# The best Breton specialities

The top savoury and sweet specialities of Brittany according to Le Petit Futé, the Côte de Granit Rose tourist office and Escale à l'Ouest: kouign-amann first, galettes and far right behind.

- 33 votes · 17 items
- Nov 17, 2025 · croissant_marseille
- https://even.best/en/l/890/the-best-breton-specialities

## Top 15

1. **Buckwheat galette** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The savoury buckwheat crêpe, 'complète' with ham, egg and cheese.
2. **Kouign-amann** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Douarnenez's star: layered dough, butter and caramelised sugar.
3. **Wheat crêpe** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The sweet crêpe, with butter and sugar or salted caramel.
4. **Gâteau breton** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — All-butter cake, plain or filled with prunes.
5. **Andouille de Guémené** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Smoked chitterling sausage with concentric rings.
6. **Kig ha farz** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Léon's boiled dinner with farz, buckwheat batter cooked in a bag.
7. **Cider and chouchen** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Dry cider and Breton mead to drink alongside.
8. **Scallops** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fished in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc.
9. **Far breton** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Thick custard flan with prunes.
10. **Galette-saucisse** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Rennes' sausage wrapped in a galette, the snack of football matches and markets.
11. **Cotriade** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Breton fishermen's fish soup.
12. **Salted butter caramel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Quiberon's invention, as a spread or as sweets.
13. **Cancale oysters** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Brittany's most famous oysters.
14. **Breton blue lobster** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — King of shellfish, grilled or à l'armoricaine.
15. **Cocos de Paimpol** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — PDO half-dried beans from the Côtes-d'Armor.
16. **Lace crepe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thin rolled up crispy crepe, invented in Quimper in the 19th century.
17. **Breton shortbread (sablés and palets)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Salted-butter biscuits from Pont-Aven and Saint-Michel.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.