The best local producers Midi-Pyrénées

Thocaven has been the benchmark for regional Quercy products since 1983! Our free-range ducks are fed and force-fed in the purest tradition. Here you'll find foie gras, duck breast, tournedos with foie gras, duck sausages, figs, prunes, apricots stuffed with foie gras, local aperitifs and wines, traditional preserves ranging from cassoulet to duck stew and stuffed necks... The establishment also offers a full range of delicatessen products.

The Védère cookie factory has been delighting taste buds with its cookies since 1905, and is one of the brands that have forged the region's gastronomy. The workshop perpetuates the artisanal production of Pyrenean cookies, lightly flavored with vanilla and covered in crystal-clear sugar. You'll also find boudoirs des Pyrénées, petits buturres, the famous pies available in blueberry, lemon or chocolate chip flavors, hazelnut or almond croquants (to die for!), wafers, meringues, spit-roasted cakes... The craze never fails.

At the exit of Bagnères-de-Luchon, the Miellerie des Sept Molles is a honey producer since the beginning of the 60s with more than 700 hives. You can visit, discover the job and a store offers all the products of the hive: pollen, royal jelly, gingerbread, propolis-based products... And of course honey in different varieties: all flowers, acacia, rosemary, mountain, forest, sunflower, heather and rhododendron... A visit as cultural as tasty.

Located in the town of Péguilhan, the Auberge de Peguilhan is a restaurant offering on-site dining. It is possible to organize events such as weddings, family celebrations or banquets, with a capacity of 80 covers. Special menus are available for groups, children and vegetarians. Vacation vouchers are accepted. Reservations are recommended to guarantee quality and freshness. The auberge also offers three gîtes: a self-catering gîte, a family-run rural gîte for 13 people and a gîte du Cagire. These gîtes can accommodate up to 45 people. The Auberge de Peguilhan is a warm, family-run place where visitors can enjoy traditional dishes prepared with organic farm produce.

L'Hôtel du Pont Vieux is not only a charming hotel, ideally located for enjoying the wonders of the medieval city of Carcassonne. It is also committed to promoting good regional products, and has a grocery corner. This is where you'll find Catherine's wonderful jams, under the name "Confitures de la cité". While the packaging is elegant, don't hesitate to remove the lid to taste them: salted butter caramel, apple jelly with spices, kiwi from Cuxac d'Aude... with a steady stream of new flavors.

At Le Trivalou, owner and chef Cyril understands that cassoulet has to be exportable. If you're in Carcassonne or just passing through, we urge you to come and taste it on site, with the medieval city just around the corner. It's made to the highest standards and is entirely homemade, right down to the duck breasts, which Cyril confits on the spot. Please note that everything you eat in this restaurant is homemade. If you prefer to eat your cassoulet at home with friends or family, you can place your order via their website. In addition to cassoulet, Trivalou's foie gras is also available to take away. Delivery should soon be available throughout France, but that's for later...to be continued.

Jean-Christophe Dardenne has taken over a farm that has become a local institution, to which Francis and Nicole Mauco have given its letters of nobility. The ducks are raised in the open air, then force-fed with corn before slaughter and processing. The farm offers all the traditional products and delicious cooked preserves, such as duck tagine with almonds, or the famous "chili con duck". The farm also offers a service of orders and online sales on its website, but do not hesitate to visit them.

Corine offers you her numbered oils, like perfumes. The n° 1, extremely fruity for true connoisseurs, aromatic and powerful; the n° 2 with a herbaceous aroma, very fresh, and of great finesse and the n° 3, sweeter, ideal for cheeses and pastries, made with black olives only. Corinne also offers you her new "Passion Range", her lemons candied in coarse salt, her dried tomato caviar in olive oil, her black or green tapenades and her delicious olive jam, as well as soaps made with the estate's own oil.

The expression "good melon" came from the people of the village who kept repeating that the melons of the Raynal family were good. One day, Jean wrote it on a sign in front of the shop. The name stuck. Just like the slogan: We speak Catala. 80% of the produce on sale comes from the Raynal garden, seasonal fruit and vegetables grown using sustainable agriculture. The other products come from friends whose work methods Jean knows. When quality goes hand in hand with a smile and a good mood, you don't want to change the early bird!

Founded in 2009, Moulin de la Dentelle is a family-run business and Villeveyrac's first privately-owned oil mill since the late 50s. On 12 hectares, 5 of which are dedicated to organic farming, Muriel de la Torre strives to produce oil under the best possible conditions, not only from her own production, but also from small suppliers in the surrounding villages. Here, she uses oils from ancestral Languedoc varieties such as lucques, picholine, olivière and bouteillan. During the summer season, tours of the mill are available by appointment.

Jean-Luc, its owner, offers a real modernity to the so-called rural tourism. If his first job is as a canner, he proposes with Olivier a direct sale of his production, as well as small local treasures selected on the shutter, resulting from farm productions. But, a particularity of the site and an element which makes our heart beat faster, he opens his table in summer to savour them! The shop, located in the heart of the farm, offers a wide range of duck products made on site. Don't hesitate to visit them!

This farm is attached to the agricultural high school of Mirande. Practical work is carried out thanks to the breeding of ducks and chickens, black pigs and cows from Mirande. Learning the job of a farmer is done in the field, to the delight of lovers of good products to be obtained at the cannery. With six workshops for cultivation, breeding and processing, the apprenticeships help young people get started in the profession. Foie gras, gizzards, pâtés, duck breast filled with foie gras, daube or cassoulet are sold on the spot.

Saleurs in Collioure since 1870, the family business still works in the respect of the artisanal tradition. These specialities are famous and are available salted, with vinegar, plain, or in anchoïade and tapenades. In the workshops on the first floor, you will be able to talk with the anchoyeuses who strive to perpetuate ancestral gestures. The visit of the workshops and the tastings are free and really worth the detour. Let it be said, in this establishment, from anchovies in salt to olive stuffed with anchovies, everything is delicious!

This couple of farmer-breeders transforms their production on the spot and farms 16 ha in a 70 ha estate of forests and moors. The result is excellent farm products based on ducks, chickens, guinea fowl, rabbits, pigs and lambs. Foie gras remains the flagship product. Smoked duck breast, cassoulet, 100% duck sausage, duck rillettes with grapes and Armagnac, guinea fowl with chasseur sauce, coq au vin, rabbit confit. To keep their original flavour, the preserves are put in glass jars, without colouring or preservatives.

Ballot-Flurin has been an independent, family-run business since 1977, specializing in apitherapy and gentle beekeeping. Discover their rare honeys from free-living bees, and their products based on propolis, pollen and royal jelly. Ballot-Flurin is the assurance of natural health, thanks to the power of bees. Our cosmetics (shampoos, soaps, creams) are also based on the work of bees. The boutique also offers candle-making workshops. An original and useful visit.

Laura, an American based in France for years, puts his culinary know-how at the service of our taste buds. She put the traditional recipe of this famous biscuit in the closet, so that she could have a blend of original flavours. Thus its soft cookies combine with dry fruits, cereals, lavender, lemon and the most surprising herbs in Provençal, as delicious as Roquefort, mint… discover markets, fine grocery stores - Caizergues… - and especially to order on the website. Soft, tender and fondants, these cakes are up your idea on the cookie.

In the Hamlet of Dilhac, the Rayrolles family has a herd of dairy cows whose milk is fully processed within the farm (butter, cream, butterflies, white cheese, ice); as well as pigs fed with the by-products of the cheese factory, and also processed on the farm (cooked meat, cooked meals, pâté). The farm is conducted in full organic farming.

Since 1920, this cooperative oil mill has been processing the department's olives, in particular the Lucques variety, which has AOC status. The oils are made from local varieties such as clermontaise, olivière, ménudal, picholine, amellau... In the store, you'll find tapenade, pistou and the essential olive oil, as well as fresh olives and oil-based cosmetics. Opposite, in the former gendarmerie building, is the Maison de l'Olivier, an eco-museum dedicated to regional olive growing, with film screenings and tastings.

Created in 1981, the Conserverie Quatrefages celebrated in 2021 forty years of know-how and good taste. Specialized in the manufacture of pâtés and terrines with the flavors of the Aveyron region, the company never stops imagining new recipes, based on duck, game or poultry. The pâté with Roquefort cheese or the one with Laguiole cheese from Aubrac, which are among the best-sellers of the company, are perfect examples. Ready-made meals, including the famous trénels millavois, complete the range of products on sale.