Gourmet products local specialties and wines Vendée

Oyster lovers, this is the place to come! The oysters of this passionate oyster farmer are not lacking in rewards, starting with a new gold medal at the Concours Général Agricole at the Salon de l'Agriculture 2022 for his special oysters. An oyster producer in the Bay of Bourgneuf, Baptiste sells his oysters and shellfish at La Cabane, located in Port des Champs. He makes it a point of honor to produce oysters in the respect of the tradition. Great welcome and quality !

We've fallen in love with this new artisanal pastry-bakery in Luçon, with its elegant white façade and market bench. If you love éclairs, then this is the place to come: Alison won^2nd prize for best éclair in 2023! But that's not the only delicacy we love here. Everything is homemade and delicious! Generous traditional viennoiseries, fluffy brioche, creative pastries, entremets and chocolates, as well as a range of breads made with carefully selected flours.

The inescapable cookie factory recognized as a quality artisan! Pierre and Géraldine are always innovating: raspberry-white chocolate cookies, peach-caramel-salted butter shortbread, rhubarb-almond slivers, crunchy biscuits, palets, meringues, prefou or salmon-dill shortbread, the delicious chocolate-caramel fondant heart, the good brioche. Our flagship product, caramel, is available in a chocolate truffle, peanut or banana flambé style. All homemade with exceptional regional raw materials (including the island's fleur de sel) without preservatives or artificial coloring.

The unavoidable chocolate maker from Yonne has 4 other shops in the Vendée and its Chocolate Museum. The chocolates of this artisan are among the best in the Vendée. On the front page, various flavoured or pure ganaches, creations such as the Vendée heart and the town's official delicacy, La Napoline bearing the effigy of Napoleon, an award-winning chocolate. Other sweets: bars, spreads, homemade chocolate powder, verrines, macaroons, ice creams and above all pastries: the Vendée pavé, the crunchy, the caramel flower, the Mont-Blanc.

On the embankment, undoubtedly the best artisanal ice creams in Les Sables! In summer, around 100 flavors, from the classics to the most original. Karine works in close collaboration with a local master ice-cream maker, who produces ice creams in a range of surprising flavors: lime-ginger, raspberry-yuzu, coconut curry, salted butter caramel cream, caramel chips, or chocolate sorbet for milk intolerants. Cotton candy, popcorn, Kinder Bueno and Smurf flavors are sure to delight children. Also available: Italian ice (from the Montaigu dairy), waffles and home-made crêpes.

This bakery offers a good range of breads. At weekends, they also offer special breads and fruity breads. They work with a flour mill of the Blés Paysans network, which ensures a fair payment to the farmers. Flour used in the elaboration of gâche, brioche, viennoiseries, bakery pastries... Travelling cakes are well represented with the Délice des Chouans or the gâteau Nantais. Butter cakes, shortbread, cannelés and madeleines are perfect for a snack break. At lunchtime, the bakery also offers a snacking service.

With Laurence's son Victor, they are the^4th generation of Maligorne artisan pastry-makers. He perpetuates THE speciality, the gâche (also available in braided versions weighing 1 or 1.5 kg) and, of course, the brioche de Mareuil (also known as the wedding brioche). In addition to flagship homemade specialties such as Nougat-Passion and Exquis, the new team of young pastry chefs has come up with a number of new products: a sweet hazelnut pastry tartlet, a soft hazelnut cookie with a mango-passion heart. For snacks, try our original éclairs and viennoiseries on a brioche base.

Passionate about their craft, master bakers Céline and Fabrice make everything from breads and pastries to snacks 100% homemade! The bread speciality is Castelaise. At any time of day, you can enjoy quiches, tartines, pizzas, 15 types of cold sandwiches, homemade hot dishes and salads. At weekends, fine pastries like mojito tarts and Borneo join brioches, gâches, traditional cakes and viennoiseries.

A family fishmonger's where quality and knowledge of the products rhyme! Smiling, Magali and Mélissa welcome us, while Manu is producing mussels and oysters, which they sell here with other sea products: fish, sardines from Saint-Gilles, soup, lobsters... According to the arrivals, Magali concocts paella of fish, sauerkraut of the sea, colombo or blanquette of fish... Seafood platters cooked to order. To be enjoyed on the terrace, homemade acras, aperitif plank, shrimp fritters, fried mussels, oysters, seafood...

Run by our two Freds, this pastry shop, one of the best in town, also offers a tea room on a covered terrace. Among the specialities, all home-made, the unavoidable mille-feuille and the Saint-Gilles cake, a speciality for over 40 years. Other key products include chocolate, delicious macaroons and homemade ice cream. Among the creations, the Sweety, the Chu Passion (chocolate mousse, fresh passion fruit jelly in a chocolate brownie shell) or the For Ever raspberry macaroon, rose cream, lychee and fresh raspberry.

Stéphanie and Aurélien's bakery is worth a visit! The proof is its participation in the show " La Meilleure Boulangerie". Taste its Vendée red label brioche and Aurélien's numerous creations: about fifteen breads (specials, 1 kg bread to be cut up, the Clarisse Tradition with a bronze medal...), original pastries, delicious fine pastries (Petit Nicolas with chocolate, strawberry tart on Breton cookie), Délice des Chouans. The specialty: choux (13 flavors)! Ice creams and home-made chocolates, snacking section complete the delicacies.

This master baker, who took part in the show La meilleure boulangerie de France in 2016, owns 2 bakeries in La Roche. A recognised baker, he makes excellent breads, it is for his organic range that he has made a name for himself! Passionate, Dominique Potier offers a beautiful variety of breads made from a red label flour from sustainable and controlled agriculture. We love the delicious "rustic" pastries: kouglof, plum pâté, pistachio and fig tart, gingerbread, cannelés... Rue Salengro, it offers snacking: pizzas, quiches...

Who doesn't know this institution of La Tranche, a paradise for gourmets (young and old) who come from generation to generation to the Confiserie Laurent, created in 1929! The sparkling Tata Bonbec offers delicious confectionery (barley sugar, red nougat, caramel,...), berlingots whose sugar is worked under your eyes with demonstrations in summer. In the summer, the 54 flavors of ice creams elaborated by a master ice-cream maker make the happiness of the families, just like the very good pancakes, waffles, doughnuts, pancakes, to taste on the spot or to take away.

In the heart of the village, this bakery offers a range of La Pétrie breads, available in organic or sesame balls. Artisan baker-patissier, member of Boulangeries de France and Pâtissier dans le monde, he works with seasonal products and regularly renews his range. Among the viennoiseries that change every week, try the 3-chocolate Suisse. We love the low-added-sugar vegetable entremets, made with hazelnut milk chocolate and creamy almond (no milk). Other must-tries include gâche, brioche de Mélie and Fion. Snack range and homemade chocolates.

The bakery run by Françoise and Patrice Tenaud, master artisan bakers and patissiers, has built up a fine reputation, winning several awards for their Label Rouge vendéenne brioche (gold medal in 2018),^3rd for their gâche (IGP) in 2023,^1st prize in the departmental competition in 2015. Range of organic and aromatic breads, La Pétrisane baguette, available with seeds or organic, 7/7 baguette dispenser. All homemade! Snacks: sandwiches, bagels, quiches, pizzas, salads or the Friday burger. On the sweet side, minute cakes are a speciality.

In the store or at the market, the bubbly Marion will give you the best advice to create an excellent cheese platter and treat you to a festive meal, an aperitif or daily meals. Among her favorites: sheep's milk tomatoes, soft cheeses with Brie de Meaux PDO or a Camembert de Normandie PDO, the Roi des Cimes for hard cheeses or the Régalis César blue cheese. In winter, she gives us her recipe for the Opera fondue. Choice, quality cheeses and a smile: the best cheese dairy in La Roche!

Sébastien is at the helm of this downtown bakery and patisserie. Homemade products and quality flours are used for the bread range, which is extended at weekends. As for pastries, the dômes created by Sébastien and his team, available in chocolate or red fruit flavors, sit alongside traditional viennoiseries and pastries such as baba au rhum and lemon tart, as well as brioche. A range of sandwiches, quiches, etc. is available every day, and for special occasions, made-to-measure cakes.

For us, the best bakery in La Roche! Franck and Corinne Veillé own two bakeries in La Roche. For your aperitifs, the gramoudou (a kneaded bread with various fillings), for the small hollows of the afternoon, there is the petridoux (a bread with chocolate chips), the brioche or the gâche. The bread is divine, it is baked all day long, with its flagship product: the Pétrisanne. All the delicious pastries and viennoiseries are home-made.

The Moulineau house has made itself a name! And it's written on: the boudin is its specialty, and it's certainly one of the best if not the best. It should be said that the Moulineau are butchers for more than years. Unfortunately, there are no longer many of them in Vendée who are true craftsmen of the taste and authenticity that manufacture their own products. And we deplore it! Moreover, Bernard and his son Pascal are fiercely defenders of the artisan tradition for whom the word quality still has meaning, which delights our taste buds. The boutique, located next to La Pataterie restaurant, proposes: black boudin, pluck, ham, guts… made according to the tradition of yesteryear. You will find them on the markets of L'Stimulus-sur-Mer, La Tranche-sur-Mer and that of La Roche.