Best Burgers in Rennes: Centre & Student Areas

The best burgers in Rennes are concentrated in the old centre, around Place Sainte-Anne, Rue Saint-Michel and Place des Lices, and along the Vilaine toward the Colombier and the station. Beyond the centre, Villejean and Beaulieu, the two big university campuses, are where students eat on a budget.

Rennes has its own handheld classic, and it is not a burger. The galette-saucisse is a grilled pork sausage rolled in a buckwheat galette, sold at markets and outside Roazhon Park on Stade Rennais match days. That habit of eating something hot in one hand runs deep in the city. Brittany also offers any burger kitchen a set of obvious local ingredients: salted butter, buckwheat, pork and cider.

Burgers in Rennes: key facts

• Old centre: half-timbered houses around Place Sainte-Anne, Rue Saint-Michel and Place des Lices.
• Saturday morning: the Marché des Lices, one of the largest markets in France, is the place to see Breton produce.
• Student districts: Villejean (Rennes 2 university) and Beaulieu (Rennes 1 university), each with its own metro stop.
• Getting around: two driverless metro lines, a and b, cross the city.
• Breton larder: buckwheat flour (blé noir), salted butter and dry or sweet cider.
• What our guides check: a venue confirmed open this year, its full street address and a menu price with the date we read it.

Every guide we publish on Rennes is dated and lists only venues, addresses, prices and ratings we could verify. Our burger restaurant guides cover other cities with the same method.