Exotic delicatessens Midi-Toulousain

For ten years, Florence Grimm has realized his dreams while enjoying his customers well! Its modern grocery store has conquered more than one, with carefully selected products for their high quality. She works regularly with the same producers and follows the same brands, such as Jacques Barthouil in the Landes, for smoked salmon, tarama and duck, Infinite for the caviar of the Pyrenees, Olivier Roellinger for spices and gourmet boxes, Castelas olive oils… Florence Grimm also has a cellar, for fine deals and wines!

Welcome to " la tienda " (the store) which, with its hand-picked Spanish specialties, boasts a strong following! The decor combines a contemporary spirit with touches of tradition, for a welcoming shop that makes you want to linger. In fact, a tasting room and a pretty terrace opening onto the Place du Salin are the perfect place to indulge in trans-Pyrenean delights: Bellota ham, Manchego cheeses, sandwiches, tapas, beers... It's even rumoured that the best tortillas in town are served here!

Fancy a good Iberian ham sandwich? Then go to Iberika, a delicatessen renowned for the quality of its cured meats, located in the district of the very popular Victor Hugo market. From the window, the temptation is great. Bocadillos everywhere: crispy baguettes topped with thin slices of that ham you love so much. Coming directly from Spain, the hams rub shoulders with sausages, soubressades, chorizos and other meat delicacies from Castile. A little novelty for your sustenance: hornazo de Salamanca, a salty pie to be damned! These products are sold vacuum-packed to preserve the taste. To be eaten at home, if you can resist until then.

Thirty-five years that the Casa d'Italia has been regaling the people of Toulouse with its Italian recipes. Two addresses to supply you: the shop next to the Marché des Carmes and the lodge in the heart of the Victor Hugo market. Both a grocery store and a caterer, the house offers a selection of imported products and a range of ready-made meals prepared on the premises. Its speciality? La pasta, certo! Fresh pasta: Spaghetti, macaroni, tagliatelle, cannelloni and ravioli, available in twelve flavours, plus sauces and other typical recipes, caponata, peperonata or tiramisu and panna cotta. Smart info: from Monday to Friday morning, the chef welcomes you and gives you his culinary advice!

The world can be found in this boutique, which brings exotic flavors to your kitchen. From the Caribbean to Asia, from North America to South America, this is the supply point for flavors from elsewhere. Looking for spices for your cooking pots? You're spoilt for choice. On the shelves, you'll find Caresse antillaise juice, Neisson rum, dried hibiscus flowers and açai. On the fresh side, manioc, christophines and plantain bananas. Beyond the islands, a few oriental nuggets: babaganoush, tahina sesame cream, rose water. A well-stocked cosmetics department. Nou ka alè!

Does the Black Sea remind you of any particular country? Perhaps Bulgaria? Let's set off on a gustatory journey through the unmissable specialties of this beautiful country, such as banitsa with sheep's cheese, bean soup, stuffed peppers, vine leaves, kavarma... Products are imported directly from local producers: fresh or preserved, spices, cookies and colorful sweets... You'll also find Bulgarian yoghurts.... and, to top it all off, the inevitable rakia, an invigorating brandy that can also be served hot. Smart tip: a range of Bulgarian rose cosmetics will give you a fresh complexion!

Baccalà, pasteis de nata, vino verde... Names that rhyme with Fado and Porto. A culinary stall that puts Portugal in the spotlight. Smile and good humour in this Victor Hugo market stall which offers you all the traditional products of Lusitanian gastronomy: cod of course, fished in Iceland and bought directly from Nazaré dried and salted or cooked in fritters, salted meats or cheeses with assortments of chorizo, queijo da serra (the famous melting cheese), groceries or, on the occasion of certain celebrations, biscuits and calendar pastries! Like the people of this country, the products are authentic and verdadeiro (real). A change of scenery guaranteed!

Mixt Market City is located north of Les Minimes, after the Barrière de Paris. A supermarket frequented mainly by Slavic people from Toulouse, where you can find a lot of traditional products coming directly from the Balkans, Russia or various countries of Central Europe. In addition to the classic food products, you can also buy folkloric trinkets and other unusual items for the home. Vodka, caviar, salmon, bream fillets, adjika, raspberry tea, gruzdi, Russian sweets, kvass... The only drawback: the labels are in Cyrillic! A good opportunity all the same to perfect his language skills... на здоровье! (To your health!)

It is quite naturally in the St-Cyprien district, the district of the Gascony and Spanish refugees in the last century, that this small muy simpatica shop was set up to stock up on Iberian products. Go to La Esquina to find the best bellota or serrano ham, sold whole or cut, manchego cheeses, marinated olives and very fragrant oils. For sweets: almond wafers, chocolates and turrón. A small counter open directly "around the corner" allows you to consume delicious boccadillos prepared on the spot, accompanied by a glass of fruity wine while speaking the language of Cervantes with Romain the boss!

Asie Market is a grocery store specializing in products from Asian countries, Africa and La Réunion. Nevertheless, the owners' family ties are oriented towards Thai products, the house specialty, which can also be found cooked in their restaurant, Sukhothaï! Here you can buy noodles, black eggs, vacuum-packed meat, exotic fruits and vegetables (jackfruit, dragon fruit, rambutan...), Asian sweets, instant soups and different varieties of rice (basmati, Thai, glutinous, fragrant Cambodian...) in small and large quantities, fresh lemon leaves...

An air of sega, a breath of trade wind, a scent of maracuja... Are you ready? L'Épicerie exotique invites the tropics to your table. The beautifully-sized store offers a fine selection of products from the West Indies, Africa and the Indian Ocean, at very smart prices. Fresh produce, preserves, frozen foods, condiments, drinks and even hair care products: it's all there. It's a chance to spice up your dinners, to feast on yams, christophines, plantains and cassava semolina, to rediscover the flavour of guava juice and cytherea plum jam, to unearth condiments not found elsewhere... All you'll need are coconut palms!