Travel by ferry from Cork to Roscoff to sample the culinary delights of Brittany

With Michael Roddy’s Michelin guide to the best restaurants in hand, this made for the ultimate gastro tour. 

THE white oyster shack with picnic tables overlooking an inlet in the Gulf of Morbihan beckoned. It was not on the itinerary for our budget gastro tour of southern Brittany, but there was no way to drive past it.

A phone call cancelled a planned lunch at a restaurant in Vannes and my wife and I sat down to a seafood platter for two at oysterman Julien Gouguec’s family-run affair in Larmor-Baden, in glorious sunshine.