L’Etang de Diane

This oyster wholesale supplier and adjacent restaurant are not easy to find—but, as so many hidden destinations on Corsica, well worth the trek. Located just north of Aléria, a one-hour drive from Bastia, the restaurant was built across a beautiful bay, so that diners sit above the water from which the oysters on the menu hail. Diners sit at no-frills wooden tables that are soon stacked with elevated trays containing oysters, mussels, little necks, lobster and langoustines, as well as bottles of Corsican whites and roses (only tourists, it seems, order by the glass here). The ambience is a mix of Montauk oyster shack and French seafood restaurant, and everyone who scores a table outside looks visibly thrilled just to be there. Lunch reservations recommended.