The best local producers Pays De La Loire

The inescapable cookie factory recognized as a quality artisan! Pierre and Géraldine are always innovating: raspberry-white chocolate cookies, peach-caramel-salted butter shortbread, rhubarb-almond slivers, crunchy biscuits, palets, meringues, prefou or salmon-dill shortbread, the delicious chocolate-caramel fondant heart, the good brioche. Our flagship product, caramel, is available in a chocolate truffle, peanut or banana flambé style. All homemade with exceptional regional raw materials (including the island's fleur de sel) without preservatives or artificial coloring.

It is here, in the factory not far from this store, that the famous round, crunchy, golden cake was born, one of the gastronomic emblems of the region! We owe the history of this mythical cake to Joseph Grellier, a baker who kept the family recipe. It is honored in this store of 200 m², with tea room and terrace. Galettes, Roudor palets and other sablés de Retz, Michelettes, are in good place. In the tea room, accompany your tasting with a madeleine or more elaborate pastries. No visit of the factory possible.

Brigitte, Philippe and their son Dylan's salt works consists of 118 carnations. They produce coarse salt and fleur de sel (plain and flavoured) and, depending on the year, salicorne. To vary your dishes, season them with fleur de sel with lemon, ginger, 5 berries, chilli pepper, curry, basil... If you want to know everything about the life of the saunier, the history of salt, how it is harvested, how it is preserved..., Dylan has no equal to captivate his audience.

Owned by a collective of 245 members who have turned it into a " cooperative third party venue allowing for cross-fertilisation and collaboration between audiences and players from different backgrounds, specialities and sectors". At the organic products shop you will find farm products, but not only. On its stalls you will find vegetables, aromatic herbs, eggs, free-range chickens (to order), products from reuse, but also fruit and vegetables, groceries and dairy products... Once a month, parcels of beef and/or pork, on order. All organic and good!

Ile-d'Olonne is a commune close to Les Sables-d'Olonne and yet has a very different appearance. A natural environment, a little wild, a paradise for birds but also a land where salt is cultivated. At the Raffin's, we have been sauniers since 1744! The salt is harvested by hand, in the respect of tradition to produce a quality salt. Flavour your dishes with fleur de sel, plain or flavoured salt and salicorne. Get on your bikes for a peaceful ride through this magnificent landscape with its carnation pattern.

A rural discovery near Brûlon. Martine and Pierre Jardin welcome you to their farm, where you can discover their products under the Délices de Beauregard banner. These farmers of Limousin cattle and Loué poultry offer direct sales of boxes of Limousin beef and udder-fed veal, verrines, ready-made meals and jams. Les Délices de Beauregard products can also be found at other sales outlets, but it's always nicer to be on the farm.

Here is a multiple address! There is the farm with its 180 ewes, 140 of which are of the Solognese breed, which can be visited and which sells the wool of the ewes, but above all you come here for the products of the farm: lamb rillettes, lamb liver pâtés, jams and red fruit coulis. In compliance with the standards of organic farming. On your way back from the beach, take a break for herbal tea or red fruit sorbet and why not let the time fly by until sunset, on the terrace around tapas of ewe's meat, lamb rillettes and vegetable spreads from the farm.

In Vritz, Isabelle Clérot (a former cook by training) has set up her laboratory where she now makes jams, jellies, chutneys, syrups and other spreads. This traditionally fruit-growing region offers the ideal conditions for her fruit-based productions; her jarred preparations are in fact mostly made from the processing of fruit produced on her farm. In organic conversion since 2019, "here, no chemistry!", as Isabelle likes to say. Only natural products are used in the making. You can find her products on the Internet, in producer's shops and on the markets of the region. All sorts of tasty jams (pear, greengage with vanilla, apricot with vanilla, red grapefruit, rhubarb...) or jellies based on perfectly original recipes as well as delicious chutneys (such as the Norman chutney: apples, onions, raisins, lemon, spices), marvellously presented in pretty jars, or the delicious syrups (savory, oregano, mint syrup, sweetness of childhood...). We give in to the very high quality of these sweets but also to the mode of production and distribution, directly from the producer to the consumer, which is a sure guarantee of quality. You can find them, among others, at the Épi du fermier near Canclaux, Little Britain Café in front of the Grand Blottereau park, or Lecoq and also the new space of Brison traiteur at the Nantes train station.

Emmanuel Moreau, a fervent defender of short circuits, created La Petite Soupe in 2021. We like the spirit: artisanal production, originality of soups and spreads, and all this with as few intermediaries as possible between the producer and the consumer, favouring local and organic products. He produces tasty soups with original flavors. We fell in love with the delicious mogette/peanut soup and the Coffee Pot with its original combination of pumpkin and coffee. 100% vegetable products! Discover the foügra vendéen (mogette spreadable), ideal on a toast.

The story begins in the 1920s. Originally, a lady used a simple cookie cutter to make wafers for herself: the Avel Vor (sea wind). The business takes its current form under the leadership of Gérard Jadeau who widens the range to include almost all the products of traditional Breton pastry making. Bring back in your suitcases madeleines, quatre-quarts, kouign amanns, Breton fars, caramel spreads, caramel sweets, pancakes and galettes? The biscuit factory can be visited.

Lucie (known as Lulu) and Fabien's fish shop is without doubt the best fish shop on the island and the warmest welcome. Freshness, regularity, daily arrivals. No farmed fish, only local fish! In its nets: red mullet, turbot, sea bass, sole, scallops, shrimps, tuna, oysters, mussels, shellfish, home-made smoking specialities. Vacuum packing of fish to take away. Seafood platters to order. Present at the market.

This family business, founded in the early 1980s by the Corvaisier couple, is now run by Amélie, one of their daughters. La Ferme de la Métairie's organic and natural jams and sorbets are appreciated by locals and known as far away as Versailles. Their vintage cars, fitted out for sale, can be found in the gardens of Versailles and elsewhere, as well as in Le Mans for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. They can also be purchased in delicatessens and organic stores, and direct from the Le Mans workshop. Amélie has just created a new label, Confidences d'Amélie, and welcomes other producers and artisans to her Christmas market at the Farm.

This is the direct sales store of the Noirmoutier Island salt cooperative. Here, you can buy Noirmoutier salt directly, harvested by the island's salt-makers in keeping with age-old traditions. The fleur de sel is delicately hand-picked from the surface of the water and dried naturally in the sun, under the Nature & Progrès label. A wide range of salts - coarse salt, fine salt and fleur de sel - natural or flavored, as well as a range of complementary products (salicorne, caramels, chips, etc.).

It is the fish shop on the island! The place is pleasant and the enthusiastic atmosphere. The stall offers a splendid fish galore, like the bar, tuna, the conger and many others, also of shellfish and superb lobsters and crayfish. Prices are the same as in mainland ones, but freshness is impeccable. It is a real pleasure to find a fish shop of this quality. Moreover, you will be revealed some recipes and small tricks ideal for cooking and the choice of the ingredients.

Born in 1945 from an observation, tired of being exploited, the farmers of Noirmoutre decided to create a work tool allowing them to pool all the means of mutual aid. It gathers 50 producers, who cultivate approximately 450 hectares of potatoes on the island. At the Noirmoutier Agricultural Cooperative, a retail store (l'Île aux Jardins) open to individuals. You will find the famous bonnottes of the island, as well as vegetables and regional products..

The Biscuiterie incontournable of Noirmoutier has this^2nd store. Enjoy raspberry-white chocolate cookies, peach-caramel-salted butter shortbread, rhubarb-almond glaze, croquants, palets, meringues, prefou or salmon-dill shortbread, the delicious chocolate-caramel fondant heart, the good brioche. The flagship product, caramel, is available as a chocolate truffle, peanut or banana flambé. All homemade by chefs, in the Noirmoutier workshop, with exceptional regional raw materials and no preservatives or artificial coloring.

The semi-cooked duck foie gras, raised in France, are absolutely perfect in texture and flavour. The goose foie gras and confits are a pleasant alternative when you think of combining them with a good fricassee of potatoes à la Sarladaise! If you are in Angers, don't miss the shop in rue Saint-Julien (Épica) where all these delicacies are on display. A special offer is made to campers and yachtsmen in terms of ready-made meals and preserves, who will disembark in Le Lion d'Angers

The Rublé Farm is first of all a family story, that of Régis and Colette Boileau, joined by their son Benjamin in 2006 on the exploitation became organic. And it's also the story of passionate farmers who have been able to adapt and change their activity over time. Their dairy farm gradually diversified, with the creation of a cheese factory in 2008, followed by the creation of a vegetable activity the following year. In 2010, Martin (Benjamin's brother) joined the team to focus on beef production. At the Rublé Farm Store, there are naturally products developed on site: cheese and dairy products, vegetables, meat (beef, veal and pork), and there are also other products, of course: bread, pizza pasta, goat cheeses, drinks, fruit, groceries, hygiene and maintenance products.

Lucette and Jean-Marc Campas give you an embarrassment of riches to choose from, with some fifty different jams and jellies prepared with produce from the farm: enough to give character and variety to snacks and breakfasts. Orchard fruit, cow's milk for milk jams, garden produce and even field products (dandelion flowers, wild blackberries, etc.): all are used to delight young and old alike.

The Potager de Saint Julien, run by the Fondation d'Auteuil, is a work-integration program that enables some fifteen employees to gain access to a professional activity through organic market gardening, and to prepare for a move into sustainable employment through socio-professional support. Every day, the site team prepares the soil, plants, sows, cultivates and cares for 60 varieties of fruit and vegetables, which are offered for sale in fresh, seasonal baskets every week to consumer-actor members and professionals on order (biocoops, restaurants, institutional catering). Becoming a potager consom'acteur means doing good for the planet by choosing organic and local produce, and above all, it means helping men and women to bounce back and regain confidence in the future! There are two production and collection sites, one in Bouguenais-Les Couëts, the other in Saint-Julien-de-Concelles.