This is food. I talk about it. First stop, Bretagne.

I've been uploading pictures of delicious food (and some not) with my phone and have gotten some heckling because I fail to include any sort of description.  Sometimes the food pictured is enough by itself to induce hunger, so I figured why increase the torture?  But, this stupid thing could be a way for me to remember the great meals I've had, or simply why I'm fat.

Well...the latest trip I had was a 4 day weekend in Bretagne, which was certainly going to include lots of food and luckily some bike and kayak action.  But let's get to the food.  Since I didn't really think I'd start a food blog, I failed to include pictures of every single course but there's no real need to be all inclusive here....

First night:  Nantes.  The first restaurant we ate in had decent reviews but really was nothing to write about, the only interesting part was the dessert (pictured): a baked chocolate mousse with Lu biscuits on top.  Simple enough, but the biscuits were perfectly toasted and the mousse was light and perfectly creamy.  A fitting tribute to the Lu tribute in it's birthplace.

The next morning was brunch in La Cigale.  This place I remember and would absolutely recommend, although part of me wished we had been there for dinner.  The restaurant was stunningly ornate, and the brunch was overflowing with tartines, viennoisseries, fresh squeezed orange juice and also a smoked salmon salad with a crisp chevre dumpling.  Only thing that would have made this better would have been the good old San Francisco bottomless mimosas.


We followed the coast through Guerande and ended up stopping in Piriac sur Mer for dinner.  The only place we found that appealed to us was a créperie called Lacomère...the service was attrocious but I'll not get into that, the oysters were fresh and the crepes were delicious.  Mussels, langoustines and fish all in a delicious cream/butter sauce on a galette.  Accompanied by a nice Muscadet.  I can't recommend the place based on the service alone (we were practically forgotten), but for the first galettes in Bretagne thus far we were doing well. 

We left Vannes early to head to Quiberon to drop off the car and head straight to Belle-Ile-en-Mer.  After arriving in Belle-Ile, we stopped by the local market for chèvre with shallots, salted caramels, ham and some amazing charcuterie made with cider (I swear it was nammed Palette Breton but a google search just gives me links to Palet Breton which are biscuits).  All accompanied by bread picked up in Vannes in the morning.   Accompanied by a red wine I'd picked up in Budapest a few days before...which was disappointing considering the quality of wine I had while in country.  Stupid airport shops and EasyJet checked baggage policies. 

To be continued....