The best specialty grocery stores Haut-Rhin

Would you like to concoct an Italian meal? All the basic products are fresh, imported directly from the boot: salumi, formaggi e olive. Let's not forget the grissini, pasta, caffe, olio di oliva and some fine wines. You can also sit down and enjoy a daily menu, a cold plate of antipasti, a panino or a piadina at any time of day. For savoury dishes, don't hesitate to try one of the house specialities: arancini, typical of southern Italy. Those with a sweet tooth can ask for a canollo siciliano, a real treat!

Located in Wettolsheim, just 300 meters from the Colmar equestrian center, INDIA France EPICES is a food supplier specializing in seasonings. Their website offers a wide range of seasonings to suit all tastes and cuisines. Whether you want to make your own sausages, make tasty stuffings or season your grilled meats, you'll find quality spice blends and salts at INDIA France EPICES. Seasonings are available in pods or liters.

Fernando and François created Bem Brasil, their little Brazilian shop, years ago. Push the door and there is guaranteed change. Food, drinks, fashion, cosmetics, footwear, crafts… Each product is carefully chosen. And the managers are listening. If their main clientele remains Brazilian, the door is open to all curious people to discover their culture. The two associates also gave birth to the association Bem Brasil in 2009. Ideal for soaking in Brazil. On the menu: travel tips, participation in humanitarian actions, courses of Brazilian cooking, initiation to dance… An address that will make you forget the everyday worries of the daily and coca-cola or other American sodas for a good cure of Guarana.

Le Marché de la Tarte Flambée is your go-to specialist for a successful flammekueche evening! In this well-appointed store, you'll find everything you need to prepare this delicious Alsatian specialty. First of all, what would a tarte flambée be without a good pastry? Here you'll find the very best, with carefully selected ingredients. Then comes the filling, which you can also buy here. And finally, the ovens!

It's been more than 25 years since Antonio, the owner of the place has made delicatessen his specialty in the Mulhouse region. Today, in his shop on rue des Tondeurs, epicureans have something to feast on! His Italian origins are obviously reflected in the choice of his products, but not only. He also promotes French local products, particularly from the South-West. However, Antonio has not forgotten Alsatian gastronomy and now works with local producers, notably with a beekeeper in Riedisheim.

This fine store celebrates truffles in all their forms: black, white, winter, summer, whole, sliced. Lionel Verchère offers over 120 truffle-based products for tasty tastings in his elegant boutique. Olive oils, vinegars, mustard and other condiments, pasta, rice or polenta, aperitif preparations, as well as honeys and hazelnut cream spreads: there's something for every taste, savory or sweet! Lionel knows all there is to know about truffles, and he'll be happy to give you some great gift ideas as a bonus.

In the growing vegan family, I ask for the Earth! Located in a shopping area between Mulhouse and Rixheim, Terre Végane is a 100% organic and vegetable grocery store. Many products await you in this small store, which offers a complete range of fresh and frozen organic products, a bulk cereal and legume section and a whole range of original preparations and preserves such as false coffee with lupin. Yes, you can be greedy and vegan, the proof is that this spread is guaranteed without palm oil... like all the products here. Terre Végane is also a snack service all day long with its wraps, burgers and other croque-monsieur...

If you're told bacalhau, vino verde, grilled porcelet and port 10 years old, there's a chance that you'll answer… Portugal! Advice to lovers of Lusitanian specialties: This sign located on the main thoroughfare of Ingersheim (free parking nearby) offers the best of the country's specialties in a space of 235 m ². Charcuterie (chorizo, farinheira, morce, etc.), cow's, goat and/or sheep cheeses (limanio, berrowing, queimosa, among others), preserved eel eel, special barbecue sauces, typical beers and iconic sodas, small takeners (milk pig doughnuts, chewing sardines, pork salad, cod acras, octopus salad, nata pasteis, etc.), not forgetting a well-supplied alcoholic radius: Vino Verde necessarily, but also excellent red wines and a range of impeccable portos. Special mention to the coffee room that highlights the products of the Delta brand, one of the best in the world to date: in grains or capsules, with design machine attached. Small selection of kitchen accessories, for example the famous cataplana of the Algarve dedicated to cooking seafood.