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Let your taste buds take you to discover Vendée specialties, pure pleasure when you are an epicurean or a gourmand. Here, there is no shortage of good restaurants to enjoy, ranging from starred restaurants, brasseries, tables d'hôtes, food trucks, oyster shacks and fast food. In the countryside, by the sea or near the marshes, the addresses open all year round for the majority honor the region with menus featuring local and seasonal products. Come to La Roche-sur-Yon, Les Sables-d’Olonne, Challans, Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and the surrounding area to treat yourself.
Specialties in Vendée? They can be enjoyed at breakfast with the pâté, a soft Vendée brioche, or the tourtisseaux which are filled donuts. Later in the day, restaurants in Vendée welcome you to enjoy préfou as an aperitif, a bread with garlic butter, before serving you Vendée ham accompanied by mogettes, or sardines from Saint-Gilles-Croix-de -Life with Noirmoutier potatoes. Do you like seafood? Try the mouclade and its sauce composed of white wine, crème fraîche, egg yolk and curry, a treat for the nose and the palate.
Don't forget the snack in Vendée, the restaurants are varied with tea rooms, creperies and coffee shops which welcome you all day long. Discover fouace, a kind of brioche with a tight crumb and orange blossom, or Vendée fion with a recipe close to the traditional flan, but in Vendée. And when aperitif time arrives, it’s the troussepinette that you should order at the bar of the restaurant in Vendée.
Enjoy your tasting in the restaurants in Vendée!













