Gourmet products local specialties and wines Les Sables-D'Olonne

On the embankment, undoubtedly the best artisanal ice creams in Les Sables! In summer, around 100 flavors, from the classics to the most original. Karine works in close collaboration with a local master ice-cream maker, who produces ice creams in a range of surprising flavors: lime-ginger, raspberry-yuzu, coconut curry, salted butter caramel cream, caramel chips, or chocolate sorbet for milk intolerants. Cotton candy, popcorn, Kinder Bueno and Smurf flavors are sure to delight children. Also available: Italian ice (from the Montaigu dairy), waffles and home-made crêpes.

This building alone is worth a visit! Former Baltard style pavilion built in 1890, located in the heart of the city, it gathers, on 2 floors, about 65 merchants and small producers. Butchers, butchers, bakers, florists, cheese makers, market gardeners, fishmongers, caterers, organic products, regional products: here are all the producers that you can find here all year round to stock up on fresh produce. Good plan: 1 hour free parking.

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.

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.

La Gaufrerie has been in existence for nearly 50 years! Generations have tasted the delicacies of this address which offers waffles, pancakes, chichis and ice creams: 32 flavors, 6 granités, gourmet ice creams with homemade praline and chocolate chips, or caramel or red fruits. The waffle dough follows the same home-made recipe; everyone can add salted butter caramel, home-made chocolate, nougat, milk jam or whipped cream. In waffle and pancake version, the "gourmandes maison" with salted butter caramel and chocolate. The chichiss are also famous. Stéphane's smiling welcome.

The Domaine des Granges is part of the Union des Fiefs vendéens. Christian and Delphine welcome you to the winery, a few dozen meters from the beach of Granges, after the district of La Gachère, to discover their Vendean wine land marked by the sweetness of the ocean. They elaborate their production with care and according to artisanal methods to offer quality products and are in full conversion to organic farming. They produce white, rosé and red wines, sparkling wines using traditional methods and also grape juice.

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?

In a 400^m2 futuristic style building the shop and laboratory of renowned chocolatier Vincent Vallée, best chocolatier in the world 2015. He creates chocolate sweets, confectionery, ice cream and other delicacies. In the shop, like a jeweller's showcase, chocolate sweets made from pure dark ganaches, grand cru origins, 100% pralines, spicy or fruity dark ganaches, caramels reminiscent of coloured glass balls and macaroons

More recent than the central halls, the building was built in 1935 by the architect-voyer M. Casse and the contractor Montegilardi; it is part of the avant-garde architectural heritage. Bargees and merchants give it a bustling life. The stalls abound with a selection of local products such as seafood, meat, fruits and vegetables as well as pastries and cakes. On Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, a fairground market is set up on the outskirts of the Arago market to offer more products: flowers, clothes, etc.

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.

In this good pastry shop next to Les Halles, everything is appetizing! An institution handed down to Guillaume's daughter Chloé. Specialties include Cayola, Magellan (with salted butter caramel in the middle) and Baba Planteur, as well as classic pastries, iced verrines and ice creams, not forgetting homemade chocolates (Chouan au café, Galion, Vent des Globes or caramel fleur de sel) and, of course, gâche and brioche (Parisian brioche!).

The temple of cheese! Sandrine offers farmhouse cheeses made from raw or pasteurized milk from all over France and abroad. A hundred varieties depending on the season. Present on the markets of Les Sables-d'Olonne (Arago, La Chaume), Luçon, La Mothe-Achard, Talmont-Saint-Hilaire. Next to the stall, take-away food, with specialties: salads, tartiflettes, gratins, quiches, changing every day and homemade desserts: rice or egg pudding, chocolate mousse, tiramisu, coconut flan, crumble. Also a space with some wines and new: a delicatessen!

In this artisanal brewery we make the "triple": a beer of triple fermentation. Several steps in the manufacturing process: crushing, mashing, filtration, cooking with hops, fermentation, bottling, storage in a warm room. Several varieties of beer in a range of 8: blonde, white, triple flash, cherry beer, red, brown. Possibility of visiting the brewery and ending with a small tasting before leaving with your little boxes. Do you know what "cabaude" means? The bottom of the port.

The Chocolatier Sablais, in addition to its vast boutique, also opens the doors of its production site for guided tours with the program, the discovery of the profession of chocolate maker, the origin and manufacture of chocolates, cookies and candies. After watching the film, you can visit the shop and all the delicacies made on site. More than 250 references of chocolates, pralines and homemade sweets. In addition to chocolates by weight, mouldings, chocolates with various alcohols, truffles, pistols, biscuits.

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.

This is the direct sales shop of La Sablaise cannery, but not only. You will find grocery products around fish: canned food, fish soups, smoked fish... A multi-faceted place, a discovery site where you can use virtual helmets to find out about the jobs at La Sablaise Cannery and the entire industry; touch-screen tablets for the youngest visitors to understand in a fun way how seafood products are produced, from fishing to eating... And regularly gastronomic workshops, animations, demonstrations...

This young microbrewery obtained, shortly after its creation, a nice recognition, with a gold medal at the Concours Général Agricole for its Stout beer! Its philosophy: to limit its impact on the environment, while regularly offering new recipes. All the beers, born from a demanding selection of organic malts and hops associated with the mastery of the latest brewing techniques, are packaged in returnable bottles. Hoppy, sour or roasted, a range of beers that will delight all tastes! And an enriching visit!

Are you a seafood lover? You have a family meal and don't want to cook for hours: seafood is the solution! This company, which is also present on the Arago and Halles markets, as well as at the Pilote fish market in the fishing port, is well known to the people of Sablais for the freshness of its products: oysters, shellfish, shrimp, langoustines, mussels... Longevity rhymes with Rocheteau. Created in 1900, it is the fourth generation that is in place! New: the opening of an oyster bar, Les Barges!

A renowned fishmonger's, created by Jean-Paul Eriau, in the fishing port (opposite the Musée du Coquillage). The products come directly from the fish market (next door): freshness guaranteed! With half a century of experience, it is the^4th generation with Paul-Arthur. On the stall: sea bass, cod, sea bream, gambas, prawns, shrimps, monkfish, mackerel, cod, skate, St Peter's, salmon, sole, turbot, tuna, sardines, scallops, etc. Daily arrivals, fish processed and prepared on site. Top quality, freshness, very fair prices, smiles and advice!