evenings.

A unique and tasty place in the heart of historic Bayonne, Coffee Muxu is inspired to travel the globe, drawing its DNA from the Basque Country. Here, you'll discover gourmet, fair-trade, artisan-roasted coffees, brunch classics revisited with a Basque twist, using selected local produce. On the premises or to take away, you'll find homemade granola with fromage blanc, organic boiled eggs with mouillettes and AOC cheese, and a gourmet plate that, as its name suggests, is XXL in size! Coffees, teas and more.