The best pastry shops 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.

With Laurence's son Victor, they are the^4th 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.

Run by our two Freds, this pastry shop, one of the best in town, also offers a tea room on a covered terrace. Among the specialities, all home-made, the unavoidable mille-feuille and the Saint-Gilles cake, a speciality for over 40 years. Other key products include chocolate, delicious macaroons and homemade ice cream. Among the creations, the Sweety, the Chu Passion (chocolate mousse, fresh passion fruit jelly in a chocolate brownie shell) or the For Ever raspberry macaroon, rose cream, lychee and fresh raspberry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.