The best grocery stores Les volcans d'Auvergne

Jean and Jeremy run a store dedicated to 100% ethical products for the aperitif. Their commitment: to offer quality products, to favor organic, reasoned, local or at least French products. You can buy peanuts in bulk, spreads, chips from Aveyron, lemonades from Vercors... but also wines, beers and spirits. The two companions propose trays to compose with cheeses, delicatessen, dried fruits and chips, nicely presented in big spruce boxes made for them by a craftsman of the Jura.

Looking for good wine and good advice? Head for Grand Passage Blatin! You'll find a wide selection of wines from all regions of France and beyond, spirits and liqueurs from Auvergne and the Loire, Champagnes and more. Among the bottles, you'll also find delicatessen products such as spreads, bottles of olive oil and Haute-Loire sausages. On the last Fridays and Saturdays of the month, from 3pm to 7pm, the establishment offers a tasting session.

Since 1987, this store is a paradise for the amateurs of true regional products: cheeses (saint-nectaire, cantal, murol, fourme d'Ambert, gabron, salers, fournols...), delicatessen (terrine with Auvergne blue cheese, rabbit or boar terrine..), cured meats (Auvergne ham with mountain appellation, sausage with walnuts, blueberries...) but also wines, aperitifs, craft beers (Côte d'Auvergne, Châteauguay, Madargue, Domaine Ray, Pisse d'Âne...), liqueurs, honeys, jams. Indeed, whether on the ceiling or on the shelves, there is everything here and plenty of it!

You knew the Bienvenue à la ferme network? Here is the store of farm and local products in short circuit. The concept is the same: to put forward the local producers by proposing this time their harvests and productions. In the store, pleasantly arranged, we find different stalls. The corner of the local fruits and vegetables, the one of the butchery, the one of the cheese factory or the one of the bulk. How does it work? The local producers set their prices and deliver directly to the store. Thus, the prices displayed for the consumer are accessible. And as nothing is lost, any unsold goods that may remain are given to the Red Cross.

Amélie Voisin and Thierry Faure designed a spacious shop more than 10 years ago to house their delicatessen. With a wine and whisky cellar, a wide choice of traditional and unusual products, everyone leaves with something to eat. In addition to being good, the selected products are beautiful and have a neat design. As the owners like to share their finds, they regularly organise product tastings. The shop is modern, and you'll even find kitchen utensils and decorative objects.

Teas and herbal teas, chocolate powder, maple syrup, crunchy ginger cookies, marmalades: all of Ireland is at your fingertips in this store hidden not far from the Place de Jaude. Of course, you will also find a cellar of whiskies, beers, gins and other liqueurs and spirits. Not forgetting household linen, rugby accessories, jewelry and objects bearing the country's logo. A large choice of gift ideas, accompanied by good advice. Le Comptoir Irlandais offers the best of Ireland and Scotland, as well as what the Irish enjoy around the world. For more than twenty years, this store has become the reference in the English-speaking world.

From flavored aperitif (gentian, chestnut, verbena...) to sweets (crunchy, fruit jellies...), you will discover the flavors of hams, aligots, tripoux, pottage and cheeses from Auvergne (the 5 farm PDO: saint-nectaire, cantal, salers, bleu d'Auvergne, fourme d'Ambert). You will find the products of more than fifty producers. You can also enjoy these products at the Baladins, the restaurant located just opposite, run by Laetitia and Julien. The house organizes tastings for groups and makes "musettes garnies".

Step into this old-fashioned store and discover the wealth of quality Auvergne gastronomy. Auvergne PDO cheeses such as buffalo tomme, goat's cheese and gaperon are all on offer. Charcuterie products come from Pallut and Limoujoux. The stalls also offer a range of artisanal products: jam, honey, soup, terrines... A meal without a drink is not a meal without a drink, so a selection of Auvergne wines, beers, liqueurs, fruit juices and lemonades is on offer.