The weak situation of rural trade is highlighted by closures which threaten the attractiveness of rural territories and disadvantage people that are the least able to move. This situation also makes possibilities of meetings between inhabitants decrease. However, despite this context, rural bars are remaining numerous. It is often by diversifying the range of services, and even by offering alternative and original activities, such as bookshop, organization of evening-debates and concerts, or by participating in a tourist promotion network. This paper aims to present the first elements of a PhD project concerning bars in rural areas. After having shown the specificities of bars in Brittany, the second part highlights the lack of geographers in the scientific production about this topic. It is thus a question, in a last time, of indicating the direction which will be followed during the PhD. The guiding principle of this one appears to be how social link grows up in appropriated interaction places. The project's interest lies in the fact that it pays special attention to the role of these places in inhabitants' everyday life, in particular when they answer to problems which can emerge in rural areas, isolation for example, while contributing to animation in villages and in integrating new inhabitants and people passing through not for long (tourists and hikers for example).