Seasonal, hyper-local cuisine, market gardening and preservation of the Courégant moor for this extraordinary project in Morbihan
Florent Piard, founder of Les Résistants in Paris, and organic market gardener Grégoire Desnoulez came up with a slightly crazy project, encouraged by the town council, to create a food garden to supply a restaurant on former farmland that had lain fallow for twenty years. In Ploemeur, their establishment L'Asphodèle, which takes its name from a protected local plant, combines gastronomy with ultra-short routes. At lunchtime on weekdays, the menu offers a range of gourmet dishes: braised pork cromesquis, a perfect egg accompanied by lentils from the Bodinel farm and root vegetables, before French toast with almond praline and Dalirène apple sorbet. In the evening, the menu expands with seasonal meat, fish or vegetarian dishes, depending on what arrives from the garden and neighbouring producers. A spontaneous cuisine to be savoured with lively wines in a breathtaking Breton moorland setting.
