Gourmet products local specialties and wines Noirmoutier-En-L'île

The inescapable cookie factory recognized as a quality artisan! Pierre and Géraldine are always innovating: raspberry-white chocolate cookies, peach-caramel-salted butter shortbread, rhubarb-almond slivers, crunchy biscuits, palets, meringues, prefou or salmon-dill shortbread, the delicious chocolate-caramel fondant heart, the good brioche. Our flagship product, caramel, is available in a chocolate truffle, peanut or banana flambé style. All homemade with exceptional regional raw materials (including the island's fleur de sel) without preservatives or artificial coloring.

A renowned house founded in 1985 and an institution in Noirmoutin! With a long experience in the culinary art, a career in the most beautiful houses, and consultant for Pierre Hermé, with Beatriz, Stéphane proposes his creations with more than 25 original verrines. From full-fruit sorbets, creams and frozen sticks to cones and waffles, everything is homemade! More than 50 flavors, classic and surprising: caramel with fleur de sel de Noirmoutier, bergamot ginger and raspberry slivers, yuzu... Frozen desserts and half-litre ice creams to take away.

Brigitte, Philippe and their son Dylan's salt works consists of 118 carnations. They produce coarse salt and fleur de sel (plain and flavoured) and, depending on the year, salicorne. To vary your dishes, season them with fleur de sel with lemon, ginger, 5 berries, chilli pepper, curry, basil... If you want to know everything about the life of the saunier, the history of salt, how it is harvested, how it is preserved..., Dylan has no equal to captivate his audience.

Lucie (known as Lulu) and Fabien's fish shop is without doubt the best fish shop on the island and the warmest welcome. Freshness, regularity, daily arrivals. No farmed fish, only local fish! In its nets: red mullet, turbot, sea bass, sole, scallops, shrimps, tuna, oysters, mussels, shellfish, home-made smoking specialities. Vacuum packing of fish to take away. Seafood platters to order. Present at the market.

From April to September, the market is held in Place de la République on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday mornings. From October to March, only on Friday mornings. From 15 June to 15 September, every Monday, you can also meet the producers on the market of L'Herbaudière, next to the marina. In Barbâtre, it is held every Wednesday all year round, plus Mondays from 15/06 to 15/09. At La Guérinière: Thursdays all year round, plus Sundays from 15 June to 15 September.

This pastry shop in the heart of the pedestrian street, created several decades ago and in which three generations of pastry chefs have succeeded one another. The owners, who have been in place for about 3 years, are pastry chefs by trade and have kept the emblematic speciality created by their predecessors: the Saint-Philbert cake! This is not the only delicacy you will find here, since at Easter time, the flan maraîchin is on the stall, as are the pastries of the moment, between chocolate or fruit cakes, and chocolates.

This is the direct sales store of the Noirmoutier Island salt cooperative. Here, you can buy Noirmoutier salt directly, harvested by the island's salt-makers in keeping with age-old traditions. The fleur de sel is delicately hand-picked from the surface of the water and dried naturally in the sun, under the Nature & Progrès label. A wide range of salts - coarse salt, fine salt and fleur de sel - natural or flavored, as well as a range of complementary products (salicorne, caramels, chips, etc.).

Born in 1945 from an observation, tired of being exploited, the farmers of Noirmoutre decided to create a work tool allowing them to pool all the means of mutual aid. It gathers 50 producers, who cultivate approximately 450 hectares of potatoes on the island. At the Noirmoutier Agricultural Cooperative, a retail store (l'Île aux Jardins) open to individuals. You will find the famous bonnottes of the island, as well as vegetables and regional products..

This black building with the appearance of a saloon houses a smoking and salting workshop. Here, we offer you many fish (most of them coming from the local fishery such as hake, pollack, tuna, mackerel, meagre, sea bream...) prepared in an artisanal way: salting with dry salt from Noirmoutier, smoking with sawdust of beech wood and slicing by hand. You will also find fresh and smoked fish rillettes, salmon gravlax, eel, duck breast... You will also find these products on the markets of the island.

The Maison Chevallereau is an institution on the island in terms of butchery, sausage-making and catering. Founded in 1962, this family-run business is a sure bet, and quality has been the watchword for over 60 years. In addition to quality meats (free-range veal, lamb, Vendée pork, Vendée free-range beef for which a trophy was awarded in 2017), it offers charcuterie, typical Vendée cooked dishes (terrines, pâtés, gratins, roast pork, cooked ham, pudding with prunes...), catering dishes including paella (chicken/fish) and rotisserie.

This cellar is located under the arcades of the rue Piet. On the shelves, French wines chosen one by one by the owners who criss-cross France in search of good wines from producers, wines for all budgets, of all ranges, from exceptional wines from prestigious estates to local wines and beer produced on the island, the NO. A wide range of spirits: traditional, rare or unique whiskies, world rums, brown spirits, white spirits... more than a third of which are available for tasting.

An island of four terroirs, Noirmoutier is rich in "Terres de Mer" products. Since 2023, the island has been recognized as a "Site Remarquable du Goût" for each of its production zones. From the foreshore and its oyster producers to the artisanal/critical fishing port of L'Herbaudière, visitors will discover the salt marshes and their sauniers, and the land where the famous Noirmoutier potato is grown. Fun, informative signposts are set up around the island's 4 cooperatives, enabling visitors to appreciate all the flavours of Noirmoutier Island.

This grocery store is committed to eco-responsible consumption, which is why you'll find here as little packaging as possible (jars are returnable) and products offered in bulk. But that's not all, since local produce is also strongly emphasized, with a selection of short-distance products, notably in the attractive fruit and vegetable section. Food products are not the only ones on offer in bulk, as are beauty and hygiene products (solid soaps, etc.) and cleaning products.

La Perle des Dieux has been perpetuating the sardine tradition of Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie for 37 years. But the story began much earlier... For 130 years, 4 generations of the Gendreau family have succeeded one another in the history of the sardine cannery, offering fresh, hand-crafted, hand-packed sardines with recipes that combine tradition and inventiveness. Alongside the attractive tins of sardines, some of which are vintage, you'll find other products for your aperitifs based on tuna, mackerel, rillettes and tapas from the sea.

Adjacent to the 3-star La Marine restaurant is chef Alexandre Couillon's local grocery store. Here you'll find the products the chef works with in his restaurants. Producers (mostly regional) whom he has selected for their quality, but also for their way of working with products, with respect and authenticity. You'll find his delicious natural sourdough bread, mackerel rillettes, weekend pastries and viennoiseries, as well as fruit juices, chutneys and jams, and vacuum-packed meats from farms.

This delicatessen, surrounded by fine restaurants, is housed in a pretty noirmoutrine mansion just behind the château. It was the brainchild of a former Parisian bookseller of Noirmoutrine origin and a former Belgian sailor. In this pretty store, you'll find local products from France and Italy, including oils (and vinegars), antipasti, pasta, olives, cheeses and cured meats (Pata Negra...). A selection of wines and champagnes, spices, chocolate, preserves and lots of gift ideas.

In the heart of the Halles de Noirmoutier, Carol and son ensoleille the stalls of Provençal flavours. A family-run house for many years, also present in Nantes, this fine grocery store invites you to discover high quality products. For a typical aperitif, a wide choice of antipasti is offered: green, black, stuffed, seasoned in 1001 ways, but also stuffed peppers, piments peppers, du tartare. You will discover, a beautiful range of AOC olive oils of high quality and vinegar perfumed to truffle, raspberry… To choose also a beautiful radius of spices and spices: coriander, turmeric, garam massala for Indian cooking, massalé for more exotic or ras dishes for oriental dishes. Like a cave of Ali Baba from the South, the brand renews its products every year around vegetables and dried fruits or candied fruits (lentils, chickpeas, dates, figs, almonds, cedrat, orange bark), without forgetting homemade jams or jellies. For a personalized gift, think of the gourmet basket, composed according to your choice, to share the flavours of the sun to your loved ones on order!