Café Pascal

Ostensibly Irish with a soundtrack of rock ‘n' roll and folk, this cafe-bar manages to be all things: a coffee joint where you can catch a sports match, a casual brasserie, and, come evening, the busiest haunt on cathedral square. You can even toast Clermont-Ferrand’s most famous polymath with a 'Sexy Pascal' cocktail (€7.50) of peach and passion fruit.