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Breakfast & brunch in Reims
where locals actually go
Tea rooms, brunch cafés, classic French brasseries and artisan bakeries
Skipping the hotel breakfast in Reims is almost always a good idea. The city has a genuinely lively morning food scene — from creative all-day brunch kitchens cooking from scratch every day to century-old Art Deco tea rooms and neighbourhood bakeries where locals queue before 8am. Whether you are after something substantial before a long day of cathedral visits and Champagne cellar tours, or a slow Sunday spread with the papers — Reims has an address for you.
🍳 Cafés, tea rooms & brunch spots
Sacré Brunch
Ask any local where to brunch and the answer is usually the same. Sacré Brunch is a full-time brunch kitchen — not a café that occasionally serves eggs on weekends, but a place built from the ground up around the idea of a proper midday meal, seven days a week except Monday. The kitchen is run by chef May, who cooks in full view and changes the menu every season using local produce.
The menu draws on flavours from around the world while keeping a foot in the local larder: Turkish-style cilbir, spiced shakshuka, a crispy chicken and avocado waffle, a grilled cheese sandwich with Reims ham and honey mustard, and a caramelised apple brioche perdue. Cold-pressed juices, specialty coffee, granola made in-house. The English-speaking staff and 4.9/5 Google rating (over 1,500 reviews) say the rest. This is where visitors and locals converge — book ahead.
Harold
Harold is a restaurant-boutique — part restaurant, part interior design shop — tucked inside the Passage du Commerce off the Rue de Vesle. The setting is immediately distinctive: mismatched vintage furniture, eclectic objects, and an intimate terrace sheltered from the street. The kitchen cooks everything from scratch using seasonal local produce. Monday to Saturday, it serves lunch and afternoon tea; on Sunday, it transforms into a generous buffet brunch.
The Sunday spread covers both sweet and savoury in proper depth: crêpes, pastries, smoked salmon, bone-in cured ham, cheeses, soft-boiled eggs with soldiers, and more. It is the kind of brunch that foreign visitors stumble upon and then spend the rest of their trip recommending to other people. Book the Sunday slot early.
En Aparthé
Around the corner from the cathedral, En Aparthé is the kind of place visitors discover on their first morning in Reims and spend the rest of the trip finding excuses to return to. Owner Clémentine has built a genuinely charming space — country-chic décor, mismatched teacups, the smell of fresh pastry — with a menu that goes well beyond what most tea rooms dare: avocado toast, English muffin, egg brioche, maple syrup pancakes, homemade cakes. Over 70 loose-leaf teas from Dammann, a dozen or more flavoured hot chocolates including one with four spices that people talk about.
On Saturdays, brunch service runs until 3pm. On Sundays, it is a buffet at will from 9:30am to 2pm. No reservations taken — just arrive early and be ready to queue briefly if the timing is right. Staff are accustomed to welcoming international visitors and are generally happy to help in English.
Chausson
Chausson was opened by two sisters, Clara and Camille, who identified a real gap in the Reims food scene: a breakfast and brunch spot where vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free eating is the whole point rather than a reluctant footnote. The menu changes weekly, built around seasonal local produce. The space feels like someone's grandmother's kitchen — if that grandmother had excellent taste in vintage china and a passion for honest cooking.
For travellers with dietary requirements, this is often the most welcoming discovery of their stay. Portions are generous, prices are reasonable. Weekend brunch is served in two sittings — 11am and 1:30pm — with a children's menu available.
Café Feuillette
The first thing most visitors notice is the interior. The space was a shoe shop until recently — but you would never guess. Jean-François Feuillette's team transformed it completely: mosaic floors, a marble counter and handcrafted fittings that evoke a century-old Parisian boulangerie. The effect is striking and entirely convincing. This is one of a small number of Café Feuillette locations across France, built on the founder's conviction that madeleines, cannelés, financiers and Paris-Brest deserve as much care as fine pâtisserie.
The menu covers all the French breakfast essentials — pure butter croissants, pain au chocolat, fresh-baked quiches and sandwiches — alongside drinks that go beyond the standard café offer: a Paris-Brest latte, a marshmallow hot chocolate, seasonal creations. Open every day from 7:30am and positioned directly on the main square, it is the most convenient starting point in the city — particularly before a morning visit to the cathedral or a Champagne cellar tour.
Waïda
Waïda has been on the Place Drouet-d'Erlon since 1923 — and the interior has barely changed since the 1930s. The mosaics, the ironwork, the period chandelier and the stained glass windows signed by the Simon-Marq family — one of Reims' most celebrated dynasties of master glassmakers — make this one of the most visually remarkable rooms in the city. It is, genuinely, worth walking in just to look.
The homemade pastries are the reason to stay: the pistachio-griotte escargot with Valrhona chocolate and the seasonal tarts are reliable highlights. Settle at a table on the terrace overlooking the square, order a coffee and something from the counter, and let Reims come to you. A quintessentially French morning experience — the kind that doesn't need to try.
🥐 The classic French café experience
There is a particular kind of French morning that has nothing to do with brunch menus or specialty coffee. It is a table on a busy square, a café crème, a continental breakfast with bread, butter and jam or a cooked option, and the pleasure of watching a city wake up. Two addresses on the Place Drouet-d'Erlon offer exactly this — straightforward, unpretentious, several formulas to choose from.
A Reims institution since 1985, open every day from 7am to 1am. Several continental breakfast formulas, view of the Subé fountain, animated terrace atmosphere — the reliable choice for an early start with no fuss.
Same spirit, smaller terrace, on the edge of the Boulingrin market quarter. Open from 7am Tuesday to Friday — a weekday-only address, but a good one for those visiting the Halles market on a Friday or Saturday morning.
🍞 Bakeries worth sitting down in
Not every morning calls for a full brunch. Sometimes the best start is a proper croissant straight from the oven, a coffee at the counter, and the unhurried pleasure of a good French bakery at opening time. These four central Reims addresses all have seating — a different pace, but one that visitors who have tried it tend to remember.
Artisan bakery recognised by the Gault & Millau guide, with an award-winning baguette Tradition, creative pastries and Polish-style babkas. The quality benchmark of this neighbourhood — and worth the short walk from the centre.
A wood-fired sourdough bakery that opened only a few years ago and quickly became one of the best addresses on the Rue de Vesle. Homemade jams, seasonal pastries by Pauline Arrigault, honest bread at its best.
A big, lively space open seven days a week — part artisan bakery, part coffee bar, with a rooftop terrace in summer. At weekends, an all-you-can-eat brunch buffet puts it in a different category from a simple bakery stop.
A national chain founded in 1889 with consistent quality across locations. Two addresses in the very centre of Reims — straightforward, reliable and practical for groups or early departures.
