The best grocery stores Pays De La Loire

Ô Local is a tearoom/cantine/designer boutique on the banks of the Loire. Émilie and Morgane, epicureans, wanted to promote organic and local products, well-being and living together by creating this unusual place, fitted out in a spirit of recovery and a cosy atmosphere. Here, you can take a snack break, dine on gourmet cuisine at lunchtime, or enjoy a drink while admiring the Loire River. You're sure to fall for one of the creations in the pretty boutique, or a piece of clothing from the second-hand shop. A place full of life, delicacies and sweets!

Behind the new Leclerc Drive, or Hyperburo, the new address for exotic and Asian products in Le Mans is here. At attractive prices (lower than supermarket prices). Chillies, bean sprouts, flours, teas, cookies, drinks, rice, sauces, nori leaves and many other products are available on the shelves. But the most impressive is the frozen food section, with lots of fish, but also desserts, smoked meat, samousas and Reunion corks. The products come mainly from Asia, but also from Africa and the West Indies. The sales area is around 300^m2, enough to add a touch of the exotic to your dishes so that your guests won't be able to resist, and to whom you'll be happy to pass on the address. The young owner Xin Lin is very friendly and it's not uncommon to hear Ni hao, which undeniably adds to the exoticism of this store. And if the northern zone doesn't tempt you, there's the same in the city center!

La Boutique des Éleveurs offers an authentic experience of quality products and personalized service: French meats, fresh fish from the Guilvinec fish auction, fruit and vegetables, cheese by the slice, a wine cellar with 250 references, rotisserie, snacking during the week, hot bread all day long! Located between Copernic and Talensac, this is the place to go to stock up on the essentials, with fresh produce and everything you need for everyday life, all in one place! Open 7 days a week until 8 p.m. (Sundays until 1 p.m.), the store is an alternative to the market! A great value address in the heart of Nantes.

The best of Anjou gastronomy awaits you here! Specialties include rillauds, Le Vinaillou cookies and Quernons d'ardoise. But also other culinary treasures like Pavés du bout du monde, delicious puff pastry and fleur de sel bites, a tasty chicken terrine with Cointreau or appetizing Loire smoked eel fillets. There's also a fine selection of organic products such as terrines and crackers, as well as soaps and eau de toilette made with rose extracts from Doué-la-Fontaine.

Specialising in the daily roasting of large coffees, this boutique also offers a wide choice of teas from all over the world, Des Medici, home-made chocolates and regional products: Galets galets, nantais in, slate quernons, pavés pavés, caramel with salt butter, rigolettes nantaises. What a good thing!

The managers of this pretty organic grocery store and tea room in the Saint-Joseph-de-Porterie neighborhood, Thomas Lefebvre and his Nepalese companion Chukki Lefebvre, have the art of unearthing local products. Orchards of the Farm in cider, bakery Panisfaire and Brewery of L'Olifant of Grandchamp-les-Fontaines, ice creams and sorbets of Sucé-sur-Erdre, for the local flavors, the exotic perfumes are also very present. Thanks to Chukki's cooking, you can taste white rice noodles with Timur pepper. Bulk, fruits, fresh vegetables..., you can find everything in the grocery store including organic products, at low prices. Naturalis is also committed to the fight against food waste.

Want to bring a little corner of the Vendée back home? La Plage des Gourmets offers a large choice of local specialties from artisanal productions, gift ideas and souvenirs. You will find here a large choice of salted or sweet regional products: Noirmoutier salt, canned food, terrines and pâtés, including the famous pate de ragondin, Vendée brioche, Vendée wines and aperitifs including La Troussepinette, souvenirs, tableware, table linen, men's, women's and children's T-shirts, all available in gift boxes.

Thai delicacies are a family story that gradually fits around common values such as engagement (part of the exploitation will become organic), dedication (fresh and high quality products), transparency, originality and family, then it's not less than four generations that contribute to the smooth running of this. store. To be more precise, Thai delicacies are a store where fresh fruit and vegetable lovers come from. Fresh and original vegetables, as it is also possible to find atypical vegetables (on pre-order), like mini-vegetables, food flowers or germs, especially in the air of time. We obviously buy home crops, but also a whole selection of groceries (dried fruits, creeds, spreads, wines, juice…), local to the extent possible. A small selection of very affordable wines (3.50 € to 9.90 €) and the cheese chosen by Pascal Beillevaire. Once a week, "Kitchen is yours" proposes a playful and original concept: every volunteer can offer a simple recipe prepared from seasonal products and prepared on the spot at the entrance of the sales area. A delicious way to occupy a Saturday morning! Children are not there and several ranks are already reserved for the grocery store for an initiation to gardening, which promises these apprentices tasty discoveries at the time of gathering. The dynamism and friendliness of the team make Thai Delights a precious address, especially for gourmets who encounter some difficulties in getting cold bowl and other tubéous capucine…

Welcome to this little corner of the sea or the Atlantic in the heart of the Ile de Nantes, not far from our elephant. William, a Breton in love with fine fishing and other seafood products, has decided to open a place of his own, and not just any place: le lieu jaune! Yes, it's the name of a fish, and with good reason: everything here revolves around the sea. It's a specialized grocery store dedicated to seafood products (smokehouse products, seaweed tartare, oysters, home-made ready-made meals, preserves, cider, beer, buckwheat potato chips...), as well as an occasional restaurant, oyster bar and event caterer, and an exhibition space for artists from the Ile de Nantes. A place close to home that smells of sea spray!

Here the blood and gold colors of Catalonia invite us to the French-Spanish delicacy. One could almost see the sun... in the eyes of Corinne, alias Co, this passionate person who welcomes us in her specialized delicatessen open to all! We come to discover the Catalan specialties of her home: artisanal products such as beautiful charcuterie and the famous Iberian hams (pigs raised in the open air) including the Bellota. Corinne "saves our aperitifs" with planxas, i.e. complete aperitif boards to take away. Feeling a little hungry or a lot? We have chorizos, dry sausages, tapenades, mejillones (mussels), boquerones (anchovies) marinated, Catalan cheese, fine mustards, olivades... And dishes prepared in jars. For the drinks? The cervezas (Catalan beers) of Cap d'Ona, wines and other sweets for the aperitif, such as Banyuls or Byrrh (old wine with cinchona), also present. On the sweet side? Artisanal cookies such as Rousquilles, caramel almonds and Bougnettes (depending on availability) are the perfect accompaniment to the organic coffee "La Tour" roaster in Perpignan! Finally, thanks to the touron (a kind of nougat), it's Christmas all year round! La Catalane, it's the pleasure of sharing and the Spanish way of life, and it's in Nantes. Ask for the great catalan sandwiches to take away for the little ones ! Benvinguts! Privatization possible up to twenty people for professionals or individuals for team-building meetings, aperitifs, birthdays or bachelor parties as well as catering service for aperitifs in Nantes and its surroundings.

This store, which opened on Place du Pilori in 2018, has been in business for over 25 years! Here you'll find a selection of vintage olive oils and healthy Mediterranean grocery products for everyday cooking. The oils are available in bottles or elegant gift boxes. They are all traceable. From the name of the olives used to the date of harvest and the history of the producer, you know what you're tasting: French, Italian, Croatian, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek... You'll also find tapenades, sauces and accessories. And for those with a green thumb, let yourself be tempted by potted olive trees!

This pretty store is a real pleasure for the senses! Here, you will be advised among the many gourmet products, local or from elsewhere. The shelves are dedicated to wines, beers and spirits with the local Saumuroise beer, the timeless L'Original and Royale Combier but also spirits from farther away like those from the German Saarland... You will also discover the preserves of the Belle-Illoise and the delicious shortbread of the Sablésienne. The local creators are also honored with the accessories for bicycle La Bouclée.

It was in March 2020 in Carquefou that the young farmer Alexis Chauvelon created his gourmet farm. This young market gardener grows carrots, potatoes, chard, courgettes, aubergines, tomatoes and strawberries in a reasoned way... Located between the chicken and goat pen and the market garden greenhouses, this new wooden building houses a shop that offers various quality farm products direct from producers, most of them local. The fruit and vegetables are grown using integrated farming methods and the aim is to convert to organic farming in the future. We love the Comice pears from Carquefou, the Fuji apples and the yellow kiwis from Saint-Julien-de-Concelles, the XXL version of quinces (with a recipe for a pie as a bonus!), for this anthology of cucurbits, for these sweet potatoes... In addition to the fresh produce, you will find beef from the Guillauminerie du Gaec le Bois Guillaume in Ligné, but also poultry from the Ferme des Marais in Haute-Goulaine and pork from the Ferme de Bel-Air in La Meilleraye-de-Bretagne as well as from the Maison Bodet in Le Landreau. A dairy section with eggs from Bio Divatte, farm dairy products from the Pays Guérandais from the Mézerac farm and ice cream from the Ferme du Blanc Verger in Sucé-sur-Erdre. You will also appreciate the abundant grocery store where gourmet products all as tempting as each other are mixed together: coffees, teas, honeys from Frédéric Hermann of Couëron and Ferme de la Pénoue of Petit-Mars, jams from Ferme du Bouffay, compote, porridge and vegan cookies from Vahina of Trentemoult, Des Épices à ma guise items from Ancenis, west Spiruline from Carquefou, soups from the Conserverie des saveurs, bagged legumes from Gaec Le Parpounet, vinegar and cider from Landes du Luquet... As you will have noticed, La Ferme Gourmande lives up to its name! In the summer of 2021, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and vegetables will be picked, and a workshop will be set up to transform the crops into jams, ice creams and soups...

In 2014, Pierre Raimbault, aka Pedro, moved into the premises recently vacated by the legendary Bulle bookshop. In the heart of the Plantagenet town, the stone vaults no longer house comic books, but precious bottles of all origins. More than just a wine cellar, this address has already become a must for lovers of fine bottles. The choice is certainly not plethoric, but it's pretty darn sharp. Quality rather than quantity. Pedro knows the history of each cuvée inside out, and will guide you to the right bottle for the meal or aperitif ahead. Great wines and friends' wines, a fine selection of Loire and even Sarthe crus (Ah! Jasnières des Maisons Rouges)! Hand-picked spirits from France and around the world await the connoisseur, not far from some thirty-five different craft beers. Tasting evenings are held throughout the week, by reservation only.

A nice grocery store at the foot of the cathedral. Their specialty: Gourmands, very varied and complete baskets. A region is put to the honor every three months in order to discover products from French territory. The advantage is that France is a country with multiple land, and it will be understood. Local specialities, both in wine and wine products, are also offered in a box. " Surprising "and" epicurean "packages have also been concocted, so that everyone can find their own happiness. The products are extremely numerous, from caramel pots to bottles of organic farming, through foie liver, in, for local products… and discoveries such as the, the Anjou slate quernons or the amours'love of Sarthe. In alcohol too, there is what to do with Kremmig Breton (cider brandy) or Algane, algae and lemon. When crafts are synonymous with tradition, creativity and knowledge, since advice is advised and free…

Open on the semi-pedestrian streets of the old Saumur, the grocery store offers its wooded stalls, carefully arranged, inviting the customer to discover these famous delicacies. But what are they? A large choice of cookies, teas, chocolates, fois gras, oils and vinegars, sweets, regional products, jams, gift ideas, wines and other delights... In short, a gourmet's paradise! As far as local sweets are concerned, you will also find Quernons d'ardoise, pommes tapées and Vinaillou, which you can accompany with liqueurs from the Combier distillery.

The boutique de la chaumière des saveurs et de l'artisanat brings together about thirty artisans and producers who are fervent defenders of "Made in Brière". The store offers products from local producers and craftsmen located in the Brière regional park. Here you will find everything: Guérande salt, cider, honey, jams, pâtés, knives, jewellery, wooden objects, ceramics, leather goods, etc. In addition, going to this shop is a beautiful walk on a picturesque site, in the heart of a village of typical cottages, the village of Kerhinet.

On the Market Square, a new shop has opened, the Biscuiterie de Pornichet. Through the sweet and sour stalls, but always from the corner, crakous, aperitif snacks, caramels, Breton palets, buckwheat chips, but also Breton beers or other arranged rums... For a gift, a snack or an aperitif, there is only the embarrassment of choice at Vanessa and her team. But what we appreciate above all are the pastries prepared directly by the baker, how to resist a cake from Nantes, a Breton lighthouse or a kouign-amann, when we have our eyes on the stoves and the smell of fresh butter in our nostrils?