The best bakeries Normandy

Pasquier & Co, welcome to Anaïs and Fabian! Breads, viennoiseries, but also modern, homemade cakes and creative proposals. You'll find panettone, éclair au chocolat, poire Tatin, tarti'Brest and Pomme Surprise. This shortbread tart, filled with a brunoise of fruit paste and hazelnut cream, is topped with white chocolate ganache and applesauce. The whole is decorated with vanilla chantilly and a little gold leaf on top. This cake, created for their appearance on M6, is a real treat!

At the Vatelier family, the whole family is involved. While Benoît reigns supreme in the laboratory, Marie-Pierre is in charge of the shop. With a very sure taste, she takes particular care of the presentation of the products. An ideal setting to enhance salted butter caramels, the house's flagship products, but also apricot almond pies, three chocolates or pistachio strawberry... Not to mention cakes, desserts, macaroons, golden buns, raspberry farandoles and the famous chocolate cake or round or heart-shaped "travel cake", which literally melts in your mouth and is a hit with lovers throughout the city. Les Vateliers also think of your hosts to whom you can offer mini-macarons, mini-verrines and mini-friends to share at the end of the meal or at tea time.

This bakery is well known in Alençon for the quality of its products. At the helm, master craftsman Alain and Christel are committed to offering products of excellence: organic breads, but also several delicacies that are hard to find elsewhere, including the famous Pays d'Auge tart, panettone (Italian style!), Christmas jam (homemade) and the delicious teurgoule, which has won numerous awards.

Located on Detolle Boulevard - which could make parking easy but not at all, at peak hour it is better to park further! - This mill is blessed with bread for amateurs! A beautiful facade, and especially a macaron radius, miam! First point: the wood oven (the bups are at the entrance and you can watch the cooking from the shop). Regular cooking ensures you a crisp bread. On the perfume, you take full straw from your arrival, a happiness! But you also take a full look, because of incredible diversity. More than forty different breads, from classical to most original. Some chopsticks want it here. Tradition, torch, Louisette, Pierrette… breads (corn, viking…), pavements (grapes, hazelnuts, figs, cereals…), not forgetting the nuts. In addition, there is a wide choice of pastries, small ovens, pastries, sandwiches, homemade chocolates, small chocolate beads, raspberries or Nutella and the macarons, yes yet but we love them! At the head of this tasty address, Anne-Sophie and Yannick with a second stage in Ifs who, as part of urban renewal, moved a few meters away from their former local. In short, a mill that has not finished turning, and so much better!

Since 2012, this attic has been delighting us with homemade and artisanal recipes, with all kinds of breads, tasty pastries, and good little cakes, such as their Breton speciality, the famous kouign-amann. Here the atmosphere is good-natured, like the two acolytes Philippe and Stéphan, with a smile on their lips and a twinkle in their eye. Good choice of hot or cold sandwiches but also a salad bar (you pay by weight). And as if that wasn't enough, they concoct two small homemade hot dishes for you every day, there's something for everyone!

In the immediate vicinity of the Pasteur Hospital, this is one of the many Toulorge bakeries in the urban area. Open non-stop all day long (and from very early in the morning!), it is also open on weekends until Sunday noon, its closing day being Tuesday. You will find all the wonders that the house offers in its various points of sale in the city.

Newly arrived from Dieppe, Johnny and Aurélie Gueudin welcome you in their bakery near Saint Marcel town hall. The young couple form a relaxing duo - at the reception for Madame, at the laboratory for Monsieur - and offer you breads, pastries and other pastries worthy of the best. The Petit Futé tested the traditional religion at café and Neufchâtel. Don't be mistaken. This is not a cheese but a meringue pastry and praline! It's a delight. The proportions are generous and the taste in the mouth falls. In the bakery, discover Dieppe's bread, half brioche, or the baguette in quinoa and flax seeds. Don't hesitate to stop there!

Bingo! Two shops for Mariatte and Fils, one in front of the castle and one just below the intersection of Venoix (practical parking, right in front). No mystery behind this success, we are dealing with the FAMILY bakery, where Christian, Christine, Jennifer and Arnaud - daddy, mom and children, as is the case assured - work for the delight of our taste buds. From the simple stick to the bread of the mie through the four seasons, the longuet (cheese or bacon) or the woodcutter (ah! This delicately caramel taste…), there is for all bread eaters. We also appreciate the mini that melts in the mouth, the warm bread at the end of the day, and the pastries to savour on-site in the tea lounge space, Johann Boulevard. In the castle, this is the favourite bakery of Vaugueux restaurateurs, a sign!

Patrice and Anne-Lise are the worthy descendants of three generations of bakers. In this pretty shop, called Maison Marie, the Normandy shortbread has survived the years and made the success of a succulent biscuit. Whether plain, apple-caramel or hazelnut, the shop exhales the flavours of these shortbread alongside meringues, cookies, crunchies, pastries and fine chocolates... The exposed stones of the building make the beauty of its typical facade.

Considered by many as one of the best bakeries in Rouen, Christophe Cressent's establishment has been a hit since it opened in 2010. The baker, elected best worker in France in 2000, took advantage of this recognition to open a second shop in the Saint-Marc district. On its shelves, a wide variety of special breads, but also and above all pastries, the gourmet sin of the house, including the unavoidable éclairs in various flavours. An essential stop for a gourmet break!

A modern, airy bakery: the store really makes you want to come in, and you are always well received, especially by the emblematic Odile. You especially want to taste everything. The bread, the pastries, the pastries, the salads, the pies, the sandwiches, the nibbles, the little dishes in jars (hum, the duck parmentier !)... Here, the hardest thing is to choose. The little extra, Marcel is open on Sundays. Thanks to its success, a second shop has opened on the Place Fontette, opposite the old court.

Created at the beginning of the 20th century by the Griffon couple, the bakery has been bought by Nathalie and Stéphane Revelle who have taken over the bakery of Le Vast and its specialities which have made it famous! You will be offered many products including the famous specialties cooked in the wood fire: the folded bread also, the waste and especially, the famous brioches! For those who prefer biscuits, your desires will be fulfilled with financiers, almond or hazelnut crisps, shortbread, chocolate chip cookies...

Why spend more when you can enjoy a delicious snack or dessert for just €1? At Fournil de la Croix de Pierre, pastries are offered at a single price, so that everyone can enjoy a delicious treat. And the concept works, since you often have to queue to get to the counter. In addition to the traditional chocolate éclairs and fruit entremets, you can also try the different types of bread, sandwiches, and focaccia.

Here's a bakery that is smart! From its easily accessible location, its parking right in front of the store, its opening times and especially its baked breads with wood fire, sandwiches, pastries, and other small salted or sweetened ovens. Not to mention the pizzas that can be ordered at midday and evening at the Caen boutique (only at noon in Hérouville). Personally, we admit a weakness for the Indian sandwich (traditional baguette, chicken, curry, dried tomatoes), whole grain stick whose inimitable taste lingers in the mouth, salted butter caramel crème brûlée (what a delight!) and for macaroons... Others, like the world's great, have trusted Olivier Hamelin, an outstanding baker and owner of Baker, to treat their bread with cider during the celebration of the 70^th anniversary of the landing. Respect!

The most central of the Toulorge bakeries, at the corner of Christine and François-La-Vieux streets. Here, the service is the fastest, impossible to enter the bakery, we serve you directly on the sidewalk! There will be nothing missing here, but if you can, avoid the hours when waiting is long. You are also offered to prepare your pastries on order: they are excellent.

A baker, pastry maker and chocolate maker, Denis Gordien likes to satisfy his clientele. Gourmets do not resist special breads of tradition and almost 30 different pastries, ranging from doughnuts to raspberries, apples and homemade cookies. The hotel also offers a range of pastries, as well as Barnier candies and genuine Montélimar nougats. The staff was very helpful and attentive. To vary pleasures, greet and surprise customers, this is the credo of this craftsman who was the first to disseminate information about its products on a plasma screen in the shop. Denis Gordien also develops Internet orders.

On Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, we do not miss the choice of lard, lard, Roquefort, onion, apple and especially the famous Raboliot. Anyway, every day, it's sandwiches and chaudes, each day different, just like cups for children. In all, 20 types of bread, including the one on which we were cracked, and the last one was at 19 p.m. for fresh bread in the evening.

Since the opening of the first franchise in Rouen, Paul has multiplied in town… like little breads! But the shop on Jeanne-D'arc Street is the only one selling a wide variety of breads: chopsticks, ferns, benoitons, chapatas, pretzels, cereals, cheese, olives, sesame, flax, chocolate nuggets, leaven… Not to mention the "balance" products such as superfibre bread or vitamin C bread. Everyone will find out what to do with it. In addition to the dozens of breads on three walls and windows of the bakery, the sign also makes a tea room and offers formulas to taste it for lunch, at any hour of the day! Choose the sandwiches and pastries that will delight your palate. This is only an opinion, but we advise you to try the delicious lemon tartlette.

In Villey, the bakery is primarily a family affair. For Amélie and her brother Maxime, there is nothing like the fine taste of chocolate, fresh fruit, cereals, pistachio cream or raspberry coulis… In this lovely boutique near the Saint-Sever shopping centre, Maxime Villey practices his craft with passion: special breads, but also madeleines, spoliers, spoon biscuits, meringues, cookies and roses, are entirely homemade. Among the desserts, Norman pies, macaronades, and raspberry and pistachio tarts have become a must, enriched by fresh fruit and chocolate verrines. Gourmets and gourmands find it here!