Reccomended restaurants

For the restaurants of Rennes, it is vital that you get a copy of Petit futé (on sale in most newsagents for 39ff) as it has a comprehensive review of them. This author cannot afford to visit all of them, so he has borrowed from Petit Futé a selection of their reccomended restaurants. These are only some of the many resteraunts in Rennes, I have left out any who have their own delights, so get a petit futé as soon as you get to Rennes.

Restaurants
Creperies
Salons de the
African
American
Caribbean
Asian
Brazilian
Indian
Italian
Mediterranean
Mexicain

IF YOU STILL PREFER NOT TO EXPLORE THE INTERNATIONAL DELIGHTS OF THESE RESTAURANTS THEN OF COURSE YOU CAN BE ORIGINAL AND GO TO MCDONALDS.

Supermarkets

Rennes is well served by the supermakets, which are often combined into commercial centres known as Hypermachés. For those who find themselves on low budgets, they are ideal for purchasing your food and drink. For example, a demi of Kronenburg is about 13ff in a bar, a box of ten bottles is about 20/25ff.

Centres Commercials

Carrefour, ZA La Rigourdiere, Cesson-Sevigne
Monday to Saturday, 9am to 10pm. Auto centre and 24hr petrol/diesel pumps (attendant/card payment)

Centre Commercial Colombier
A massive shopping centre, equivalent to an Arndale Centre (showing my Manchester roots), open . Plenty of shops, the core of which is the FNAC, INNO, and Habitat. There is a large McDonalds of course. There is also a scientific exhibition space, a library and a cultural centre for the local community. Nearby are banks and also the Columbia cinema.

Centre Commerical Grand Quartier, Saint-Gregoire
Open Monday to Thursday, 9am to 9pm. Friday, closure at 10pm, Saturday at 8pm. Géant (by name and size) Supermarket and Castorama. Several exhibition spaces and regular events.

Centre Commercial Alma.
Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 10pm. Saturday, until 9pm. Massive collection of 90 shops, with a large Printemps and Carrefour. A bowling alley (expensive but some good group offers) is nearby, as well as the ever-present McDonalds.

Centre Commercial Longs Champs
About 50 shops. Open Monday to Saturday, 9am to 9pm. Auto centre and 24hr fuel service.

Leclerc - Saint-Gregoire
open Monday to Thursday 9am to 8.30pm, Friday 9pm, Saturday 8pm.

Stoc, Centre Commercial La Poterie, boulevard Paul-Hutin
Monday to Saturday, 9am to 8pm.

Other smaller centres, also look for central points in the agglomeration of Rennes and surrounding towns.

*Centre Commerical Bourg L'eveque, 4 rue de Brest. * Centre Commercial Le Gast, 1 rue Alexandre-Le Gast. * Centre Commercial 3 Soleils, 20 rue d'Isly. Centre Commercial President Kennedy. * Centre Commercial Bourgchevreuil Cesson Sevigne.

Market days

The French market is quite popular, and I have discovered people visiting these as early as 5am (whilst I was returning from the nightclub). Throughout Rennes there are several regular markets from Tuesday to Saturday. Plenty of fresh produce, with cheese and seafood being the mainstay of these markets. Fairly cheap as well and a good opportunity to sample local produce.

Tuesdays
Quartier Maurepas-Patton: Maurepas, place d'Erlangen

Cleunay-Arsenal-Redon:, Cleunay, rue Jules Lallemand

Le Blosne: - Landrel, place de Zagreb, bouvelard de Yougoslavie

Wednesdays
Centre:Saint-Germain, place Saint-Germain

Sud-Gare:Sainte Thérèse, place du Souvenir

Thursdays
Centre:Halles Centrales (antiques and bric-a-brac)

Jeanne d'Arc - Longs-Champs - Atalante:Alexis Carrel, boulevard Alexis Carrel

Brequigny:Sarah Bernhardt, place Sarah Bernhardt

Fridays
Villejean - Beauregard:Villejean, rue de Bourgogne

Brequigny:Albert Bayet, place Albert Bayet

Saturdays
Centre:Isly, rue d'Isly (manufactured products, 9am to 5pm)

Centre:Les Lices, place des Lices (very BIG!)

Every Day (except Sundays and public holidays)
Centre:Halles Centrales, place Honoré Commeurec. Fresh produce