The best regional 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!

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.

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.

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.

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?

In the middle of the countryside, in a typical Breton marsh building, the farm-auberge combines a restaurant, guest rooms, camping on the farm, farm products, with specialities such as foie gras, rillettes, confit, magret, gizzards, etc., and also coq au vin, guinea fowl and organic chicken, both of which can be bought directly from the farm or tasted in the restaurant. Also 5 guest rooms with bath or shower and toilet) or camping at the farm.

Mr. and Mrs. Dubois open their bergerie to visitors and you will be able to leave with specialities from the cru. They offer tasting and sale of homemade apple juice and cider. Prices vary depending on the quantities, the vintages and the vintages. The best thing is to go. Mr. and Mrs. Dubois are members of Welcome to the Farm. A guarantee of good quality.

The Weber are héliciculteurs. In their greenhouses, they raise nearly 150 000 gris. Sale of home cooked dishes.

Born into a family of salt workers, Erwan Bourdic has created the Natursel brand. He offers a wide range of products from the Guérande salt marshes: coarse salt, fleur de sel, natural and flavored fine salt, pickled or natural samphire. Also flavored mustards, seaweed flakes, mixtures for cooking... To top it all off, he offers a visit to the salt pans, accompanied by a salt worker who will explain how the salt pans work. You can even collect salt or fleur de sel with him and taste the salicorne.

The snail, here called "luma" is a real local gastronomic speciality. Less well known than its Burgundian counterpart, it is nonetheless an unavoidable speciality of the Bocage Vendéen. Gabrielle Moreau raises and cooks them. They are offered fresh and ready to bake (in shells, mini-bouchées, cabbage...) for the aperitif or as a starter, in jars of flesh or cooked. You can also take a tour of the farm with a commentary by the heliciculturist - a bit of culture doesn't hurt! -, then aperitif with snail tasting.

Joël Guérin is a producer of fattened ducks. From the first day of the duck's life to the final product, everything happens on the site of the La Chedanière farm. The animals are raised in the open air according to tradition. The ducks are force-fed only with whole cooked corn. On sale at the farm: pâtés, rillettes, foie gras, confit, manchons, gizzards, stewed duck, stuffed neck. Visit of the farm in summer, starting with a visit to the duck park and ending with a tasting.

Local products, wines, primeurs and local and Breton food products. This trade has been taking place over the last two years and works as producers and artisans in the region. Gien factory, salt pots, but also depositary of famous Saint Michel patties, everything is  !

You want to bring back local products or have an aperitif with friends? You are at the right place, at Anne's, in the shopping street. You will find sweet and savoury products with brioche, gâche and cookies from the Planchot bakery, but also a range of angelica products, jams and honeys. Also confectionery such as cuckoo clocks. And for the salted part: pate of ragondin, pate of oyster, sardines of Saint-Gilles, farci poitevin, lentils, organic mogettes, Hennequin fish canneries, salt of the island of Olonne...

Adjacent to the 3-star La Marine restaurant is chef Alexandre Couillon's local grocery store. Here you'll find the products the chef works with in his restaurants. Producers (mostly regional) whom he has selected for their quality, but also for their way of working with products, with respect and authenticity. You'll find his delicious natural sourdough bread, mackerel rillettes, weekend pastries and viennoiseries, as well as fruit juices, chutneys and jams, and vacuum-packed meats from farms.

L'épicerie Nantaise des Gourmets is a regional grocery store located in Pont-Saint-Martin. It offers a selection of 80 regional products.