The seaside town of Carantec (29 Finisterre, Brittany) is throwing an Oyster Festival to celebrate its most renowned shellfish in Spring 2025 . Offering oyster menus, tasting sessions, accompanying beer, and much more, most activities are free or offer special rates.
Festivities will continue into the night with a line-up of singers and concerts. Sea lovers and seafarers can take part in conferences on ship building, the return of flat oysters, and shellfish farming and climate change, which will shed light on the future of oysters in Brittany and along the Channel’s coasts.- see www.huitre-baiedemorlaix.bzh
The fishing village of Cancale (35 Ille-et-Villaine, Brittany) lies on the Emerald Coast across the bay from Mont Saint-Michel. Cancale is recognised as Brittany’s oyster capital, due to the high-quality plankton that grows in the bay, feeding the oysters and helping in their reproduction.
There are two types of French oysters: the flat oyster :
- (l’ huître plate), a native variety
- the rounded oyster (l’huître creuse), which originally came from Japan.
Most of the oysters harvested in Cancale are the rounded style, When the tide is low, square oyster beds where the molluscs are farmed become visible .
There is an Oyster museum in Cancale La Ferme Marine. where visitors can learn more about Oysters and their production.
On 17 Sep 2022 there is an Oyster Festival (Fete de l’huitre) in Cancale – see www.brittanytourism.com
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