Meat and poultry sales Châteaux de la Loire

An institution in the Visitation Square! Whether you come to pick up your roasted chicken, your tray for a gourmet dinner or your hot sandwich during your lunch break, you will find high quality products in this rotisserie, with a very good price-quality ratio and above all delicious! Local products: hams, chickens, guinea fowls, ribs and roast pork, sausages from Morteau, Toulouse or Montbéliard, andouillette. And to go with them: sautéed potatoes with bacon, candied gizzards or mushrooms and homemade sauces perfect for all meats. The most gourmands can also be tempted by a dessert: Tatin pie, apple crumble with its custard, lemon pie, Norman pie, brownie, chocolate mousse... You can also leave with some products from the small delicatessen department and good bottles of Anjou wine of course. Everything will be served with a smile and enthusiasm: it makes you happy, it makes you want to come back and the loyal customers make no mistake about it!

Welcome to the Goulay charcuterie! In this store in the Velpeau district, with its sober and contemporary decor, charcuterie is a family affair! You'll find all the essentials: rillons, 5A andouillettes, black puddings, sausages, fois gras, hams, homemade pâtés, filet mignon and much more! You can find creamery products, local products, as well as a variety of quality prepared meals. Our favorite ? The rillettes of Tours of course, not by chauvinism, but by pure greed and love of artisanal products!

Gold medallist for his superior cooked ham, his rillauds... Our man, listed among France's 100 best artisan-restaurateurs in 2013 by the bottin gourmand, and his son, too, shine as charcutiers and chefs. Beef cheek and asparagus terrine, poule au pot, Provençal hake fillet, blanquette de veau, as well as stuffed tomatoes, pizza, puff pastries, tripe... Wine is also available, as well as delicious long-life jarred dishes and desserts. Tray meals are also available at very reasonable prices (starter, main course, cheese and dessert), to be collected directly from the store and ordered 48 hours in advance.

The Hardouin company, bought out in 2022 by Père Champain, has been operating in the department for over a century, and has several stores, including at the famous Halles de Tours. Here you'll find all the products that have made the company such a success, including andouillettes au Vouvray, boudins noirs, stuffed pigs' trotters, rillons and rillettes. All good things to put on your plate, and enough to impress your guests with the guarantee of a regional tradition! A number of tempting takeaway dishes are also available.

Mickaël Guerche is one of the specialists in poultry sales. If you are looking for quality, then look no further, you have come to the right place. The animals are raised in the open air and fed with food specially designed for them. From the Vendée or Château-du-Loir, you will find chickens, guinea fowl, ducks and foie gras, the house specialty. And if you need advice on cooking, don't hesitate to ask the sales staff, they will be happy to share their knowledge on the subject. Another pearl of Les Halles.

Pascal Bury took over the family delicatessen in 1990 to develop a catering activity. All the products are home-made and of high quality. As for the delicatessen, discover the rillons, the rillettes, the white ham with Guérande salt without nitrite, the black pudding, flagship products of the Touraine gastronomy... Among the dishes and menus proposed on the menu, the chicken of the Country of Racan with pears and the rooster in Vouvray. Award: Best fois gras 2021 (Federation of pork butchers 37.41.45). Contact him also for your events.

For real gourmets, coming out of this shop the empty basket is almost a challenge! Camel Delicatessen/Les 5 Sens (formerly the charcuterie de la Visitation) has not only one of the most extensive charcuterie departments in the city, but also of impeccable quality: dry Corsican hams, ham on the bone, homemade white ham, chicken rillettes, grandmother pâté with poultry liver... The ready-made meals section also makes you salivate with its forest guinea fowl legs, its old-fashioned pork tenderloin, asparagus risotto or crispy rabbit with prunes. But what is most appealing here is the originality and finesse of the cold preparations, worthy of a real gourmet restaurant: a zucchini bodega with smoked salmon and fresh cheese, a thousand Tian-style vegetable leaves, sweet potato puree with hazelnuts, quinoa and speck nuggets. Sweet tooth lovers can enjoy an amazing Kumquat-yuzu cream (a small citrus fruit of Asian origin) or a caramel milk mousse, cashew nuts, crushed hazelnuts and its cream. Great art!

In this Chamberlain delicatessen with its modern storefront, the products, carefully displayed, immediately whet the appetite. It must be said that Vincent Fessard has received multiple awards for his rillons, rillettes and andouillette à la ficelle. We stop there when we feel like sausage, pâté, terrine or blood sausage. The store also offers take-away meals: vegetable flan, coucous, cassoulet and desserts. So many good things to enjoy at home. For your events, don't miss the catering service.

Present at Les Halles since 1988, Franck Bourdeau has proven himself time and time again. Rewarded for his specialities such as andouillette à la corde and jambon au torchon, we also like to pass by his stall to discover rillons, rillettes and traditional charcuterie. In summer, you can enjoy sausages with herbs, chorizo to grill, brochettes and thinly sliced poultry with lemon-rosemary sauce. In the same spirit, don't miss the inevitable Easter pâté or the lobsters and foie gras at the end of the year. The welcome is charming!

At Les Halles, poultry lovers have a choice of quality products with Bernard Ledoux's stand, which has been present in the area since 1974. The animals are fed on grain and then carefully sorted. You will also find seasonal game. If you need some advice on preparation and cooking times, don't miss the kindness of the shopkeepers, who are happy to share their know-how and tips, even if it is crowded at certain times of the week. An address to remember for a good feast.

Thierry Château and Tonino Leroy-Goudet run this Maîtres Bouchers butcher's shop in Anjou, where tradition and quality go hand in hand. These friendly butchers buy their meat directly from the farm, so they've got quality to spare! The rabbits from Anjou are free from antibiotics and GMOs, the milk-fed veal is raised under the mother's milk, and the lamb and pork are local. Poultry from the Landes region is superb, and charcuterie is a sure bet, with homemade rillettes and pâtés as fragrant as they are tasty. Last but not least, you'll also find a delicatessen section and ready-to-cook meat products: shepherd's pie, salmon paupiettes...

Carnivores will be filled by the tendres and generous pieces that this quality butcher offers. Red or white, meat is here first choice. There is no mention of it, because good taste does not have a price.

A antichambre of Luc Rifle's family shop opposite the city of Angers, this beautiful boutique in the village of Avrillé offers our gourmet delights, an avalanche of fresh products. It is also dedicated to charcuterie, cooked dishes and meat, and the gates open to the avrillais have made it possible for the proximité to be redonné. The charming village continues to modernize and now offers a host of quality shops. Luc and Isabelle offer a complete map of attractive preparations to be tasted at home. Traditional meats, cooked dishes, specialties catering, buffets, verrines, terrine, tourtes, pies, salads, day dishes, seasonal festive card, a gourmande stage for all tables.

Since 2019, Christophe Taillandier has taken over the organic butcher shop located under the Halles centrales, place Gaston Paillhou. Come and discover a delicious organic and local meat, of premium quality. Working directly with certified organic farmers, the butcher knows their products perfectly: here you know where the meat comes from, with serious traceability. You buy products with confidence, with your eyes closed, on their advice or that of their team.

Bryan and Lucie Garnier have kept the recipes that have always delighted the gourmets of the Velpeau district and elsewhere. Rillettes, rillons, boudins or even fish terrine are still on the program. But beware, in order to leave their mark on the store, the stall is also rich in recipes to be enjoyed at home, salads, vegetables, etc. More than a simple butcher shop, Au Bec Fin is an address in love with the good local products and it also proposes cheeses, milk, wine or still artisanal beers.

This colourful neighborhood completes its renovation and mixes people who do not resist the temptation of the delicious halals products. That good stews, couscous and tajines are executed with the meat of this adorable Arabic butcher, Messaoudi. It is here, and in his colleague from the rue du Général-Lizé, that the best merguez are found among other calves and sheep. An exceptional butchery at exceptional prices. And while you're there, we're full of spices, mint for tea, fine semolina, black soap for the steam bath. As well as full of good humor and smile!

For more than a century, the Hardouin house has been making regional specialties from traditional fresh quality products in a laboratory approved by the European Union. An institution that maintains the tradition of the true rillettes of Tours. The house is part of the Traiteurs de France. The know-how of the team is found in the making of andouillettes à la corde au vouvray, rillons browned in a cast iron pot and flavored with white wine or black pudding with onion. Catering service for your receptions.

Mr. and Mrs. Drouault like noble, fresh and quality products. One of their specialties: the famous rillons. Just judge by the number of awards they have received! The charcuterie is tasty: skewers of duck, chicken breast or beef tabs. For your buffets, the couple takes care of everything with surprise breads, petits fours and mini rillons. They have even thought of the most urgent ones with ready-to-bake preparations at home. This excellent caterer has finally opened a second store, Maison Drouault, in Tours.

Stemming from a long tradition of charcuterie, the Hardouin house is a true Tourangelle institution. It produces regional specialities made from fresh, traditional and quality products in an approved laboratory. But above all, it maintains the tradition of real rillettes de Tours (IGP). The Hardouin House has existed for more than a century and is one of the "Traiteurs de France". Andouillette à la corde au vouvray, rillons fried in white wine in a cast iron pot, rillettes tourangelles.... So many delights!

Le Carré Rouge has three stores: one in Luynes, one in Chanceaux-sur-Choisille and one in Les Halles de Tours. The address proposes products elaborated in the purest tradition. Tournedos, chicken cutlets, ribeyes, chicken cords, don't miss the award-winning specialties: rillettes de Tours, andouillette à la ficelle, boudins... You will have understood, you will come to the Carré Rouge to fill up with good products, and if you want to simplify your task during the holidays, opt for the menus designed to impress your guests.