Gourmet products local specialties and wines Ile de Noirmoutier

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.

The best place on the island to buy fresh seafood is at the port of Le Bonhomme. La Godaille, offers its production of oysters and seafood platters. In the small hut you will be served clams, whelks, periwinkles, langoustines, shrimps... And if you feel like eating oysters in the middle of the night, there is an oyster dispenser! The tasting plate includes 9 oysters (or, if you don't like it, 300 g of whelks or 150 g of langoustines or 100 g of shrimps), with a glass of muscadet, bread, butter.

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..

Oyster lover, you will fall under the charm of this hut set in the middle of the oyster maturing basins, where you can taste a dozen oysters, in an original place, at the same time authentic but with a classy look thanks to a nicely landscaped terrace, fitted with large wooden tables enhanced with white parasols. Vary the pleasures by adding to this tasting of shells: winkles, cockles, clams, shrimp bouquet or lobster!

The island has its own beer: N'O! The first and only beer brewed and bottled on the island! Several flavors: Noirmoutrine (light blonde), a white, Jouzel (amber beer with spices)... Available in 20 and 30 l kegs (tapping machine available). In 2023, after Peau Bleue, the Atlantide IPA won a silver medal at the Lyon competition. Limited editions include Cascadeuse (a seasonal beer brewed with hops freshly picked in the region), Fruitstock (red fruits) and Riverside, an organic beer at 6.5°.

Opposite Intermarché, in the heart of the marshes, Corinne Ferrer invites you to La Perle, a charming oyster bar, to taste directly your oysters and shellfish from the production of Frédéric Boucard. The room located just next to the shop is cute, in summer there is the terrace. The production is also available to take away. Among the specialities, the oysters, mussels, whelks, shrimps, the toasts of the sea and the "retour du Gois", a plate of 6 oysters and 6 clams. Conviviality and authenticity.

In this small black hut with the appearance of a salorge, whose name is displayed in yellow letters, located between the road and the salt marshes, Tanguy Rocher offers you to taste and buy to take home, seafood (whelks, shrimps, langoustines, clams, lobster...) but also mussels and chips. So sit down on one of the large tables on the terrace and order the formula which offers 6 oysters plus a dish of mussels and chips. If you are not on the island, you should know that this oyster producer can ship them.

Mathias and Kally, two passionate young salt-marsh farmers, are starting their^3rd season in this salt marsh. Sauniers, producers, independent harvesters. The La Griffardière salt marsh has 33 carnations. Very sensitive to ecological issues, they sell their produce in paper packaging (not plastic bags), and stamped with water-based ink. They are in the process of obtaining Nature et Progrès certification. Mathias sells his salt (coarse salt, fine salt, fleur de sel, plain or flavored, salicornia...) at markets, aboard his three-wheeler.

Les Églats salt marsh is at the entrance to L'Épine. Laëtitia and Anthony explain the workings of the marsh, the ancestral skills of the salt worker, how salt is harvested, the tools used to harvest it, the role of air and sun.... Every year, starting in March, each basin is emptied, cleaned and dried out. From April onwards, they will be gently pumped back into the water. On their marsh, they harvest coarse salt and fleur de sel, as well as samphire, which they sell in their cabin.

Whether you're a Noirmoutrin or a holidaymaker, it's always a pleasure to stroll through the local markets in search of good local produce to prepare the day's meal. The island of Noirmoutier has several markets, in each of its four communes. The market in the small commune of L'Épine is located on Place du Général de Gaulle (also known as Place de la Poste) and takes place every Saturday from 8am to 1pm, all year round. You'll find market gardeners and a wide range of producers, so you can stock up on good Vendée produce. The atmosphere is friendly and family-friendly.

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.