The best bars and cafés Saint-Etienne

Opened in May 2021, this establishment offers a true gustatory journey. Here, everything is homemade and the menu adapts to the seasons. In this paradise of good taste, where pastries, sandwiches and cakes make our taste buds salivate just by looking at them, the products are local. The decoration in natural tones blends perfectly with the theme of this tea room. In other words, it is an establishment as we like them which allows to associate a tasty meal and a little rest in the heart of downtown. Authentique also does take-away sales.

Pile ou Face opened its doors in January 2024. Around 200 board games are on offer, for all ages and for children aged 2 and over: cooperative games, atmospheric games, investigative games, as well as classics such as Scrabble and card games. There's also a store where you can buy the games you've discovered on site. Pile ou Face also has a bar serving coffee, beer, wine and spirits. For a snack, you can opt for cakes, homemade spreads and charcuterie and cheese boards.

Just opposite the Megarama Chavanelle cinema, the Baratin is the ideal address for a pre-film drink, a little hunger after the screening, or even an aperitif that lasts longer than expected. This cosy and welcoming address offers only products chosen with passion. On the menu, charcuterie, cheese or vegetarian boards, Weiss products... She uses as much as possible local products worked with grandmothers' recipes. Don't miss the thematic evenings with entertainment and brunches.

If you pass by Louis Braille Street, you may be attracted by the delicious smell of pancakes. Sweet, you can enjoy them in the afternoon with hot chocolate, tea or Viennese coffee in a cocoon setting. And if you're not a pancake lover, you can still enjoy cookies or ice cream. In a very pleasant calm, do not hesitate to enjoy a good local fruit juice. At noon, you can also eat with a salmon pancake for example but also with a special dish or a salad at a very attractive price. A very pleasant terrace will allow you to enjoy the outdoors on sunny days!

Elixir Bar Pub welcomes you with a smile and sympathy in a retro atmosphere with a touch of modernity. This warm place is ideal for sipping beer and other drinks with friends. On Fridays once a month, theme evenings are offered: tasting, karaoke, disco... Every month, a concert is offered by local musicians. The musical genres are very wide: pop rock, Irish music, French song... You can have lunch on the plate according to a daily menu that changes with the seasons and in the evening with aperitif boards and French fry trays. A good address on a quiet street near Dorian.

Comme à la Maison is a coffee-shop set up near the Jean Monnet faculty, ideal for a gourmet break in a cosy, modern and warm atmosphere. Hot or cold drinks and delicacies to nibble on await you. In this cocooning atmosphere, you can come to work, have lunch with the family or sip a drink after class. Highly dynamic and always full of ideas, the manager organizes a wide range of activities on the premises, from knitting classes to chess lessons, for young and old alike.

Anthony Vendrange is now working on the aperitif, a unique concept in Saint-Etienne, halfway between a tapas bar and a delicatessen, based on French and mostly local products. On the grocery side, the choice is wide: terrines, spreads, pickles, chips, fruit juices, organic aperitifs, beers, digestives and quality wines. On the bar side, the appetizer boards are appetizing with assortments of cold cuts, cheeses and other irresistible delicacies to spread. Don't miss the take-away boxes or the animations to be experienced on site!

Barathi is a colorful cocktail bar that will take you on vacation for an evening, thanks to its tropical decor and Indian and Reunionese specialties. An added bonus is the creation of cocktails using fresh fruit. Our favorite is the "Pyaar", a floral cocktail made with vodka, strawberry, lychee and rose syrup. On the menu, you'll also find smoothies, homemade lemonade, and even wine and spirits, all accompanied by delicious tapas!

The success of the Beer Garden is such that it is often difficult to find a place on the weekends, but who cares, you can help yourself by holding your glass in your hand! Here, all the beers offered are 100% craft beers and local is privileged: IPA, fruit beers, sour beer... there is no lack of choice! And if you don't come especially for the beer, you'll definitely come back for the delicious home-made dishes. You can enjoy some of the bistro-style proposals, between carbonnade, burger or even magret, with French fries as a must!

Cat lovers, this place is made for you! In a cosy lounge, you can enjoy a hot chocolate while caressing a little kitty? A concept born in Japan, cat bars are a dazzling success. The reason? The cat is a soothing animal, because of the way we look at it and the purring it gives us when we pet it. At Bénédicte Marabita, you can enjoy the company of cats over a drink, and even adopt one! Savory pies, wraps, soups and homemade desserts will accompany your lunch break.

Mary's Coffee Shop offers coffees roasted by Cafés Folliet, syrups with natural flavors made in Chambéry or home-made muffins. Apart from these essentials, you will of course find many other hot or cold drinks. In case of small hunger, in addition to the muffins, you will also be able to benefit from a broad card of sweet delights. The success of this establishment continues with regular openings in the city. In Monthieu, an automatic ordering and payment system allows to limit the queues.

The Barberousse rum bar is intended to be a stopover for pirates, an atypical universe in Saint-Étienne. Jacques Viallet and Claude Matencio have decided to create a unique theme bar concept. Barberousse is the first bar with a musical atmosphere specialising in rum. A long corridor leads you to the tasting room, a superb vaulted room, a remnant of the former Saint-Étienne war weapons factory. Decorated like a buccaneer's boat hold with dimmed lights, caryatids, barrels, etc. this room puts you in the mood. It's up to you to stay on course among the 40 flavours of shooter and the ten or so homemade planters. Welcome to the festive and warm atmosphere of Barbarossa!

Located at the end of avenue Albert Raimond, just before the Hôpital Nord, the Crossroads Tavern is a traditional Irish resto-bar. With guitars on the walls and a regular program of blues and rock'n'roll concerts, it's a refreshing change of scenery. Large tables welcome you for convivial meals. On the menu: beef in Guinness, the Celtic version of our beef bourguignon, fish or chicken pie, Irish burgers, not forgetting the hearty rib steaks and whiskey bavettes. There are also 7 draught beers and a wide choice of Irish, Scottish and Japanese whiskies... The bar broadcasts soccer and rugby matches. Festive atmosphere guaranteed!

The Café Jean Jaurès welcomes you throughout the day. Tea room, wine bar, brasserie, whatever the time of day, joviality is always there! The lunch menu offers an often inventive and copious dish of the day, composed of fish or meat, a simple cuisine concocted with fresh products. In the evening, tapas are the order of the day! In the summer, you can enjoy a beautiful sunny terrace with a nice view of the Place Jean-Jaurès. You will appreciate the festive atmosphere of the concerts given at the kiosk.

The Lipopette has almost a legendary side. Its name is inspired by a song by the rapper Oxmo Puccino who has already been to this bar. Various concerts are regularly organised there. The decoration is of vintage spirit. Le Lipopette offers 36 beers, a dozen whiskies and a full wine list. A kind of mixture of genres between the best of the old and the modern, which makes you want to come back. In the purest tradition of trotters, a place of social life, the Lipopette has billiards tables, darts targets, chess games... and offers match broadcasts. A kind of French-style ad that we highly appreciate!

The remue-méninges is an associative café-reading where the key word is culture! If you like to exchange, debate, meet, learn, meet authors, you are at the right address! The activities organized by this association are multiple and always in the most perfect conviviality. You want to learn Arpitan or Gaga? It is possible here! The association also promotes sign language, welcomes other associations that defend causes or updates books that deserve to be known.

Liège waffles, iced chocolate waffles, Kinder Bueno waffles, Snickers waffles... designed by a craftsman and baked on site, accompanied by an organic coffee or a pumpkin spice latte - you guessed it, at Club Café, we spoil you! The establishment, which only celebrated its first year of operation last August, already has its regular gourmands. Club Café also offers a range of sandwiches, wraps, salads and smoothies, with or without food.

The Smoking Dog is for all English pub lovers: draught beers, bottle beers, rums, whiskies... The establishment is small but warm, and welcomes the visitor with a card written in Shakespeare's language written in chalk on a blackboard. You will be welcomed by dogs in different postures: smoking, drinking, leading a gentleman's life. To stay in Perfide Albion, The Smoking Dog broadcasts the Premiere's League but also the Ligue 1. The setting is rustic and comfortable. Different activities are possible: reading, chess, checkers, darts and even a piano. A friendly atmosphere despite the narrowness of the place.

Located right next to the Maison François Ier, the Café du Vieux Saint-Étienne is a real institution. Several generations have succeeded each other in this establishment. The place has kept its charm of yesteryear. In the morning, the inhabitants of Saint Etienne stop there to have a good coffee before work, at noon, they stop there again for lunch: rump steak, leg of lamb, roast pork, salmon steak, or chocolate fondant. Simple and efficient.

What a delightful place this unique café is, whose name refers directly to the game of chess! The Dd4, as the intimates say, is the place of all possibilities. Here, customers and artists from all walks of life meet. On the program, two FIDE approved tournaments per year, exhibitions, concerts every Friday night, and more. One comes to relax around a good foam chosen on a card rigorously worked by the staff, but one can also sit down around a pizza, a burger or aperitif boards.