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My favourite restaurant but by no means the most expensive.
Le Gouermel is a small beachfront Crêperie in the Anse de Gouermel found between Plougrescant and Bugéles in the Cote d’Armor. It provides nearly everything eating out in Brittany has to offer. Wonderful scenery, the pleasure of eating outdoors under a large umbrella- or not as weather permits. Local food, cold wine beer or cider, gracious and inviting hosts and the completely relaxed and unhurried attitude the French have towards eating and entertaining.
This restaurant does not offer expensive faddy food, but provides inexpensive, well-cooked simple food to be enjoyed at leisure and in company.
The restaurant resembles a beach hut, the inside décor is bleached wood, wooden tables, the walls being used to display paintings by local artists as well as one or two other works of art.
The view at high or low tide is spectacular and adds to the atmosphere of the place, but is best enjoyed at high tide in the early summer, before it gets too hot and the summer crowds.
A perfect place for a spot of lunch after a walk along the beach.
The restaurant is open six days a week from midday but is closed Sunday evening and Mondays. From September onwards opening is usually just on Friday Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes. The restaurant is closed from Christmas to Easter approximately.




Reservations tel 0296 92-55-26

Leaving Lannion, taking the D786 eastwards towards Tréguier, one comes to the lovely restaurant of La Ville Blanche.

La Ville Blanche is an unassuming building, named after the village in which it is situated. It could mistakenly be passed-by as one travels further up the road to the pink granite coast…but that would be a great mistake.

The restaurant of Jean-Yves Jaguin, is a gourmets delight, and is certainly not to be missed as one wends ones way through the beguiling region of Trégor, in Northern Brittany.

Set back a hundred yards from the road, partly hidden by immature trees, one finds the restaurant of La Ville Blanche. Originally it was the Jaguins family home, as well as business having been run as a shop and restaurant run by Jean-Yves and Daniel Jaguins grandparents.
Two generations later the shop has ceased to be and become but a memory. In its stead a superb Michelin starred restaurant has been created, offering superb food with a flavour redolent of Brittany.

Brittany is a land of myth and of legend; it is a region of rugged shorelines interspersed with tranquil bays and a myriad of islets. Its coastline is indicative of its food - bright, vibrant and never far removed from the sea.
Large succulent lobsters, crawfish and langoustines, tender clams, crab the size of dinner plates, mouth-watering scallops and the ever-present jewels in the crown, mussels.

Brittany’s hinterland is green with verdant lush grass leading down to the vast salt flats of the south, it is a region of farms, it is a region of food but above all it is a region of fealty.

All this can be expressed in three words, one place and a multitude of dreams…La Ville Blanche.
Whether it is roast monkfish served with a puree of Coco de Paimpol or local crab served with blé noir pancakes, Breton lobster, roasted in the oven with slightly salted butter or fried abalone with potato purée, sea beans and chestnuts, they all have a taste evocative of Brittany.


For reservations call

0296-37-04-28 from France
+33-296-37-04-28 from outside France

Fax : +33.296.46.57.82
E-mail : jaguin@la-ville-blanche.com
All major credit cards accepted,

Closed: Monday, Wednesday, Sunday Evenings (except July, August)
Check web site for annual closing.

Les Jardins du Trieux is a charming Crêperie situated in the centre of Pontrieux on the banks of the River, which gives the town its name.
It is open all year offering traditional Breton Crepes, Galettes as well as other more substantial dishes of steak and local sausages.
The interior is relaxing, the owners’ friendly and the food simple but well prepared.
From spring through summer Pontrieux is a riot of colour as the bright coloured shops and houses are complemented by the profusion of flowers decorating the bridge and the surrounding streets and its famous wash stones or Lavoirs.
Pontrieux is only a short distance from the impressive chateaus of La Roche Jagu and the ruined Abbaye de Beauport.