Photo: Jean-Pierre Bazard, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
🌊 Atlantic

Restaurants
Île de Ré

Oysters straight from the farmer, fish from the auction and artisan ice cream on Saint-Martin’s quays.

⚠️ Timetables, opening hours, prices and access conditions may change without notice, for reasons beyond our control (season, weather, decisions by operators, venues or local authorities). Before every trip, check the information with the relevant authorities and service providers.

🍷Fine dining & trendy spots2 places
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L’Écailler
La Flotte harbour

Seasonal, local-produce cooking in a seventeenth-century house on the harbour, conceived by a chef and a sommelier.

Chef’s tableSeafood
🌐Official websitelecaillerlaflotte.fr→
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La Salicorne
La Couarde-sur-Mer

Restaurant founded in 1988 and open all year, cooking seasonal homemade dishes on a Japanese barbecue, with a sunny terrace.

HomemadeJapanese grill
🌐Official websitela-salicorne-restaurant-la-couarde-sur-mer.fr→
🍲Local food & seafront5 places
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Bistrot Chez Lulu
La Couarde-sur-Mer

Friendly bistro with an ever-changing chalkboard menu of sharing plates built on island produce, house cocktails and local wines.

BistroSharing plates
🌐Official websitebistrot-chez-lulu.fr→
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La Martinière
Saint-Martin-de-Ré (and other villages)

Family-run artisan ice-cream maker with more than sixty flavours plus iced macarons, found on Saint-Martin harbour and in several villages.

Artisan ice creamFamily
🌐Official websitela-martiniere.fr→
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La Cabane de l’Huître du Saunier
La Couarde-sur-Mer salt marshes

Producer of oysters, clams and king prawns who also harvests salt, with a tasting hut on the cycle path in the middle of the marshes.

OystersSalt marshes
🌐Official websitehuitredusaunier.fr→
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La Cabane du Grouin
Le Grouin, Loix

Oyster farmers at the tip of the Loix peninsula serving their own oysters and king prawns beside the ponds, from Easter to early November.

OystersTasting
🌐Official websitelacabanedugrouin.fr→
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Les Copains Bâbord – Huîtres Famille Le Corre
Between La Flotte and Saint-Martin

Hut of an oyster-farming family in business since 1966, open April to November for its own oysters and seafood platters by the sea.

OystersFamily
🌐Official websitefamillelecorre.com→