Where to buy bread cakes chocolates ice cream Pyrénées-Orientales

Driven by a passion for the product, tradition and Catalan culture, André Labaume opened La Confiserie du Tech in 1964. In his small workshop, he devised the recipes for the delicious Rousquille, then Croquants and Tourons. Today, it's the third generation that perpetuates and perpetuates tradition, while bringing a breath of modernity to the company. Rousquille, croquant and touron are still on the shelves, but other delicacies such as caprice, délice, couronne and mantecados have been added.

Traditional bakery, homemade sweets: everything is good at Papou. A real institution in Formiguères and Capcir, this bakery is the place where everyone stops to buy their bread, croissant or cake. People queue up all the way to the street. The owners are adorable. A true welcome from the heart, a spirit of village warmth, a strong sense of tradition that makes you want to stay longer in Formiguères. Small mountain villages are really alive and kicking thanks to their shopkeepers!

For the record, in the 19th century, Arles had 7 chocolate factories. Contrary to traditional chocolate making, which involves roasting the beans at high temperatures, Florence Losa's cocoa is ground by hand at low temperatures, thus preserving all of its beneficial substances for the health. Florence then shapes her product without refined sugar and adds various local and organic ingredients according to her imagination and the seasons. Simply delicious!

Sébastien Ponramon, Master Chocolatier creates pieces that are true works of art. And it is sincerely painful to bite into his subjects. But greed is stronger than feelings and true cocoa lovers no longer ask the question. Purists will be happy with the percentage of cocoa ranging from 67% to 75%, but it also offers 85% for connoisseurs. And that's not all, because he has created a chocolate with Byrrh, it must be said that his shop is just opposite the cellars, it's a "killer"!

Second year in Canet for Sabrina and Paul, trained by Isabelle Victor, the former owner, who taught the couple all the subtleties of homemade artisanal ice cream made with fresh fruit, continue the production of the 40 natural flavors offered for sale. The flavors are a treat for the taste buds. Served in bowls or crispy cones, the quality/price ratio is more than fair. Canet's indisputable ice cream parlour may have changed hands, but it remains an excellent, reliable address that has become a must for Le Petit Futé and its readers.

The beautiful Sud De France shop, which is next to the factory now visible through the windows, is a magnificent windows of our regional specialities. Nearly 200 references are represented, obviously all the sweet delights of the traditional sweets of Tech are there: chocolates, biscuits, will tourons, rousquilles... and recently the pastry chef with its Roger Martinez. But Sud De France products are also found there with small producers are known for their know-how. La Tour cafés with honey Rayon d'Or via the fleur de sel of the Salt Marshes, wines from Mas Camps or jam of Sournia, the shop of the Sweets of Tech offers gourmet sample of the department. More than 7,500 products are presented to you. You can enjoy them, you can explain it the exact origin, the ingredients and the process. An unavoidable place to discover for the delight of your tastebuds and the pleasure of the eyes; Hansel and Gretel could not have imagined fine residence more. You can make yourself weddings or choose products already very nicely varied. Ideas of gourmet gifts galore!

A real temptation for gourmets, Les Péchés Gourmands in Perpignan offers a delicious selection of handmade, natural sweets, highlighting the flavors of Provence and the Mediterranean. From berlingots from Carpentras to almond calissons from Provence, not forgetting mantecaos, navettes and rousquilles from Catalonia, it's a treat for the taste buds. Jérôme, the passionate owner, will guide you through this marvellous tasting of sweets, fruit jellies, nougats and other delicacies. It's an unmissable destination for lovers of authentic, gourmet sweets.

A very young company unlike the recipes it offers. At Karine and Laurent's, the homemade cookies vary according to the season. You will be welcomed in a warm shop where customers can take a break and taste our biscuits with a coffee, a tea or an organic fruit juice. You will find tourons, croquets, palets... and delicatessen products such as olive oil, vinegar or jams, but our favourite is the rousquilles, the Catalan sweetness par excellence.

The temple of Catalan specialities! Sylvain Hénoc, trained at the Ferrandi School, offers you the creations made from the laboratory adjacent to the shop. You will find the unavoidable Catalan Turrón made of honey, sugar and dried fruits, but also the Rousquilles with lemon and vanilla as well as the Panaillets, small balls of marzipan with pine nuts. Two other specialities are to be discovered: bougnettes and Toledo Bread, as well as classic pastries.

All chocolate lovers in Perpignan know this address, the oldest artisanal chocolate factory in the city. You will find a seductive collection of fine chocolates, 100% pure cocoa butter, delicately flavored ganaches, fine pralines and full-bodied chocolate paste. You can also find macaroons, almond paste, Catalan specialties such as tourons, Toledo breads, candies with Céret cherry, Roussillon apricot or Banyuls liqueur. The list is too long... but we love it!

The real crunch of St. Paul's! The biscuit factory Le Pastadou has existed for 6 years, once in the village and now at the entrance to Saint Paul. The new shop overlooks the workshop where you can see the Pons family making revisited ancestral recipes: Croquants, Biscotins, Rousquilles and Coque Saint Paulaise. Everything is made by hand without additives or preservatives, faithful to the tradition born in 1870. You will also find excellent organic wines from Domaine Chaluleau-Pons and other winemakers as well as local products.

Near the shopping centre of Laroque des Albères, in vast brand new premises, Montserrat and Emmanuel welcome you to enjoy a beautiful range of bread, pastry, chocolate, snack and restaurant. The result is as good as expected in the bakery as in the pastry shop. Le Futé fell for the organic spelt baguette, the mille feuille and the marrons glacés. The sign on the front of the shop doesn't lie: Manu is a true "Master Craftsman" and as he says himself: "Quality is the distributor of happiness".

When professionals encourage you to try the Four d'Antan, there is a good reason. Cathy and Jean, her husband, Master Craftsman, make quality breads that will make your mouth water. But that's not all! Braving my blood sugar level, we tried the " Yema" that her peers had praised. This Catalan cake made with whipped cream on a sponge cake, a few secrets added and burned with an iron to toast the caramel is a killer. We also succumbed to the strawberry and apricot tarts, but shhh...

De Neuville, in Perpignan, is a shop specializing in chocolate made in the purest French tradition. Since 2015, the smiling Myriam has been running the shop and presents more than 250 references of chocolates in all its forms. The products are 100% French pure cocoa butter (70% cocoa beans) and above all without palm oil and carbon dioxide. "We work all our products with the fruit pulp and the cocoa bean", she insists. The pride of the shop: the brand Les Pavés de Perpignan, a unique recipe that we love.

Bella Ciao is the place to go if you're hungry at lunchtime and want to enjoy authentic Italian dishes on the go. Takeaway or eat on the terrace, for those in a hurry or who just want to stroll around the historic center. The offer is varied, the prices are well adjusted and, to read the reviews of our colleagues, it's quite a success. We can confirm: hearty dishes, an ever-present smile and fast service. We recommend the arancini or gnocchi, and the tiramisu without hesitation. Vegetarians are not forgotten.

The story begins in 1810, when Marius Seguela created the first rousquille... in Amélie les Bains, not in Arles sur Tech (we're going to get in trouble for Charlotte). At Perez Aubert's, you'll enjoy the region's best rousquilles, melting in the mouth. It's the place to be! Chocolate lovers won't be disappointed by the master chocolatier's creations, featuring cocoa from the finest origins. The patisserie is also a tea room, with a small terrace where you can enjoy all these delights in peace and quiet.

A real Proust's madeleine. Here, the smell of freshly baked biscuits makes you want to buy everything. The crunchy ones with various flavours, lemon, fig, blueberry... or simply with almonds, but also the rousquilles, the tuiles, the touron, the panellets and the home-made marshmallows with various flavours. But as the approach of the shop is to put forward the Catalan products, you will find jams of Cerdagne, mies of Céret, terrines of duck, olive oil, mustards with old, artisanal beer and full with other products.

Some nostalgic people still dream of "a time that people under twenty cannot know". We are happy to learn that the Biscuiterie Artisanale Terroir & Canigou is working hard to make local products in the old way. In this shop which smells good Catalonia, you will be able to find: Bunyetes, tourrons, Carquinyoles, rousquilles, tourteaux, bras de Vénus, Catalan millefeuilles, gingerbread... All home-made and realized by Laurent Mach. This artisan biscuit maker has been at a good school, we tell you, we enjoyed it.