The best confectioners France

In chestnut country, Marrons Imbert are king! Everyone here knows them, and everyone loves them. The adventure began in the 1920s with Gustave Imbert. Manufacturing processes have been modernized, but the method remains traditional. The company's main distinctive feature is the systematic peeling and sorting of chestnuts before cooking, to remove skins, tannins and damaged fruit for a quality product. Imbert also uses chestnuts to make purees and creams: 800 tonnes of chestnuts a year are kneaded in the Aubenas factory.

It's a temple of greed! Alain Batt has been delighting us for over 40 years. The house offers a beautiful range of chocolates and especially the traditional Bergamotes de Nancy, sugared almonds, nougats, cookies. Currently suspended, the visit of the chocolate factory is a must. For a little more than an hour, some specialties will be made in front of you including the Bergamot de Nancy and the Macaroon de Nancy before tasting. A tasty and friendly moment.

Ariège is a big producer of these dried fruits. This home-made confectionery and local speciality is made of a tender meringue envelope perfumed with vanilla filled with a creamy hazelnut praline, the size of a walnut and very light. The praline is made from local hazelnuts. Flocons can be found in pastry shops, bakeries and delicatessens in the department and in Toulouse. Variations: Flocons with violet and Flocons with spread, a delight of delicately crunchy, deliciously melting Flocons...

The Perrin confectionery was created in 1950. If at the beginning, the confectionery made was only cooked sugar candies (bergamots, violets, poppies...) and sold to professionals, it opened to the public and knew how to diversify its products since the 1970s. Even today, the main specialities of the company are the jelly confectionery with assorted flavours and mirabelle plums and the bergamots. For those who wish to celebrate an event, the confectionery offers sugared almonds packed in charming boxes and other decorative objects.

Greedy sins is a very greedy boutique, right on the sides of the place du Capitole. Here you can buy sweets that will suit everyone, both small and large. For example: pacifiers, candies, cakes, caramel, champagne and chocolates. You can also find in this Ali Baba cave jams and honey, syrups, cookies, as well as teas and herbal teas. Above all, you will find delicious delicacies delicacies, to offer for example, as candies and thés teas, pink bricks of Toulouse, Toulouse tile to praline… Nice gift ideas in perspective!

Right in the centre, nobody can miss this colourful shop... especially not the kids! The specialty of the house? Sweets, of course! Berlingots and lollipops in as many different colours as their shapes jostle in this space! Violet, banana, strawberry, fruit cocktail, round or twisted? The sizes are also so varied that for the largest of the lollipops, you wouldn't know how to eat them! The taste and texture are not deceiving: all these sweets are made by hand on the spot.

From the name of a gourmet specialty, made of a crunchy layer of cooked sugar that contains, oh my, a delicious soft chocolate caramel. This sweetness takes its name from the sovereign of Ethiopia, Negeus Menelik, who was visiting at the time of its creation in 1902. This house, founded in 1893, has kept a frontage with a remarkable cachet with its antique formwork, while the interior decoration is of oriental style. Other specialties make the gourmets fall in love: chocolate candies, pralines, spreads, confectionery, fruit jellies.

It is impossible not to be tempted by the Miron de la Tour, a clever home-made composition, based on nougatine, praline, almond paste and candied lemon, not to be confused with the eponymous aperitif based on sweet lemon and dry white wine. A speciality on sale at Michel Galante's at 16, rue de la République (visit and tasting), but also on sale at the Pâtisserie Vermare (at 32, rue Aristide-Briand). Miron Boisson is on sale in the oldest shop in town, Maison Gonin, 20, rue d'Italie.

Chabert et Guillot has been perpetuating the nougat tradition in Montélimar since 1848. While many brands have taken the gamble of expanding their product range, Chabert et Guillot has decided to concentrate on what has made the local confectionery so successful: nougat and nothing but nougat. You'll find 4 stores in Montélimar, the one at this address being the factory outlet where you'll find more than 30 varieties of nougat in a wide range of colors and flavors.

A must in the city! Founded in 1850, the Lalonde house owes its creation to Lilig, who notably developed the Nancy bergamot. Albert Lalonde took over the shop in 1901 and created the famous crackers in 1936, then the duchesses of Lorraine in 1950. Over the years, Lalonde's reputation in confectionery, chocolate and pastry-making has been consolidated, thanks in particular to its traditional know-how and the impeccable quality of its products.

The Léontine chocolate factory offers small chocolate sweets that will charm many. Several types of chocolates are offered and nicely arranged in a box that you compose yourself. These are far from ordinary chocolates, which will delight all gourmands as the choice is so wide. The shop also offers various decorative objects and gift boxes. Perfect to please or to offer yourself a little pleasure. A little extra: free delivery is available. The welcome is friendly and warm!

Chewable in a Manon White of Léonidas is a little other depiction of the Mort. The pleasure remains intact, despite the years (and the kilos). A taste never equalled, an inimitable crunchy. The chocolate range remains frightening. Temptation is all the time. A ballotin of 250 grams, 500, 750, more? True torture. The mark remains in the hearts. That is its great strength. You have it in your mouth, the good taste of chocolate?

For 4 generations this company, created in 1880 by Epiphanie, the great-great-grandmother of Sylvie Parent (who currently manages the company) has been at the service of gourmandise. The calisson is the flagship product of the company. Classic, it is available in several flavors and is coated with chocolate at Christmas and Easter. The nougats, another speciality, have pretty names: Mister Nougat Caramel, Madam Victorine, Miss Vanilla, Mister Hard... Fruidoraix, Also the traditional orange blossom shuttles, and shuttles with olives, Espelette pepper or caramel chips. The ancestral recipes are respected but we will not know more, the factory is not visited.

An exceptional house that now has three addresses in Montélimar, in the city centre and on the outskirts. Here you can find good cakes, bread, chocolate, and of course nougat: from traditional recipes to more daring creations. During the Christmas holidays, you can even order the basket of the 13 Christmas desserts. The whole is run by a pastry chef-chocolate maker-confectioner awarded a diploma of Best Worker in France. The plus: possibility to order online. Good to know: the boutique route de Marseille is open 7 days a week.

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.

Created in 1957, this confectionery has created a range of high quality caramels, made from carefully selected raw materials and elaborated from audacious recipes. All products are certified Origine France Garantie. The speciality remains caramel, made from butter, cream and milk worked in slow cooking for smoothness, without adding preservatives. We also find chocolates, liqueurs, fruit jellies and pralines. To find out more, it is possible to visit the chocolate and confectionery workshops.

So Candy is not a candy sign like the others: its corner of American products never stops surprises fans with new weekly arrivals. In addition to confectionery itself, there are some very striking sweetened or salted products: Fanta to unfound perfumes elsewhere (grapes, apple, pineapple, mango, cherry), Jack Daniel's barbecue sauce, unknown Alsace cereal, cheeseburger Pringles, cheeseburger, strawberry pastry, fluff (marshmallow paste to spread), Reese's cake in butter of peanut… So many irresistible curiosities! At So Candy, you can even find the famous Harry Potter candies whose dubious tastes delight the farcers. At the bottom of the shop, we remain baba in front of the famous Colorworks, a giant distributor the M & M'S… by color! So Candy offers more than 200 varieties of bulk candies, including marshmallows, melts, rudders, bambinos, Tubble Gum (tube gum) and other gum delicacies. For a nice gift, think about the compositions: A bouquet or cake of candy, it gets out of the ordinary and it always does its little effect!

Confiserie Delisvosges makes candies with natural products. They are made in an artisanal way with the tools and shapes of the belle époque. You can find the famous candies of the Vosges with honey, fir buds, eucalyptus... There are also other sweets such as caramelized dried fruits, fruit jellies, lemon, raspberry or violet candies... The factory opens its doors to let you discover the evolution of confectionery from 1850 to today. Our favourite flavours can be found in the shop.

It is to wonder if the nougat would not be born in Auvergne. Paul Lopez, grandson of a pastry chef, has used his creativity and talent to offer an exceptional nougat, made with good products: lavender honey, almonds from Provence, pistachios from Sicily... The nougats are tender and tasty. Some of them won an Epicure d'or in 2016 and 2018. The latest, L'Harmonie, mixes matcha, goji berries and puffed buckwheat. This young Clermont-Ferrand native is developing other gourmet recipes like old-fashioned macaroons (Epicure d'argent 2017).

Facing Monoprix, not far from Jaude, this small store full of colors seduces children and their parents. Here, candies of all colors and shapes are offered, to satisfy all desires. With more than 400 varieties of candies, the choice is vast! They are also surprising compositions for all the great occasions or simply for the pleasure of offering or tasting. The display cabinets showcase numerous creations, in the shape of a bouquet, a heart, a cake or even a pizza, which are a great incentive to push the door!

Since 1920, family-run Le Roy René has been delighting us with specialties straight from the South of France, in Aix-en-Provence. Directly inspired by our Good King René, who, according to legend, received at his third wedding a smile-shaped confection, commonly known today as a calisson, a mixture of crushed almonds, candied melon placed on a wafer leaf, topped with icing. But this is not the only speciality on offer: there are all kinds of nougats (pistachio, black, white), shortbread cookies and fruit jellies, all handmade to preserve traditional know-how.

Balaruc-Les-Bains curistes no longer know where to head since 1989! Shared between the thermal spa and the Cure Gourmande, it is a true cure of youth, what I say, which has developed year after year, to open a new "station" of sweets in the ramparts of Aigues-Mortes. All the sweets and biscuits in the South of France have come to this shop. Besides the cure it is a real return in childhood that we offer the gourmet cure with its chocolates, caramel, nougats, calissons, madeleines, old in and other delicious sweets. Thanks to the products offered here, it is a little the taste of the holidays you bring to your home and that you can offer to your loved ones in nice boxes and other boxes, to be tasted without moderation. Your dentist will be happy!

It's impossible to miss François Rocca-Serra's famous confections and ice creams on the Isle of Beauty! Le Corail de Bonifacio, a delicacy that this taste enthusiast initially created for a public in short pants, revives the subtle flavors of yesteryear, with almonds from Thierry Nouvion de San Giuliano, candied oranges and lemons from his own production, and honey from Nathalie Bourras-Verhasselt to delight our amazed taste buds! So come one, come all, children and adults alike!

Installed since 1827 on the promenade of the port of Le Pouliguen, the Confiserie Mignon perpetuates, with the daughter of the current owners, the 6th generation of confectioners with the same artisanal recipes. The manufacture is done in front of the public: observe these niniches which are worked only for you! Attention, with almost 35 flavors, it will be very difficult for you not to crack. Other flagship confectionery, berlingots (8 to 10 flavors), caramels (hard and soft) with Guérande salt, nougat, nougatine ... The other shop offers ice creams and waffles.

Between farming, the inn and the reception rooms, Valérie has no time to dawdle, especially as she also concocts flower and rice preserves and jams that tickle the taste buds of gourmets. These sweet treats are the delight of guests at breakfast on this large, typically Provencal estate. From March to December, Valérie also offers B&B, camping and mazet accommodation in this enchanting part of the world, as well as farmhouse snacks to delight young and old alike.

It was here in 1761 that this gourmet saga began, with Pierre-Jean Bernard opening a store. His companion Marie-Adelaïde made it prosper and gentrified what was then a grocery store, which in 1810 was named "A la mère de famille", in reference to the mother of the family. The fashionable grocery specialised in confectionery from 1856. In 1984, the storefront was listed as a historic monument. Taken over in 2000 by the Dolfi family, who continue the tradition, the chocolates, ice creams and sweets of this illustrious house continue to delight connoisseurs.

At the foot of the Priory and in a more than charming setting, you can taste the famous Charitois, a specialty of nearly 100 years, soft caramel with chocolate or coffee, coated with cooked sugar; taste the Pavé du Prieuré, the Muscadines, blackcurrant pearls and enjoy a homemade hot chocolate... What delights! In summer, go through the small door near the porch, and a charming courtyard will welcome you to savor the homemade ice cream. A house not to be missed in the city of the Book for its local specialities.

Founded in 2014 by Alban Bisch, a true enthusiast, the Alsatian brand Bisch de Bruche now boasts four charming boutiques. A tenor of nougat, gingerbread and artisanal, traditional confectionery, Alban offers a vast range of sweet treats to bring back from your Alsatian sojourn... or to devour selfishly without pouting your pleasure! We salute highly original recipes such as gingerbread with chocolate, kirsch and cherries, or orange and Cointreau, and red fruit nougat served by the slice.

Delicatessen, regional products, tea cellar... A great epicurean address! This recently-renovated boutique with the "Goûtez l'Ardèche" label offers more than just nougats and chestnut products... In addition to a wide selection of local products, Au Bon Bec offers, as its name suggests, a choice of old-fashioned sour sweets, as well as chocolates. The welcome is as soft and sweet as the sweets on display. You'll also find the Kiub brand, with its mugs, coffee cups, isothermal water bottles, activity aprons for children...

Les Douceurs de Rohan will make your life easier! The range of proposals is important. Homemade marshmallows with fruit flavors such as yuzu, citron, but also tiramisu, tonka beans, you'll have trouble deciding! For the fruit pastes, it's the same dilemma... The marshmallows have been coated with an excellent chocolate coating, the chocolate meringues are light and crunchy, and to brighten up your toast or your desserts, opt for the caramel spreads. The merchant site has other sweets that will delight you.

Ali's cave could have been called the attractive boutique near the Talensac market. Dedicated to the culinary specialties and gastronomy of the region, you will find to drink, eat, offer! This beautiful space is first a journey in the past, which has not known these white iron boxes illustrated by this little boy encasquetté and his great cape to wind or his bowl of of the Pornic on which one can have his first name burned. Make no mistake, the adult you are not forgotten, far from it. To quote all the products available is an impossible task, but the amateurs of Troussepinette, Malvasia or Nantillais will find their elixir. Lovers of Salt will find Belle Erp products, fish soups, salicorne, small Mouzillon and of course salt from Guérande… And for sweet sweets, treat yourself to caramels in salted butter, Bonbons'O Salt candy and jams to the éclats of small butter, boxes of Small Butter, Patties Saint-Michel or the nantais cake, from the Hearts of Butter to Caramel butter, from rigolettes, from the sampled in. The boutique offers a variety of coffrets of nantaises delicacies that are already ready or to be realised. It also sells stickers and crockery at the comfort Breizh. Here are gift ideas for yourself or offer all the year, it's LU and it's seen!

Benoît is not only renowned for its chocolates, but also for its macaroons. Here, the famous almond cake comes in a wide range of flavors: vanilla, chocolate, coffee, rose, praline, caramel, tea, raspberry, blackcurrant, pistachio, lemon... There's something for every taste. And let's not forget the other delicacies on offer: chocolate pastries, tarts, cakes, jams, marrons glacés, calissons or coffee and hot chocolate, as the place also doubles as a tea room. A moment of delight not to be missed!

This artisanal factory on a human scale reveals Breton sweets not to be missed. This Breton cookie maker and confectioner is a reference in the region and its traditional sweets have been awarded "Best sweets in France". The family tradition reigns over these delicacies since 1920 and offers specialties such as berlingots Guénaots, lollipops chiquettes, potatoes of Saint-Malo, seagull eggs or caramels with salted butter cooked in a copper pot. These little delights and the salted butter cookies will delight all palates.

A veritable Limoux institution since 1936, Maison Bor perpetuates ancestral know-how in the manufacture of nougat and chocolates. Let yourself be tempted by their specialty, the Tap de Limoux, a small chocolate made with Chardonnay marc in the shape of a champagne cork, or by the unrivalled creaminess of their nougats, made in copper cauldrons. The range of nougats is as varied as the packaging, sold individually, in boxes or in sachets. All our specialties are made with local, high-quality raw materials.

Manufacturer of dried fruit for aperitifs for 35 years for the attention of shops and individuals, one minute from the church of the least. In Toulouse, it is one of the rare specialists in dry fruit, dry vegetables and spices, more than 60 varieties. They are also used in pastry products, sugar, aromas, fondants, glucose, coolers, chocolates, pralins, hazelnuts, candied fruits, almond paste, etc. and accessories, decorations, fuss, gâteaux, plicate, etc., A wealth that passers-by does not always occur because of the absence of windows.

Sylvain, artisan patissier, chocolatier, ice-cream maker and confectioner, and his team work with raw materials selected for their high quality, in short circuits. A wide choice of products is on offer: personalized entremets, lemon cakes, candied fruit, dark chocolate, home-made frangipane cakes, palm-oil-free spreads, chocolate assortments, Christmas logs and entremets, home-made ice creams, eclairs, pièces montées, etc.

La Chocolaterie is a "Breizhilian" story, which led three passionate Bretons to grow their own cocoa in Brazil, in the state of Bahia, and then process it in Landerneau, in their workshops. Their cocoa, known as Ouro Verde, is of exceptional quality, and is showcased in the creations of their artisan chocolatiers. Creamy ganaches and subtle pralines delight gourmets, not forgetting the famous Lunes de Landerneau. Futé: La Manufacture, in St Thonan, invites you to discover the secrets of chocolate making!

L'Ambroisie, created by Alain Le Bourdoulou in 1997, is a true Chalonnaise institution. Renovated in 2021, the boutique, its façade and the tea room make the moment even more precious. While the macaroons and pastries are exceptional, each season has its own not-to-be-missed rendezvous. The galettes are one of them, so unique are the frangipane and the recipe. Another of L'Ambroisie's talents is its chocolates. An address that sublimates the classics of our gourmet subconscious.

The reputation of Florian's sweets is no longer to be done. It has become a real institution to the point where the institution has improvisé: Museum of Confectionery. Take your ends of choux visit the sugar workshops where the fruits of candied fruit, jams, flowers, sweet sweet and leafy flowers, homemade chocolate: they will not return. They will have their eyes full and full of their stomach if you agree to offer them a small bag of confectionery.

This is where we make the finest dragées, a Verdun specialty created (by chance) in 1220. The factory tour is extremely interesting (audio-guided, 35 min.). You'll learn about all the stages involved in making dragées, before moving on to discover the museum, with its rich collection of objects and archives. You'll finish with the apotheosis: the confectionery, where you'll find the whole catalog: trendy multicolored sugared almonds, all choco, chocolate-coated, shells... Visits and tastings are free all year round.

Amandes et Caramel is a gourmet adventure that began in 2016 on the markets of Larmor-Baden and Arradon. Sylvie, a native of Brittany in love with her homeland, and her daughter Alizée set out to create sweet treats. One thing led to another, and by 2020 the project had grown into an artisanal cookie factory with a gourmet grocery store, a production workshop and a tea room where you can discover some of their many sweet and savory products, all of which combine creativity and respect for tradition.

Notice to candy lovers, in the rue du Puits Neuf, Chez Nounours is an address you will find hard to resist. Notice to parents of little gourmands, this store may seem like a little paradise at snack time. In their store specialized in the sale of candies of all colors, Lydie and Kevin make the eyes of the young and the old shine. People come to fill up on sweets and they appreciate the pleasant welcome. For birthdays or other occasions, the couple makes impressive candy creations.

They are: loukoums, calissons, Belgian gingerbread breads, cakes of candy, marrons marrons and especially chocolates. It is the spécialisté of the house: chocolates are made from raw materials that will be produced in accordance with tradition. You can make your sugar and your creations for the holidays. The house has confidence, it has existed since 1975.

Chocolates, ice and sugar: Jeff in Bruges, recognised for the quality of his products, excels in these areas. Each boutique, which is recognisable to the turquoise colour, features attractive windows and character. At Thionville, it's the staff from the Maison Martial. The house, founded in 1924, joined Jeff in Bruges in 1997. Conseils and smiling welcome, you can taste the quality of sugar made from the best varieties of almonds (Avola, Princess). And then: how do I resist the assortment of proposed sugar containers, all more cute than others? For future pressés brides, you can order the sugar and their containers online. A must!

This is a perfect place to build or rediscover childhood memories. Antan of yesteryear, chocolates, sugar… If the shop is small, the choice and quality are huge and we reserve a wonderful welcome. What you sell does not look like the candy you find in modern and trendy shops. The place is timeless, therefore timeless, and it is necessarily smashed. The compositions are beautiful. This is a recommended address to choose a little gift, because here the candy will be just as to as the flowers, unlike Mr Brel!

More melting than the creamy caramels of Normandy, the texture and flavours of Benoît Lorlut's caramels make them unique. If the plain version is a treat, our palates are convinced by the original flavours (blackcurrant leaf, verbena, rose-litchi). The artisan has worked in several restaurants and was one of the youngest starred chefs in France. His creations are also recognized, such as his hazelnut praline spread, which received the Epicure d'or award in 2021. His products are on sale in several shops in Clermont-Ferrand and online.

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.