The best grocery stores Provence

Gourmet herself, Karine opened this store dedicated to sweets only: chocolate, candied fruits, old fashioned XXL meringues, calissons, nougats, orangettes, fruit jellies and dragees from Doucet. Everything is made in the region, artisanal, even the syrups made in Mane in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Depending on the season, you can be tempted by pretty chocolate creations: handbags, pumps, eggs and chickens at Easter. Karine is at your service, in winter she will offer you a coffee and an orangette if outside the weather is crazy.

The place to be for food lovers. Right in the heart of Marseille's Carré d'Or district, L'Épicerie Maison Gourmande passionately selects the finest gourmet groceries, cheeses and charcuterie. You can complement your purchases with wines, champagnes and spirits. Some of the most famous names in the world, such as Petrossian Caviars and Salmon, La Tour d'Argent and some of the finest vintages, are also present. Lunch available every lunchtime. A gourmet reference address in Marseille to whet your appetite.

The famous Italian grocery store, opened more than 20 years ago, is THE reference for transalpine gastronomy and catering. Fiorentina offers a wide range of fresh pasta and ravioli that make the house famous, antipasti, cold cuts, cheeses, wines... For lunch, home-made snacks on the go are offered during the week. A must-see address in the pleasant Endoume district, that you can't miss: it's open every day. Smiling welcome and good advice. Still highly recommended by the Petit Futé.

Taste Gourmet is a new concept of fine grocery store based on gastronomy and exceptional products, from big brands to small producers. It is the guarantee to find "the cream of the crop" proposed by an expert of fine grocery store in France and abroad. It is also a tasting club led by experts, chefs, producers... who will meet you for training, initiation, tasting of exceptional products, private sales. It is also an offer of rare, confidential and almost secret products.

Les Délices de La Ciotat is a top-quality delicatessen where every product has been meticulously selected by the owner, a true enthusiast for good, and even very good, food. Local spirits and rums (Maison Ferroni, Les Canailles, Manikou...) are particularly worth discovering, as are bulk coffees, roasted in La Ciotat, and a whole range of preserves and spices from around the world. You'll also find superb gift boxes and, of course, local wines and craft beers to wash down your victuals.

This little store on the Quai des Sardiniers sells products from Lou Mujou, the Provençal name for the muge (or mullet). Anchoïade, monkfish liver confit, rouille, pistounade and, of course, the company's emblem, poutargue, the Provencal caviar made from mullet roe... all made on site. The managers are happy to offer advice on how to prepare it. And to discover the different stages of production, the young couple open the doors of their cannery once a month, from July to September.

Fine deli or grocery store of choice, it is depending on you. In any case many products are offered around the store. Foie gras, smoked salmon, caviar and Provençal products, tapenade, olive oil, nougat of Sault and Montélimar, calissons from Aix, or even Guérande and Camargue salt. Fresh products are also available including a wide range of ham. Teas, coffees, wines and spirits can be unearthed on the shelves. Composition of customized gourmet baskets on request.

Here, near the covered market of Sainte-Maxime, the fresh pasta is traditional and often out of the ordinary, vegetable lasagne, chocolate tagliatelle, spinach and salmon ravioli, lime and coriander gnocchis... But there is also a delicatessen corner with olive oil, truffle carpaccio, Iberian ham, chorizo, lomo, poutargue and many delicatessen dishes often presented in jars, enough to make a good little feast at home.

In the kingdom of olive oil, vinegar is king, and David Doczekalski's vinegars are real nuggets from ancestral recipes, and made in the respect of tradition. True creations based on rosé or white Provence, they have an inimitable taste. 15 years old, lemon thyme, green walnuts, saffron and the star of the house, the "trois bois" aged for 3 years in oak barrels and then for 2 more years in glass jars in the open air.

This delicatessen, created in 2017, is a member of the group of producers of the plateau of Valensole, a guarantee of excellence. It is the quintessence of Provence that awaits you in the friendly Maison de Marius, revamped with taste and passion. You will find a large choice of local and traditional food products. The House produces its own organic essential oil of lavender, immortelle and thyme, its olive oil and its lavender honey. Tea room in winter and gourmet plates at lunchtime in season. A beautiful and charming place where the beautiful rubs shoulders with the very good.

Samuel and Marc Giardini welcome you to their family farm. These 2 producers of Sault lamb have a little secret: the black truffle, which they will help you discover during weekends dedicated to black gold on the trails of the Ventoux. They also offer spacious 3 épis guest rooms, as well as a delicious table d'hôte, based on farm produce of course: lamb, rabbit, poultry, seasonal vegetables... We fell in love with Le Viguier, and as Marc says: "Come with us and cultivate the authentic".

Bread, wine, cheese and the love of quality local products! Hélène, creamer, Antoine, wine merchant, and their bakers have combined their know-how in this beautiful store overlooking the main square of Forcalquier. The bread is made with stone flour, natural leaven, certified organic in its entirety. There is also a choice of a hundred varieties of artisanal, farm or dairy cheeses. As for Antoine's wines, they are organic. Take a look at the "aperitif" products, the pride of sharing good products from passionate artisans.

It is Laurence who welcomes you and makes you discover the shelves supplied with high quality local products - olive oil, wines, honeys, jams, home-made local beers, tapenade made on the spot, truffles in season. You will find a store of breads made by a local artisan baker, homemade sandwiches. Remember the address for its excellence because very soon a tea room in continuity of the grocery store will see the light of day. A shop is at your disposal offering beautiful tableware.

The Maison du Fruit Confit is located within the Aptunion manufacturing workshops. The shop area offers candied fruit and Provencal specialities for direct sale. Then, the museographic space transports the visitor into the world of candied fruit in the heart of the Luberon. Free access and free of charge, this discovery and multimedia trail stimulates all 5 senses... Gourmet animations and culinary workshops are regularly organised throughout the year.

This gastronomic showroom of Alexandre Micka, the creator of the Tropezian tart, a mixture of two creamy creams and a gourmet brioche, sprinkled with generous grains of sugar, offers you in his delicatessen shop, on the ground floor, all the products made by the house, but also a wide choice of spirits. On the first floor, the tea room of yesteryear has given way to a restaurant, La table tropézienne, with the brand's historic codes and colours, red and ivory, which gives itself the air of a gastronomic bistro.

Right in the centre of the village, a mill and a very pretty shop adjoining which shelters small treasures. Starting with 100% extra virgin olive oil from the Vaucluse, extracted from hand-picked olives from the village, verdale de Carpentras, also known as aglandau. A natural oil, without preservatives or fruity colouring. On the shelves, traditional Provencal products - fabrics, olive wood, jams, tapenades... - give the replica of the berlingots of Carpentras, liqueur de Frigolet, soaps and other pottery: a host of gift ideas.