L'Asphodèle

It's raining today. Like almost every day since the beginning of winter. Rain that washes out the sky, darkens the beaches, and makes the sea hostile. It's raining today. But the view from the table at L'Asphodèle is so beautiful. The restaurant's huge bay windows overlook the wet moorland of Courégant, the sea, the sky, and, in the distance, the island of Groix. The dining room is spacious and bright, elegant and welcoming. As service begins, customers take their seats under the watchful and professional eye of Marie Pérodeau, the maître d'. The open kitchen is run by chef Lucas Bahuon (who has worked in several highly-rated Michelin-starred restaurants), and you can see the team busy at work. Opened last summer (2025), L'Asphodèle is a unique project led by Grégoire Desnoulez, a market gardener for 25 years, and Florent Piard, restaurateur and founder of Les Résistants in Paris. The site is that of a former municipal campground. Its picturesque location was a favorite with vacationers in the 1970s. The following decades were less prosperous, the land was abandoned, the moor lost its biodiversity, and the site fell into disrepair. In 2022, the Ploemeur Town Hall launched a call for projects aimed at restoring the Courégant moor, a 900-hectare area classified as Natura 2000. Here, the distance between production and consumption is reduced to a minimum. Grégoire has a 5,000 m² playground and testing ground at his disposal: the Asphodèle gardens. By this spring, he will be supplying all the vegetables for the kitchen, while the fruit is still growing. For the rest, around twenty ultra-local producers work with the restaurant. All of them practice organic and small-scale farming that respects the body, the soil, and the products. The menu is simple, short, local, and of course seasonal. The activity thus makes it possible to maintain the moorland according to a plan developed with Bretagne Vivante, an association for the protection of nature and biodiversity. A virtuous circle where good does good.