Nantes’ bars and pubs are mainly concentrated around the place du Pilori, place Graslin and place du Commerce, the quartier Bouffay and on rue Maréchal Joffre. Le Tie Break (1 rue des Petites-Ecuries, 02 40 47 77 00) is a kitsch but fun piano bar with live jazz evenings. Café Cult (2 rue des Carmes, 02 40 47 18 49) is an art-bedecked, beamed bar in a 15th-century house. The enjoyable La Maison (4 rue Lebrun, 02 40 37 04 12) mocks up a 1970s house, where you can sip cocktails in the bathroom’s two-seater tub. The high-profile music venue L’Olympic (29 boulevard de la Liberté, 02 40 43 20 43) occupies a revamped cinema in residential Chantenay.

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