wine, coffee, beer in Montpellier

Cafés, Bars aux vins, Bar aux bierres

If you have heavily indulged at lunch and you don’t want too much for dinner a good alternative is a wine bar. They generally offer a cheese plate, charcuterie plate, a tapenade plate or a mixed plate. Usually that is enough for two people that aren’t exceptionally hungry.

L’esprit Vins
A wide variety of local wines from 2.80 -6 Euros a glass.
They have the best mixed plates with plenty of vegetable which will feed two for 12 Euros.
Probably best to sit outside in the evenings because the sound system can be loud inside. The bar opposite, which has an adjacent seating area at the place around the fountain, is rubbish. But don’t let that deter you from esprit vins - which is excellent.

Times Café
Near St. Roch
Great, friendly, knowledgeable staff, great wines, heaps of praise written up in just about every wine publication, tough to find a seat.

Mi Bario
Near St. Roch, opposite l’agricole and next to le bouchon de saint roch
Very casual, but the only one to actually include wines from outside the region on his list.

Milles et une bouteilles
Rue Faubourg St. Jaumes, just beyond the beer bar and stadium.
Way downscale, friendly, incredibly cheap. You can sit at a plastic table and buy rosé at 1 euro a glass while you inhale complimentary olives, chips and peanuts.

There are too many good cafés too name them all and sometimes the best is one you ‘’discovered’‘ but here are a couple that are certain to give you good coffee.

Lattitude
place canourgue
run and operated by twin brothers which can be very confusing. There coffee is a little more expensive but their terrace is beautifully situated and everything is of high quality.

Café Bibal
Rue Jaques Coeur, just off Rue de la Loge, just before the central square place de la comedie.
Quality selection of coffees and hot chocolates and hot chocolate coffees. It is, however, in a crowded area.

Les couleurs des bierres
Rue Faubourg St. Jaumes
A temple to beer. Any type (not necessarily brand) of beer imaginable. Francis, the patron, is an encyclopaedia of beer knowledge. If you get dizzy you can take pizza from next door into the bar. He usually stocks over 700 different beers at one time. I recommend the Belgian and French micro brew sections.