The best local producers 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.

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.

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..

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.

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.