The best grocery stores France

At the foot of the castle, a space has just opened to sell local handicraft productions: clothing, bags, knives, jewellery, wrought iron sculptures. It is also an art gallery and fair trade boutique. Here's how to perfect the city's tourist vocation.

For Philippe Lice, pronounce x, his difference lies in particular in the freshness of the products: ducks sold in the house of Charente are slaughtered every two days. Instead, gavage is done in areas where the land is less good to plant cereals than in Tusson. " So the specialty of the house of the Charente is duck. In all its forms: traditionnel neck stuffed but also breasts stuffed with foie gras or stuffed cabbage… in foie gras. Test the Tusson mishmash: apricots, prunes and foie-coated figs that have received special mention in the regional flavours competition 2007. In addition to the duck products, Philippe offers a selection of local products, many of which come from organic farming. It thus makes up a kind of fine grocery store from local land that satisfies tourists and troubleshoots the inhabitants.

Sale at the goat cheese farm for this operation forming part of the Chabichou's route.

Lucette and Michel, the owners of this beautiful walnut grove with its hundred-year-old trees, open the doors of their farm from March to November. On the program: a visit to the certified organic orchard, which they've been tending for several decades, and to the meadow where the Limousin cows graze, ending up at the farm where all facets of the business are explained. The tour ends with a tasting of walnut products (available for sale). In summer, the farm hosts a gourmet market every Thursday, to showcase local produce.

The Carbonnière family raises goslings fed without animal meal or fat. Farmers for several generations and settled in Tursac since 1983, they are producers, breeders and feeders of geese. The animals are force-fed with non-transgenic corn, sown, harvested and dried on the farm. The preserves are made in the pure tradition: foie gras, confits, stuffed necks, etc. During the period of force-feeding, from September to June, you can attend the force-feeding from 8am to 10am and from 4pm to 6.30pm, do not hesitate to call before.

La ferme gourmande is first of all a goat farm that you can visit for free, including by attending the milking, and you can even give the kids a drink! Nice, isn't it? Atypical place with a family atmosphere, the place also has a rustic restaurant. It is a place of discovery and relaxation in a typical farmhouse of the Champagne region. You will also find a shop that highlights local products: honey, Ardennes ham, cider, kid meat crisps...

Preserving local produce is a true Lagrèze family tradition. Even today, Sylvie and Pascal keep the tradition alive. Whole duck foie gras, stuffed goose neck, quail with foie gras, pork anchaud rolled in its rind, duck confit, and Marie-Louise's famous dishes such as wild boar sausage with three beans, or coq au vin de Bergerac simmered with porcini mushrooms. Gourmet gift sets and baskets make great gift ideas. The Paddock 135 restaurant in Vézac serves products from the cannery.

Proud of his snails, the héliciculteur will tell you their life from reproduction to preparation: there are no fewer than 335 000 subjects divided into 6 parks. Jean-Paul will share a true passion for you. His recipes, he invented them with a great deal of humour and usability: So are the mini-puff of snails, the dishes, the candied snails to use like the gizzards to complement a salad, the Escarpéro, the snails or the famous escargotoasts that can be spreads on hot toast, steaks, tournedos or simply in accompaniment of fresh pasta. A series of discoveries for real amateurs. On the tour, they are made by appointment, so do not hesitate to call it before arriving!

Sale on the farm and the Marché market. Breeding of ducks, geese, poultry and pig pigs. Preserved fat livers, candied, rillettes, blocks, cooked dishes, fresh breasts and dried smoked eggs.

The Helix of this breed breed for one purpose: land on your plate! In short-bouillon, à or forest, large-grey and small-grey are sold directly on the farm, itself present on the local markets.

The Huelgoat honey factory is located in the heart of the Armorique Regional Nature Park. In the store, near the dam, you can buy all sorts of honeys (forest, bramble, buckwheat, willow, hazelnut, cocoa...) as well as other products made from the delicious nectar: gingerbread, candies, chouchen, soap and candles. With 800 hives in production, half of which are in Finistère and the other half in the Limousin region, the honey factory produces 15 tonnes of honey a year.

Baker, a pastry craftsman, is known and recognized! Even if you have to queue. Side bread, we know about it. In Breton specialities, the house is renowned for its kouign aman, and the diplomas are authentic. Far, patties for a small sweet break, the tea room on the floor serves as a gallery of paintings.

This exotic shop owned by Marcel Kerjean is a Brest-native institution which could not be established elsewhere but in Siam street. Here you will find ingredient that you will not find elsewhere like foie gras, caviar, all types of canned food from world, teas of all kinds (around 300 different kinds), oil, coffee, about 80 different spices, the best raw vanilla, ginger, turmeric, cinnamon and nutmeg. If you are looking for good champagne, vodka, Crete wines to accompany dinner, no problem, you will find them here. Lovers of Turkish delights will find what they expect. You need to discover the shop and the treasures of Mr Kerjean.

BouTika is the store of the city of fishing Haliotika, freely accessible without entering the Cité de la Pêche. The spokes offer a wide range of products on the theme of the sea: Local specialities for gourmet meals, crockery, decoration, books, clothing, jewelry, toys, etc. A child area is dedicated to the articles of the sea which are reserved for them.

Amélie Voisin and Thierry Faure designed a spacious shop more than 10 years ago to house their delicatessen. With a wine and whisky cellar, a wide choice of traditional and unusual products, everyone leaves with something to eat. In addition to being good, the selected products are beautiful and have a neat design. As the owners like to share their finds, they regularly organise product tastings. The shop is modern, and you'll even find kitchen utensils and decorative objects.

From the village of Hourtin, go to the tobacco office to see the Lachanau sign. And always straight to discover this cabin, which serves as a grocery-bar and a games room. A well-known unusual cabin of the Hourtinais for the dépannage grocery store and a glacier bar where the prices of the drinks are more than reasonable: shooters at 1 €, alcohol at 2 €, baby at 2,50 € and coffee at 1 €. Take on this caravelle at the time of the aperitif.

Between the church and the town hall of Jau-Dignac-Loirac, this air-conditioned multiservice of 150 m 2 makes it possible to shop in the midst of a picnic for example: compound salads or sandwiches, or for any purchase: tobacco-press, groceries, fresh products, pastries, postage stamps, games of French Games and telephone cards, gas bottles. A smart plan: The wines of Jau-Dignac & Loirac are at castles! Additional services are offered such as post, home delivery and photo development. In short, the multiservice!

After a few months' renovation work, the old barn that once housed this boutique has been transformed into a beautiful, bright and enlarged sales area. This is one of the Huilerie Richard stores. Well placed on the road between Crest and Die, with its parking lot and attractive shop front, it's an inviting place to stop off. You can stock up on the company's oils, including Nyons olive oil and many others, as well as a selection of local and exotic groceries.

Samuel and Christine Brostin welcome you in this remote farm and discover how the baron Normand is made and, above all, how to enjoy it! Here we sell to all lovers of fresh products, camemberts, white cheese, cream or butter…

It is with the milk jam that the history of the company begins. Since then, the family farm has started to produce other milk sweets: chocolates, berlingots, calvados cream or jams, which have been widely rewarded. The sign is also a splendid place, halfway between a flea market and a farm, in an old farmhouse. You also have a nice tea room, in a carefully thought rustic atmosphere. We love it!

All gourmands know this brand born in the neighboring Drôme. A Comptoir de Mathilde where you come to feast your eyes before you feast your palate, with fine products handcrafted in Drôme provençale from quality raw materials. A warm welcome and expert advice on choosing from a range of delicatessen products and delicious chocolates. Target: rum babas, one of the specialties of Comptoir de Mathilde, France's leading producer of babas in jars. On the chocolate side: crunchy chocolate bars, and succulent spreads free from palm oil and GMOs, with organic and vegan versions. Gift boxes to give pleasure.

Born from the will of about thirty farmers, craftsmen and artists of the valley of the lower Verdon, this house of country proposes many products manufactured by the people... of the Country of Riez and the surroundings (today about sixty!). You will find olive oil, jams, honeys, biscuits, pâtés, wines, goat cheeses, jewellery, knives, clothes, leather, stoneware, earthenware, santons, lavender essence... and many other good and beautiful things! Beautiful showcase of local know-how, parking is easy on its private car park.

Blessed people in this neighborhood who finally have shops open even on Sundays. Because next to the Asian giant, there is this small, practical Spar and the offer is enough to get supplies, without running hypermarchés. A real butchery, fresh bread and delivery service, what more to ask, it is a real service of proximity that we appreciate, and who has kept a very friendly relationship with the clientele. Open until on Sundays, who says better?

First of all, he is the king of the Bresse quenelle, a specialty that he has been nurturing since 1910. But since then, Giraudet has expanded its offer with a collection of soups (several of which are organic) and ravioles (Beaufort, Comté, etc.). Natural (including an organic version), with wild pike, with farm poultry, with grilled vegetables, with ham... In total, the company offers a dozen artisanal quenelles, as well as 27 references in trays. To accompany them or for pasta, there are sauces, including the classic Nantua. Other address: 6 rue du Pas de la mule (^3rd).

The snail, here called "luma" is a real local gastronomic speciality. Less well known than its Burgundian counterpart, it is nonetheless an unavoidable speciality of the Bocage Vendéen. Gabrielle Moreau raises and cooks them. They are offered fresh and ready to bake (in shells, mini-bouchées, cabbage...) for the aperitif or as a starter, in jars of flesh or cooked. You can also take a tour of the farm with a commentary by the heliciculturist - a bit of culture doesn't hurt! -, then aperitif with snail tasting.

Joël Guérin is a producer of fattened ducks. From the first day of the duck's life to the final product, everything happens on the site of the La Chedanière farm. The animals are raised in the open air according to tradition. The ducks are force-fed only with whole cooked corn. On sale at the farm: pâtés, rillettes, foie gras, confit, manchons, gizzards, stewed duck, stuffed neck. Visit of the farm in summer, starting with a visit to the duck park and ending with a tasting.

More than 3,500 products from nearly 130 local craftsmen, nearly half of which are food products. Welcome to the Maison du Pays de l'Auxois! On the shelves: truffles, goat's cheese, sausages, about fifty wines, liqueurs, beers, jams, juices, Fallot and Reine de Dijon mustards, honeys, gingerbread, biscuits, aniseed, snails... But also wooden toys, jewellery, clothes, glass objects and even organic beauty products.

A pretty shop in front of the Saint-Etienne cathedral, in a medieval house. You will find many wines from the region (more than 50 references), but also a lot of local products! Regional sweets and other specialities such as pâtés, terrines, biscuits, jams, and the famous Monin syrups or the tasty Fayot mustard. Of course, everything here comes from small, well-known producers, with lots of gift ideas for gourmets!

The famous Biscuiterie de Bourgogne (with stores in Joux-la-Ville, Vézelay and Auxerre) has also set up shop in the heart of Avallon's historic center, where you'll find its famous financiers, meringues and macaroons, as well as sweets from the Chopard in-house chocolate factory and local products from its Tour des Terroirs brand. Terrines and pâtés, ready-made meals and gingerbread sit side by side with jams and mustards, not to mention an excellent selection of wines. An epicurean's paradise!

Maison Billot has been THE Burgundy snail specialist since 1796! This love affair with Burgundy's flagship product, a worthy representative of French gastronomy, is nothing new. And yet, it's always high-quality products that are produced here in Bassou, a few kilometers north of Auxerre. Whether Label Rouge, beech-smoked or cooked Burgundian or Alsatian-style, these little marvels are absolutely delicious. Enough to tantalize your taste buds and please all gourmands!

In the élevage of Joël Rogemont, you can find large grey bass, in parks outside. It offers direct sales all year round in cooked dishes, but also frozen products available on site; fresh products are purchased only on order. A good address, with quality products. Please note that the area can be visited all summer afternoon.

Welcome to the paradise of Sologne gastronomy! The farm was in ruins when the Crèche brothers took it over thirty years ago. Since 2014, the new owners, Isabelle and Vincent Cailleau, are keen to continue the tradition of their predecessors while developing the offer. You will be spoilt for choice between foie gras, preserved rillettes or duck pâté, duck or venison stew or duck salmis with chanterelles... The doors of their farm are also open, by appointment, if you wish to visit.

The association was created in 2006 to develop and promote saffron production in Touraine. Known since the Middle Ages, this spice has been reintroduced to the region, and now includes a number of producers committed to artisanal methods. You can discover their work at farmers' markets, local events and at their production sites. For cooking enthusiasts, a booklet of original recipes is available for sale.

La Maison de L'Aubrac welcomes visitors to their audiovisual and art spaces as well as to the gourmet restaurant, to help them discover Aveyron traditions. Head to the delicatessen: the interior of the store is a real living showcase. You will find all the products you have tasted during your visit to the Aveyron restaurants: cheeses, aligot, charcuterie, tripous, gentian and Aubrac tea, mountain honeys, jams, aromatic plants,beers and homemade lemonades or syrups and wines.

A charming setting featuring the instigator of this creation, Eugénie, pictured on the boxes presented in this boutique. A feast for the eyes and a real pleasure for the palate, with a plethora of macaroons made in the workshop. A beautiful story now revisited by Eugénie's grandson, Christophe. Here, there's no fat, no colorants, no preservatives and, of course, no flour. Just crushed, grated and ground dried fruits, such as almonds, hazelnuts and coconuts, which are "macaronned" with a little sugar and egg white.

The port of Folleux is a marina located between the port of Arzal and the port of Redon on the Vilaine, a river that flows through Ille-et-Vilaine before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. Created by the commune of Béganne, it became an inter-communal port in 1984, bringing together the communes of Nivillac and Péaule. The port can accommodate over 320 boats on pontoons and moorings. It has a slipway, a boatyard on either side of the shore, a restaurant on the Béganne side and picnic tables. Harbour facilities include toilet blocks, a crane or cart for handling, Wi-Fi, a recycling point, two free slipways, electric bicycles and rowing boats for crossing the Vilaine.

This wine merchant offers in-store purchases of Champagne wines. It is a winemaker-harvester-handler specializing in Champagne wines.

Member of the network "Welcome to the farm", Patricia and Eric Philipponneau raise bees in the poitevin bocage… These beekeepers will extract honey that will serve them to manufacture a range of natural and authentic products: spring honey harvested on the flower orchards in April, honey spreads with hazelnuts, gingerbread and the "Valais du Poitou", creamy honey of sunflower. You're invited to go there to find out how bees live, how a hive is built. It's possible to visit the transformation honey processing workshop… Retail sale on site, in the Futuroscope shops and country houses. Good tasting!

This small grocery store is full of local and foreign products. Cheeses, wines, organic fruits and vegetables, La Beldia offers a nice variety of handcrafted items selected for their quality. You will also find individual breads and pastries made on site with traditional French flours. For a lunch break, a large choice of sandwiches, pizzas and homemade sandwiches, always made with local products. An address where Quentin Bourse, winegrower in Azay-le-Rideau, wishes to encourage local products and respect for the environment.

Located in the hamlet of Les Granges, 800 meters from the village of Petit Mercey, Escargotière Bonvalot is a farm produce store in the Jura region, between Dole and Besançon. You can also visit the Escargotière Bonvalot store in Besançon, at 41 rue de Belfort, with specific opening times according to the season.

L'Escargole is the helicicultural farm of Jean-Claude and Marie-Laure Bizette, snail farmers in Melesse. Come visit their farm's large snail park and leave with the picturesque products they make at home, shells, mini-bites, crunchy snacks, short snacks and other snail-based treats. An atypical place to visit to discover an extraordinary breeding and taste one of the most famous French specialities abroad.

Lionel Lizon is a snail farmer, which means that he raises snails in the open air and transforms them! He breeds gros-gris, which he prepares and cooks in different ways. He offers a wide range of products: snails in court-bouillon, snails in shells à la bourguignonne, snails for the aperitif in jars and also frozen snails. For those who want to prepare them or those who just want to eat them... There is something for everyone!

Located in Isle-Saint-Georges, Gironde, the Laplagne Jean-Michel winery is a must for wine lovers. Here you can taste a wide selection of local wines and discover the different stages of wine production.