The best local producers 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.

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..

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.

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.

Cheese lovers, you will appreciate this business installed in 2020. With his Basque beret screwed on his head, Emmanuel Fournier carefully selects his cheeses. This smiling moustachioed man is a member of the Fromagers de France and rigorously selects the best products from France, with a particular eye for products from the Vendée. He works with the Maison Paccard in Manigod and for local cheeses, he buys his goats from Madame Delbare, in Les Clouzeaux.

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.

From the road you can see the little black wooden salt hut, surrounded by the salt marshes. This producer holds the Nature et Progrès label, one of the first organic farming associations, created 50 years ago to reward farmers committed to respecting the environment. Here you'll find products from the marsh: sea salt and fleur de sel from Noirmoutier. You can also take part in guided tours to learn all about salt and the salt-maker's trade.