My favorite market in Rennes, and the only thing I look forward to on Saturdays! This market sprawls across the city center, and because it's so close to the Sainte Anne metro station, it makes it all the more appealing to me! There are hundreds of vendors selling all sorts of products: flowers, fresh produce, meats, seafood, baked goods, sweets, cheeses, and dairy products, as well as food trucks and stands. All the prices are relatively similar, but there are a few stalls that sell their produce for dirt-cheap prices. The produce is VERY fresh, so you should consider buying only what you can eat within the next few days. I particularly love the baked goods section of the market, located inside the covered buildings, because of the wide variety. I get my favorite mini kouign amann from here, as well as beautifully baked brioche loaves. No one has told me a definitive hours of operations, but to my understanding they're open from at least 9am-1pm, but go as early as possible, because with each passing moment, it gets busier and busier, until you're drowning in a crowd of people. read more

I travelled up from Nantes to have a look round the city in general and check out this market in particular. One of the biggest and most famous in France, Le Marché des Lices is pretty great! There must be several hundred stalls selling any food you could possibly want: fresh fruit and veg, bread, cakes, meats (cooked and raw), honey, and much more. If I lived closer I would have dived in and grabbed some of the delicious looking fresh (and often still alive) seafood, but I don't reckon the smells would have been too friendly after putting them in my bag and walking round all day in the glorious spring sun. Round the corner there is also a large flower market, but for me, it was all about the food. The fruit and veg are considerably cheaper than the fare I can find in Nantes, and the quality is excellent. Keep an eye out for the jam stalls - it will probably take an age testing out the dozens and dozens of delicious jams but that's half the fun isn't it. I bagged a kiwi and pomelo confiture with a really unique taste and I can't wait to eat it with fresh bread. Many of the vendors speak pretty good English although I was able to get by my average French. Like most markets in France it shuts at 13:30 so if you want to take your time browsing try to get down earlier rather than later. The same can be said about buying lunch there. There are maybe two dozen trailers selling lunch fare in between the two covered halls, and when I queued up at 12:30 to get un galette de saucisse (a sausage wrapped in a buckwheat crêpe - a local favourite), I had to wait for a good 20-25 minutes. Sure it was quite nice, but trying to eat this at the same time as hurriedly buying pink garlic and saucisson de canard. You can probably grab similar fare throughout the city with much less waiting. All in all however, a really great place to look round and buy some choice produce. read more

Marché des Lices is not something to be missed. If you are in Rennes on a Saturday morning trying to figure out what to do, you should be here already. Get the galette saucisse (I always get it with mustard, but you can add ketchup if you so desire), and consider getting poulet rôti for your lunch (take it home along with some potatoes steeped in chicken grease), and be sure to pick up a bottle of cider and beer while you're here. The vegetables are the best I've ever seen (I know coming from the United States, that isn't saying much, but it's true), and I have never in my life been so excited to go home and make a salad. Grab some beets to steam, some red peppers to stir fry, and get a ton of lettuce (we paid 0.70€ a head!). Don't forget to grab a cheese (i had to set a limit of one cheese per week so I didn't end up eating it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner), some pâté (for the Americans uninitiated to the metric system, 100g was enough for me), and maybe some rillettes too! Artichokes and salmon for the rest of the week, and you are set, my friend. Don't forget to grab a bottle of cider or local beer. You will never eat as well as you do in France. read more

This is a fantastic farmers' market and you can get flowers, fruit, cheese, vegetables, seafood, bread, dessert, some lunch, and almost any other food you can think of here on a Saturday. It is several blocks and includes two large covered halls and multiple plazas. I usually go to the market to buy most of my food for the week. read more

This market is amazing and everything is presented beautifully. You can get an inexpensive takeaway crepe to eat while you shop. The seafood is sometimes still live and is so cheap is hard not to buy everything! If you are in Rennes on a Saturday do not miss this because it just a great spectacle. read more