La Marine

La Marine is an intimate shore-side restaurant on the port of L’Herbaudière in Noirmoutier-en-l’Île that projects a sober, authentic aesthetic. The establishment holds three Michelin stars and distinctions from Gault & Millau, Relais & Châteaux and Les Grandes Tables du Monde. It displays a green star for its environmental commitments and the Couillon household runs the restaurant with Céline Couillon as maîtresse de maison. Maison Moizeau, a small guest house, prolongs the restaurant’s calm, maritime elegance. A house on the port with white walls and blue shutters, its elegant modern dining room evokes the spirit of an exceptional cruise and invites quietly refined, memory-making meals. The kitchen offers creative, contemporary cuisine. The team crafts concise, emotion-driven plates inspired by the island, the chef’s life and his instinctive relationship to land and sea, sensitive to provenance and seasonality, and offered without frills in a spirit of sharing. Alexandre Couillon is the chef and places transmission, respect and attention to others at the heart of the house. Specialties include creative fish and seafood dishes, sea-inspired, instinctive cuisine and produce from the chef’s potager; the team works with island resources.