Where to buy bread cakes chocolates ice cream Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

Creating an authentic, richly-flavored spread without palm oil or artificial flavors? That's the bold challenge set by Catherine Brothier and her brother Yves Zuconi. These two gourmands with a passion for cooking have created a richly-flavored spread, with fine Piedmont hazelnuts, real vanilla and fair-trade cocoa beans. Many top hotels offer this wonderful spread in their establishments. You can find it in Biot at Catherine's partners, the Bee Riviera boutique.

While madeleines originated in Commercy in eastern France, where Madeleine Paulmier invented the recipe in the ^18th century, in the Luberon region of France Émeline has been making hundreds of handmade madeleines every day since 2021, to the delight of gourmets. Crunchy and soft, not too sweet, plain, with chocolate, preserved lemon or almonds, they are shaped like a scallop shell. Émeline sells them at the La Tour d'Aigues and Pertuis markets, but they can also be ordered via her La Luberonnaise website.

A nice bakery on Victor-Hugo Avenue. You will find there, apart from the traditional breads, many special breads. Figura, Miura, Sevillian,Andalusian, sourdough, cereal, wholemeal, flavored with basil or olive oil. Savory or sweet focaccia. A catering bank offers a variety of appetizing sandwiches. Numerous pastries, Viennese pastries, and Marseilles shuttles complete the choice. Finally, there is a grocery and beverage section that can provide many services. No hesitation.

At the very bottom of the rue d'Aubagne, in the part of the Noailles district that is the most dynamic in terms of shops, a brand new ice cream shop has opened, bringing a sweet touch that was missing in the surrounding streets. Born from the adventure of three associates, Mahboule plays with the meeting between good ice cream and the Mediterranean. Like the flavors offered, pistacchiosa, caramel salt of Camargue, hazelnut of Piedmont or stracciatella ... The ice creams are from the Tuscan house Casalini. A treat! In addition to ice cream, delicious waffles and pancakes in winter. Nice place, clear and elegant with a grocery corner. It remains to be seen if the clientele of the neighborhood will respond but the project is beautiful.

You'll find tasty pastries that follow the seasons, from apple and pear tarts to chestnut pavlova in autumn. Le Futé has fallen in love with the strawberry, raspberry and red fruit pavlova, which you can choose small or large to suit your sweet tooth. Special mention also goes to the marvellous chocolate cake. Everything is homemade, made and processed on site, and the products are fresh and local.

A new bakery and pastry shop in the heart of Aix between Cours Mirabeau and Place d'Albertas, a challenge today? Lionel, pastry chef for 27 years in a gastronomic restaurant, opens here with his wife Martina a boutique of artisanal products; organic breads, artisanal pastries, quality snacks, everything is made from sustainable and controlled agriculture, that is to say, as local as possible and paid at its fair price. A requirement of ethics and taste without counting the heat of the reception and the service for the more particular orders. Do not hesitate, everything will always be very good and very original. We love it and we run there!

Opened in 1830, the Brémond confectionery is Aix's first and oldest calisson factory, located at the time on Cours Mirabeau. Brémond calissons are distinguished by their aromas and textures: candied melon, crushed almonds, candied orange and lemon, and the melting/cracking properties of powdered sugar. The company also produces other sweets, including the famous olivettes, chocolate almonds, candied fruits and marrons glacés, as well as savoury products, oils and tapenades. A treasure trove of local gifts!

This is chocolate heaven. The cocoa beans arrive at the workshop in their raw state, selected upstream by Mathieu Taborcia. Pâtissier-chocolatier and Compagnon du Devoir, Mathieu masters the entire chain, from sorting and roasting the beans to transforming them into bars, croque-amandes, orangettes and candied ginger... Grands crus, pure origins, chocolate lovers are spoilt for choice. It's Christmas and Easter all year round!

Two sales and freshness points await you on the main street of Porquerolles. Nearly 70 perfumes of ice cream and fresh fruit sorbets will delight connoisseurs who enjoy ice-corn or banana straciatella and pecan.

This confectionery-confectionery manufactures and sells Provençal chocolates and specialities. In particular, Didier Carrié created a unique recipe for the "Agay d'Agay", a white chocolate truffle, flavoured with vegetable liquor and lemon, and rolled in the powder of mimosa.

White and black nougat are the jewels of the production of this sign, but you will also find old-fashioned macaroons, calissons, spreads, old-fashioned marshmallows, chocolate-covered almonds. During the summer, you will not be able to resist the artisanal ice creams with lavender, calisson, nougat. The store has preserved its period setting, with a small museum of kitchen utensils (18th-19th century), including roasting objects, candy boxes, old butter churns, not forgetting the huge pestle to grind almonds.

Sylvain and Mila Marty are married for the better, and above all for the greater pleasure of sweet tooths who will find in their bakery-pastry shop something to satisfy all their cravings. He's Bruno's former sidekick at Villa Archange, a two Michelin-starred chef; she's a true pastry enthusiast whose Russian origins can be found in some of the original creations on display. A skilful blend of skills and know-how, notably highlighted in the TV show "La meilleure boulangerie de France" (France's best bakery).

This lovely boutique, reminiscent of old and sparkling cottage, opened in 2004 to sell candy. Sylvie, the candy of candy, also offers other gourmet products and a ice card in summer, a fast catering card in winter. In summer, it sells homemade ice creams (Alpine ice) with delicious flavours - gingerbread, purple, liquorice, water-de-rose, lychee, cinnamon (of race!), caramel butter salty, pêche - and textured mint/lemon, coca-cola, strawberry/banana… And also fresh seasonal fruit juices, to make full vitamins. In winter, Sylvie gets to the stove to prepare waffles and pancakes, but also add fresh sauces to accompany a selection of pasta. A pleasant boutique in one of Aix-en-Provence's most bandwidth streets. Novelty 2012: lavender ice.

Gilles, national finalist and PACA winner of the Talents de l'Artisanat Competition, welcomes you to his new boutique which has left rue Pied-de-Ville to settle on boulevard Gassendi at n°34. His shop and laboratory have gained in visibility and space, but the place remains cosy as well as its tea room, coffee shop and recently ice-cream parlour. Here, fresh buttons are highlighted, which can be personalized endlessly, a text, a photo, a message. The result is amazing! Everything is done on site in a traditional way. The address is relatively recent but we are already rushing around. Gilles prepares six to eight flavours a week. Taste the caramel salted butter macaroon. A delight! You can enjoy them on site in the tea room or take them away. Also, a delicatessen corner gives pride of place to local products, nougat, terrine, jam, tea... Without moderation!

Notice to all chocolate lovers! In this artisanal chocolate factory, chocolate is available in all its forms for our greatest pleasure: candies, lollipops, bars, and dark, milk, caramel, white, tangerine, mint, passion or hazelnut chocolate fondues. Ready to use, they can be enjoyed to the last drop. The Lisandre chocolate factory also offers Choco workshops of chocolate creations for children and adults from 2 years old. A real gourmet address where you can find original gifts.

Alicia and Pierre, two gourmet pastry lovers, took advantage of Covid to make their dream come true; to open an artisanal cookie factory. Here, everything is handmade with local products selected for their qualities. Thanks to a good dose of love and know-how, the result is simply delicious. Let yourself be tempted by the house specialty, the Olinette, a sweet and salty cookie made with PDO olive oil. You can find them on the market of Oraison and at night in summer.

Marseille has its navettes and canistrellis, Aix has its calissons, and now the city can boast its own madeleine! La Madeleine de Marseille, recently opened as a boutique by two partners, Patrick and Nicolas, is located in the lively Cinq-Avenues district. It's a pretty store with the sweet aroma of freshly baked madeleines. Proust himself would love it, and would never leave the premises. Different flavors: aniseed, almond, pistachio, lemon, plain and a delicious melting sensation on the palate. A real treat. Everything is made on site in the small laboratory, so it's very, very fresh. You'll appreciate the texture of the madeleines, the bits of chocolate, the flaked almonds and the pistachio powder. A gourmet marvel you won't want to miss!

In the very pleasant district of Beaumont, the historical stronghold of the Armenian Marseillaise community, is Sassoun. This shop is the ultimate reference in Armenian fine pastry in the Phocaean city. Loyal customers have been coming for years now to enjoy a warm welcome first of all, and delicious sweets, baklavas, rich in honey and flavours or the Armenian brioche, the Cheurek. Far from stopping at sweets, Sassoun also offers a range of salted snacks, bites and cheese or meat snacks on order if necessary. Their Lahmajoun is a real delight (it is also called Armenian pizza). Run for it!

In this bakery, run by Camille and Adrien, both passionate about the trade, we follow the wheat from A to Z. From seed to bread, to our delight! The flour, to which the long fermentation gives a particularly fine taste, comes exclusively from Henri de Pazzis, farmer and miller, who cultivates forty-five hectares of land in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. And organic, of course! Once delivered to the expert hands of our craftsmen, its workmanship and precise wood-fired baking result in a bread of exceptional quality.

Exceptional chocolate and pastry maker, Corentin Torres, vice-champion of France for young chocolate makers, has set up his shop in the 8th arrondissement, in the Pointe Rouge district. A chance for the southern neighbourhoods which were still lacking good pastry chefs, usually more towards the city centre. When entering this shop, watch your eyes. When you come out of it, watch your taste buds. The creations are superb, fine in taste and astonishing in the recipes. Individual desserts, set pieces and iced pastries rub shoulders with biscuits, calissons and chocolate sweets. At the end of the year, the home-made logs are a great success, and rightly so.

The name of this pastry shop fits perfectly with the very first reaction one has when walking through the door of this charming little store. To the eye, one admires the work and the finesse of execution. Under the palate, one appreciates the delicate flavors. Here, the greed is queen but wants to be ethical and thus vegan. If you don't know, take the plunge, you'll appreciate it. Crack open Grodoudou, a chocolatey "startelette" that lives up to its name, a homemade tropézienne and many other surprises that will surely tempt you.

The best ice creams of Forcalquier and its surroundings! For fourteen years, the Saint Michel ice cream shop, located in the heart of the old town, has been offering 100% home-made ice creams. You will choose between the forty flavors, ice creams and sorbets, proposed. From the classic to the exotic, they are all gustatory marvels. Try the grapefruit or the fig sorbet, with the delicious impression of eating the fruit. The Provence range with its genepi, lavender or violet flavors is divine! Emée's welcome is just great. We come from far away!

For a gourmet break in La Tour d'Aigues, head for Amande Olive & Chocolat, where you can choose between chocolates, fruit jellies and handmade confectionery. Elisabeth works with passion directly from her workshop in the belly of the village, using ingredients carefully selected for their origin and quality, such as almonds from Provence and hazelnuts from the South West to make her delicious creations. Don't miss her handcrafted marshmallows made without egg whites, from fruit purées.

Looking for a good ice cream parlour to cool down on the terrace after a tour of the old town? La Maison Marc's ice cream sundaes are a delightful combination of gourmet goodness and originality: we fell in love with the one combining fresh fruit, chocolate fondant and scoops of chocolate and red fruit ice cream. The menu also includes a range of excellent fresh fruit juices to accompany your pancakes or sweet waffles, as well as all the classic drinks. On weekends, at lunchtime, you can also enjoy a delicious brunch!

This green-fronted bakery and patisserie welcomes you every day except Wednesday to enjoy a variety of breads made with cereals, rye, corn... golden viennoiseries, meringues of all kinds, mouth-watering pastries, as well as croquants de Provence and traditional navettes. A savoury section, including pizzas and quiches, is also available.

Nicolas and Jérémie were selected as the Bouche-du-Rhône winners of "la meilleure boulangerie". It's a great success, even though they've only been open for a year, but they've already built up a wealth of expertise: using top-quality products, they bake organic breads, olive-onion breads, croissants with light puff pastry, citrus tarts that have won rave reviews... Gourmets flock here from all over the département to support the finalists and, above all, to lick their lips in anticipation of the final!

With its soft textures, colors and flavors, mochi looks like a macaroon without being one. This traditional Japanese pastry has its own workshop-boutique in downtown Aix. Made from rice dough, it is vegan and gluten-free. Several flavors: hazelnut, almond and orange blossom, matcha tea, sesame, red beans. Also iced mochi in tangy lemon yuzu, cherry blossom and blackberry flavors, or the classics: chocolate, pistachio and vanilla. New: Maison Mooks tea room opens at 23 rue Paul Bert.

A delicious, magnificent artisan bakery. With its glass-fronted workshop, mural fresco and marble-cut counter, the store is sublime. On display are succulent sweets, specialties from the South of France and beyond: pompes à l'huile et aux fleurs de lavande, kouglofs with figs and candied apricots, navettes à la fleur d'oranger, matcha lemon cakes, brioches and more. As for the bread, it's divine: honey-sugar, natural sourdough and roasted five-grain loaves, we want to try them all! Delightfully regressive, yet revisited!

Milling baker Pierre Ragot, already renowned for his bakeries in Marseille, is now offering his artisan natural sourdough breads, with their varied and subtle tastes, in Aix-en-Provence. Committed to sustainable agriculture, he grows his own ancient varieties of wheat and bakes his breads daily from fresh flours. Alongside the emblematic Saint-Honoré loaf, you'll find farmhouse breads, molded breads, cereal breads, dried fruit breads and chestnut honey breads. On the sweet side, we concentrate on the essentials: croissant, pain au chocolat, british brioches, an old-fashioned tart with seasonal fruit and a flan without pastry that's not to be missed!

What a temptation to discover the true Liège delicacy: the waffle. Dorian has taken on the recipe of two brothers from Liège who established this concept in Toulouse. The waffle is available in classic, cinnamon or frangipane dough. You can of course add caramel, whipped cream, cherry, strawberry, banana or ice cream, but let yourself be tempted by the special compositions: the ardéchoise with chestnut cream and whipped cream, or the fondante: a real treat. Go ahead, this beautiful Liègeoise has risen to the challenge with flying colors!

The authentic and gourmet address par excellence! Settled in Bras since 1977, Betrand Allais offers bread directly from the field to the mouth! Explanations: as a cereal grower, miller and baker, he takes care of the entire production chain himself. And as if 100% local wasn't enough, he has also said goodbye to all pesticides and fungicides, in favor of compost made from manure, which he exchanges for straw with organic farmers. In short, you will have understood: tasting a bread from Monsieur is both delicious and fully committed!

Now there's a cure for the sweet tooth! Sweet mini navettes with orange blossom or cinnamon scents, the famous cookies of Provence, soft white nougat made with almonds, honey and pistachios, green and black olives in chocolate and many other delicacies. There are also savory dimples, as appetizing as they are tasty, with the scent of Provencal herbs, olives and onions. It's a great place to buy small gifts of regional products, which are always a pleasure! Before you buy, try a few treats.

For lovers of berlingots, the Confiserie de la Fontaine is a stopover to punctuate your touristic walk in a gourmet way if you go up to the Moulin Vallis Clausa or the Museum of the Resistance. There, you will find the colourful berlingots which make the reputation of the Confiserie Clavel but also the candied fruits and fruit pastes elaborated in a traditional way from the fruits of the region, the melon of Cavaillon, the strawberry of Carpentras, the cherry of Venasque.

A key word for this pastry: elegance. So the neat alignment of all these little cakes makes your head spin. As you can imagine, the speciality of the house is a Tropezienne reviewed and corrected to fall. Chocolate lovers will not be outdone. You don't hesitate to nibble on the sweets, order the birthday cakes and take your pastries for breakfast... guaranteed effect! And we discover the speciality of the region, the Papaline! For lunch, salads are ready to take away.

Papaline, listed as a national heritage of French chocolate specialities, hides under its pink thistle-like robe a liquorous heart of oregano, a blend of about sixty plants, some of which are picked in the foothills of Mont Ventoux. The origins of this cheese date back to 1835 and it was the master pastry chefs of the Vaucluse who brought it back to life in 1960. The recipe is unchanged and is only distributed in the Vaucluse via the association "Les Pâtissiers des Papalines".

Michel Bourbouze perpetuates traditions. We find in him the famous "cadenette": braid that adorned the hairstyles of the military and the incredible or muscadins after the revolution, imagined by the Lord of Cadenet at the beginning of the XVIIth century. Michel's braids are much less vindictive: it is a zest of orange macerated in Grand Marnier, a melting ganache, all moulded in a dark chocolate braid, and nicely presented in a small drum.

We're a stone's throw from the tourist office. The front says as much as the name of the sign! Inside, the shop windows are a showcase for the pastries, desserts and chocolates made daily. The fine pastries follow the seasons as do the macaroons which come in original flavours, apricot with rosemary, mango ylang ylang. Calissons, meringues and homemade chocolates are beautifully presented.