How can one unite a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle        
                          
The sky is too high to reach, the ground is too low to stoop to, but the table is just the right height
French philosophy        
 
Great food and wine is a crucial part of the Brittany Breaks experience - whether out in the region's wonderful restaurants, or enjoying home cooked meals as our house guests.

The Brittany Breaks cook is at your service to prepare meals for you to the highest standards using local produce - and no two meals are ever the same.

All our holidays are priced on a bed and breakfast basis. Awake to the smells of coffee, pain au chocolat and croissants, freshly bought from our local patisserie – or enjoy toast and cereals of your choice.

For lunch and evening meals, the choice is yours to eat in or out.

Eating in

Home-cooked meals are provided at cost of ingredients only - typically £12 per person per day is enough to cover lunch and an indulgent four-course evening meal, including plenty of wine.

As a measure of how good the home-cooked food is on a Brittany Break, we have now produced a third edition of our unique recipe book due to popular demand – contact us to order your copy.

We consider it a huge compliment that so many of our guests holiday with us time and time again purely for the food alone.

• Lunch: A typical lunch in the Moulin might be home-made soup, or a platter of cold meats and salads, a choice of delicious patés, and plenty of fresh bread fresh from the local patisserie.

• Evening meal: A typical 4-course meal might be:
  - Hot goat's cheese on toasted french bread & dressed salad
  - Lemon chicken with roast Breton vegetables
  - Generous cheese board & fresh bread
  - Pêches flambées with rich brandy sauce
  - Red and white wine in plenty!

For those who enjoy seafood, a day trip to the fresh fish markets on France's rugged northern coastline can be arranged culminating in a banquet of Fruits de Mer in the evening.

During a day in the house, although your meals are prepared for you by our team, you are free at all times to make as many cups of tea or coffee as you wish, use the kitchen to prepare any food of your own, or even pull a cork on a bottle of wine. It really is that informal.

Eating out

There are far too many mouth-watering restaurants in Brittany to name them all here. Suffice to say our gourmet weekends never need to return to the same place twice.

Even on our own doorstep, Guerlesquin's own Créperie du Martray is frequently praised by even the most well-travelled Francophiles for serving 'the best crépes in all France'. Our local hotel also has an impressive menu of traditional dishes that beg to be tried - and tried again!

Lunch on the move often takes the form of a filled baguette, or a croque monsieur in a street café.