Gourmet products local specialties and wines L'Ile-D'Yeu

An address that many gourmet holidaymakers know well. This one is nicer than Danielle... She has been spoiling lovers of sweets with her homemade waffles and pancakes or her homemade ice creams for several decades! Home-made ice-creams and sorbets in cones that you will decorate with a home-made red fruit coulis, but also in litre or 1/2 litre versions to decorate your desserts at home. You can eat these delicacies, including the original waffle on a stick, the Bichonnette, on the sunny terrace in the heart of the port.

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.

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.

On the port, farmers, especially organic farmers, cheese makers, pastry cooks and caterers gather every day all year round to offer their products to the island's inhabitants and summer visitors. Gourmets can fill up on the flavours of the sea (fish, fish preserves...) or of the land such as island lamb, jams..., while talking with local producers. Several craftsmen of the Factory are also present on the market and propose the creations of the island's creators: painters, jewellery creators...

Both a chocolate factory and a delicatessen, Maison d'Oya, which opened in 2020, has already won a number of awards at the Academy of Chocolate's international competition in London, including a gold medal for its Crunchy spread and a bronze medal for its Beauvoir fleur de sel praliné. Florence, a chocolatier, makes these delicacies in her Port Joinville workshop. Chocolates in bar or tasting box format. Also on sale: teas, caviar, truffles and spices.

Don't leave the island without sampling the island's flagship specialty: the delicious prune tart from the Mousnier patisserie, also present at the market. Alain Mousnier's home-made cakes, jams and salted butter caramel are part of the island's culinary tradition. Other specialties include betchets (which means "cookie" in local dialect, i.e. twice-baked), also known as sailor's cookies because they keep for several days at sea. For mardi gras, there's also foutimasson, a doughnut also known as bottereau or tourtisseau.

This small artisanal cannery is hidden behind the pier. Régis and Christophe sell in their shop and on the market, artisanal tuna products made on the island. Among the products: tuna in natural or olive oil, tuna pâté (plain or with green pepper), tuna mousse, monkfish liver, tuna rillettes (plain, with tomato or green pepper), mackerel rillettes, sardine rillettes and sardine pâtés. The products are delicious and of high quality. You can also buy your products by mail order.

If there is one place that brings together all epicureans and lovers of good fresh local produce, it is the market, and the one in Saint-Sauveur remains the largest on the island. It takes its quarters in the streets of the village, in front of the houses. You will find there smoked fish from the Islamic canning factories, sweet specialities such as the prune tart, without forgetting some products of creators and craftsmen of art which you will bring back as souvenir gifts. The market is also the place to get to know the inhabitants of the island.