Le Douce France - Plouay

This is a new restaurant run by two young chefs Julia and Sebastian who have worked all over the world -obviously in great restaurants. Each dish is loving prepared with unique ingredients and total balanced. The menu is limited and in many ways this to a positive outcome with all the ingredients being fresh. The herbs used in the salmon starter are unusual, fresh and very different to what and I have had previously. The fillet steak melted in our mouths. There were 5 desserts and we ordered all between 4 of us which were again excellent . Value for money for this exceptional food is excellent about 45 euros /person. Elsewhere you would pay double I have eaten in many fine dining restaurants and this is in my top three in the world. . No doubt they deserve to be in the Michelin Guide. I go to Lorient and Plouay regularly and I and my colleagues feel this is the BEST in the area and better than the prestige restaurants in the area.

During my one month travels through France, from Brittany to Nice, Lyon and Paris, this small restaurant remained one of my favorite dining experiences. My friends, who live in Plouay, and I found Le Douce France to be an inviting, warm place with a varied, interesting menu. We started with terrine maison with fresh baguette followed by chicken roasted with melt in your mouth shallots. The potatoes were twice cooked with a nice crunch on the outside and soft in the middle. Delicious. Dessert was the absolute best nougat ice cream with praline I’ve ever tasted. I’d go back in a heart beat. This restaurant is worth a detour if you’re not near Plouay! I want to add that I was fortunate to have dinner in Lyon at Paul Bocuse and, in my opinion, though it was a great show and the food was interesting and all was beautifully orchestrated, given the choice I would prefer Le Douce France.

Nice cool restaurant on a hot Sunday lunchtime. We had the set menu, which was very similar to a previous description, so is maybe a ‘go to’ set menu for the chefs, but there was a good a la cartel as well. Starter was salmon gravadlax and shell on prawns. Then fillet steak in a wonderful sauce. Steak cooked to perfection. Dessert was a home made ice cream of nougat and roasted pecans, beautifully presented with Creme Anglaise and fresh fruits. All the other customers were French 3 generations at some table. The service was very good and the atmosphere very relaxed. Thoroughly recommend it.

We were in the area to visit the farm at Poul Fetan, which was so full there was a queue waiting for tickets, so we diverted to Plouay for lunch. We had the set lunch for 21 ish euros and it was excellent. Fab starter with gravalax and creme fraiche, followed by melt in mouth beef with a barbecue twist. This was really delicious. Squeezed some apple tart and ice cream in for dessert. Scrumptious . The restaurant is relaxed and informal young man on front of house was friendly and efficient. Good find on a mizzly Breton day.

Warm welcome - relatively small but sufficient room in very good meals, copious - beautiful presentation - cosy atmosphere to finish, the coffee was offered to us we will return