Celebrated table

Sweet Pea

Name: Sweet Pea
Address: 23 Quai Maurice Ravel, Ciboure, France, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, FR
Telephone: +33 5 59 23 10 44

A former laundromat turned neighborhood kitchen in Ciboure serves Lucy Shaw’s inventive breakfast and lunch fare, recently noted by Le Fooding.

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The story

Sweet Pea Saint-Jean-de-Luz: Le Fooding Recognized Café Dining

A Laundromat Reimagined

Sweet Pea in Saint-Jean-de-Luz redefines casual café cooking inside a converted laundry building on Quai Maurice Ravel. The space swaps industrial fixtures for sunlit tables and easy outdoor seating. This practical transformation caught the attention of Le Fooding, which listed the venue for 2026.

The Chef and the Kitchen

Lucy Shaw founded the kitchen after culinary stints at Cucina Byblos in Saint-Tropez and Providence in Guéthary. Her New Zealand upbringing informs a quiet precision that shapes every plate of café cooking. She treats each dish with relaxed discipline, favoring fresh ingredients over heavy technique. The morning service runs smoothly, serving granola with yogurt alongside bacon buns and boiled eggs.

Plates and Pastry

Lunch shifts toward brighter flavors, highlighted by an Ossau-Iraty grilled cheese paired with butternut squash and spiced red onion jam. Shaw sources the bread from a nearby bakery and balances the dairy with cloves, cinnamon, and star anise. Dessert orders frequently turn to the baba au rhum, which sits in citrus syrup beneath a layer of crème diplomate. Banana bread and beetroot-ginger cake round out the sweet offerings.

Recognition

Awards & accolades

2026

Le Fooding

Listed

Ambience

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Details

At a glance

Le Fooding 2026 — Listed

Services Breakfast, Outdoor Seating, Takeaway

History

On the record

2026

Le Fooding — Listed

Doing your laundry doesn’t feel like such a chore at this old laundromat in Ciboure, which was transformed into a restaurant with just the right amount of fabric softener by the Neo Zealand born chef Lucy Shaw – who used to work at Cucina Byblos in Saint-Trop’ and Providence in Guéthary. Choose your setting: at breakfast, a quick wash cycle with scones, boiled eggs, bacon buns and granola with yogurt and fresh fruit; or, when noon strikes, opt for bright colors, like the delightful Ossau-Iraty grilled cheese sandwich filled with butternut squash and spiced red onion jam (cloves, cinnamon, star anise) made on bread from a nearby bakery. Not fully convinced yet? The lovely baba au rhum topped with crème diplomate, bathed in a citrus syrup should get the job done – unless you’d prefer some banana bread, a cookie or beetroot-ginger cake, among other sweet treats available all day long. In short, you’ll love washing your dirty laundry in public at this place. // Gérard Roubeix

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23 Quai Maurice Ravel, Ciboure, France
Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
+33 5 59 23 10 44
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