The best bakeries Pays De La Loire

We've fallen in love with this new artisanal pastry-bakery in Luçon, with its elegant white façade and market bench. If you love éclairs, then this is the place to come: Alison won^2nd prize for best éclair in 2023! But that's not the only delicacy we love here. Everything is homemade and delicious! Generous traditional viennoiseries, fluffy brioche, creative pastries, entremets and chocolates, as well as a range of breads made with carefully selected flours.

This bakery offers a good range of breads. At weekends, they also offer special breads and fruity breads. They work with a flour mill of the Blés Paysans network, which ensures a fair payment to the farmers. Flour used in the elaboration of gâche, brioche, viennoiseries, bakery pastries... Travelling cakes are well represented with the Délice des Chouans or the gâteau Nantais. Butter cakes, shortbread, cannelés and madeleines are perfect for a snack break. At lunchtime, the bakery also offers a snacking service.

Passionate about their craft, master bakers Céline and Fabrice make everything from breads and pastries to snacks 100% homemade! The bread speciality is Castelaise. At any time of day, you can enjoy quiches, tartines, pizzas, 15 types of cold sandwiches, homemade hot dishes and salads. At weekends, fine pastries like mojito tarts and Borneo join brioches, gâches, traditional cakes and viennoiseries.

Stéphanie and Aurélien's bakery is worth a visit! The proof is its participation in the show " La Meilleure Boulangerie". Taste its Vendée red label brioche and Aurélien's numerous creations: about fifteen breads (specials, 1 kg bread to be cut up, the Clarisse Tradition with a bronze medal...), original pastries, delicious fine pastries (Petit Nicolas with chocolate, strawberry tart on Breton cookie), Délice des Chouans. The specialty: choux (13 flavors)! Ice creams and home-made chocolates, snacking section complete the delicacies.

This master baker, who took part in the show La meilleure boulangerie de France in 2016, owns 2 bakeries in La Roche. A recognised baker, he makes excellent breads, it is for his organic range that he has made a name for himself! Passionate, Dominique Potier offers a beautiful variety of breads made from a red label flour from sustainable and controlled agriculture. We love the delicious "rustic" pastries: kouglof, plum pâté, pistachio and fig tart, gingerbread, cannelés... Rue Salengro, it offers snacking: pizzas, quiches...

In the heart of the village, this bakery offers a range of La Pétrie breads, available in organic or sesame balls. Artisan baker-patissier, member of Boulangeries de France and Pâtissier dans le monde, he works with seasonal products and regularly renews his range. Among the viennoiseries that change every week, try the 3-chocolate Suisse. We love the low-added-sugar vegetable entremets, made with hazelnut milk chocolate and creamy almond (no milk). Other must-tries include gâche, brioche de Mélie and Fion. Snack range and homemade chocolates.

The bakery run by Françoise and Patrice Tenaud, master artisan bakers and patissiers, has built up a fine reputation, winning several awards for their Label Rouge vendéenne brioche (gold medal in 2018),^3rd for their gâche (IGP) in 2023,^1st prize in the departmental competition in 2015. Range of organic and aromatic breads, La Pétrisane baguette, available with seeds or organic, 7/7 baguette dispenser. All homemade! Snacks: sandwiches, bagels, quiches, pizzas, salads or the Friday burger. On the sweet side, minute cakes are a speciality.

Sébastien is at the helm of this downtown bakery and patisserie. Homemade products and quality flours are used for the bread range, which is extended at weekends. As for pastries, the dômes created by Sébastien and his team, available in chocolate or red fruit flavors, sit alongside traditional viennoiseries and pastries such as baba au rhum and lemon tart, as well as brioche. A range of sandwiches, quiches, etc. is available every day, and for special occasions, made-to-measure cakes.

For us, the best bakery in La Roche! Franck and Corinne Veillé own two bakeries in La Roche. For your aperitifs, the gramoudou (a kneaded bread with various fillings), for the small hollows of the afternoon, there is the petridoux (a bread with chocolate chips), the brioche or the gâche. The bread is divine, it is baked all day long, with its flagship product: the Pétrisanne. All the delicious pastries and viennoiseries are home-made.

Behind the pretty blue façade: brioche vendéenne (plain or chocolate), traditional gâche, fion (flan maraîchin) offered all year round in addition to pastries. Among the main cakes concocted by this craftsman, travel cakes: Délice des Chouans, chocolate fondant, Neapolitan, Nantes cake, big cookie with Nutella. On Sundays, the kouign-aman is in the spotlight. The other pastries change according to the season (entremets, fruit clafoutis...); on the bread side, there are about twenty of them with the star product, the Pétrisane.

The pretty facade located in the heart of the long avenue François Mitterrand, next to a wine shop, catches the eye. One pushes the door of this slightly cramped but very greedy famous sign. It is the multicoloured macaroons and pastries that attract our attention, even if you will also find some varieties of bread (cereals, rye, white,...) as well as the great classics of pure butter pastries. In 2019, Baba É'clair's croissants won the gold medal. A nice reward that's worth a few deviations from the diet, isn't it?

Franck Dépériers, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, uses only selected flours without any additives and with a lot of natural and organic leaven. A true enthusiast who does not count his hours to give pleasure to his customers and transmit his know-how to his team! The dough is kneaded very little, but ferments for a long time in order to obtain a dough rich in taste and aroma. The flagship products of the house remain the organic boule, the torchon, an organic bread made of different flours, which goes perfectly with foie gras, the market batch, a sourdough baguette, the farmhouse bread which keeps its softness and freshness all week long or the apricotines and seiglitons, rye bread rolls filled with raisins As for the pastries and cakes, you will be surprised by the unavoidable Nantais cake (perfectly rhumy), the delicious honey and mirabelle plum tart, the plum pies or the admirably flaky croissants! Let's not forget the confectionery (marshmallows, fruit jellies, caramels from another world...) or the wonderful home-made jams. And what about sandwiches and other quiches to enjoy at lunch time. Don't miss the Christmas logs or the "galettes des rois" which are really worth the detour (it is highly recommended to reserve them). La Petite Boulangerie also has a stall at the Talensac market.

In place of À la Boule Nantaise, a young couple have taken over the bakery to offer their new "pasta"! And not just any pastry... The new owners, Jean-Pierre and Svitlana, have spent years living in Norway, in the joyous atmosphere and well-being known as " hygge "! Jean-Pierre married Svitlana, and from Norway they brought back bread and pastry specialties to add to the savoir-faire made in France, sharing the good food! Sviltana and her team welcome us with their smiling eyes and charming Russian accents... It's a delightful blend of cultures, and we share their happiness with this new adventure! In addition to good bread, Norwegian specialties and a range of organic breads, the establishment is also a coffee shop. Here we drink 100% organic Arabica coffee (from Latin America), to warm our hearts! A real Italian-style barista machine offers espresso, latte, cappuccino and machiatto (to take away). Note: 5 bought, 6th^free . Why not try it with a croissant? As for bread, it's made with natural (liquid) sourdough, which you'll find in traditional baguettes, brioches, croissants and special breads. As for the latter, try Pain norvégien or Pain d'Arthur (organic) with its crunchy crust and soft crumb (Moulin de Suire organic flours), a real delight with its 5 cereals and seeds (including flax, chia...) and stoneground flour. The other flours meet the CRC label from the Girardeau flour mill (100% French origins) for the white breads, while the traditional bread also meets the Red label. Quality can be explained too! As for viennoiseries, in addition to the great classics, come and try Kanelbolle, the Norwegian cinnamon viennoiserie: they're available every day! Special mention should be made of Grandma's braided brioche (a close cousin of the Vendéenne), which is so tasty! In addition, there are savoury sandwiches made to order to preserve their flavours. You're sure to love Backt! The name? In German, it means "baking on the hearth". The hearth is the lower part of the bread oven! Now that you know (almost) everything, there's no doubt you'll be coming back again and again - Back to Backt!

The inspiration and creativity of pastry chef, chocolatier, confectioner and baker Fabien Juhel is divinely gourmet: we come here to indulge. Fabien has won several awards for his galettes des rois, including the traditional frangipane galette, the creative galette and the gold medal at the national competition in 2021. Travels to London, Australia, New Zealand and Scotland have inspired him. Regulars flock to savor his breads, including an organic range, and his refined, 100% homemade pastries: saint-honoré, paris-brest, Royal au chocolat, Rouge intense... Fabien loves to create, having spent 8 years baking at prestigious Parisian addresses alongside Arnaud Larher, a MOF, among others. Macaroons, homemade ice creams, viennoiseries, chocolate bars, old-fashioned praline chip spreads, everything invites you to take a tour and make a detour. New soon: the "Octroi de Nantes" travel cake, an all-chocolate fondant with gianduja and Piedmont hazelnuts - a delight! The house motto "When passion becomes our profession" takes on its full meaning here!

Designated Best Bakery in Pays de La Loire in 2021, this master baker from Bouin, whose bread we discovered at the restaurant L'Écume gourmande, deserves the honours. Alexandre Merlet's passion and imagination have resulted in original creations such as his delicious seaweed and oyster bread, which can be savoured on its own! Other specialties include the chocolatine, a brioche with caramelized apples, curable and chocolate chips, Grandma Nicole's cake with almond flavor and of course the flan maraîchin.

There were few bakeries in this part of the island of Nantes. In the summer of 2019, thanks to the generosity of Internet users and to the delight of lovers of good bread, La Maison Boulangerie was born. It is in this luminous and rough waxed concrete setting that Pierre-Antoine Arlot, Chin-Jy Cheng and their team of passionate baristas, bakers and pastry cooks are busy. Graduated as an organic artisan baker at the International School of Baking, Pierre-Antoine has worked in beautiful houses throughout Europe. At La Maison, the bread is artisanal, organic, leavened and made on slow fermenting millstone flour. As for the coffees, they are roasted by Allpress, percolator and gentle extraction. The teas are selected by Patchouli & Co., a Nantes-based tea-springer. In the shop window, the breads are beautiful and the crumbs delicate. On the premises, the coffees are tasted and processed according to the rules of the art. In the heart of the creative district, delicacies inspired by international traditions will give you inspiration!

With its chocolate/pistachio facade topped by a mill tower, it's impossible to miss Séverine and David Seigneur's boulangerie-pâtisserie. It has a retro look, with beautiful stalls of varied, appetizing cakes. Another original feature, apart from the bakers working in the bakery before your very eyes, is a retro van stamped "Moulin Gourmand", displaying entremets. Bread is baked all day long, and there's also a snack range. Among the pastries, try one of the specialties, baba.