Gourmet products local specialties and wines Sète

In the heart of the Salins district, this cookie factory and tea room offers its cookies with almonds, lemon, figs, fresh butter and, of course, the unavoidable local specialty: the Zezette de Sète. There is also a collection of salted aperitif cookies, including those with anchovies from Collioure or tiellettes. In the delicatessen section, you can fill your basket with honey, olive oil or local fruit juices, which you can choose by the piece or in gift boxes.

In this pedestrian street, friendly and lively - known as "des prisons" - the "Cave au Vin Vivant" is a meeting place for fine people where you can find a nugget of wine, share a glass, chat with regulars, and enjoy a concert that livens up the evening. We appreciate the nice selection of organic, biodynamic and natural wines, the friendly and no-fuss atmosphere, the table that fills up with glasses and good things to nibble with friends at aperitif time. An address where it is good to come back for new gustatory discoveries and simple moments.

In the world of tielle, a delicious local specialty that is absolutely unmissable, there are Giulietta tielles. Made in the purest artisanal tradition, spiced just right, they can be bought on avenue Victor Hugo or in the Halles. For events, it is possible to order in large quantities. Also to be tasted: an eggplant pie sprinkled with parmesan, but also variations of tielles with mozzarella, cheese or anchovy pizzas. You can complete your gourmet basket with Azaïs Polito products and Zézettes de Sète.

Founded in 1963, this Sétoise cannery has now been awarded the "Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant" (Living Heritage Company) label. Here, seafood is treated with experience and respect. A true institution between terroir and gastronomy: fish soups, octopus rouille and marinades, mussels, stuffed squid, brandades... The Collège Culinaire de France has even recognized it as a "Producteur Artisan De Qualité". You can also come and visit the company and taste its tasty products!

The specialty of Sète is the Tielle, which came with the first Italian immigrants from Gaëte to the Bay of Naples in 1850. If you are passing through Sète, you must absolutely taste it. At this address, one of the undisputed masters of the tielle displays this small (or large) orange-red pie whose soft dough, worked with olive oil, contains a filling of octopus, tomato and spices... a delight! You can also find mussel turnovers, seafood cocas and excellent pizzas or pissaladières.

Voted the third most beautiful halles in Occitanie, they are the ambassadors of Sétoise's gastronomic reputation. The old building, dating from the 70s, has been replaced by a beautiful edifice designed by architect François Fontès. Open every morning, it houses 75 enthusiastic traders. Here, you can discover, taste and enjoy local specialities, while chatting with producers proud to share their treasures. Butchers, bakers, cheesemongers, fishmongers, market gardeners, wine merchants, caterers: it's all there for you to enjoy.

The culinary emblem of the Thau Archipelago, tielle is undoubtedly one of the region's most popular gourmet specialties. This pastry pie, filled with octopus cooked with tomatoes, spices and herbs, has traditionally been the fishermen's lunch. The Dassé family has been making it for 4 generations. From individual portions to "giga" formats, you'll find your meal here in local colors. Savoury tarts and typical local dishes are also on offer: rouille à la sétoise, stuffed mussels...

Store of artisan ice-cream maker, manufacturer and creator, we taste here all year long ice creams in cones or small pots, ice cream sundaes to be savoured on the spot in a comfortable tea room, with a multitude of flavours to choose from. Everything is homemade, with flavors ranging from the most classic to the most original. There are also tempting frozen pastries, cakes and gourmet cookies. Waffles are offered on cooler days. For parties and events, there are logs and assortments to compose to delight the whole family.

On the edge of the Place Aristide Briand, you can smell the scent of freshly roasted coffee coming out of this sweet address. At the same time a coffee roaster, but also a tea bar, a lunch room and a gourmet place for snacks: Café Lulu is a small multifunctional cocoon. In a calm and cosy atmosphere, the welcome is warm and caring. You come to fill up on coffee for the house, you stay to nibble on a seasonal vegetable pie or a small dish of the day, and you take away some soft madeleines for your snack.

Sète has an Auchan supermarket, located on Boulevard Camille Blanc. The store offers various services such as catering, goods collection, gas station, after-sales service, ticketing, photo printing, top-up station and a travel agency. Departments include fruit and vegetables, sweet groceries, butchery, cellar, fishmonger's, organic produce, bookshop, bakery, toys, music, video games, automotive items, deli and cheese shop, as well as a jewelry store. For added convenience, a drive-through service is also available.

A few steps from Les Halles, this artisan ice cream maker offers homemade and certified organic ice creams, sorbets, gourmet desserts and ice candies. At lunch time during the week, you can enjoy good food, poke bowls and street food style sweets. To enjoy on the spot or to take away. The menu changes often to renew the pleasure. Note that the address also offers brunches and hosts exhibitions or animations.

Oh what a great find! In her refined store, Marie-Anne welcomes gourmets with a smile. The eyes in the windows, one hesitates among hundreds of cheeses which make the beautiful part of the raw milk. Cow, ewe, creamy, soft, truffled... We discover local delicacies but not only and we melt on the passage on a lump of butter. Who says that cheese is before dessert? You can also find apple and Saint-Félicien pie, fiadone, Chaource pie, pears, honey and nuts... Shelves of delicatessen come to complete the stalls.

With the arrival of this young address, Sète can also boast of having a nice urban wine cellar. It is noticeable by its frontage with three colorful letters (UVA). Inside are the press, the vats and the amphorae used to produce the first vintages of Mathilde, Pablo and Gauthier. Natural wines finely concocted with organically grown grapes, harvested by hand, with natural yeasts, without any added input. In bottle or in bulk, we discover here tastes and an atypical place, sometimes animated, and we love it!

Hidden in the middle of the Passage du Dauphin, Honorine's patisserie is a modern address, sober in its decoration, and colorful for the taste buds. Granddaughter of a baker and pastry chef, Honorine offers here very gourmet creations. The welcome is soft and smiling. The pastries are made with care, know-how and fresh products, according to the seasons. You can enjoy chocolate-raspberry or lime-basil hearts, fig-rhubarb or apricot-pistachio tarts, pavlovas, brioches, chocolate domes... Excellent!

On the quai de la Résistance, there are often people lining up in this little pocket bakery where you can fill up on sweet and savory baked goods. Under its yellow and red frontage, the window attracts us with its big cookies, shortbread with pine nuts, small macaroons, shortbread with strawberries and other pleasures at snack time. To eat on the go, you can find baguette sandwiches, quiches or pizzas, but also pastries. You can also come to get your bread, pastries and cakes for all events.

At the edge of the water, we notice this bakery in front of which there is the queue, and it is often good sign. We discover an address without fuss, movie posters on the walls, ladders filled with large breads. Here, neither baguette nor croissant, but a farandole of bakery delicacies, organic, based on natural leaven and farmers' seeds, sold by weight or by the share. Country bread, multigrain or olive bread, focaccia or pizza, fougasse, brioche or panettone: it's a treat.

Wednesday is market day on the Île singulière. You can come on foot, by bike or by boat-bus to fill your basket with fresh produce, buy flowers or find a new outfit. Along Alsace-Lorraine and Gambetta streets, it's the food market to stock up on fruits and vegetables. On the Place Léon Blum, in front of the town hall, you can stroll between the plant and flower stands. On the side of the rue Savonnerie and on the quay of Algiers, you can find clothes, jewels and objects. A whole program!

The station also features a TER ticket dispenser, where you can buy tickets on your cell phone. Work to make the station accessible will start on 22/03/23, as part of the creation of the Pôle d'Échange Multimodal de Sète. The station offers services such as Accès Plus and Accès Train liO. There are also station services, public transport (bus and coach), a bike park with 30 spaces and 73 parking spaces, as well as a paying parking lot.

A few steps from the town hall, this place smells good south and it is a real cave of Ali Baba, where you can find gifts, souvenirs, handicrafts, pottery, crockery, olive woods, olive oil, essential oils, cosmetics, soaps, grisettes in Montpellier, jams, vinegar, quenelle, pastis (4 different kinds), chocolates, fabrics. Provençal… it is impossible to quote everything. Children will find their happiness in the body of loose candies. With the welcome and the smile of the owners, it is the ideal place of the pleasant gift gift or the last minute gesture before an unexpected invitation. We will find what we want, but it is to choose which will be the most difficult.

Open since 1931 on the Bosc quay, and since 2007 at the Sète market, the shop has built its reputation. Jean-Marie Fabre perpetuates the southern tradition by distilling his production of flavored Sète navettes, exquisite chocolate madeleines, tasty almond macaroons, jagged squares, macaroons, cakes, chalumeaux which are wafers rolled on vintage waffle makers. We like to come here to sniff the scents of vanilla, anise or beeswax. Everything is made by hand, according to the artisanal tradition. An exceptional taste!