The best bakeries Vendée

We'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 won^2nd 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.

This 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.

Passionate about their craft, master bakers Céline and Fabrice make everything from breads and pastries to snacks 100% homemade! The bread speciality is Castelaise. At any time of day, you can enjoy quiches, tartines, pizzas, 15 types of cold sandwiches, homemade hot dishes and salads. At weekends, fine pastries like mojito tarts and Borneo join brioches, gâches, traditional cakes and viennoiseries.

Stéphanie 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.

This master baker, who took part in the show La meilleure boulangerie de France in 2016, owns 2 bakeries in La Roche. A recognised baker, he makes excellent breads, it is for his organic range that he has made a name for himself! Passionate, Dominique Potier offers a beautiful variety of breads made from a red label flour from sustainable and controlled agriculture. We love the delicious "rustic" pastries: kouglof, plum pâté, pistachio and fig tart, gingerbread, cannelés... Rue Salengro, it offers snacking: pizzas, quiches...

In the heart of the village, this bakery offers a range of La Pétrie breads, available in organic or sesame balls. Artisan baker-patissier, member of Boulangeries de France and Pâtissier dans le monde, he works with seasonal products and regularly renews his range. Among the viennoiseries that change every week, try the 3-chocolate Suisse. We love the low-added-sugar vegetable entremets, made with hazelnut milk chocolate and creamy almond (no milk). Other must-tries include gâche, brioche de Mélie and Fion. Snack range and homemade chocolates.

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.

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.

For us, the best bakery in La Roche! Franck and Corinne Veillé own two bakeries in La Roche. For your aperitifs, the gramoudou (a kneaded bread with various fillings), for the small hollows of the afternoon, there is the petridoux (a bread with chocolate chips), the brioche or the gâche. The bread is divine, it is baked all day long, with its flagship product: the Pétrisanne. All the delicious pastries and viennoiseries are home-made.

Behind 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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...