BOULANGERIE LE FOURN'ÎLE
Read moreVianney and Lamia's bakery, which took part in the French TV show La Meilleure boulangerie de France, overlooks the square and the pedestrian street. Two entrances for twice as many gourmets, who will find the specialties that have made the reputation of this good bakery: flan maraîchin, brioche vendéenne, gâche and Cob. Rustic bread remains a favorite, as does the famous Parisse baguette. Try the focaccia, it's to die for! There's no compromise on quality here. Everything is homemade! With fruit, chocolate... the creations are numerous.
LES PETITS CAGNIOTES
Read moreThe 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.
CHOCOLATIER GELENCSER
Read moreThe 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.
PÂTISSERIE LA MALIGORNE
Read moreWith Laurence's son Victor, they are the4th 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.
GLACIER PÉTALES DE ROSES
Read moreOn 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.
GLACIER TUTTI FRUTTI
Read moreA renowned house founded in 1985 and an institution in Noirmoutin! With a long experience in the culinary art, a career in the most beautiful houses, and consultant for Pierre Hermé, with Beatriz, Stéphane proposes his creations with more than 25 original verrines. From full-fruit sorbets, creams and frozen sticks to cones and waffles, everything is homemade! More than 50 flavors, classic and surprising: caramel with fleur de sel de Noirmoutier, bergamot ginger and raspberry slivers, yuzu... Frozen desserts and half-litre ice creams to take away.
LA BOULANGERIE BLEUE
Read moreBehind the pretty blue façade: brioche vendéenne (plain or chocolate), traditional gâche, fion (flan maraîchin) offered all year round in addition to pastries. Among the main cakes concocted by this craftsman, travel cakes: Délice des Chouans, chocolate fondant, Neapolitan, Nantes cake, big cookie with Nutella. On Sundays, the kouign-aman is in the spotlight. The other pastries change according to the season (entremets, fruit clafoutis...); on the bread side, there are about twenty of them with the star product, the Pétrisane.
BOULANGERIE JUILLET
Read moreThis 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.
AU PAIN D'AURÉ
Read moreStéphanie 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.
LA GAUFRERIE
Read moreLa Gaufrerie has been in existence for nearly 50 years! Generations have tasted the delicacies of this address which offers waffles, pancakes, chichis and ice creams: 32 flavors, 6 granités, gourmet ice creams with homemade praline and chocolate chips, or caramel or red fruits. The waffle dough follows the same home-made recipe; everyone can add salted butter caramel, home-made chocolate, nougat, milk jam or whipped cream. In waffle and pancake version, the "gourmandes maison" with salted butter caramel and chocolate. The chichiss are also famous. Stéphane's smiling welcome.
TATIE BICHON
Read moreAn address that many gourmet holidaymakers know well. This one is nicer than Danielle... She has been spoiling lovers of sweets with her homemade waffles and pancakes or her homemade ice creams for several decades! Home-made ice-creams and sorbets in cones that you will decorate with a home-made red fruit coulis, but also in litre or 1/2 litre versions to decorate your desserts at home. You can eat these delicacies, including the original waffle on a stick, the Bichonnette, on the sunny terrace in the heart of the port.
LA LUTINE
Read moreIn the heart of the forest, this bakery-pastry shop-tea room, created in 1975 by Patrice Guitton, is now owned by his daughter. For more than 45 years, La Lutine has been making fresh butter brioche, hand-made, and prepared in the pure tradition. You can taste it on the large wooden terrace, in the peace and quiet under the trees. It was awarded a gold medal in the Vendée local products competition, as well as the préfou, a garlic bread to be enjoyed as an aperitif, a speciality of the South Vendée. Three other bakeries in Fontenay-le-Comte, Pissotte and Fontaines.
BABA É'CLAIR
Read moreThe pretty facade located in the heart of the long avenue François Mitterrand, next to a wine shop, catches the eye. One pushes the door of this slightly cramped but very greedy famous sign. It is the multicoloured macaroons and pastries that attract our attention, even if you will also find some varieties of bread (cereals, rye, white,...) as well as the great classics of pure butter pastries. In 2019, Baba É'clair's croissants won the gold medal. A nice reward that's worth a few deviations from the diet, isn't it?
CHOCOLATERIE VINCENT VALLEE
Read moreIn a 400m2 futuristic style building the shop and laboratory of renowned chocolatier Vincent Vallée, best chocolatier in the world 2015. He creates chocolate sweets, confectionery, ice cream and other delicacies. In the shop, like a jeweller's showcase, chocolate sweets made from pure dark ganaches, grand cru origins, 100% pralines, spicy or fruity dark ganaches, caramels reminiscent of coloured glass balls and macaroons
LA BOULANGERY
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LA CHOCOLATINE
Read moreDesignated Best Bakery in Pays de La Loire in 2021, this master baker from Bouin, whose bread we discovered at the restaurant L'Écume gourmande, deserves the honours. Alexandre Merlet's passion and imagination have resulted in original creations such as his delicious seaweed and oyster bread, which can be savoured on its own! Other specialties include the chocolatine, a brioche with caramelized apples, curable and chocolate chips, Grandma Nicole's cake with almond flavor and of course the flan maraîchin.
AU MOULIN GOURMAND
Read moreWith its chocolate/pistachio facade topped by a mill tower, it's impossible to miss Séverine and David Seigneur's boulangerie-pâtisserie. It has a retro look, with beautiful stalls of varied, appetizing cakes. Another original feature, apart from the bakers working in the bakery before your very eyes, is a retro van stamped "Moulin Gourmand", displaying entremets. Bread is baked all day long, and there's also a snack range. Among the pastries, try one of the specialties, baba.
PAIN'SSIONNÉMENT GOURMAND
Read moreWe'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 won2nd 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.
MAURICE - PÂTISSIER CHOCOLATIER
Read moreThis pastry shop has an excellent reputation. Here, the flagship products are macaroons (about fifteen flavours) and chocolate, but alsopasteis de nata, a Portuguese flan, and apple cabbage, which earned Julien de Sousa an award! He learned his trade with the master of macaroons, Pierre Hermé. In the shop, fine pastries, ice creams, personalized cakes such as wedding cakes, but also marshmallows, fruit jellies, spreads, chocolates... And all homemade!
PATISSERIE AU GALION D’OR
Read moreIn this good pastry shop next to Les Halles, everything is appetizing! An institution handed down to Guillaume's daughter Chloé. Specialties include Cayola, Magellan (with salted butter caramel in the middle) and Baba Planteur, as well as classic pastries, iced verrines and ice creams, not forgetting homemade chocolates (Chouan au café, Galion, Vent des Globes or caramel fleur de sel) and, of course, gâche and brioche (Parisian brioche!).