Saint-Malo · Ireland · Cancale
The House
La Famille Boutrais is an oyster house founded by Pascal Boutrais, a native of Saint-Malo, and run by his son Hugo. It raises its oysters on six farms, in Ireland and in the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, and ships them from Saint-Coulomb, between Cancale and Saint-Malo. Its ranges: Ostra Regal, Céline and Sentinelle.
An explorer's tale
Our story begins in Saint-Malo, home port of Pascal Boutrais. Carried by the tales of Breton explorers, privateers and great sailors, he set out to discover new shores. In 1999 Ireland opened its doors: there, with French oyster farmers, he established our first shellfish beds.
Entirely self-taught, he learned and organised oyster farming by adapting to his surroundings. Over the years this know-how, combined with the natural wealth of the Irish bays, produced an oyster with a character of its own.
The return to Cancale
Bretons, born in Saint-Malo, we wished to produce a Breton oyster. In 2017 we took over an oyster farm in Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes, near Cancale, and carried on the story of the Huîtres de Céline — a name born of several generations of Cancale oyster farmers.
Passing it on
Hugo Boutrais, trained by his father, has run the house since 2018. His ambition: to keep improving our work so as to master our product, from our beds to your plate. What binds us is trust, enthusiasm and rigour.
