The best grocery stores Vendée

Want to bring a little corner of the Vendée back home? La Plage des Gourmets offers a large choice of local specialties from artisanal productions, gift ideas and souvenirs. You will find here a large choice of salted or sweet regional products: Noirmoutier salt, canned food, terrines and pâtés, including the famous pate de ragondin, Vendée brioche, Vendée wines and aperitifs including La Troussepinette, souvenirs, tableware, table linen, men's, women's and children's T-shirts, all available in gift boxes.

The temple of cheese! Sandrine offers farmhouse cheeses made from raw or pasteurized milk from all over France and abroad. A hundred varieties depending on the season. Present on the markets of Les Sables-d'Olonne (Arago, La Chaume), Luçon, La Mothe-Achard, Talmont-Saint-Hilaire. Next to the stall, take-away food, with specialties: salads, tartiflettes, gratins, quiches, changing every day and homemade desserts: rice or egg pudding, chocolate mousse, tiramisu, coconut flan, crumble. Also a space with some wines and new: a delicatessen!

In the middle of the countryside, in a typical Breton marsh building, the farm-auberge combines a restaurant, guest rooms, camping on the farm, farm products, with specialities such as foie gras, rillettes, confit, magret, gizzards, etc., and also coq au vin, guinea fowl and organic chicken, both of which can be bought directly from the farm or tasted in the restaurant. Also 5 guest rooms with bath or shower and toilet) or camping at the farm.

Both a chocolate factory and a delicatessen, Maison d'Oya, which opened in 2020, has already won a number of awards at the Academy of Chocolate's international competition in London, including a gold medal for its Crunchy spread and a bronze medal for its Beauvoir fleur de sel praliné. Florence, a chocolatier, makes these delicacies in her Port Joinville workshop. Chocolates in bar or tasting box format. Also on sale: teas, caviar, truffles and spices.

The snail, here called "luma" is a real local gastronomic speciality. Less well known than its Burgundian counterpart, it is nonetheless an unavoidable speciality of the Bocage Vendéen. Gabrielle Moreau raises and cooks them. They are offered fresh and ready to bake (in shells, mini-bouchées, cabbage...) for the aperitif or as a starter, in jars of flesh or cooked. You can also take a tour of the farm with a commentary by the heliciculturist - a bit of culture doesn't hurt! -, then aperitif with snail tasting.

Joël Guérin is a producer of fattened ducks. From the first day of the duck's life to the final product, everything happens on the site of the La Chedanière farm. The animals are raised in the open air according to tradition. The ducks are force-fed only with whole cooked corn. On sale at the farm: pâtés, rillettes, foie gras, confit, manchons, gizzards, stewed duck, stuffed neck. Visit of the farm in summer, starting with a visit to the duck park and ending with a tasting.

Saveurs du monde is a grocery store located on the Arago market in Les Sables-d'Olonne. Visitors can find a wide variety of products from all over the world. The grocery store offers in-store shopping services, enabling customers to discover and purchase exotic and authentic products.

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.

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...

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.

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.

In the heart of the Halles de Noirmoutier, Carol and son ensoleille the stalls of Provençal flavours. A family-run house for many years, also present in Nantes, this fine grocery store invites you to discover high quality products. For a typical aperitif, a wide choice of antipasti is offered: green, black, stuffed, seasoned in 1001 ways, but also stuffed peppers, piments peppers, du tartare. You will discover, a beautiful range of AOC olive oils of high quality and vinegar perfumed to truffle, raspberry… To choose also a beautiful radius of spices and spices: coriander, turmeric, garam massala for Indian cooking, massalé for more exotic or ras dishes for oriental dishes. Like a cave of Ali Baba from the South, the brand renews its products every year around vegetables and dried fruits or candied fruits (lentils, chickpeas, dates, figs, almonds, cedrat, orange bark), without forgetting homemade jams or jellies. For a personalized gift, think of the gourmet basket, composed according to your choice, to share the flavours of the sun to your loved ones on order!