The best bars and cafés Auvergne

Located between the Lecoq garden and the Place de Jaude, this Irish pub offers a wide range of beers, rums, whiskies and cocktails to enjoy with friends. It is a place of meeting and cultural exchange, since French and foreign students like to meet there. It is frequent to hear several languages spoken. The waiters are very professional. A room upstairs can be privatized for events. On ASM match days, the atmosphere of this pub is supercharged. Theme nights and other concerts are also proposed.

Sweeteria is a "factory of artisanal sweets" as its owner Cindy likes to call it, recently reconverted in pastry making. In her small cozy nest of about twenty places, completed by a small terrace, she honors her Caribbean-Latino roots. You can enjoy a Brazilian coffee or a Kréyol cocoa, served with a good cookie made with homemade peanut butter and unrefined sugar. At noon, wraps, in limited quantities to avoid waste, are offered. On Saturday mornings, it's time for brunch where different influences are once again mixed: Colombian empanadas, vegetable acras, feijoada, dahl, scrambled eggs and bacon...

As its name indicates, l'Antre de Dionysos is specialized in wine. Lilian Martin's establishment has on one side a bar where it is possible to settle down to taste different appellations. About thirty are proposed by the glass. The cellar side offers more than 500 bottles and accessories, as well as about thirty rums, selected and presented by Lilian Martin, sommelier. If the generous board of local products is not enough, order a meal. Enjoy the food prepared in the second part of Lilian's establishment, the restaurant.

The Mylo patisserie-café's offering is growing all the time. Élodie and her team of pastry chefs and chocolatiers offer a tea room service all day long, and a snack bar at lunchtime with a wide choice of "lomy". Vegan, salmon, beef: there's something for everyone. Other hot dishes and salads whet the appetite. A catering service is also available, ideal for cocktails. The icing on the cake? Personalized pastries and chocolates, for birthdays, anniversaries, corporate events and more.

As soon as you enter, the smell of chocolate grazes your nostrils. Homemade pastries adorn the bar behind which Mallorie Bournel is busy. She offers all shades of chocolate. Hot, prepared the old fashioned way, thick and made with great vintages like Elianza, Kayambé or Ivory. It is accompanied with greediness by cakes, cookies, pies or delicious cheesecakes to be tasted in the small cosy lounge or in the "winter garden". Sunday is brunch! Mallorie also offers activities throughout the year: mosaic, painting, writing..

Los Dos Hermanos is a reference: always a great atmosphere, an efficient tapas menu and pitchers of white or red sangria that evaporate too quickly! Those who know it know, you have to come early to get a table and sometimes accept to share one. The room is not so small though. This joyful hubbub is enhanced by a good playlist. On the menu, we find the unavoidable and traditional tortillas, patatas bravas, hams and chorizos, manchego cheese, quesadillas and other croquetas (served by 4, by the piece... a little expensive). This bar operates with a restaurant license, so you have to eat at least one plate of tapas to drink alcohol.

Here is a cosy place to take a break at any time of the day. Corine, the young pastry chef, will delight you with her delicious home-made pastries. Incredibly light raspberry charlotte, light chocolate truffle or gourmet cinnamon brioche... For lunch, the fairy proposes a dish of the day, soup, wrap and sandwiches in a very soft price formula. Upholstered armchairs, old wooden and porcelain tables: enjoy this retro atmosphere with a cup of Tea Forté and a good Valrhona hot chocolate.

Located at the corner of rue des Petits-Gras and rue des Chaussetiers, this wine bar, entirely designed and created by its young owner, also offers a few beers. Six months of intensive work were necessary to redesign this beautiful 80 m² room with its vaulted ceiling made of beautiful stones (even the toilets deserve a visit!). Dimmed lights, modern barrel style furniture, the atmosphere is lounge and relaxed, all the way to the end of the terrace on the pedestrian street. The menu features wines, beers, smoked meats and cheeses from the Balkans, a reference to the owner's origins. All this is immersed in a musical atmosphere that invites you to relax.

It is the only cat bar in the city! In the heart of downtown Clermont-Ferrand, you will find the Addicto'Chats. Behind this space of zenitude and greed are Manon and Valentin. The two young owners are however stolen the show by the adorable cats because we come here above all for the purring therapy! At snack time, the little felines keep you company, lounging at your side between the soft bench and the cozy blankets. Cakes, homemade hot chocolates, everything is there to spend a sweet moment in good company. A little, or big, hunger? For lunch and dinner, the address is also a traditional restaurant with hearty burgers.

This bar honours the gay Parisian neighborhood he bears the name by being a real HQ for the gay men, guys like babes. The week begins on Thursday with a karaoke evening with a very good atmosphere. Once a month, place in very hots strippers and gogo dancers to rinse the eye and heat the atmosphere. Lasers, facettes and vibrating music give life until late in the night.

As soon as you step aboard the Black Pearl, you're immersed in a rock'n'roll ambience and pirate decor. To keep you on the helm, a wide choice of beverages is available: beers from here and abroad (13 draught beers and a wide selection of bottles with a draught beer of the moment that changes regularly), rums, and a whole range of cocktails! Concerts are often organized in the ship's holds, to the delight of the ship's company! Don't miss the delicious daily specials at lunch, prepared with fresh, local farm produce!

Nestled under the cathedral, this small tea room is an address that you can keep under your elbow in the event of a rainy afternoon, to warm up with a good Viennese or Liège chocolate and a homemade pastry. Although, the terrace on sunny days is not bad either! As for sweets, the choice varies, and it is rich: cakes, muffins, carrot cakes, chocolate, caramel, pies... A hot drink + pastry formula anticipates your delicacy. The house also offers brunch on weekends (don't forget to book), and dishes and sandwiches for lunch. A smiling and friendly welcome, perfect for meeting friends, you feel good there.

Half pub, half bistro, here is Lou Gallic. Rue Saint-Joseph, the establishment is the trendy meeting place of the spa town. But trendy in its own way. You don't come here to show off but to meet people. Behind the bar, Biche has been serving customers for 40 years. A whole life which makes that the place gives off a warm atmosphere to share a beer or a glass of wine. The food is simple and efficient. If you ask an inhabitant of Chaudes-Aigues for the address, simply indicate "chez Biche", you are sure to arrive at the right place.

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.