Gourmet products local specialties and wines Vendée

The Bergerie du Brandais specializes in the production of organic sheep milk. Ravon and his wife raise 350 Lacaune ewes of the Averyonnaise breed. These ewes graze between 9 and 11 months. They also have a herd of 25 cows. Created in 2019, their farm is specialized in cheese processing, of which you will find the following products for sale at the farm: ewe's milk cheese, meat sales (lamb, veal). On Wednesdays you can watch the milking of the ewes (from Easter to mid-August).

He is THE snail specialist in the Vendée! Raised in the open air, the snails are cooked with natural products, in the tradition: stuffed snail shells, mini-snail queens, snail beads, cabbages or wafers stuffed with snails, stuffed potatoes... Snails which benefit from the AB label, organic farming. The visit ends with a tasting. And also a range of natural cosmetic products made from organic snails from the Vendée with many virtues; cream rich in allantoin, collagen and elastin.

This black building with the appearance of a saloon houses a smoking and salting workshop. Here, we offer you many fish (most of them coming from the local fishery such as hake, pollack, tuna, mackerel, meagre, sea bream...) prepared in an artisanal way: salting with dry salt from Noirmoutier, smoking with sawdust of beech wood and slicing by hand. You will also find fresh and smoked fish rillettes, salmon gravlax, eel, duck breast... You will also find these products on the markets of the island.

Christophe will welcome you to his salt marsh, which is easy to spot as it is located opposite a large calvary at the exit of Beauvoir-sur-Mer. He will tell you, not without a sense of humour, all the fascinating secrets of his trade: the history of salt, how it is harvested, how a salt marsh works... The visit is free and interesting. After the visit you can leave with salt or fleur de sel from his production, which will also make good holiday gifts to bring back to your family.

Céline and François Joly are passionate farmers who raise (in the open air), with respect for the environment, organic farm poultry (chickens, guinea fowl, ducks), produce a breed of cow, and organic long pig. You can find their products in the shop and at markets: terrines and rillettes made from duck, chicken, guinea fowl, sausage and pork ham, beef, dried duck fillets, ready meals, jams.

In this small black hut with the appearance of a salorge, whose name is displayed in yellow letters, located between the road and the salt marshes, Tanguy Rocher offers you to taste and buy to take home, seafood (whelks, shrimps, langoustines, clams, lobster...) but also mussels and chips. So sit down on one of the large tables on the terrace and order the formula which offers 6 oysters plus a dish of mussels and chips. If you are not on the island, you should know that this oyster producer can ship them.

The Maison Chevallereau is an institution on the island in terms of butchery, sausage-making and catering. Founded in 1962, this family-run business is a sure bet, and quality has been the watchword for over 60 years. In addition to quality meats (free-range veal, lamb, Vendée pork, Vendée free-range beef for which a trophy was awarded in 2017), it offers charcuterie, typical Vendée cooked dishes (terrines, pâtés, gratins, roast pork, cooked ham, pudding with prunes...), catering dishes including paella (chicken/fish) and rotisserie.

This cellar is located under the arcades of the rue Piet. On the shelves, French wines chosen one by one by the owners who criss-cross France in search of good wines from producers, wines for all budgets, of all ranges, from exceptional wines from prestigious estates to local wines and beer produced on the island, the NO. A wide range of spirits: traditional, rare or unique whiskies, world rums, brown spirits, white spirits... more than a third of which are available for tasting.

Coming out of this production place, we find the cookies part, the jams, caramels, chocolates in winter and ice creams in summer. In the caramels range, the delicious caramels with prunes ("min-min"), caramel creams flavoured with specula, hazelnut, vanilla, salted butter and chocolate caramels. Range of cookies: plain and flavoured shortbread, cookies... All the products are handmade, on the spot, without coloring or preservatives, using butter from the Laiterie de Montaigu and flour from the Moulin de la Voltière in La Garnache.

David Lecossois guides you through a real initiatory journey, where you will discover how oysters grow and develop, and how oyster farmers manage to give them this unique character. Visit of the claires, discovery of the maturing basins, meeting with producers through a 2-hour visit that ends with a tasting. In 2007, he won the gold medal at the Vendée departmental competition for his hollow oysters, and then bronze in 2008. You will be able to buy its oysters, but also mussels, shellfish and crustaceans as well as seafood platters (to order) directly here, the fishponds being open every day, as well as on various markets in the Vendée: Fromentine on Saturdays, Notre-Dame-de-Monts markets on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

At La Ferme bio de la Goulpière, we raise dairy cows and their calves, farm poultry (chickens, guinea fowl...). The products are processed on site, so you can buy good quality products: milk, butter, cottage cheese, cream, yoghurts, cheese, eggs, poultry, cow and veal meat. There is also a market garden in the shop. The shop is clean and it is a pleasure to buy good, healthy products made by passionate producers. Also present at the central market on Wednesday and Saturday mornings.

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.

An island of four terroirs, Noirmoutier is rich in "Terres de Mer" products. Since 2023, the island has been recognized as a "Site Remarquable du Goût" for each of its production zones. From the foreshore and its oyster producers to the artisanal/critical fishing port of L'Herbaudière, visitors will discover the salt marshes and their sauniers, and the land where the famous Noirmoutier potato is grown. Fun, informative signposts are set up around the island's 4 cooperatives, enabling visitors to appreciate all the flavours of Noirmoutier Island.

This store gathers 6 producers of the country of Mortagne. You will find the products of their farms and those of about fifty other farmers of the region. A great diversity of products: meat, delicatessen, fish, fruits and vegetables, dairy products... All the products are in season and come from farms near the store. In the butcher's department, a wide variety of meats and delicatessens but also home-made delicatessen dishes. A fishmonger is also present in the store every Friday morning.

For 130 years, at La Perle des Dieux cannery, 4 generations of the Gendreau family have succeeded one another to offer an exceptional product: fresh canned sardines, worked in an artisanal way and canned by hand in innovative and tasty recipes. Another special feature: vintage tins nicely painted by two female artists. In the gallery-boutique, a wide choice of sardines, tuna fillets and mackerel in oil, but also spreads, sardine rillettes, salmon mousse, scallop tapas and tuna with lime...

Mathias and Kally, two passionate young salt-marsh farmers, are starting their^3rd season in this salt marsh. Sauniers, producers, independent harvesters. The La Griffardière salt marsh has 33 carnations. Very sensitive to ecological issues, they sell their produce in paper packaging (not plastic bags), and stamped with water-based ink. They are in the process of obtaining Nature et Progrès certification. Mathias sells his salt (coarse salt, fine salt, fleur de sel, plain or flavored, salicornia...) at markets, aboard his three-wheeler.

Behind the gourmet windows, we can see all the creations of the fine Maison Le Barillec. There's the range of breads, but above all there are the home-made pastries. Pastries as refined as they are delicious, including Nuage de Myrtille, Grenade and tarte à la cacahuète. Another flagship product of this artisan is chocolate. From traditional tablets to high-end jewel-like bonbons, all the savoir-faire is available in boxes: praline, caramel, not forgetting the famous "bisous", which are a great success.

The people of Sablais were already flocking to this bakery near the Arago market, before it took part in the TV show "La meilleure boulangerie de France". Try the viennoiserie that caught the eye of the M6 duo: La Câline, a briochette with a flowing praline-almond center. Another idea for children's snacks: cookies, in a classic or more original version, with white chocolate and raspberry. Viennoiseries and pastries made on site, regular creations and the same philosophy in the range of breads, whose mixer can be seen from the street.

François and Eva are organic fruit and vegetable producers. François offers only seasonal produce. Depending on the season, you'll find garlic, green beans, tomatoes, eggplants, zucchinis, peppers and Chinese cabbage. Fruit includes plums and figs. Also on sale in the boutique are the "well-being" products of Eva, his wife, who produces dried flowers in hydrolats, macerates, syrups and jams. She also produces organic CBD hemp, available as flowers, oil and, soon, herbal tea.

Les Églats salt marsh is at the entrance to L'Épine. Laëtitia and Anthony explain the workings of the marsh, the ancestral skills of the salt worker, how salt is harvested, the tools used to harvest it, the role of air and sun.... Every year, starting in March, each basin is emptied, cleaned and dried out. From April onwards, they will be gently pumped back into the water. On their marsh, they harvest coarse salt and fleur de sel, as well as samphire, which they sell in their cabin.

This grocery store is committed to eco-responsible consumption, which is why you'll find here as little packaging as possible (jars are returnable) and products offered in bulk. But that's not all, since local produce is also strongly emphasized, with a selection of short-distance products, notably in the attractive fruit and vegetable section. Food products are not the only ones on offer in bulk, as are beauty and hygiene products (solid soaps, etc.) and cleaning products.

In the middle of the harbor, the candy-pink façade attracts families. Victoria and Jimmy's shop smells delicious. Gourmets can choose between waffles, chichis and crêpes, made to order with homemade dough. As for ice creams, they come from a master ice cream maker, Glace des Alpes, with 30 flavors, from the classics to the more original like Isigny butter caramel... Children will be treated to their own Kinder Bueno ice cream in a Pat Patrouille mug! Also Italian ice creams (10 flavors) and granités (12 flavors).

A 9-hectare organic and biodynamic vineyard producing Brem wines, owned by Bastien Mousset, a passionate and environmentally conscious winegrower. Several grape variety combinations are on offer: Négrette on Rhyolite, Pinot noir on Schistes or Chenin on Granit. Its proximity to the ocean gives it a typical character, with freshness and a hint of iodine. High-quality vinification and ageing in concrete vats and barrels have made this estate's wines a must. Tours of the estate are available.

This excellent bakery-patisserie near the Puy du Fou, which has just celebrated its 15th anniversary, has won countless awards! Its brioche won a gold medal for the^{4th time} in the Vendée region, as did its organic tourte de meule and organic wholemeal bread. Annabelle and François Brin took their expertise to the cameras of La Meilleure Boulangerie de France, where they reached the quarter-finals. Other flagship products include bread made with distilled beer from the nearby Mélusine brewery, and Méli-Melba.

The Union des Grands Fiefs de Brem is dedicated to highlighting the Brem terroir, and brings together 5 estates, lovers of the fruit of Dyonisos, and above all passionate about their profession as winemakers

they are five estates committed to continuous improvement in the quality of their wines.
These five winegrowers are committed to sustainable production, respectful of the environment and the consumer. Thierry Michon, one of the 5 winegrowers, has been practicing biodynamic viticulture since 1993.

Specializing in aperitif products, Paso Traiteur awakens sad appetizers such as "olive-peach-chips" and offers a wide selection of snack products to make your life easier. No more need to bust your head to find ideas, Paso Traiteur has thought of everything! You are on holiday or simply in a hurry, you organize an impromptu aperitif with friends or colleagues: Paso Traiteur is really the aperitif solution! A speciality from the Vendée and the brand's flagship product, available in a dozen recipes, the préfou, a pre-cooked bread with garlic filling, also available in goat's cheese, chorizo, tomato-basil, already sliced, it's very practical! Also discover the maxi and mini-burgers (including a veggie version), the ham croissant and hot dogs. Quality and originality of the products are combined around conviviality. Paso Traiteur products are on sale in all supermarkets in the Vendée. So no doubt that you too will soon join the great Aperoland community!

In this farmers' store, you will find products directly from the farm and those of many other local collaborating producers, in the following departments: butchery and artisanal charcuterie (cow meat, veal, pork, chicken and guinea fowl, duck, pigeon), fruits and vegetables, dairy products. On the sweet side, jams, honeys, cookies, spreads, and Vendée specialties such as brioche and fouace. In the savory section, canned meat, fish and vegetables such as mogette, another specialty of the Vendée.

The Ferme du Marais Poitevin in Benet offers authentic immersion in the heart of Green Venice. This educational and vacation farm invites you to enjoy a unique experience in close contact with the animals on its 10-hectare estate. A range of accommodation options, including bed and breakfast and gypsy caravans, are available to extend this immersion experience. The farm also offers pitches for camper vans. In addition to visiting the farm, other activities include hiking, biking, boat trips and escape games. A store selling farm produce is also available.

Cédric Perrocheau raises and produces organic pork on straw between La Roche-sur-Yon and Chantonnay, part of whose production is sold directly on the farm. Here, animal welfare is taken into account: the animals have a yard with access to the outside. The pork parcels sold at the farm are composed of pork sauté, roasts, ribs, escalopes, filet mignon... They are 7/8 kg. On request, we can also offer you grilled meat packages of 5/6 kg, a whole pig or a ham by the kilo. Extra products and well treated animals!

Audrey and David Chabot are milk producers. They offer a diversified range of dairy products. In addition to plain or fruit yoghurts, chocolate, caramel, salted butter and vanilla milk desserts, smooth cottage cheese, country cottage cheese, garlic and herbs cheese, butter, heavy cream, whole or semi-skimmed pasteurized milk, you will also find other products for your desserts such as rice pudding and ice cream and sorbets. Good products and cows raised with respect!

Affiliated with "Bienvenue à la ferme", this beekeeping farm created by bee enthusiasts 20 years ago, has about 350-400 hives, 150-200 swarms, and about fifty nucs for queen rearing. On Wednesdays at 3pm, visit the site for free to learn all about the business and the bees, a small insect essential to nature and therefore to man! In addition to the various honeys of Noirmoutier, taste the various specialties: nougat, gingerbread, honey caramel, honey jams, and especially the propolis range whose producers are rare.

The ice creams are made with milk, cream or yogurt produced in this family farm, with the taste of the farm milk and the texture, notably, creamy and smooth. Ice creams and yoghurt ice creams are available in about twenty flavors, traditional or original (Troussepinette, mogette, cider apple, camembert, oyster ...). La Bel' Glace also offers frozen desserts (macaroons, verrines...), desserts and logs. All the products are prepared at the farm by Marie-Ange and Valérie, without eggs and avoiding additives and preservatives.

Delphine and Pascal Mornet run the organic farm "L'indomptable", with about 200 hectares of various crops, potatoes and a pig farm, organic pork of course. Once a month, they offer direct sales of pork in 5.5 kg or 10 kg cases (which can be composed of ribs, roast, filet mignon, escalopes, sauté, black pudding, chipolatas, pate, rillettes...) but also retail (with in addition paupiettes, pâté, sausage, sausage meat...).

This bakery-pastry shop in the city center has a nice renovated room, a patio and a terrace where you can have a drink or have a lunch break around snacking suggestions. The Petit Montois (chocolate, seasonal fruits, caramel), the travel cakes and the butter brioche from Beillevaire or the pink praline brioche are the main specialties. Among a range of about ten cakes at all times, in addition to the classic lemon pie or paris-brest, new ones arrive regularly, including the Vanilla Creamy, the Choco peanuts.

You want to bring back local products or have an aperitif with friends? You are at the right place, at Anne's, in the shopping street. You will find sweet and savoury products with brioche, gâche and cookies from the Planchot bakery, but also a range of angelica products, jams and honeys. Also confectionery such as cuckoo clocks. And for the salted part: pate of ragondin, pate of oyster, sardines of Saint-Gilles, farci poitevin, lentils, organic mogettes, Hennequin fish canneries, salt of the island of Olonne...

Many chefs in the Vendée call upon Pauline and her skills in culinary plants and integrate them into original recipes. Edible flowers and fine herbs will add a touch of soul to your dishes. From April to October, on the first Monday of each month, groups of 10 to 15 people can attend the guided tours and taste the amazing plants of Pauline's farm. The tour begins with a presentation of the business, an explanation of permaculture and you will discover and taste the various plants of the moment.

For those familiar with Tartines et Gourmandises bakeries and their reputation, Le Labo is the latest addition, with a large space where you can sit down and enjoy one of the delicious home-made pastries imagined by pastry chef Quentin Billeau. It's in the mind of this passionate pastry chef that the delicacies are created. And if you're a budding pastry chef, the good news is that he offers pastry classes (cakes, viennoiseries...)! His favorite delicacy is the croissant, which he adapts according to his imagination.

Whether you're a Noirmoutrin or a holidaymaker, it's always a pleasure to stroll through the local markets in search of good local produce to prepare the day's meal. The island of Noirmoutier has several markets, in each of its four communes. The market in the small commune of L'Épine is located on Place du Général de Gaulle (also known as Place de la Poste) and takes place every Saturday from 8am to 1pm, all year round. You'll find market gardeners and a wide range of producers, so you can stock up on good Vendée produce. The atmosphere is friendly and family-friendly.

A renowned company founded in 1929! In 2015, Thomas Planchot was awarded the title of MOF (Meilleur Ouvrier de France) in bakery, 21 years after his father Dominique! One family, 4 professions: bakery, patisserie, chocolaterie and catering. Every day, organic and special breads, pure wheat loaves... are hot off the press at all hours. Local raw materials (flour, butter, milk...) are chosen to make viennoiseries and pastries, and the award-winning brioche. Flagship chocolates include Jeu de palets, Bichottes, P'tits Grains d'sel...

Jean-Michel Mortreau makes organic chocolate. Pure cocoa butter chocolates, without added vegetable fats and without soy lecithin, the chocolates and all the ingredients used in the recipes of this chocolate maker are organically grown. The beans come from the Dominican Republic, West Africa and Peru. Vast choice of chocolate: dark, white or milk chocolate bars, pralines and chocolate candies, molds and figurines...

La Perle des Dieux has been perpetuating the sardine tradition of Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie for 37 years. But the story began much earlier... For 130 years, 4 generations of the Gendreau family have succeeded one another in the history of the sardine cannery, offering fresh, hand-crafted, hand-packed sardines with recipes that combine tradition and inventiveness. Alongside the attractive tins of sardines, some of which are vintage, you'll find other products for your aperitifs based on tuna, mackerel, rillettes and tapas from the sea.

Adjacent to the 3-star La Marine restaurant is chef Alexandre Couillon's local grocery store. Here you'll find the products the chef works with in his restaurants. Producers (mostly regional) whom he has selected for their quality, but also for their way of working with products, with respect and authenticity. You'll find his delicious natural sourdough bread, mackerel rillettes, weekend pastries and viennoiseries, as well as fruit juices, chutneys and jams, and vacuum-packed meats from farms.

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.

Among the best bakeries in Vendée! It has even had the privilege of participating in the show "La Meilleure Boulangerie de France" in 2021! You have to see the stalls full of delicious homemade pastries and viennoiseries. You don't know what to choose as everything is so devilishly tempting. Figurehead of the specialities, the brioche and the gâche, but also all the pastries! There is a king's choice! Also a snacking range. I love this bakery, as much for the know-how, the quality, the diversity of its delicacies as for its welcome.

The Place to Beer is a beer cellar located on the port of Ile d'Yeu, in Fromentine, in the town of La Barre de Monts in the Vendée. This establishment offers a wide selection of artisanal, traditional and craft beers, to satisfy the most demanding beer lovers. In addition to beers, they also offer ciders, craft sodas and related products. The Place to Beer offers a warm and friendly setting for enjoying quality craft beverages.

From the road you can see the little black wooden salt hut, surrounded by the salt marshes. This producer holds the Nature et Progrès label, one of the first organic farming associations, created 50 years ago to reward farmers committed to respecting the environment. Here you'll find products from the marsh: sea salt and fleur de sel from Noirmoutier. You can also take part in guided tours to learn all about salt and the salt-maker's trade.

This delicatessen, surrounded by fine restaurants, is housed in a pretty noirmoutrine mansion just behind the château. It was the brainchild of a former Parisian bookseller of Noirmoutrine origin and a former Belgian sailor. In this pretty store, you'll find local products from France and Italy, including oils (and vinegars), antipasti, pasta, olives, cheeses and cured meats (Pata Negra...). A selection of wines and champagnes, spices, chocolate, preserves and lots of gift ideas.

Biocoop Maraichine is an organic food store. It offers a wide range of organic products, including solid cosmetics, skincare products, bulk produce, seasonal fruit and vegetables, cheese by the slice from local producers, local wines and a selection of organic wines, as well as local Maraîchine meat. Customers can make their purchases in-store or pick them up on site.

Regal Papille is a caterer located in Les Sables-d'Olonne. The caterer offers catering and reception organization services. There are no reviews yet available for this professional.

C Dubon is a delicatessen offering a wide selection of exceptional products. For 12 years, it has been offering visitors authentic flavors selected and tested for their greatest pleasure. These include spices, chocolates, coffee and delicacies. Among C Dubon's flagship products are natural green pepper, Noirmoutier fleur de sel with basil, Jardin Bleu black tea, Sencha green tea from China, Pante Red instant yeast, Valrhona Caraïbe 66% chocolate, Pakistan Himalaya Kashmir diamond salt, muscovado brown sugar, Barry white chocolate chunks and Noirmoutier island caramel sand. For lovers of fine products, C Dubon is a real taste paradise to discover during your visit to Challans.