The best confectioners France

At Thonnard, we have specialized for ages in the cultivation and processing of angelica. The liqueur herb, a true specialty of Niort, is enjoyed in syrup, jam, candied fruit or cream. The house chocolates with angelica are very famous. The institution opens the doors of its production site in Niort (and its store) to individuals and groups, visits followed by a tasting session. We advise you to try it at least once!

The gustative quality of Christophe Lopez's caramel is recognized by all fine palates. Available as a spread or in soft caramel candies, it is not the only delicacy, as you will find in his shops, chocolates, marshmallows, homemade nougat and macaroons with multiple tastes and colours (pistachio, praline, champagne, rose, tangerine, blackcurrant, violet). Other shops are located in Les Herbiers, Les Halles des Sables-d'Olonne, Fontenay-le-Comte, Challans.

This brightly colored store on the outskirts of the Sanctuary is a real treat for the eyes. The shelves are overflowing with sweets, cakes and cookies. The specialty is the traditionally made shortbread and filled cookies with chocolate chips, fruit, or caramel. The navettes simply flavored with orange blossom are irresistible, but they are closely rivaled by nougats and caramels, in papillotes or squares. Marshmallows, caramelized almonds, organic spreads and meringues complete the range.

From their humble stall in Vimont to their premises in Argences, Aurélie and Ghislain are unstoppable. because "the delight is in the unexpected", this complicit duo has us salivating as they relax our zygomatic muscles. Chocolates, sweets, cookies and confectionery always fill the shelves. With the added bonus of a delicatessen and a tea room, it's the perfect place to sample the speciality of pommes au Calvados: a liquid heart of AOC calvados coated in homemade marzipan. Hmm! A merchant of happiness that puts you in a good mood.

Lovers of gourmet delicacies and quality local products, this shop is made for you! Of course, chocolates are in the spotlight, but don't miss the other regional specialities: Bar-le-Duc seeded redcurrant jams, marzipan with artisanal mirabelle plums, multicoloured macaroons, sparkling fruit as well as the unmissable Commercy madeleines! And in the summer, refresh yourself with their delicious home-made ice creams and succumb to the twenty or so flavours that the shop has to offer.

The Art Nouveau inspired façade, created by Louis Jarrier at the beginning of the ^20th century for the Rochefort pharmacy, is listed as a historical monument. Today it is the setting for the Moinet confectionery, founded in 1852 and whose colors are worn by Elisabeth Moinet-Michaille. Originally from Vichy, the house is known for its beneficial pastilles, in bulk or in pretty vintage boxes. On the shelves, fruit jellies, candy canes, iced candies, chocolates and more unusual, a chocolate bar with Vichy pastilles chips!

It's a scent that leaves no one indifferent and takes you right back to childhood. As you walk past Monsieur Praline's store, your nostrils are flooded with the delicious aroma of these sweet treats, which are also available here in savory versions. A cone of pralines will delight you as you continue your stroll around Cassis. Unless you prefer the other products sold in the store: boxes of pralines in different sizes, boxes of calissons personalized with Provencal words, cookies and even sundae from the ice cream machine to enjoy in the height of summer. A gourmet boutique from A to Z that's hard not to fall for.

Apior is a family business specializing in honey sweets. All our honey confectionery products are available from our factory store. You'll find hard and filled candies, lollipops, nougats, caramels... Everything is made on site in the workshop. Lollipops are sorted by hand and packaged using an artisanal process and a machine dating back over 50 years. A veritable Ali Baba's cave for gourmets of all ages! Try our speciality, Mielline, filled with 30% honey, a real treat!

In an old farmhouse, a pretty and well-stocked store, an exhibition space and a production laboratory are united. Philippe Juilhard, chocolate maker and confectioner with three stores in Champeix, Saint-Amant-Tallende and Mont-Dore, has taken over this Orcival institution. On the spot, thanks to a film, explanatory panels, old machines, molds and tools exposed... Discover the secrets of confectionery and chocolate making before tasting them!

Deliciousness and magic: this is the program of Sorbet Citron (formerly Mr Simms). Here, chocolates, caramels, licorice, marshmallows, jelly beans are in the spotlight, always in the Harry Potter theme. The magic potions made of lemonade, the chocogrenouilles and the surprise sweets remind it, for the connoisseurs. The English sweets and, for the more daring, the chocolates, cakes and cereal bars with insects remain current, as well as the Harry Potter corner with goodies. A store that enchants young and old!

History: It is in 1925 that is born the nougat factory "Nougat Masure", whose production is intended for the fairgrounds and the cinemas. Ten years later, the sign is transferred to its current address, rue du Pré Catelan in La Madeleine. The activity expanded with the work of cooked sugar, and so did the reputation of the company. Mr. Poudanson, at the origin of the company, worked for years to train the confectioners of the Meert house in Lille, as well as three of his sons who worked there until their retirement. During half a century, the nougatery continues to turn, with ups and downs, and tasty culinary inventions as the nougat without almond and "the cream of nougat"! But in the years 1980, the wind turns and the activity beats of the wing. It is thanks to the resumption by the company Afchain in 2011, that the confectionery finds its letters of nobility. The workshop is then put in the standards and the adjoining house is renovated. Today, the nougat factory opens its doors to the public. Groups of visitors are welcomed on the first floor, companies on the second floor, for seminars with a guided tour.

Products: Except for the almonds, all the products used to make the confectionery are local: the eggs come from Arras, the sugar from Thumeries, the glucose syrup from Lestrem. The cooking is traditional and in copper cauldrons.

Advantages: The nougat can be bought directly at the shop-factory, even without visiting the shop. Possibility of tasting the different products before purchase.

Futé: To visit the workshop, visits of 1 hour, are proposed on reservation only (group rate, 15 people minimum, 4 € per adult and 3 € for the less than 14 years; individual rate: 6€ per adult and 5€ less than 14 years). At the end of the visit, a gift is offered to each visitor. And don't forget the tasting! A real favorite!

Driven by a passion for the product, tradition and Catalan culture, André Labaume opened La Confiserie du Tech in 1964. In his small workshop, he devised the recipes for the delicious Rousquille, then Croquants and Tourons. Today, it's the third generation that perpetuates and perpetuates tradition, while bringing a breath of modernity to the company. Rousquille, croquant and touron are still on the shelves, but other delicacies such as caprice, délice, couronne and mantecados have been added.

A festive event planned and nothing to offer your guests? Head for the dragée Médicis specialist in La Neuvillette. At Sourire de Reims, you'll find a fine selection of dragées, chocolates, teas, coffees and local specialties, perfect for any occasion. The dragées come in many colors and varieties: a delicious duo of caramel and fleur de sel, quiriga almonds with nougat cream, garrigue olives with a surprising green coating... And a second boutique has just opened at 13 rue de la Garenne in Champigny!

This pretty little shop offers the sweets of the Vicens house, a Catalan institution. This family business has been making artisanal turrón since 1775! The turrón, or turrón in Spanish, is a delicacy that was traditionally served at Christmas dinner. As generations pass by, it has become a habit to enjoy them all year round! The original recipe contains 70% marzipan, with honey, sugar and egg added. In the Vicens shop, you will find tablets made in the pure tradition, but also many other tempting variations. Feel free to ask the owner for advice and information.

It is in this confectionery, which has kept its soul of yesteryear, that we find the famous Vichy Basin lozenge in aniseed, lemon, orange and mint versions. Also sugar-free and in mini-pastilles. Moinet produces a whole range of products resulting from a unique know-how passed down from generation to generation. Pure Auvergne pulp fruit pastes, melting mints, caramels, pralines, nougats, berlingots, real gums, fruit fondant, fruit gels, cooked sugars, chocolates, marrons glacés, candies from the Bourbonnais region and Vichy barley sugars.

The paradise of candy lovers! Here at the factory of the Confiserie Bonté, confectioner since 1860, you can visit and watch the manufacture of the famous berlingots of our childhood, chocolates, nougats, lollipops, violets, honey pastilles, caramels, liquorice, marshmallows, sour... The real berlingots from Nantes are made the old fashioned way and are worked by hand. With a choice of 500 references, sweets in bulk, at particularly interesting prices.

At Berlingot Marinette, all the flavor of the candies of the past is declined through fruity or chocolate recipes which make the happiness of the children and the adults. In the store, you will discover no less than 25 flavors: from blackcurrant to licorice, passing by pine sap, chestnut, cola or salted butter caramel: one does not know where to turn! The "crotte d'isard" is a confectionery that Eric will make you discover! This chocolate-covered almond is perfectly in line with the sweets for which we run, indeed!

La Petite Friande, a well-known company in Rém, began marketing Bouchon au marc de champagne in 1951, which has since become the speciality of the city of the Sacres. Here, the know-how and the passion for chocolate are passed on from father to son. The Jubin family concocts delicious sweets in their workshop. Chocolate ganaches from all over the world, fruity pralines, home-made macaroons, pure fruit marshmallows... The collection of delicacies of this Petite Friande is not lacking in inventiveness and promises beautiful moments for the amateurs.

A real temptation for gourmets, Les Péchés Gourmands in Perpignan offers a delicious selection of handmade, natural sweets, highlighting the flavors of Provence and the Mediterranean. From berlingots from Carpentras to almond calissons from Provence, not forgetting mantecaos, navettes and rousquilles from Catalonia, it's a treat for the taste buds. Jérôme, the passionate owner, will guide you through this marvellous tasting of sweets, fruit jellies, nougats and other delicacies. It's an unmissable destination for lovers of authentic, gourmet sweets.

For over 20 years, this organic confectionery factory, in collaboration with the horticulturists of the Grasse pool of the chocolates, biscuits and sweets based on natural flavours of flowers. You trouve des sugars flavoured with pink, violet, the poppyseed, the mimosa but also confit and the frost of flowers.

The shop "Méluzine" markets dragees and especially, creates the containers according to your wishes for weddings, baptisms... You can even make you make your table decorations for large days.

A local artisanal specialty since 1928, Val lollipops now come in 50 flavors: salted butter, pomme d'amour, speculoos, yuzu... Baked the old-fashioned way in copper basins, shaped by hand and chisel as in the past, the lollipops are now made in the workshop-boutique in the port of Dahouët, from where you can also observe the production process. The company also makes and sells a variety of delicious Breton cakes and handcrafted kouign-amanns.

Another nougat icon, Suprem'nougat, has been operating since 1900. The factory can be visited, mainly as a guided tour with a specialist on hand to answer your questions. In the store, you'll find all kinds of nougats, including traditional (36% almonds from Provence, chestnut honey) and Montélimar (30% almonds, 25% lavender honey, 2% pistachios), as well as a wide range of flavors, from chestnut to blueberry and from fig to pistachio. The second star of the house: the calisson!

DÉLICES DE CONSTANCE is a true paradise for chocolate lovers in Auch. This boutique offers a memorable gourmet experience that will take you back to childhood, with its top-quality handcrafted creations and Michel Cluizel's famous compositions. From sublimated cocoa beans to homemade macarolates and calissons, everything is here to delight your taste buds. Sophie, the passionate manager, will share her expertise and love of good products with you. DÉLICES DE CONSTANCE is a must for gourmets who want to enjoy delicious, original chocolates.

The elegant Damande boutique is one of the city's most charming stores. A true gourmet concept-store, it offers all kinds of quality products to delight the taste buds, which you can taste on the spot! On the sweet side, cookies, chocolates, chocolate-covered almonds and nougats; on the savory side, olive oils, Camargue rice and salt, and bullfighting terrines. A thousand reasons to indulge! You'll find many regional references, like the famous Petit Duc calissons. The welcome is also exquisite! A delicious address!

Confectionery. A douaisienne institution where you buy candy and gifts.

The specialist in chocolate-covered nuts, based in Carlux since 1972, exports its chocolate bonbons with walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, coffee, chestnuts, prunes, grapes, mango paste... No animal ingredients or fats (so no milk chocolate, which is vegan-friendly): pure cocoa butter. The delicacies are called Nogailloux or Truffinoix for the nuts, but the estate continues to make regional aperitifs based on nuts and brandies (plum, williams pear), which was its original activity.

Jérôme Brasseur, a chocolatier with a passion for sugar modelling, has found the right way to express himself by creating Au Pays des Sucreries, a world where flavours, colors and shapes know no bounds. Are you looking for personalized lollipops or sweets to enhance an event or to give to a loved one? Jérôme Brasseur listens to your needs and preferences to design themed products that suit you. Birthdays, Easter, Christmas - every celebration now has its own set of appropriate lollipops.

Since 1949, Le Chaudron d'Or has been making nougat in copper cauldrons with lavender honey from the Drôme, almonds from Spain, pistachios from Sicily, and vanilla from Reunion. You must try the dominos of soft nougats coated with fine chocolates to vary the pleasures. We like the iron boxes with retro designs filled with wrapped nougats that can be easily recycled. The house also offers an online sales service. If you want to see the making of the chocolates, it's in the morning... And what a smell!

The abbey of Valognes is a liturgical place, a notable architectural ensemble, but not only. Indeed, the Benedictine sisters also have a place where they make products that are worth being known: delicious fruit pastes. You should know that their recipe is well-guarded! Guaranteed without colouring, without preservatives, with natural fruit flavours, you will have the choice between ten traditional flavours, with or without chocolate coating, they are just perfect! Many other products are also available for sale in the shop.

Opened in 1830, the Brémond confectionery is Aix's first and oldest calisson factory, located at the time on Cours Mirabeau. Brémond calissons are distinguished by their aromas and textures: candied melon, crushed almonds, candied orange and lemon, and the melting/cracking properties of powdered sugar. The company also produces other sweets, including the famous olivettes, chocolate almonds, candied fruits and marrons glacés, as well as savoury products, oils and tapenades. A treasure trove of local gifts!

It was in the village of... Puyricard, in Provence, that a Belgian couple opened the eponymous chocolate factory. Since then, the company has flourished in the South and beyond, with three stores in Paris, including this one, located behind the Lutétia hotel. As proof of its undeniable know-how, in 2010 it was the first food company to obtain the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (Living Heritage Company) label. Handmade chocolate, calissons d'Aix rich in almonds - the other specialty of the company - lemon or orange peel, marrons glacés, caramels... You will find it hard to resist.

Since 1885, Maison Barnier has been perpetuating the tradition from father to son in order to offer quality confectionery. At that time, Marius and Pierre Barnier created a company of artisanal candy manufacturing: Bonbons Suisses. It was bought in 1900 by Eugène Callet who gave it its final name. Made in a traditional way, the candies are concocted with natural products to reproduce the authentic taste of childhood sweets: frills, berlingots, candy canes... But also dragees, chocolates, caramels, lollipops, fruit jellies...

Val d'Igny Abbey is a monastery of Cistercian nuns located in the commune of Arcis-le-Ponsart, in the Marne département of France. Founded in 1127 by monks from Clairvaux, the abbey has been destroyed several times during its history, but has always been rebuilt. On site, visitors can learn about the abbey's history, community and spirituality. Chocolate is also available from the abbey store. For art lovers, an exhibition of watercolours is currently on show in the abbey store this summer. Finally, Val d'Igny Abbey also offers a special program for young women aged between 21 and 35, with a gap year at the abbey.

Les Gourmandises boutique in Coulommiers is a real treasure. Corinne offers a warm welcome in a cosy setting. Her shelves are overflowing with artisanal products from the four corners of France: honeys, jams, sweets, chocolates and teas. The "cosy chic" tearoom, a natural extension of the boutique, offers a convivial atmosphere where you can sample delicacies, buy gift boxes, plush toys or postcards.

A few steps from the beach of Palmyra, but also present on the site of Luna Park, this famous confectionery is the queen of the berlingot and the love apple for 20 years. Crêtes, waffles, frills, ice creams, everything is homemade. The waffle way in Brussels, with hot chocolate is a real sin… the recipe comes from the grandmother of the main place.

White and black nougat are the jewels of the production of this sign, but you will also find old-fashioned macaroons, calissons, spreads, old-fashioned marshmallows, chocolate-covered almonds. During the summer, you will not be able to resist the artisanal ice creams with lavender, calisson, nougat. The store has preserved its period setting, with a small museum of kitchen utensils (18th-19th century), including roasting objects, candy boxes, old butter churns, not forgetting the huge pestle to grind almonds.

Very nice shop at a lively pedestrian crossroads in the city centre, opposite the café Le Flamand. You will notice the magnificent woodwork inside, which tells you about the age of the place. The shop sells essentially one of the great specialities of the city: the Dragée, manufactured by the Pécou establishments since decades. Here in all its forms and packaging, joined by the Noble Chocolate and other delicious delicacies, it makes this place look like an enormous (and luxurious!) candy store. Also available online on the website.

When Edith and Michel Noyez created Noisettine du Médoc in the 1970s, they had no idea that it would soon be found in numerous stalls throughout the region, as well as in Paris and Belgium! But that's hardly surprising, since everyone loves this delicacy, the recipe for which dates back to 1649... It's a generous hazelnut baked in a homemade syrup and coated with a puffed caramel. For a taste of this speciality, visit the store in Bordeaux or the boutique-musée in Blaignan, which organizes tasting tours.

And also Belgian chocolates for amateurs. This time, it is the brand Arosa. In addition, you can enjoy some sweets. What should be fun for young and younger?

We take a small bag to be able to serve in the sweets that are full of sweets from our childhood. Some teddy bears, some Tagada strawberries, a pinch of fries, another teddy bear of all colors and a handful of réglisses.

At the Eux chocolate radius we love symphonies with almond paste, tendres ganaches in bergamot or cointreau and orange, douces with sweet spices, emeralds with pistachio and nougats with milk chocolate. In the fruity pastry range you are literally cracking for the Tropik, a sumptuous dessert made of vanilla vanilla and fruits of wood, a mango foam and a mona biscuit. And as the famous house also offers small salty things, so do the right thing and take one of these delicious poultry and morels. To enjoy a race with a yellow wine from the Jura. And die (gently anyway) of pleasure. This is the fetish word of this great craftsman. And by contamination, it becomes ours.

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.

The production of the berlingots is totally artisanal and the ingredients that compose them are 100% natural. Several times a day, the master of the place makes the famous candies under your eyes and allows you to taste these delights for free. More than 40 flavors are available: chocolate, thyme-sage-rosemary, honey, nougat-pistachio, verbena, lavender, coconut, poppy, angelica mint, caramel-almond, apricot-mandarin, passion fruit... The store "La Reine Margot" also offers other local or homemade sweets.

At the end of the little cul-de-sac opposite the town hall, Confiserie des Gaves revives the flavors of yesteryear with its handcrafted sweets. The establishment is renowned for its respect for traditional know-how. It offers a wide range of sweets: fruity, chocolate or almond-flavored Gave pebbles, sweets made with local honey, pine sap, violets and blueberries, mint pastilles and old-fashioned "pyréline" pralines. Bean berlingots, a unique specialty, will surprise your taste buds. A true celebration of tastes from the past!

Gilles, national finalist and PACA winner of the Talents de l'Artisanat Competition, welcomes you to his new boutique which has left rue Pied-de-Ville to settle on boulevard Gassendi at n°34. His shop and laboratory have gained in visibility and space, but the place remains cosy as well as its tea room, coffee shop and recently ice-cream parlour. Here, fresh buttons are highlighted, which can be personalized endlessly, a text, a photo, a message. The result is amazing! Everything is done on site in a traditional way. The address is relatively recent but we are already rushing around. Gilles prepares six to eight flavours a week. Taste the caramel salted butter macaroon. A delight! You can enjoy them on site in the tea room or take them away. Also, a delicatessen corner gives pride of place to local products, nougat, terrine, jam, tea... Without moderation!

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!