Gourmet products local specialties and wines Tours

The team of this business has made the bet of quality, and we are never disappointed. Behind a traditional shop window, the "talemelier" (baker in old French) offers organic, wholemeal, fig and nut bread, with a low gluten content... Tatin tarts and rum babas are served alongside seasonal fruit pastries, as well as quiches, sandwiches and salads for busy lunches. These beautiful products are also sold in the Halles de Tours. Note: you can buy organic flour and yeast to make your own bread at home.

Fifty metres from the railway station, the most expensive area of the hyper-centre. We love the socio-cultural diversity of the clientele (even if we sometimes live with sacred loustics!), the kindness of the tellers, the managers too. It's a perfect convenience store to help you, with all the useful rays in everyday life, and what to buy before taking the train or bus.

Les Belles Caves is the ideal place to stock up your cellar with great wines. The shop at Les Halles is elegant and you are received with great professionalism. The selection is sharp, with wines from the region and from other great French wine regions, to vary the pleasures and to travel from one territory to another. Spirits also have their place, notice to the amateurs. The price range is wide and corresponds to all types of budget. At Belles Caves, it is certain that everyone leaves satisfied!

At Les Halles, poultry lovers have a choice of quality products with Bernard Ledoux's stand, which has been present in the area since 1974. The animals are fed on grain and then carefully sorted. You will also find seasonal game. If you need some advice on preparation and cooking times, don't miss the kindness of the shopkeepers, who are happy to share their know-how and tips, even if it is crowded at certain times of the week. An address to remember for a good feast.

This Wednesday and Saturday morning market is one of the oldest in Tours! There is always a crowd in its alleys to stock up on fruits, vegetables, eggs, fresh bread and cheeses. The aisles are rather small and you have to stroll through them with patience, but this adds to the charm of the market. It is also an opportunity to take the time to contemplate the stalls in the smallest details and to greet the producers, always open to exchanges about cooking or other topics! A friendly, gourmet stroll with an audience of all ages.

Located at the Halles de Tours, the Maison Clément is a very nice address for lovers of good products. You will find what you need to treat yourself with French or foreign products. Iberian pork meats, sardines from the Guidive, Kaspia caviars, François Pralus chocolates, spices... Don't leave the place without taking a look at the cellar. The local wines rub shoulders with other great French wines as well as a very nice selection of whiskies and spirits. Great names for fine and delicate aperitifs. The welcome is charming and the team is very helpful!

The Bellanger chocolate factory is the story of a family with a passion for good things. You can find chocolate in retail or in boxes, sugared almonds, chocolate bars from France and elsewhere, ballotins, spreads... Some fruit jellies and a collection of macaroons complete the offer, with original flavours. The creations of the master chocolatier, Meilleur Ouvrier de France in 1982, are simply divine. In summer, enjoy the refreshing homemade ice creams. No guilty pleasure in sight, only happiness.

Asia fills with happiness the amateurs of varied, spicy and thousand flavours cooking. For this, Tours has remarkable restaurants, but gourmets can also go to Paris Store! In this store in Tours Nord, you will find thousands of products to make the best recipes from the Far East, from starters to desserts. They allow you to concoct dishes from Vietnam, Japan or even China. In addition, there are plenty of suitable utensils and table decorations to match the dishes to be enjoyed.

Since 1920, Rannou Métivier has been cultivating 100% authentic craftsmanship in the field of sweet pleasures. During a visit to the Halles de Tours, it is difficult not to want to look at this gourmet display. You will find delicious chocolates that go wonderfully with coffee, Montmorillon macaroons, cakes such as Bonne Mémé and Visitandine, but also teas, infusions and coffees. A choice address to make every gourmet break a refined and delicious moment. It is also a perfect place to buy boxes that will surely delight gourmets from all walks of life. An unmistakable address to please and please yourself!

As in any city, there are a few institutions in Tours and the Briocherie Lelong is one of them. Open since 1907, it is the only specialist briochery in France! When you come out of the train station, you can smell the enticing fragrances coming out of the shop, so how can you resist? And the prices are not an obstacle. Plain brioche, with chocolate chips, filled with Nutella... Here, we know the subject matter at length and across the board! A small shop just the way we like it, full of charm and good things. Authentic welcome.

A beautiful market that dates back to 1933! Quality and freshness are the order of the day. We prefer it to the neighbouring supermarket for Sunday meals. In a smiling and friendly atmosphere, you can enjoy the smell of fruits, vegetables, Indian and Japanese recipes, but also the lively atmosphere of the place. In winter, one rushes back home to cook and in summer, why not go and sit in the neighbouring Prébendes garden to taste what one has just bought? A nice stop for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood!

Honey is not only a matter of greed: its multiple health benefits have been proven. This brand, present throughout France, offers honey in all kinds of sauces: ampoules, jellies, capsules, syrups, tablets, lotions, oils, cereals, teas, etc. And of course, we also taste it in its raw and delicious form, with different varieties depending on what the bees have gathered (lime, acacia or eucalyptus are our favorites). A place to take care of oneself and where one buzzes with pleasure!

Rodolphe Le Meunier is a multi-awarded cheese maker who exports his cheeses all over the world. He and his sister have taken up the family torch and continue their longstanding know-how. They have 400 m² of maturing cellars in La Croix-en-Touraine. You can find them on several markets in the department and, as a matter of course, at the Halles de Tours! It's simple, there's something for everyone, including an impressive variety of goat's cheese.

E.Leclerc Tours is a hypermarket. It offers a range of services including in-store shopping and in-store collection. It also has an E.Leclerc cultural center, a gas station and a rental service. For shopping enthusiasts, E.Leclerc Tours also offers regular promotional catalogs. The service station offers different types of fuel at competitive prices. What's more, the store also offers practical services such as an electric recharging point, a postal mailbox, a photocopier and a catering service for gourmet breaks.

Carrefour Drive Tours Tonnellé is a supermarket. It offers a range of services including in-store shopping, drive-through and delivery. Carrefour Drive Tours Tonnellé also offers additional services such as tire inflation, photo printing, photocopying and a special cart. It also has a service station where you can fill up with fuel. The Carrefour Drive Tours Tonnellé also offers promotions and catalogs to help you save money on your purchases.

The Carrefour Market in Tours La Riche is a supermarket. It offers a range of services including in-store shopping, drive-through and delivery. The Tours La Riche Carrefour Market also offers a catering service. Customers can also take advantage of the Carrefour Drive service to collect their shopping from the store's parking lot. The store also offers services such as photo printing and a service station. Customers can also take advantage of the Carrefour after-sales service. The Tours La Riche Carrefour Market also offers regular promotions and low-price products.

BioCité is an address where organic food comes in all flavours! Located in the heart of the city of Tours, you will find a nice selection of food, grocery, home care and cosmetic products. The shelves are well organized to make your shopping more pleasant. The quality of the products is obviously the great plus of the place, with a beautiful display of fruit and vegetables that makes you want to eat healthy and balanced. This is the philosophy of the house. The welcome is also very smiling.

As in most of the Caffet boutiques in France, you can find here chocolates to be tasted individually or in boxes, pastries, without forgetting the eclairs and macaroons in multiple flavors. The Las Vegas dessert with its Venezuelan chocolate mousse, raspberry and bourbon vanilla coulis and almond crunch was even awarded^first prize at the world championships! Gourmets will also find artisanal ice creams, ideal in summer, and individual desserts to take away. An address of choice when you have a sweet tooth.

You can find wines from the Loire, the South, Bordeaux, Alsace, Burgundy, and champagnes selected by Thierry from independent producers. A few bottles of rum and whisky are also available for spirits lovers. Don't miss the delicatessen section either, with cold meats and cheeses to accompany your aperitifs and meals. The great plus is that you can stop for lunch in a warm atmosphere, with tasty home-made dishes accompanied by a good glass of wine, of course!

Patrick and Antoine are always available to share their passion with their customers. They offer a wide selection of organic, biodynamic and natural wines. Wines from the Loire, Burgundy, the Rhone Valley, the south of France, but also from Alsace, the Jura, Spain or Italy, there is something for absolutely every palate. The two managers are anxious to present you with the best and since the welcome is particularly friendly, you don't hesitate to ask for advice, you always learn a lot.

Every day, Cas'al Dente offers Italian dishes freshly prepared by Valerie, a chef with many qualities. Gratins and lasagne whet the appetite at first glance. Charcuterie, cheeses, fresh pasta, you will also find high quality basic products to concoct some recipes at home. The delicatessen section allows you to stock up on condiments and wines. Present on Saturday mornings at the Blois market and on Sundays at Place Rabelais. You can also contact them for a catering service.

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Among the city's delicatessens, Maison Lhote is a true institution. Located at the corner of the Grand Passage and Boulevard Heurteloup, you will find excellent products, and this since 1924! Dare to open the door to discover Loire sweets, spices and condiments, jams, preserves, seafood, sweets, teas, spirits from around the world and caviar. Come for yourself, but also to offer delicious gifts to your loved ones, the shop offers many gourmet baskets.

Carnivores will be filled by the tendres and generous pieces that this quality butcher offers. Red or white, meat is here first choice. There is no mention of it, because good taste does not have a price.

Marie-Thérèse and Thierry Cartereau select farm products that reveal the terroirs of all France and some Swiss, Italian or English specimens. A beautiful collection of cheeses made from cow's, goat's or sheep's milk, whose quality is not surprising when you know that these craftsmen are also ripeners. Other farm products found by the couple (wine, jams...) are also proposed. And as Thierry likes to innovate, he created with a baker the Balzacienne, a tart with Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine in homage to the writer.

This small city centre market is located a few steps from the tourist office. You can forget for a few moments the hubbub of the traffic, between buses and cars that join or leave the city center, to concentrate on the stalls and the products offered. The shops are few and far between, but they will be happy to help you choose what you can eat throughout the week. They offer the essentials for good food: fruit and vegetables, butchery, cheese, and even organic bread.

Probably the biggest market in Touraine! On Thursdays there are a little less merchants and a reasonable number of people, but on Sundays it's a different matter: hundreds of onlookers and local residents come to do their food shopping there. There are also some clothes and various objects. It is not uncommon to see a street musician settling here. A cheerful mix of people. Going to the Velpeau market on Sunday mornings, alone or with the family, is a must in the life of Touraine.

Installed for many years in the Sanitas district, this market allows you to stock up on a variety of products at very good prices! Clothes and manufactured products are sold alongside flowers, and a whole range of fruit, vegetables and traditional or exotic foodstuffs. Spices, aromatic herbs, olives, mint... You can travel to the Orient while browsing the aisles. As a bonus, a great atmosphere. To embellish your kitchen and give your dishes a touch of the Orient at a low price, here is an address to note in your smart book.

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Olivier Dubois, a wine merchant with a background in cuisine and sommellerie, welcomes you to his boutique halfway between the train station and Place Jean Jaurès. Of course, you'll want to take a look at the shelves highlighting Loire wines, before discovering other grape varieties such as those from Burgundy, the Rhône Valley or Languedoc... The range continues to evolve, with the pleasure of discovering new marvels from our regions, and a number of rums and whiskies will delight spirits lovers. Tastings and theme evenings are also available.

Pleine Forme is a small paradise of natural and organic products, located between Les Halles and rue Marceau. Cécile, the manager, is accompanied by a dietician and a naturopath and all three of them bring you precious advice, simply to take care of your health. The shop offers an organic grocery store with gluten-free, sugar-free or salt-free products, organic cosmetics as well as a space with relaxing music CDs, ergonomic seats, candles... The little extra, you can be received individually for advice.

The U Express and Drive supermarket is a convenient place to shop. Whether you want to shop in-store, use the drive service or benefit from delivery, U Express offers a variety of services to meet customers' needs.

A must for testing new coffees and teas. We like to stop there to fill up on coffees from the four corners of the planet, grown in a way that respects the environment and a peasant culture. Green tea, black tea, white tea, from China, from Sri Lanka, there is also a large choice. The delicatessen presents some products from the region. Not to mention the accessories that allow you to prepare and enjoy your beverage. Arbol Torréfacteur is also on rue des Halles to extend the pleasure to the Vieux-Tours.

Born in Orléans, this high-end brand created by master ice cream maker Fayçal Kabeeche has just opened in Tours. You can enjoy ice cream in winter or summer. After all, there's no season for excellent scoops of fruit, pistachio or chocolate ice cream. But this master ice cream maker has much more to offer, with formulas that combine waffles and ice cream, milkshakes and recipes that adapt to the highlights of the year. A great address for gourmets. Pleasant service and a charming welcome!

Since 2019, Christophe Taillandier has taken over the organic butcher shop located under the Halles centrales, place Gaston Paillhou. Come and discover a delicious organic and local meat, of premium quality. Working directly with certified organic farmers, the butcher knows their products perfectly: here you know where the meat comes from, with serious traceability. You buy products with confidence, with your eyes closed, on their advice or that of their team.

Bryan and Lucie Garnier have kept the recipes that have always delighted the gourmets of the Velpeau district and elsewhere. Rillettes, rillons, boudins or even fish terrine are still on the program. But beware, in order to leave their mark on the store, the stall is also rich in recipes to be enjoyed at home, salads, vegetables, etc. More than a simple butcher shop, Au Bec Fin is an address in love with the good local products and it also proposes cheeses, milk, wine or still artisanal beers.

One of the best bakeries in Tours! There is no doubt that the staff behind the ovens is full of talent to make all these products that seduce the inhabitants of the capital of Tours. The bread is crispy and delicious, with a large choice. As for the viennoiseries, pastries and other cakes, everything is wonderfully executed. Tarts, Paris-Brest, flans, eclairs, croissants, kouglof, there is something for everyone. At lunchtime, the bakery offers well-filled sandwiches and other tarts. Not to be missed!

La Fine Marée des Halles has a black front and a very nice marine logo. At this fishmonger-caterer, everything is finely presented and the meat of the fish displayed is more than appetizing. You can find mackerel, peeled ray wings, sole, sea bream, cod back, tuna, shrimps, spiders... In the delicatessen section, treat yourself to salmon or sardine rillettes. Thank you to La Fine Marée des Halles for taking us to the open sea from the temple of gastronomy in Tours!

In this beautiful little boutique at the start of Rue Lamartine, the visuals awaken the taste buds at first glance. The Saint-Honoré, the millefeuille or the raspberry-pistachio macaron: the flavors are well combined for a taste in the mouth that you'll want to keep for hours. The patisserie-chocolaterie also offers home-made viennoiseries and bread. And don't miss the chocolates and artisanal ice creams. So make dessert a special moment and come to Karine & Teddy!

The grocery store welcomes you in a bright room, a place where you can easily move from one wall to the other to pour in our personal bags and containers as well as in the paper bags and bottles at your disposal cereals, pasta, cakes, oil, various seeds, candies or some fruits and vegetables. The store also sells local and eco-friendly products: soaps, shampoos, detergents, bicarbonate of soda, sponges and other practical everyday utensils. Claire welcomes you with a smile, always ready to advise you.

In this superb address at the beginning of rue Courteline, the philosophy is simple: to offer artisanal organic bread. The store gives pride of place to eco-responsible approaches, and you only have to pass in front of the window to quickly get your mouth watering and not resist the urge to enter. The place only opens at the end of the day, perfect for picking up fresh bread on the way home. Breads are available on the stall: special breads, wholemeal breads, but also gluten-free breads... Brioches, pastries and cakes complete the offer.

In this family-run bakery-patisserie, the idea is to help you discover the delicious flavors of organic bread and natural sourdough products. Whether it's walnut country bread, muesli bread, country baguettes or tourtes de meule, come and try out the recipe that suits you best. You won't be indifferent either to the appetizing viennoiseries and pastries, or to the bakery's commitment to fight waste, offering a 5% discount if you bring your own packaging! Don't hesitate to order for your events.

Karla from Cafecito has taken on a new challenge with La Brûlerie, right next door to the Coffee Shop. The young woman and her team were already offering good Latin American coffees at Cafecito, but she wanted to go further and went back to Guatemala to train in coffee roasting. It is thus as an expert that she roasts coffees from Latin America. Listening to her, one discovers all the subtleties, and the tasting sessions allow one to appreciate all the varieties. You can enjoy a coffee on the spot, or buy her bags to go.

A little more than a century of existence for this shop which is a must for all those who love tea. Tourangeaux discover quality products and the joys of English-style breaks at any time of the day! Delphine welcomes you and tells you about the more than 100 references of teas, herbal teas, fruit waters from all over the world, without forgetting a nice organic range. Without forgetting to advise you. And because the place is pleasant, don't hesitate to sit at one of the two tables, around a delicacy.

Le Carré Rouge has three stores: one in Luynes, one in Chanceaux-sur-Choisille and one in Les Halles de Tours. The address proposes products elaborated in the purest tradition. Tournedos, chicken cutlets, ribeyes, chicken cords, don't miss the award-winning specialties: rillettes de Tours, andouillette à la ficelle, boudins... You will have understood, you will come to the Carré Rouge to fill up with good products, and if you want to simplify your task during the holidays, opt for the menus designed to impress your guests.

Low prices all year, Auchan products, brands, fresh products, colourful communication, and everything, why not, but where we are surprised is that this teaches home services: household, ironing, computer assistance and even home courses… Weird, can we be on all tables at a time? The future will tell us!

Welcome to Chez Miguel, a fishmonger's shop in Les Halles that receives its products daily from the small fishing ports of the Atlantic coast: Ile d'Oléron, Royan and La Rochelle. Fish, shellfish, crustaceans, fish soup, you will find everything you need to concoct a meal with a good taste of the sea. The team is smiling and always ready to give advice on cooking. Eating fish is good for your health, so don't miss this unmissable address where regulars come and go.

A reference place in Tours for lovers of Italian cuisine. You will find everything you need to organize a tasty aperitif with dried tomatoes with tuna, antipasti, fine charcuterie and cheeses. You can also buy a dish to heat up at home: lasagna, pizza, ravioli and rigatoni filled with vegetables. Don't forget the products that go with it all, olive oils and other great vintages of the sun. The products arrive weekly and the producers use only quality raw materials. Delizioso!

Behind a pretty wooden counter is this good address with tasty fruits and vegetables. The greengrocer Francis Thivault and his wife offer you a nice selection with only one credo: quality, choice and friendliness. And it works! Regulars and tourists alike line up in front of the charming display, rich and colorful with seasonal products and other good jams and tasty fruit juices. The prices are those of the Halles, but the quality and the perfectly ripened fruits and vegetables are there, and that's really nice!

At the back of the Carrefour Express convenience store on rue Colbert, Sylvain Chable welcomes you to a department worthy of the best butchers in town. Traceability and quality are the watchwords of this craftsman, who in 2019 won first prize in the national Boucherie étal competition (specializing in lamb cuts). Here you'll find the classics: rillettes, rillons, various pâtés, paupiettes, faux-filet and other cuts of beef... The team also features a different cooked dish every day, in addition to the catered dishes on offer.