The Galeries Lafayette chain has a store in Saintes. It's a good place for shopping for clothes, jewelry and cosmetics. On Facebook.

Galeries Lafayette

"Pasta bar" with a range of pastas and sauces, local ingredients are used as much as possible.

Pasta Verdura

Japanese cuisine, mostly sushi sets. The food is prepared on-site with fresh ingredients.

Akashiso

An old town institution, here you can enjoy sweet and savoury Brittany-style crêpes.

Crêperie Victor Hugo

A lounge bar, brew pub and night club (at weekend nights) with a young clientele. In the weekends there's a DJ, and Thursday is student's night. Specializing in rum- and cognac-based cocktails.

Opéra Latin