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In 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.

The 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?

In a 400^m2 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

Designated 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.

With 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.

This 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!

In this good pastry shop next to Les Halles, everything is appetizing! An institution handed down to Guillaume's daughter Chloé. Specialities 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 chocolate or caramel fleur de sel) and, of course, gâche and brioche (Parisian brioche!).

This pastry shop in the heart of the pedestrian street, created several decades ago and in which three generations of pastry chefs have succeeded one another. The owners, who have been in place for about 3 years, are pastry chefs by trade and have kept the emblematic speciality created by their predecessors: the Saint-Philbert cake! This is not the only delicacy you will find here, since at Easter time, the flan maraîchin is on the stall, as are the pastries of the moment, between chocolate or fruit cakes, and chocolates.

The Fonteneau brioche was born in the 1970s in a bakery in Chavagnes-en-Paillers; today, the company has several production sites: in La Copechagnière and Boufféré. It is above all a family story, the passion of 2 generations. It produces spoils and several ranges of brioches: organic, festive and... nutritional! This brioche has won numerous awards: it was awarded^first prize for the best Label Rouge Vendée brioche at the Vendée products competition, and a silver medal for the gâche at this same competition.

The Chocolatier Sablais, in addition to its vast boutique, also opens the doors of its production site for guided tours with the program, the discovery of the profession of chocolate maker, the origin and manufacture of chocolates, cookies and candies. After watching the film, you can visit the shop and all the delicacies made on site. More than 250 references of chocolates, pralines and homemade sweets. In addition to chocolates by weight, mouldings, chocolates with various alcohols, truffles, pistols, biscuits.

The brioche is part of the traditions and heritage of the Vendée! Made by hand, the Vendrennes brioche has existed since 1932 and still has the same flavor. Three generations of the Brosset family have succeeded one another within its walls until the takeover by new owners in 2017, the Guignard brothers, who are keen to maintain the tradition and know-how. Less focused on individuals, for a long time, this house has specialized in the production of artisanal buns in large volumes, for associations, schools, high schools..

In, chocolates, pacifiers, purple, caramel, liquorice, marshmallows, tart… To visit the factory and to assist in the manufacture of all these wonderful candies, it is in Boufféré (Vendée) that you have to go - but to taste them and bring a tailor-made assortment, the store of Saint-Herblain is open to you. An indispensable address to rediscover all the flavours, shapes and colours that marked our childhood. At Goodness Pinson, confectionery maker since 1860, the real sampled in are still made to the old, cooked in copper cauldrons and worked by hand. For the most beautiful occasions, the sugar are extended to chocolate, almonds, heart shape… Among the 500 references made by this emblematic establishment, you will find what to do with the pleasures of all generations, at particularly interesting prices. For fine gifts, some compositions are presented in beautiful Belle Epoque or romantic designs.

Les Ateliers du Goût is first and foremost the story of Christophe Moreau, chocolate and pastry maker and companion of duty. As soon as the door is pushed open, the good smell of chocolate invades the pretty shop. In the chocolate, cake and biscuit display windows, cakes and biscuits rival each other in originality and flavour. Everything from delicious macaroons to tasty ganaches is a real treat. And if you're a macaroon lover, there's a workshop dedicated to it. A gourmet address to be discovered urgently.

The gustative quality of Christophe Lopez's caramel is recognized by all fine palates. Available as a spread or in soft caramel candies, it is not the only delicacy, as you will find in his shops, chocolates, marshmallows, homemade nougat and macaroons with multiple tastes and colours (pistachio, praline, champagne, rose, tangerine, blackcurrant, violet). Other shops are located in Les Herbiers, Les Halles des Sables-d'Olonne, Fontenay-le-Comte, Challans.

This essential chocolate maker has 4 other brands in the Vendée and its Chocolate Museum in La Roche-sur-Yon. Gelencser chocolates are among the best in the Vendée. It is in Chantonnay, that the story began in 1956, with Patrick Gelencser's grandfather. Among the flagship chocolates: flavoured or pure ganaches, orange aiguillettes, florentines, mendiants, the Vendée heart, dried fruit tablets, spreadable paste? Cakes, mainly chocolate-based, are a delight, as are chocolate verrines and macaroons. An institution!

Sébastien runs this delightful tearoom next to the church. As good pastry chefs, he makes home-made viennoiseries and fine pastries, as well as chocolates, caramels... Flagship products: Chocotarte, macaroons, Charnet, Fresh Raspberry Gâterie, Péché montois, baba au rhum and, of course, brioche, gâche and flan maraîchin. Sébastien has made a specialty of pastries in the pâte à choux range. Generous cakes, just like their creator. In summer, frozen desserts (vacherins, ice creams), to take away or enjoy on the terrace.

The paradise of candy lovers! Here at the factory of the Confiserie Bonté, confectioner since 1860, you can visit and watch the manufacture of the famous berlingots of our childhood, chocolates, nougats, lollipops, violets, honey pastilles, caramels, liquorice, marshmallows, sour... The real berlingots from Nantes are made the old fashioned way and are worked by hand. With a choice of 500 references, sweets in bulk, at particularly interesting prices.

In this shop, we make in the respect of the tradition, pastry specialities from the Vendée such as the brioche: traditional, puff pastry croissant type, with nuggets and the wedding brioche. Another flagship product is the fion à l'ancienne, a traditional Easter dessert made from eggs and milk, typical of the western Vendee, made from a family recipe that requires perfect mastery of cooking and know-how. Other flagship products: fouasse, gâche and préfou, bread filled with garlic butter to be enjoyed as an aperitif.

Don't leave the island without tasting its flagship specialty: the delicious prune tart from the Mousnier patisserie, also present at the market. Alain Mousnier's home-made cakes, jams and salted butter caramel are part of the island's culinary tradition. Other specialties include betchets (which means "cookie" in local dialect, i.e. twice-baked), also known as sailor's cookies because they keep for several days at sea. For mardi gras, there's also foutimasson, a doughnut also known as bottereau or tourtisseau.

Dominique and Yoan, master chocolatiers, rigorously select cocoa beans to create the finest chocolates. Handcrafted according to traditional recipes, they add their creativity to the mix. In the boutique or online, chocolate bonbons and personalized chocolates, with specialties such as croquants (roasted dried fruit, then caramelized, pre-coated with a homemade praline (cooked in a copper cauldron), sublimated with a fine layer of 100% cocoa butter chocolate), and p'tits Q... Visits and workshops available.

Behind the gourmet display cases, we see all the creations of the beautiful Maison Le Barillec. There's the range of breads, but above all there are the in-house 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.

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 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 runny 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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Sabrina runs this bakery in the center of L'Épine, in the heart of the Ile de Noirmoutier. The welcome is charming, and that's already a plus, but it's not the only one, as the bread and pastries are of good quality. At weekends, the stalls fill up with more specialties. Of course, brioche takes pride of place, and holidaymakers will find it soft and fragrant. Like the pastries and viennoiseries, these are home-made. The cakes are carefully prepared and appetizing. Several varieties of bread are available.