Where to buy bread cakes chocolates ice cream Réunion

Installed a few meters from the Saint-Paul pond since 2001, this artisanal ice cream shop run by the Badts family is a real paradise for sweet tooths. Take a seat on the terrace to enjoy your treat: vacherin, ice cream cake, profiteroles, crepes, ice cream sundaes... Everything is homemade here! Find more than 70 flavours of ice creams and sorbets without gluten and without preservative, with the flavours of Reunion: vanilla of Sainte-Suzanne, passion, coconut, geranium, guava, sweet potato, honey ginger, tangor... Enough to delight all the palates!

A trendy little address in the town centre, in the shade of a small terrace away from the hustle and bustle. The Mafate Café offers typical Reunionese dishes, such as morning rice, and good "lontan" cakes: chocolate sweet potato fondant, Creole pâté, chocolate banana cake... Traditional ingredients are also used to create new recipes such as the delicious manioc waffle or the chocolate dakatine cake, creations that are well worth a visit. If you prefer, you can have them delivered or take them away.

Originally from Cilaos, Auntie Rosine has long travelled the markets of the west and south coast. Now that she has her own shop on the main street, her reputation has followed her. As soon as it opens, hikers flock there to find the sweet reward for their future efforts. First come, first served. The cakes go very quickly: go there before 10 am. What makes the cakes original? They are "milk-free, gluten-free and butter-free". The usual trio is replaced by manioc, sweet potato or ti son, it's original and especially very good.

This bakery-pastry shop near the church has become an unmissable stop in the Entre-Deux. Firstly because it is the best in the village, and because with its extended opening hours, it is the only place to eat in the morning before setting off on a hike. This artisan offers pastries, special breads, sandwiches, pastries and even chocolates. The products are hand-made and breathe quality, from the labelled flour to the salt of the baguettes from the Saint-Leu saltworks. To take away or to eat on the pleasant terrace facing the landscape.

Above Saint-Leu, in the Quatres-Robinets district, discover an original healthy ice cream truck concept. Smoothie bowls, açai bowls, ice cream bars... Madame Glaces selects a maximum of organic produce to concoct its healthy, gourmet ice cream preparations. These colorful bowls with a base of mixed tropical fruits, decorated with homemade toppings, are as beautiful as they are delicious. All served in pretty coconut bowls. The address attracts a lot of people, and parking is not easy.

Certainly the best ice cream maker on the island! The hardest part for the gourmets will be to make a choice among the 24 delicious flavours on offer; guaranteed without preservatives, colourings or artificial flavours. A know-how learned in Paris, at the Lenôtre school. Milkshakes, pancakes, waffles, cones, hot chocolate sauce or spreads, everything is homemade and on the spot. To sit down to eat, a nicely decorated air-conditioned room and a terrace outside. As for those who would like to make the pleasure last all the way home, there are take-out bins available.

Renowned Reunionese artisan baker Laurent Encatassamy, who won the award for the best French Tradition baguette in 2018, has set up his second bakery in the heart of the Engen petrol station in La Saline-les-Bains. Special breads, pastries, pastries (individual and to share), snacking, salad bar, carrys, samoussas, chilli sweets, macatias... you'll find delicious savoury and sweet preparations to treat yourself at any time of the day! We love the Snickers pie and the turmeric bread.

Opened in 2021, this is the first chocolate bar in Reunion Island. A highly gourmet address where you can enjoy pancakes, waffles, fruit plates... which are then covered with melted chocolate and decorated with toppings. From dark to milk and dulcey, Chocola Té offers no less than eight varieties of high quality melted chocolate from the Valrhona brand. To quench your thirst, there is a nice choice of homemade hot and cold drinks (hot chocolate, iced tea, iced coffee...). All this is enjoyed in a pretty bohemian decor.

After an afternoon at the beach, this is the ideal cool stopover for a gourmet break! Almost all the fruits of Reunion Island can be found in home-made sorbets: pineapple, banana, coconut, letchi, mango, passion fruit, etc. And for those with a sweet tooth, around twenty flavours of ice cream are on offer: vanilla shortbread, chocolate, tiramisu, stracciatella, and many others. Quite simply a delight! There is a terrace behind the counter where you can sit down to eat, but the best thing is to sit quietly in front of the ocean. Pots, cones, cups, half-litre and litre.

Located in the marina, La Case à Pains is the best old-fashioned bakery and pastry shop in the West. You can enjoy traditional breads, organic breads and melt-in-the-mouth pastries. The opportunity to stock up for your picnic of the day. But above all, it is one of the few places open in the morning if you want to have breakfast before your diving or fishing trip. You will be well installed there, unless your arrival coincides with that of the cruise buses. The big drawback is that the terraces need to be better cleaned.

The Saint-Denis ice-cream parlour par excellence, with two rooms on both sides of the street, a must and open since 1988. On one side, traditional artisanal ice creams, vacherins, crêpes: a wide and varied choice (too much!). On the other side, a snack bar and restaurant with daily specials: croque-monsieur, savoury sandwiches, gourmet salads. They also make cottage cheese and yoghurts. The Igloo is the place to be for teenagers on weekends before or after a movie or a trip to the city centre. Reservations are required for lunch.

Lucien Manciet, an artisan baker-pastry maker with the Label Rouge Bagatelle, is a reference in Saint-Pierre. First of all for his breads, certified organic, but above all for his pastries: local fruit mousses, French desserts revisited in the Creole style, you will devour with your eyes the different products displayed in the shop window. Also a chocolate maker, the shop is full to bursting at Christmas and Easter. A passion passed on in the family, from generation to generation!

The displays of good home bread that is full of this bakery, large and pleasant, will growl metropolitan stomachs with a "country" wand. Comfortably attablé in the air-conditioned room or on the small shaded terrace, here you can find what to eat by satisfying the taste buds: a sandwich, a little pizza or a part of. Follow a tasty tartelette and coffee - Nespresso coffee, aut koi.

La Nouvelle's bakery is not always open, it is even frequent to find closed doors, but this small apple green Creole hut remains a pleasant place to sit. On wooden tables and benches, you can enjoy a nice view, around a good hot chocolate, coffee or tea, accompanied by cakes like the potato cake (sweet), pastries, sandwiches ... Enough to refresh and provide yourself before continuing your walk.

Here's a bakery we'd like to hear more about! Discovered and tested by chance in the course of our explorations, it could well be one of the best bakeries in Saint-Paul, or even on the island, for its breads, viennoiseries and sandwiches in particular. In fact, L'Île aux Pains was one of the lucky candidates selected to take part in the 2023 grand final of "La meilleure boulangerie de France". A bread with Cilaos lentils, a roulé boucané and a tam-tam pina enabled the bakery to win over the jury.

In the heart of Aurère, discover Les Délices de Cassie, the only bakery on the island. The artisan baker Brian Boyer prepares good fresh bread, sandwiches, pastries, and also offers drinks. Enough to refuel you during your hike in Mafate. Tables and chairs are set up in the bakery's pleasant garden, an ideal place to get your strength back before finishing your walk or waiting for your gite to open. Don't miss the excellent guava macatias during the season.