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La Petite Ourse is a seasonal restaurant at 48 boulevard de la Liberté in Rennes, France, and holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026, recognised for good-quality, good-value cooking. The weekday lunch menu is built on local produce, most of it organic, and the carte changes from week to week.
Germain Caillet runs the kitchen, and he puts particular care into the sauces and jus that tie the dishes together. Each day offers one meat plate, one fish plate and a vegetarian option. The team has served lunch here since 2019, drawing on named local growers for vegetables, eggs, pork, cheese and bread.
Le Fooding lists the restaurant for 2026 and describes a former crêperie remodelled under a cosmic ceiling. Its reviewer ate a potato salad with whelks and smoked mayo, then pork loin with celeriac purée and a vinegary jus. Dessert was a chocolate cream with crunchy cacao and salted caramel.
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good quality, good value cooking
Bid adieu to la galette ! Inside the recently remodeled walls of this former crêperie, we now lunch under a cosmic ceiling where Charlotte (a former journalist for Les Inrocks who switched careers to become a sommelier) and Germain (ex- Le Pantruche ) shine. The tasty treats coming out of his kitchen are equal parts locavore and galactic! On the blackboard menu the day we went, for €13.50 or €16.50: an impeccable potato salad with whelks and smoked mayo; tender squash gnocchi with red onions and petals of Mimolette cheese that melt in your mouth; transcendent caramelized pork loin served with celeriac purée and a damn good vinegary jus ; mackerel fillets over a bed of homemade soba noodles, a buttery nage and strips of black radish with a peppery jolt; before an astonishing chocolate cream with crunchy cacao and salted caramel for dessert. The drink selection is as stellar as the rest: a red from the Domaine des Roches Neuves produced by Thierry Germain (€4.50 a glass), a white Glouglou from Caraguilhes (€3.50), a Crozes Hermitage from the Domaine des 4 Vents (€39 a bottle) or even a delicious raspberry-strawberry nectar from Meneau (€3.50 for 250 ml). Appetizer + main + dessert lunch option €16.50 and appetizer + main or main + dessert for €13.50. // Claire Rémy
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