Le Pily

Le Pily is a small gastronomic restaurant founded in October 2007 by Pierre and Lydie Marion. The restaurant emphasises pleasure, passion, respect, simplicity and humility in both cooking and service. Le Pily earned a Bib Gourmand in 2008 and has held a Michelin star since 2010. In January 2022 the restaurant moved to a new location on the Pont Tournant in Cherbourg, continuing its intimate, maritime approach to fine dining. An intimate, warm dining room offers views over the port of Cherbourg and sunsets. Service is discreet and attentive. The setting remains small and convivial. The cuisine is creative, contemporary French cooking deeply inspired by the sea. The house offers a single, evolving creative seafood tasting menu conceived to be coherent with nature, the seasons and the work of local producers and fishermen, and the menu is intentionally shared and served to all guests in the same version. The kitchen highlights locally sourced vegetables and farm cheeses, and wine pairings are curated to showcase small, engaged producers, including biodynamic wines. Pierre Marion is the chef and trained and built his career around seafood. He favours farmed dairy from carefully selected local suppliers whom he treats as collaborators. Specialities include tempuras served at the apéritif and cheese presented and worked as a plated course. Dishes feature local line‑caught fish, small‑boat catches, shellfish and crustaceans.