The Best Seafood Near Mathieu Kergourlay - Château de Boisgelin, by the Record
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Rank 1. Rolland
Seafood
A former mill in a Breton valley, stripped back to bare industrial bones inside. This is a modern dining room where one brother cooks and the other tends the market garden, which tells you roughly where the vegetables on the plate come from. Seafood carries the mains while the starters are fully plant-based, a split that sounds like a manifesto but mostly just tastes like Brittany. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 2. Aux Pesked
Modern Seafood
A Michelin-starred seafood restaurant just outside Saint-Brieuc, with windows looking out over the green banks of the Gouët River. The chef keeps close ties with local fishermen and market gardeners, and the cooking leans into Brittany's coastline, pairing briny seafood with seasonal vegetables and a wine list that runs heavily biodynamic. The room is calm and unhurried, and the front-of-house runs like something you'd want to study.
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Rank 3. La Vieille Tour
Seafood
A country house opposite the estuary, with a glazed wine cellar holding some 350 references and enough natural light to make the room feel like part of the landscape outside. This is a Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant in Brittany, built around seafood and modern French cooking. The chef also runs a bakery and an annual festival pairing live music with street food, which suggests someone who finds a single obsession insufficient.
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Rank 4. Les Bassans
Modern Seafood
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Rank 5. Manoir de Lan-Kerellec
Modern Seafood
The dining room ceiling is shaped like an upside-down ship's hull, which feels appropriate for a one-Michelin-star seafront restaurant perched above the Channel in Brittany. The chef draws hard on local produce, pairing langoustines with pig's trotter and a regional dairy called gwell, or John Dory with shellfish and wild garlic. The view through the windows is the kind that makes you forget to eat, which given the food here, takes some doing.
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Rank 6. Restaurant du Port
Traditional Seafood
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Rank 7. Les Sardines à la Plage
Seafood
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Rank 8. Nori
Seafood
Arched windows frame the Île de Batz across the bay, and the stone fireplace does the rest of the heavy lifting inside this one-Michelin-star dining room at Hôtel Le Brittany. The chef's Breton seafood leans on the finest local produce, then takes unexpected detours into Japanese flavor combinations, a detail explained by his wife and sous-chef, both Japanese. The result is a menu that feels grounded and quietly surprising at once.
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Rank 9. Le Saint Placide
Modern Seafood
Tucked into Saint-Servan, the quieter quarter the locals actually use, away from Saint-Malo's summertime crush, this is a Michelin-starred fine dining room where the chef has built a reputation on Breton fish and seafood, sharpened by local vegetables and a confident modern hand. His wife runs the front and clearly takes the wine list and the table setting as seriously as the kitchen takes the plate.
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Rank 10. Oyster Club
Seafood
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Rank 11. La Vallée
Seafood
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Rank 12. Méson Chalut
Breton Seafood