The best French cuisine restaurants Vendée

Jean-Michel and Sylvie Landemaine run this consistently good Challandaise restaurant. The setting is lovely: exposed stonework, parquet flooring, red walls, club armchairs and a lovely teak terrace overlooking the courtyard. The chef offers quality cuisine based on fresh market produce, using local producers. The regularity of this good table is a sign of seriousness. A deliberately short menu where everything is homemade, right down to the bread! Catering service and takeaway dishes on display: homemade foie gras, duck confit, duck rillettes...

With its priory and salons, the Domaine du Brandois is a popular venue for receptions, but its restaurant, La Cantine, is well worth a visit. In the heart of the park, the château walls serve as the setting for this bistronomic restaurant. Attractive parquet floors, moldings, upholstered banquettes, chandeliers, painted woodwork and modern drapes: it's chic, friendly and warm. As for the cuisine, the menu changes weekly, with, on the day we visited, fish from the fish market with green curry and coconut milk sauce and caramelized apple and rhubarb mille-feuille

The brainchild of David and Florian, La Folie is a multi-faceted place, facing the sea. It's a lounge bar for cocktails on the poolside terrace, a restaurant with a menu that includes seafood, grilled whole fish, mussels in summer, and burgers. It's also a guinguette with bar service and food-truck. Book the Brasero evening on Friday evenings. On Sunday mornings, the guinguette serves oysters and white wine. Bonus: children's play area and pickleball courts are also available.