Le Point Bar

Crime: Plat du jour, le piece Boucher (piece of meat from the butcher) with sauce de poivre, pepper sauce and red wine from the Cotes du Rhone area.

Scene: Le Point Bar, 38 Rue Lanoue Bras de Fer, Nantes, Ile the Nantes

Investigation: After visiting the Ile the Machine Jules Vernes style we went of to check some architecture. Being a little bit hungry we turned on our radars. We bumped into an oldskool Bar with a huge print of OBEY’s sumo dude sticked against the window with “vente” = for sale.

At first we thought it was a gallery and looked inside. Aha we should go here for some steak, since the place smelled like it and everybody there was eating steak frit. Reference for good food: Go where the locals go and order what they have ;)

We got an enormous piece of steak and I was like, uh for lunch?? Well, the meat tasted good and better with the wine from Cote du Rhone, a full and fruity wine without the after taste of tannin which is dislike.

So, if you are very hungry and could use some protein before continuing your tour Ile de Nantes, check this place out with good, friendly service and a lot of locals with a good vibe.

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Les Bouteilles

Crime: Seabass on a bed of creamy rissoto with mushrooms and yellow courgette with a glass of white wine, a 2006, MEO-CAMUZET, BOURGOGNE HAUTES-COTES DE NUITS CLOS SAINT-PHILIBERT MONOPOLE WHITE and a cheese platter with a glass of red wine, a 2009 Crozes-Hermitage from Emmanuel Darnaud. Both wines were very nice.

Scene: Les Bouteilles, 22, Rue Armand Brossard, 44000 Nantes 02 40 12 10 38

Investigation: After a walk on Ile the Nantes and not in the mood for one of Nantes best crepes for diner we continued our quest for food. 9PM and we were getting delusional and was about to eat crappy stuff in the neighborhood of our hotel La Perouse. Link.

Finally we bumped into Les Bouteilles. A small restaurant decorated with wine bottles and packed with locals. It was 9:15pm we need to go in here…

With our eyes focussed on one of the plats du jour, the grilled entrecôte, we got very disappointed with the news that the table behind us had the last pieces of meat haha So, we went for the sea bass with a tasty risotto.

But more impressive was the service, the wines they served and their cheese platter. With the little knowledge of french (I’m still practicing) I manage to ask the waitress for the names of the 5 cheeses we’ve tasted.

Clockwise:
1. Saint Nectaire - a soft french cheese with a very light and subtle taste
2. Saint Marcellin - a french cheese with a very crumbly texture with full of taste
3. Morbier - little bit a la Port Salut
4. Ubiato - a hard and salty Italian cheese which tastes like gran p…
5. Gorgonzola -  this gorgonzola was the most ‘powerful’ gorgonzola I’ve tasted. Great on bread, because the flavour is quite spicy.

If you go to Nantes, please visit this place!

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