Plate M-21 · 1,249 stores · 601–750 of 1249 · curated ORBIS register
Denanche' turns Guam-grown peppers into fire-roasted sauces, with Calamansi and Spicy Honey among the bottled varieties. Die ROSTOCKER (Rostocker Wurst- Und Schinkenspezialitaeten GmbH) produces Mecklenburg sausages and smoked meats, selling through a factory outlet as well as making the regional specialities. Dolle's Candyland (Ibach's) makes saltwater taffy and caramel corn on the Rehoboth boardwalk, also working chocolate into its confectionery range.
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This plate lists 1,249 shops in 91 countries. Paris has the most with 23, followed by New York with 21. Among these shops, 5 describe made-to-order work, 179 sell online and 3 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
Ask how long it keeps: fresh and preserved foods have very different lives, so ask for the date.
Ask for a taste: many counters will let you taste oil or preserves before you choose a jar.
Check the import rules: meat, dairy and fresh produce are restricted in many countries, so check before buying to carry.
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This family-run pot-still distillery at the Arundel Estate in Cane Garden Bay operates in the Eastern Caribbean. It makes Arundel cane rum and spiced rums from locally grown sugarcane.
Best for Estate-made cane rum and spiced rum from local sugarcane
Family-owned since 1937, Candy Kitchen makes salt water taffy, creamy fudge and hand-dipped chocolates the old-fashioned way, with gummies, pretzels and beach novelties rounding out the shelves. Its treats sell across shops in Maryland and Delaware and ship nationwide from the online store.
Best for Confectionery, saltwater taffy, fudge, chocolate, candy
About fifteen minutes' walk from Antigua's centre, Caoba Farms grows organic produce and cooks it farm-to-table. The grounds hold a farm shop, a wood-fired artisan bakery, a plant nursery and a weekend farmers market.
Best for Organic produce, farmers market and farm-to-table dining
Brian and Gretchen Paddock farm roughly 1,400 certified-organic almond trees off County Road 22 outside Esparto, harvesting onto tarps rather than the bare ground to keep the nuts clean. They sell raw unpasteurized almonds, almond-wood-smoked almonds and stone-ground almond butter direct from a roadside stand and by mail order.
Best for Organic raw and smoked almonds, stone-ground almond butter
Cape Porpoise Lobster buys its lobster, shrimp, and mussels straight from fishermen at the working pier in this Kennebunkport village and ships them out with the same day's catch. The company pairs its wholesale and retail lobster business with the adjoining Cape Pier Chowder House.
Salt Lake City, Utah (flagship downtown; multiple SLC locations)
Caputo's Market & Deli ages cheese in its own Caves and runs a craft-chocolate program with an annual Chocolate Festival and tasting classes. Cured meats and imported gourmet goods fill out the downtown flagship and its other Salt Lake City locations.
Best for Artisan cheese, craft/heirloom chocolate, cured meats, gourmet pantry
Founded on Cleveland Avenue in 1937 by Saturnino Carfagna and still run by his grandsons, this Italian market cuts its own meats and stocks imported deli goods and groceries. Its counters and Handmade Kitchen turn out sausage, prepared entrees, and recipes from Nonna Maria.
“Caribbean Lighthouse is committed to delivering the finest selection of crafts souvenirs and novelties, with exceptional customer service at reasonable prices.” Caribbean Lighthouse also referred to as “the Lighthouse” is a Bahamian owned and ran company that specializes in manufacturing authentic handmade souvenirs.
The Ubieto family raises Rasa Aragonesa lambs on their own pastures around Fraginal, Araguás, and Candanchú in the Jacetania Pyrenees, then butchers and sells the meat exclusively from their forty-year-old shop in Jaca. The Ternasco de Fraginal label covers the whole chain from birth to counter under one family's control.
Best for Ternasco de Fraginal lamb raised and butchered by the same family
Barrancos sits on the Alentejo's border with Spain, and its presunto follows a rule most Portuguese hams don't: it is dried, not smoked.
Best for Barrancos DOP pork and regional cured-meat specialties
Barrancos sits on the Alentejo's border with Spain, and its presunto follows a rule most Portuguese hams don't: it is dried, not smoked. Presunto de Barrancos DOP is cut from the hind or front legs of Alentejana-breed black pigs and cured for twelve to twenty-four months (six to eighteen for the shoulder, or paleta), a distinction the Portuguese government's own registry of traditional products records explicitly against the smoked hams made almost everywhere else in the country.
Casa do Porco Preto is the ham and charcuterie brand of Barrancarnes, a company the business describes as dedicated, "since 1988 exclusively to the production and curing of Black Pig products," running two factories in Barrancos, each specialized by product. The company attributes the ham's character to the town's setting: a Mediterranean microclimate shaped by northwest and west winds at high altitude, which it credits with the slow, natural curing that gives Barrancos ham its texture.
The current catalogue, sold direct through the company's own site, runs from whole presunto and paleta legs through traditional and "noble" enchidos (sausages) to pre-sliced cured meats and serving accessories — a full-house black pig operation rather than a single signature cut.
Casa Ojeda has anchored Burgos dining since 1912, and its delicatessen carries the house's morcilla, potted meats and Castilian preserves to take home. The counter is best known for artisan yemas and for the wood-oven roast-lamb tradition that made the restaurant a fixture of the city.
Best for Morcilla, yemas and Castilian delicatessen
The Cassano 1875 shop bottles Limoncello di Sorrento IGP alongside artisanal amari, liqueur creams, marmalades and hand-painted ceramic bomboniere. Orders ship from the Sorrento coast with PayPal and Stripe payment and free shipping over 200 euros.
Founded in 1991 by farming families of the Genal Valley, this cooperative processes and markets the valley's sweet chestnuts under the Valgenal name. The nuts are sterilised, sorted, naturally cured, brushed and waxed at its main facility in Pujerra, with an affiliated cooperative in Jubrique.
Best for Genal-valley sweet chestnuts (castañas del Valle del Genal)
Founded in 2004 on the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway, this creamery rotates through more than 200 house-made ice cream flavors, with about 30 available at any time, led by a signature Seneca Salt Caramel. A second scoop shop opened inside downtown Ithaca's historic DeWitt Mall in November 2020.
Čebelarstvo Braz keeps its hives in Vrsno, a village above Kobarid at 600 metres where the Soča valley's flora yields acacia, chestnut, linden and forest honey. The family apiary also sells pollen, propolis and honeycomb, shipping its jars directly through its own online shop.
Cecinas Pablo began in 1993 when its founders, unable to find cecina that met their own standards, started curing beef in the basement of their Astorga shop using traditional salting and smoking. The company, based on Calle La Cecina in Astorga, has since expanded into jamón serrano, Iberian products and pastrami while keeping cecina de vacuno as its core product.
The Celanović family has pressed olives at their mill in Kavač, on the old road between Tivat and Kotor, across three generations. Visitors can tour both the historic and current production areas and taste the oil alongside local cheese, prosciutto, and wine.
A family-run Perigord fine-food house established in Sarlat in 1973, Cellier du Perigord works as both caviste and gourmet grocer. Its shelves center on duck and goose foie gras, regional delicacies and gift baskets.
Best for Périgord foie gras and gourmet gift baskets
Central Grocery & Deli is a third-generation Italian grocery at 923 Decatur Street in the French Quarter, founded in 1906 by Sicilian immigrant Salvatore Lupo, creator of the muffuletta. Tommy Tusa and Frank Tusa run it today. Meats are sliced in house and layered on locally baked bread with the family's olive salad. The store reopened in December 2024 after Hurricane Ida damage had closed it for more than three years.
Best for The original New Orleans muffuletta since 1906
Central Grocery & Deli stands at 923 Decatur Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It is an Italian grocery founded in 1906 by Salvatore Lupo, a Sicilian immigrant credited with creating the muffuletta. The sandwich began when farmers bought cold cuts and cheese with olive salad at the counter along with the round Sicilian bread called muffuletta. Lupo's daughter Marie Lupo Tusa recorded the story in her 1980 cookbook Marie's Melting Pot. Today the store is owned and operated by Tommy Tusa and Frank Tusa, the third generation of the family. Shelves hold imported pasta and olive oil while cured pork and aged cheeses scent the air. Meats are sliced in house, the bread is baked locally by hand, and the olive salad follows the family recipe. At Mardi Gras the shop has sold as many as 1,200 sandwiches a day. Hurricane Ida struck in 2021, and a ten-foot brick wall from a neighboring building crashed onto the roof, leaving only the side walls and the facade. PBS NewsHour followed the restoration in 2023. The store reopened in December 2024 after more than three years closed. Muffulettas also ship nationwide through Goldbelly and are sold at Zuppardo's Family Market in Metairie. Central Grocery has been featured on PBS and Thrillist as well as USA Today.
A Cetara conserve maker whose name nods to the Roman cetarii who once worked these waters, producing colatura di alici and salted anchovies as its signature line. The catalogue extends to tuna and other typical products of the fishing village.
Best for Colatura di alici and typical Cetara products
Patrick Maury has run the Charcuterie des Halles on rue du Général de Gaulle in Troyes since taking over from his parents, who opened the shop in 1969, and in 2017 he was crowned France's champion andouillette maker. His andouillettes, made to a secret family recipe, have reportedly even been ordered by the Vatican.
Rillettes du Mans have come out of this city-centre shop since 1943, with the hams, pâtés, terrines and boudin all made by hand on the premises. The rillettes and both boudins, blanc and noir, have taken gold medals and national titles at the French charcuterie competitions, including a 2025 rillettes gold recorded by the shop.
Best for Rillettes du Mans and award-winning boudin
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Charles Macleod has butchered meat in Stornoway since 1947, when founder Charles Menendez MacLeod returned from wartime service to start the family business. Its Stornoway Black Pudding carries EU Protected Geographical Indication status, made to the traditional oatmeal-and-suet recipe tied to the island.
Best for Stornoway Black Pudding and traditional island butchery
From the remote Chatham Islands some 800 kilometres east of the New Zealand mainland, this producer harvests and sells wild seafood including blue cod, crayfish, paua and kina, shipped ocean-to-door. An award-winning food business, it turns the archipelago's cold, untouched waters into a national mail-order catalogue.
Best for Wild Chatham Islands seafood by mail order
Founded in Changsha in 2013, blending fresh milk into Chinese tea and nuts and wrapping the result in packaging drawn from ink painting. A Superior Taste Award and an FBIF WOW Food Award behind it, and hundreds of outlets across the city.
Best for Chinese tea and nuts, wrapped in ink-painting-inspired packaging
Chayan Yuese, known in English as Sexy Tea, launched in Changsha in 2013, building its menu around fresh milk blended with Chinese teas and crushed nuts. The brand's packaging draws on classical Chinese ink painting rather than the bright, cartoonish look common to milk-tea chains, part of a broader visual identity that ties the drink back to Chinese tea culture rather than treating it as a generic bubble-tea product.
The company states it puts its tea sourcing through an eight-step evaluation process, including source verification and pesticide testing, and says only a small fraction of teas considered make it through selection. That sourcing focus has been recognized externally: Chayan Yuese has received a Superior Taste Award, an FBIF WOW Food Award, and a Foodaily iSEE Taste Award. The brand has stayed heavily concentrated in its home province, with hundreds of outlets clustered in and around Changsha rather than spreading thin across China the way many national chains do, while also selling loose-leaf teas, tea bags and snacks through its own online store to customers who can't reach a physical shop. That combination, a hyper-local retail footprint paired with a national e-commerce tail, is a different growth pattern than most milk-tea brands its size choose.
From Kalafationes in the island's interior, Cheimarios has bottled soft drinks since 1950, chief among them tsitsibira — Corfu's spicy, alcohol-free ginger beer made to an 1860 recipe. A herbal refreshment called Alpinia joins it, both produced without additives or preservatives.
Best for Traditional Corfiot ginger beer (tsitsibira)
Salvela 50, Vodnjan, Istria, Croatia (~25–30 km from Rovinj)
This award-winning family producer in Vodnjan presses Istrian extra-virgin olive oil, offered as several blends in a visitor tasting room and shop. Olive-oil cosmetics, spreads, honey and gift boxes fill out the shelves.
Best for Premium Istrian extra-virgin olive oil, tastings and gift boxes
Main Street, Historic Downtown, Annapolis, Maryland
This family-run deli on Main Street serves classic Annapolis diner fare and thick milkshakes. Regulars know it for oversized eating challenges and a daily Pledge of Allegiance.
Best for Classic deli breakfast, milkshakes, local institution
Chile Traditions sells New Mexico chile at 6919 Montgomery NE in Albuquerque. The business began in 1980 as Michelle DeWees's outdoor ristra stand and was rebuilt by her son Ken DeWees around fresh Hatch chile. Frozen green chile sits with salsas and hot sauces, and ristras hang above the shelves. An outdoor roasting yard opens in early August when the green chile season begins.
Best for Hatch chile, ristras and Southwestern pantry goods in northeast Albuquerque
At 7 State Road, the Chilmark General Store stocks everyday provisions, local produce, artisan cheeses, and daily-baked baguettes, with a rocking-chair porch that doubles as the up-island village's gathering spot. Its kitchen turns out hand-stretched thin-crust pizza and sandwiches using produce from island farms and the store's own garden.
Best for Provisions, porch pizza, and local specialty foods
The story of a community store in Chilmark begins in 1875, when E. Eliot Mayhew sold almost anything from a building near the present site. Chilmark General Store carries that role into the present at 7 State Road on Martha's Vineyard, close to Beetlebung Corner. Husband and wife Joel Glickman and Jennifer LoRusso took over the lease in 2011 after years of visiting family in the town. Jennifer trained in industrial design at Rhode Island School of Design and led design teams at Target and Pottery Barn. Joel, a Brown University graduate, ran the community garden program for the New York City Parks Department. The shelves hold everyday basics beside specialty and organic foods and beside cheese and charcuterie from Vermont Creamery and Jasper Hill Farm. French baguettes are baked daily, and bread arrives each day from Pain D'Avignon in Hyannis. Produce comes from island farms such as Morning Glory Farm and Grey Barn & Farm, and from the store's own garden 1.5 miles away. The kitchen turns out hand stretched thin crust pizza and sandwiches, served on the porch that works as the up-island gathering place. The owners describe the goal plainly, a community market and pizzeria that keeps a time-honored place the way it is.
Chithras makes homemade Coorg wines in around thirty varieties, from ginger and rose to passion fruit, alongside organic coffee, forest honey, chocolates, jams and pickles. The family runs outlets across Kadanga, Madikeri, Kushalnagar and Thithimathi in Kodagu and ships its wines and preserves through its own site.
Best for Around thirty homemade Coorg wine varieties plus estate coffee, honey and pickles
A family cherry and apple orchard on County Road HH near Sturgeon Bay, growing cherries since 1984 with pick-your-own in season. The farm market carries jams, jellies, juices, frozen and fresh-picked fruit alongside a tree maze and historic pickers' shack.
Chojuan specializes in ikinari dango, the Kumamoto sweet of sliced sweet potato and sweet bean paste wrapped in a plain steamed dough, sold here in white, black, purple and baked versions. The shop ships nationwide and sponsors the local Roasso Kumamoto football club, a sign of how embedded it is in the city's everyday food culture.
Cinco Jotas traces its founding to 1879, when the ancestors of today's owners opened what the company describes as the first operation dedicated entirely to a pure Iberian acorn-fed pig, in Jabugo, a town in Huelva's Sierra de Aracena.
Best for 100% acorn-fed Iberian ham cured in Jabugo's founding cellars since 1879
Cinco Jotas traces its founding to 1879, when the ancestors of today's owners opened what the company describes as the first operation dedicated entirely to a pure Iberian acorn-fed pig, in Jabugo, a town in Huelva's Sierra de Aracena. The venture grew from a partnership among the Sánchez Romero family and ham specialists Manuel Romero and Vicente Carvajal, whose combined surnames still identify the parent company, Sánchez Romero Carvajal.
The hams cure in what the company calls centuries-old cellars built into Jabugo's particular microclimate, a combination it credits for the character of the finished product. Production runs by hand and is measured in years rather than months, and the pigs are raised on a deliberately limited scale under acorn-fed (bellota) standards the company says exceed Spain's official Black Label minimum, alongside stated attention to animal welfare during rearing.
Today Cinco Jotas sells whole jamón, paleta, lomo, and cured sausage through its own online shop, restaurants, and cellar-visit experiences, in addition to wholesale distribution, and remains headquartered in Jabugo — the town most closely identified with the ibérico category as a whole.
Dave Clifford started with a few hobby hives in 1973 and opened the farm-gate store in 1993, and three generations of the family now run it together. The shop sells pure Ligurian honey alongside honey ice cream, mead, and Drunken Drone honey wheat ale, with tours through the extraction shed included.
Cobbs Farm Shop occupies a former fruit farm on Kings Lane in Snitterfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon, stocking local and seasonal produce, a delicatessen and a traditional butchery alongside its cafe. The farm shop is open seven days a week and works with local growers and producers from Warwickshire and neighboring counties.
A delicatessen on Cochem's market square at Markt 7, stocking spices, vinegars, oils, pestos, and preserves from small producers. The shelves also carry chocolates, truffles, mustards, and table accessories for gifting.
Cocos Artisans Collective is a community social enterprise making island-inspired art and homewares while growing and baking much of what it sells, from bread and pizza to seasonal fruit, vegetables, and deli fare. Proceeds fund local jobs across its craft shop, bakery, and cafes on the remote Indian Ocean atoll.
On West 11th Avenue, this small-batch roaster and cafe turns out espresso and drip from beans roasted on site. The operation keeps a neighborhood feel while supplying its own retail bags to regulars.
Best for Small-batch espresso and drip from beans roasted on site on West 11th
A vintage-style confectioner that makes fudge and chocolates on the premises, in flavours such as pistachio, chocolate peanut butter and coconut. The small factory and shop sits on Main Street among Cold Spring's other independent storefronts.
Founded in 1898, Colmado Murria is a Modernista delicatessen whose facade carries Ramon Casas advertising posters. Inside it sells fine cheeses, wines and conserves.
Best for Fine cheeses, wines and gourmet conserves
Started in 1947 by Ralph Hinson in North Little Rock, this bakery has run around the clock from Little Rock's historic Cohn Building since Joe Fox reopened it there in 1993. Overnight bakers keep the cases full of scratch-baked donuts, cakes and tiramisu for the morning rush.
Best for 24-hour scratch bakery in the historic Cohn Building
Ralph Hinson started this bakery in 1947 in the Rose City section of North Little Rock, moving it to a storefront near 14th and Main Streets in Little Rock in 1952. His head cake decorator, Agnes Bargiel, bought the business from him in the late 1970s and ran it until she sold it to Joe Fox in 1983.
Fox relocated the bakery again after renovating the vacant, historic Cohn Building at 12th and Main, reopening there in 1993 — the location it still occupies today. The kitchen inside now runs continuously, seven days a week, to keep pace with demand for fresh product each morning.
That round-the-clock schedule produces the donuts, cakes and tiramisu the bakery is known for downtown, made from scratch overnight so cases are full when the doors open. The Cohn Building itself predates the bakery inside it, giving Community Bakery a home with its own local history layered onto the business's — a corner storefront that has sat at 12th and Main since the 1993 renovation, in continuous overnight production ever since.
A Lambersart boutique gathering the Nord's century-old makers under one roof: Afchain's Betises de Cambrai, La Dunkerquoise waffles, Eugene Blond biscuits, babeluttes, chicoree and regional beers.
Best for Afchain's Betises de Cambrai, La Dunkerquoise waffles, Eugene Blond biscuits, babeluttes
Comptoir des Flandres is not a single maker but a single storefront: a Lambersart shop (159 Rue de Verlinghem, just outside Lille) that gathers several of the Nord region's century-old specialty producers under one roof and one till. Its own product catalogue -- epicerie sucree, epicerie salee, and drinks -- runs almost entirely to confectionery and baked goods: Afchain's true Betises de Cambrai, La Dunkerquoise's gaufres and gaufrettes, Eugene Blond's biscuits and biscottes, babeluttes and chuques du Nord, pain d'epices, madeleines and cakes, alongside chicoree, Nord beers and regional liqueurs. French business listings (societe.com, Kompass) describe retail at this Lambersart address and wine and fine-food trading in nearby Lesquin under the same name; neither listing describes umbrella retail, including decorative Carnaval-de-Dunkerque umbrellas. Here, 'umbrella boutique' means one storefront gathering several producers, not a shop selling umbrellas.
Confetti Mario Pelino makes the sugar-coated sweets associated with Sulmona, with almond confetti at the centre of its range. The family business dates its founding to 1783 and offers gift arrangements for weddings and other celebrations. A museum within the factory site explains the tools and techniques behind confetti-making.
Best for Sulmona almond confetti and celebration gifts
The Sulmona range of Confetti Mario Pelino centres on confetti, the sugar-coated sweets associated with celebrations. Almond versions sit alongside other flavours, and the shop offers arrangements shaped as flowers or gathered into bouquets. A purchase can therefore be a packet of sweets to share or a more elaborate presentation for a wedding or family occasion.
The family business dates its foundation to 1783. At its factory site on Via Stazione Introdacqua, a museum places the finished sweets in the context of confectionery-making. Its displays include historic packaging and tools, with machinery used to prepare and coat the sweets. Seeing that equipment helps explain the work hidden by a confetto's smooth outer surface.
Choose according to the purpose of the gift. A decorative arrangement emphasises presentation, while a selection of confetti allows the recipient to compare flavours. The museum provides a reason to spend longer at the site. Check access arrangements directly before visiting. The factory's Sulmona location should not be confused with the origin of every ingredient or accessory sold with the sweets.
⚒ Gourmet & Pantry · Pelino describes its confetti as produced at its Sulmona factory / this is not an origin claim for the almonds or all accessoriesORBIS register
Confiserie des Hautes-Vosges in Plainfaing cooks Vosges sweets over open fire in copper cauldrons and welcomes visitors into the working confectionery. The company says it received about 260,000 visitors a year and, in 2023, ranked as France’s most-visited food company and the country’s third most-visited company overall.
Best for Sapin-bud candies, coquelicot, and Vosges tins.
Confiserie Hanselmann has occupied its purpose-built St. Moritz building since 1894, when founders Fritz and Theresia Hanselmann opened the confectionery, bakery and café together. Now run by the Mutschler-Hanselmann family in its fourth generation, the shop still sells pastries and chocolates from the same central address.
Best for Fourth-generation confiserie in its 1894 purpose-built building
Confiserie Hanselmann was founded around 1894 by Fritz Hanselmann and his wife Theresia, both from southern Germany, who had the building purpose-built in St. Moritz during the town's rise as a destination for sophisticated European travelers, including British alpinists. The business has passed through wars, deaths, marriages and shifting economic fortunes over more than 130 years, and is today run by the Mutschler-Hanselmann family in its fourth generation.
The building itself is notable for its sgraffito wall decorations — a traditional Engadine plasterwork technique — on its reddish relief exterior, and the shop's guest book has included figures such as the Aga Khan, Empress Soraya and writer Thomas Mann.
Hanselmann still combines a confectionery, bakery and café at its central St. Moritz address on Via Maistra, selling pastries, chocolates and gift vouchers both over the counter and through its online shop, open daily.
A Gijón cannery working since 1926, packing Bay of Biscay bonito del norte and anchovies a hundred metres from the city fish market. The catch is prepared by hand and sold through the firm's online gourmet shop.
Opened in 1930 near the Baixa, Conserveira de Lisboa still wraps its tins of sardines, mackerel and cod roe by hand in paper printed from decades-old designs. The family running the shop today descends from the founders, and the narrow counter and stacked wooden crates look much as they did mid-century.
Family cannery founded 1893 in Concarneau, Brittany, by Madame Courtin, credited with the original scallop confit recipe. Now headquartered in nearby Tregunc with six boutiques and a free production museum offering tastings.
Best for Breton tinned seafood from the fishing port of Concarneau
Conserverie Courtin traces to 1893 in Concarneau, the Breton fishing port whose harbor still supplies the company's scallops and other catch. Its founder, Madame Courtin, is credited with the house's signature recipe, a scallop confit that borrows curing techniques from southwestern French confit traditions and applies them to shellfish landed at Concarneau's market that same day. Billed as the oldest conservery in the town, the company has since built a wider range around that founding idea: fish spreads and rillettes, canned sardines, prepared seafood soups, and gift sets, all made without added colorants or flavor enhancers. Operations today are based a short distance away in Tregunc, from where the company runs six retail boutiques in addition to its online shop. Courtin also opens a production site to visitors as a free museum, letting them watch the canning process and sample the results.
Continental Bakery hand-shapes European-style breads and pastries daily at its Cahaba Road shop in Birmingham's English Village. Orders for the made-from-scratch bread require 48 hours notice, though walk-in items are available same day.
Best for Made-from-scratch bread require 48 hours notice
Continental Bakery opened on Cahaba Road in Birmingham's English Village in 1985, founded by Carole Griffin, a Birmingham native who had studied French and English at Rice University and considered midwifery before deciding to open a bakery instead. She'd spent years traveling before returning home with the idea of creating a neighborhood gathering spot built around artisanal bread and pastry of a quality Birmingham hadn't seen -- Griffin had projected the shop would break even within six months; it did so in three weeks. Ten years later she added Chez Lulu, a French cafe next door, expanding the block into a combined bakery-and-restaurant destination that's remained a fixture of English Village since. The bakery still turns out made-from-scratch, hand-shaped breads and pastries daily, prepared by its own bakers rather than shipped in, with online ordering now available for pickup or delivery. Griffin ran both businesses for four decades before retiring in 2025, handing over a shop whose founding premise -- a place for neighbors to trade ideas over good bread -- has stayed intact since the doors first opened under her ownership in the 1980s.
Réunion's only beekeeping cooperative, founded in 1967, gathers some thirty apiarists and up to fifty tonnes of honey a year. The jars run from creamy lychee to spiced baie-rose and dark forest honey — varietals that exist nowhere off this island.
Best for Lychee, pink-peppercorn and forest honeys
Founded in 1960, this growers' cooperative raises the small IGP lentil of Castelluccio di Norcia organically on the Piano Grande. It also grows farro, roveja, cicerchia and barley, shipping direct through its online shop.
Best for Authentic Castelluccio di Norcia IGP lentils direct from the growers' cooperative
Founded in 1978 by 23 local growers, this Sestri Levante cooperative now represents nearly 1,700 olive farmers and runs its own mill alongside the "Bottega dei Sapori" shop, where its extra virgin olive oil is sold beside other Ligurian specialties. Products are also available through a dedicated e-commerce site.
This salt cooperative pools the harvest of Île de Ré's marais salants, just across the bridge from La Rochelle, hand-raking fleur de sel from the surface of the salt pans each summer. Its salts and salt-based products are sold under the cooperative's own name through its own boutique and site rather than a private label.
Cooperative Kaouki presses argan oil near Sidi Kaouki and turns it into soaps, creams, and honey-almond amlou, selling the full line through a direct online shop. The cooperative ships its cosmetic and culinary argan products from its Essaouira-region address.
Best for Beauty & Wellness, Argan Oil, Women's Cooperative
A family-owned organic grocery on Linden Avenue running since 2004, Cooperstown Natural Foods carries organic produce plus locally sourced cheese, meat, dairy and baked goods, with gluten-free and vegan lines. The full-service shop stocks specialty foods alongside natural personal-care and household goods.
Best for Organic produce and local specialty foods
Now run by its third generation, the Barnes family's Cornish Delights on Fore Street sells traditional fudge stirred in open copper pans by a local Cornish maker operating since 1964. The Looe shop has stayed a small family business across three generations rather than expanding into a chain.
South Coast Bakery hand-fills, crimps and bakes every pasty at its family-run bakery in Looe, Cornwall, then sells them fresh alongside sandwiches and cakes from the Polperro Bakery near the harbour. The same pasties ship nationwide from its online shop, with meat sourced from a local Bodmin butcher.
Best for Hand-crimped Cornish pasties shipped nationwide from Looe
This country market and real butcher shop on Corralitos Road has hand-cut meats and made more than 30 varieties of smoked and fresh sausage since long before it became a Santa Cruz County institution. The store also stocks local wines, breads, and specialty foods reflecting the area's Croatian, Portuguese, and Mexican communities, and ships orders nationwide.
Cousin's Candy Shop has sold old-fashioned candy, homemade fudge, salt water taffy, and hand-dipped chocolates from its historic storefront in Virginia City, Montana since 1969. The seasonal shop, open May through September, also ships its confections through an online store.
Best for Old-fashioned candy, homemade fudge, salt water taffy, and hand-dipped chocolates
A family-run Enmore gelateria opened in 2010 by John and Wendy Crowl; its Mandorla Affogato flavor won the 2014 Gelato World Tour title in Rimini, Italy, beating entrants from more than twenty countries.
Best for Award-winning family gelato.
Cow & the Moon opened in Enmore, in Sydney's inner west, in 2010, run as a family business by John and Wendy Crowl together with their son Sam. Within a year of opening the shop won Champion Gelato at the 2011 Royal Easter Show, the start of a run that eventually totaled roughly ten Australian gelato-industry prizes. Its highest-profile result came in 2014, when its Mandorla Affogato flavor — built around almond gelato and espresso — won the Gelato World Tour's world title in Rimini, Italy, after the shop had placed second in the Oceania leg the previous year; the win came against more than twenty other national finalists competing at the tour's Italian final. The Rimini result gave the shop international coverage as an Australian-made gelato beating established Italian producers on their own ground, and it has continued operating from the same Enmore premises since, with a menu built around small-batch, daily-made flavors rather than a large rotating catalogue. It remains a family-operated business rather than part of a chain.
A family beekeeping guild in Győr's Ménfőcsanak district, Csanaki Méhes Céh bottles single-flower honeys from acacia and linden alongside less common pressings such as wild-garlic and mustard honey. Beeswax candles, propolis and pollen round out the range sold from the Veres Péter utca workshop.
D'Amazônia Origens sells Geographic Indication-certified Maués guaraná, roasted six hours from selectively harvested, pesticide-free beans. The range extends to Amazonian cacao nibs and organic Apuí coffee.
Best for Geographic Indication-certified Maués guaraná, roasted six hours from selectively harvested, pesticide-free beans
Guaraná from Maués carries a Geographic Indication in Brazil, a legal status that ties the product's name to its region of origin, and D'Amazônia Origens sells only guaraná grown inside that certified zone, sourced directly from local producers rather than through intermediaries. The company's own description of its process is specific rather than aspirational: beans are roasted for six hours and selectively harvested, with no pesticides used at any stage. That single-origin discipline extends across the catalog rather than staying limited to the flagship product -- alongside classic and 'selected' grades of guaraná powder, the company sells the traditional bastão sticks used to grate guaraná directly at the table, organic guaraná capsules, and a line that pairs the stimulant with other Amazonian ingredients: guaraná-cumaru chocolate and cacao nibs sourced from the same region. A separate organic coffee line comes from Apuí, further south in Amazonas state. Checkout runs through Pix, card and PayPal, positioning the company as much for international buyers as for the domestic Brazilian market its Geographic Indication protects. It is a narrow specialization, one plant, one protected zone, held to deliberately, rather than a general Amazonian foods shop that happens to stock guaraná among other products.
Daamji Sweet turns out pedas and laddus offered as prasad at Salasar Balaji, alongside organic incense, oils and personal-care items. The shop delivers these devotional goods directly to pilgrims and worshippers.
This family stall at Con Dao Market roasts hat bang (sea-almond nuts) plain and salted and sells fish sauce and dried seafood made without preservatives. The products are prepared at home and sold fresh each day from 16 Vo Thi Sau in Con Son town.
Best for Roasted sea-almond nuts and dried seafood
De La Grenade Industries builds its range around Grenada's nutmeg, from its flagship nutmeg syrup to jams, sauces, drinks and the La Grenade liqueur. The St Paul's operation keeps its own nutmeg garden.
Best for Nutmeg syrup, spice-based sauces, jams and liqueur
Opened in 2016 by farmer's son Michiel Vos on Czaar Peterstraat, this was the Netherlands' first dedicated peanut butter shop. Each batch is small-batch ground from peanuts, coconut oil and sea salt only — no palm oil, no added sugar.
Best for Artisan fresh-ground peanut butter.
De Pindakaaswinkel was founded by Michiel Vos, who grew up on a farm where bread with peanut butter was a daily staple, and carried that early attachment into adulthood as frustration with the limited, mass-market peanut butter available in Dutch supermarkets. Working from his own kitchen, he began testing flavor combinations himself before turning the idea into a shop. It opened in 2016 in a building on Czaar Peterstraat, and was described at the time as the first dedicated peanut butter shop in the Netherlands — and one of very few anywhere in the world built solely around the product. The recipe philosophy is deliberately restrained: peanuts, a small amount of coconut oil, and sea salt, with no palm oil and no added sugar, in contrast to many commercial spreads. Batches are ground and blended on site rather than shipped in from a separate producer, and the shop has since developed a range of flavored variations built on the same base recipe. The opening drew heavy local attention as a novelty format — a single-product specialty shop built entirely around a pantry staple — and it has continued operating as a standalone, product-focused store rather than expanding into a wider grocery format.
De Torre Gourmet has traded from the heart of Logroño since 1962, stocking Iberian cured meats, artisan cheeses from France, Italy and Spain, caviar, wine and chocolate under one roof. More than sixty years on, the family-run delicatessen still sells both in person and through its own online shop.
Best for Iberian cured meats, imported cheese, gourmet gifts
A Cincinnati specialty roaster sourcing single-origin and seasonal coffees and roasting them in small batches for its cafes and wholesale accounts. It sells whole-bean bags, subscriptions and brewing gear through its own shop.
Best for Single-origin and seasonal coffees roasted in small batches
A Cetara canning family working since 1950, salting anchovies in wooden terzigni barrels and pressing them into colatura di alici DOP, the amber fish sauce descended from Roman garum. The range also covers salt-cured fillets, tuna in oil and other Tyrrhenian conserves packed in the village.
Best for Colatura di alici DOP and salted anchovies
A Guianese specialty grocer at Dégrad des Cannes in Remire-Montjoly, stocking local jams, syrups, honey and chocolate alongside chilies, sauces, spices, rum and rhum arrangé. Cosmetics and infusions from partner producers round out its gift boxes and pantry range.
Run by Guam restaurateurs Lenny and Pika Fejeran, Denanche' fire-roasts locally grown peppers into small-batch hot sauces in Original, Garlic Pepper, Calamansi and Spicy Honey. The bottles and gift packs sell through the brand's own online store with shipping off-island.
Family-run since 1882 across six generations, Dharmsala Tea Company grows and manufactures certified-organic, single-origin Kangra tea at its Dharamshala facility, spanning black, green, oolong and white tea plus Ayurvedic wellness blends developed with yoga practitioners.
Best for Sixth-generation, certified-organic Kangra tea grown and made on site in the Himalayan
Dharmsala Tea Company's family history in the Kangra Valley goes back to 1882, when its founders first planted tea in a district whose gazette, even then, rated the local leaf 'superior to that produced in any other part of India.' Six generations later, the same family still grows and manufactures the tea on site at its Dharamshala facility, in the Himalayan foothills of Himachal Pradesh, with the range certified organic throughout. The core is Kangra black and green tea, a regional style distinct from Darjeeling or Assam, made from leaf grown on the family's own gardens; alongside it sits oolong and white tea and an expanding line of Ayurvedic wellness blends, developed in partnership with yoga and wellness practitioners rather than formulated purely in-house. The company frames its work around 'simplicity, naturalness, purity, love, and sustainability,' and extends that ethos into its packaging, where it supports the revival of traditional Kangra miniature painting by using the art form on its tins and boxes rather than generic branding. It is a rare combination for a tea house this age: over a century of continuous family ownership, single-valley sourcing, organic certification across the whole range, and a wellness line built with outside practitioners rather than marketing alone.
This Rostock maker turns out Mecklenburg salamis, sausages and smoked meats to traditional regional recipes. Its Werksverkauf factory outlet opens Tuesday through Friday and on Saturday mornings.
Best for Traditional Mecklenburg sausage, ham and smoked meats
Die Rostocker Wurst- und Schinkenspezialitaeten GmbH makes sausage and ham in the Hanseatic city of Rostock. Every product is created and manufactured at its Erlensumpfstrasse plant in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The company follows traditional regional recipes and processes meat from northern Germany, giving regional suppliers priority. Its range runs from cooked sausages and salamis to sliced Scheibletten and spreadable Streichwurst. Counter goods and a grilling line complete the offer. Trade customers include retailers and wholesalers as well as canteens, and the firm produces own-label goods to order. The brand is dressed in maritime blue and red. A sailor on the label marks the company's origin in the north and by the sea. Packaging uses thinner foils and water-based prints to cut waste. The company reports lower water use and an energy management system as part of its environmental effort. It donates to kindergartens and sports clubs in the region, and to social institutions. Managing directors Tobias Bloemer and Joerg Neumann are named on the site. A factory outlet, the Werksverkauf, sells the specialities fresh at the plant. A food van called the GrillGUT-Luke serves grilled sausage on site, and current offers are posted on the company's pages.
Dockside 'N Duck has sold fresh, locally landed seafood at 1216 Duck Road since 1987, keeping a case of shrimp, blue crab, oysters, scallops, tuna, mahi mahi, flounder, and grouper sourced directly from Outer Banks watermen. The family-owned market also cuts USDA ribeye steaks to order and assembles Down East clambakes.
Homewood is the retail arm of Ooty's Doddabetta Tea Factory, founded by N K Krishnamoorthy and now three linked factories. Its Tea Museum traces Nilgiri tea history from 1835; the flagship product is hand-rolled Silver Tips white tea.
Best for Silver Tips white tea and factory-to-museum tea tours tracing Nilgiri tea history
Homewood is the retail brand of the Doddabetta Tea Factory, founded by N K Krishnamoorthy, whose own father had earlier planted tea gardens across the Kagguchi and Ketti Palada areas that still supply leaf to the business. The factory sits near Doddabetta, the second-highest peak in South India, at Mel Koddapmund outside Ooty, and the company today runs three linked factories - Nankemp, Kookalhatty and Doddabetta - across different elevations in the Nilgiris. What sets it apart from a standard tea shop is the adjoining Tea Museum, an idea credited to Krishnamoorthy's son Diwakar, a mechanical engineer who wanted visitors to get a firsthand feel for how tea is actually made rather than just buy a packet at the end. The museum traces the history of tea from its early origins in China through its arrival in Europe and Asia, then narrows to the Nilgiris' own tea story from 1835 onward, including the region's GI certification, alongside live demonstrations of the leaf-to-cup manufacturing process. Homewood's product range covers strong, cardamom, masala and green teas plus Lemon Black, but its signature is Silver Tips - a high-grown, hand-rolled white tea made from single buds picked at high elevation. Handmade chocolates and spices round out the catalog. Museum entry runs roughly ₹20 per person, open daily.
This Delaware candy maker has hand-pulled saltwater taffy and popped caramel corn on the Rehoboth boardwalk since 1926. Chocolates fill out the counter, all worked by hand on the premises.
A family estate on the heights above Hammamet producing single-varietal, cold-pressed organic extra virgin olive oil from hand-harvested olives. The oil has drawn praise from Michelin-starred chef Franck Giovannini for its fruity, antioxidant-rich profile.
Best for Organic single-varietal extra virgin olive oil
Family-owned since 1884, Doud's Market is the general grocer of Mackinac Island, stocking everyday food for residents and visitors and running a deli and pizza counter. Its Main Street store is joined by a satellite shop near Shepler's Ferry and an online store for island merchandise.
Now run by Apostolos, grandson of the doctor who planted it, this organic Corfu grove presses extra-virgin oil from centenarian Lianolia trees. The medium-intensity oil, with notes of artichoke, almond and cut grass, carries an EFSA health claim for its antioxidants and ships worldwide from the farm's shop.
Drew's All Natural makes preservative-free salad dressings, marinades, and salsas, a line founder Andrew Kaplan began bottling from his Vermont kitchen. Production is rooted in Chester, and the vinaigrettes and organic mixes are sold in groceries across the country.
A grocery and delicatessen at Poggio Renatico in Ferrara province with roots reaching back to the 1870s, selecting and selling Ferrarese and Emilian specialties. Its range covers salama da sugo, bondiola, cotechino, tortellini and Parmigiano Reggiano, sold from the historic bottega and online with GLS shipping.
The downtown storefront of Zach and Leah Gibbs's Dry Branch Stock Farm, selling pasture-raised beef, Heritage Duroc pork, lamb, chicken, and farm eggs at 125 W. Main Street. Its shelves also carry small-batch Kentucky goods like specialty salts, stone-ground cornbread mixes, and handcrafted barbecue sauces.
Best for Pasture-raised meats and Kentucky pantry goods
Gabriel Dubarry founded Ducs de Gascogne in 1953 at Gimont, in the Gers and its foie gras country. The house sells whole and bloc foie gras along with terrines and cooked dishes of the southwest. These are assembled into gift hampers with or without wine. Products carry the IGP Sud-Ouest certification. It also builds corporate gift boxes and ships from Route de Mauvezin in Gimont.
Best for Gift baskets, corporate gifts, and southwest pantry discovery.
Ducs de Gascogne dates its artisanal food business to 1953, when Gabriel Dubarry founded the house in Gimont, in the Gers. The official account connects that origin to a family gastronomic tradition and to the foie-gras territory of the Gers. Its range separates whole foie gras from blocks of foie gras and other foie-gras specialities. Accompaniments form another category, while the catalogue extends into terrines and rillettes. Tapas and starters occupy a separate section. Prepared dishes appear alongside garnishes and sweets. Wines and spirits are also listed. The page identifies foie gras and duck confit as certified IGP Sud-Ouest. Gift boxes are a central format, grouped by price and by whether they contain wine or foie gras. The company also describes a separate selection for corporate gifts, and a personalised message can be added to a parcel. These details give the house a clear structure. Foods from the Sud-Ouest appear as individual products or gift boxes. The 1953 Gimont origin and Gabriel Dubarry provide a documented family and place history behind the assortment.
A Michoacan maker of regional fruit sweets, hand-crafting guava, quince, fig and apple ates and rolls from natural fruit with no artificial colours or flavours. Its boxes, rolls and pouches are sold through the online shop with delivery across Mexico.
Best for Mexican-candy, ate, fruit-rolls, artisan-sweets
A family butcher shop in Castroville known for quality fresh cuts, house-made sausage, and dried meats alongside custom products. It also handles wild game processing for local hunters, a longstanding part of the Medina County trade.
Best for Fresh cuts, dried meats and wild game processing
Earl Comeaux opened this southside Lafayette grocery in 1979, and although it changed hands and took its current name decades later, the Comeaux family stayed involved through the transition. Boudin, stuffed chickens, turducken and hogshead cheese are all made in house rather than bought in for resale.
This Cape Charles roaster small-batch roasts coffee and supplies its own blends to cafes, markets and pubs across the Eastern Shore. Bags are sold direct through the roastery and its online shop.
Best for Small-batch coffee from a Cape Charles roastery
Eclair, at str. Mihai Eminescu 15 in Chișinău, sells tableware, glassware, bakeware and décor from brands including ASA Selection, Pip Studio, Masterclass and KitchenAid, plus Japanese matcha tea imported without intermediaries.
Edmond Fallot has milled mustard in Beaune since 1840 and remains independent and family-owned, still stone-grinding its seed on traditional millstones. The range spans sharp Dijon classics and IGP-labeled Burgundy mustards, all made at the Faubourg Bretonnière mill.
Best for Stone-ground Dijon and IGP Burgundy mustards
A Conwy High Street butcher trading as the Traditional Welsh Sausage Company, Edwards cures, bakes and cooks its own sausages, pies and prepared meats. The counter is backed by an online butcher's shop and a wider grocery arm serving North Wales.
El Bolillo has baked Mexican pan dulce and pan salado from a Greater Heights storefront since 1998, growing from one neighborhood shop into a Houston-wide bakery while keeping everything made fresh daily by hand. The shop turns out roughly 150 varieties of sweet and savory bread alongside custom cakes.
El Estante de Murcia is an online gourmet grocer curating food from small Region de Murcia producers, from Craleo pimenton crisps to Jumilla wines and Caravaca yemas. Shoppers build their own regional gift boxes or pick ready-made selections, with secured direct online ordering and shipping across Spain.
Best for Gourmet food, regional products, gift boxes
El Pizmo Fish Co. sells fresh seafood by the pound out of its downtown Pismo Beach shop, including oysters, crab, octopus, halibut, and salmon, alongside prepared fish tacos and clam chowder. The shop is located a few doors down from Moondoggies and is open Wednesday through Monday.
Best for Seafood Market, Fish Tacos, Fresh Seafood
El Rincon de Soria (Cosas de Soria) is an online and physical gift shop in Soria selling regional specialties like torreznos, mantequilla de Soria, and Celtiberian-themed souvenirs. Its Calle El Collado storefront and webshop both ship traditional Soria foods and keepsakes worldwide.
El Tambo gathers cheeses, cured meats, chocolates and pantry goods associated with Peru’s highlands. It suits travellers assembling an edible gift or comparing regional ingredients without visiting several specialist producers.
Best for Cheeses, hams, and chocolates from the Peruvian highlands
Elaikos presses extra virgin olive oil from groves around Nea Peramos on the Kavala coast, picking early in the harvest and storing the oil in nitrogen-flushed steel tanks to protect acidity. The family-run producer has won golds at the London and New York olive oil competitions and Gastronomos Quality Awards for its single-estate oils, including two New York golds in 2020 reported by Olive Oil Times.
Best for Early-harvest single-estate extra virgin olive oil
The Goumenakis family harvests its own groves at Glossa near Voukolies to make organic, unfiltered extra virgin olive oil, including an early-picked agourelaio. The oil is pressed without chemical additives and sold direct alongside the family's village taverna.
Best for Organic unfiltered extra virgin olive oil and agourelaio
Ella's Olive is a tasting room at Duck's Scarborough Lane Shoppes, opened in 2018, pouring extra virgin olive oils and Modena balsamic vinegars in flavors from blood orange to garlic-chili. The shop pairs oils and vinegars for customers and also sells gourmet sauces, salsas, and barbecue sauces, with a second location in Corolla.
Elmwood Inn began as a Perryville, Kentucky tea room in a restored 1842 mansion, later named by the UK Tea Council among America's best tea places; now in Danville, tea author Bruce Richardson runs a tasting bar selling 150+ loose teas plus its own Benjamin Press imprint.
Best for More than 150 single-estate and blended loose teas
Elmwood Inn Fine Teas traces back to 1990, when Shelley Richardson opened a tea room inside the 1842 Greek Revival mansion in Perryville, Kentucky - a building that had served as a Civil War field hospital during the Battle of Perryville and later as a boarding school before its restoration. Over fourteen years the tea room built an international reputation, and in 2002 the UK Tea Council named it the first American tea room included in its 'Best Tea Places' guide. The Richardsons closed the tea room in 2004 to concentrate on the wholesale and retail tea business it had grown alongside it, now run from Danville, Kentucky under son Ben's management. Today the operation centers on a tasting bar and shop carrying more than 150 single-estate and blended loose teas - black, green, oolong, white, herbal and caffeine-free - plus the pots and infusers to brew them. Bruce Richardson, who chronicled the family's early years in tea across several books, later founded Benjamin Press, the company's own imprint publishing further titles on tea history, etiquette and service. Between the tasting bar, the wholesale accounts supplying restaurants, hotels and museums across North America, and the publishing arm, Elmwood Inn functions as much as a tea-education operation as a retailer.
Placa Bisbe Font 2, 08569 Rupit i Pruit, Osona, Catalonia, Spain (medieval main square)
On the medieval main square of Rupit, this artisan charcuterie, butcher and grocery cures traditional Catalan meats — fuet, llonganissa, secallona, bull blanc, sobrassada and botifarra. Meatballs and local cheeses fill out the counter.
Best for Artisan Catalan embotits (fuet, llonganissa, secallona)
Embutidos Entrepeñas cures IGP-certified cecina de León and chorizo de León in Geras, selecting beef from the hindquarters of native Castilian and Leonese cattle and smoking it over local oak and holm oak. The cecina ages seven to twenty-two months at 1,200 metres of altitude, a slow, high-elevation process the company runs alongside its own restaurant.
A family-run meat shop in Columbus that processes beef, pork, and lamb through the adjoining Stillwater Packing Co., dry-aging its cuts for two weeks without sprays or added chemicals. The counter is known across the region for smoked meats, summer sausage, and beef jerky.
Lençóis shop and online mercado gathering the organic honey, specialty coffee, natural cosmetics, and handmade ceramics of the Chapada Diamantina highlands alongside its own printed-shirt line. Founded by a transplant from the state capital, it dispatches the region's artisanal and organic goods nationwide.
Best for Organic honey, arabica coffee and umbu jam from the Chapada Diamantina highlands
Lucas -- known to customers as 'Lucas da Chapada' -- left Bahia's state capital after a vacation to the Chapada Diamantina highlands convinced him to relocate to Lençóis and build a shop around what the region actually produces. The mercado's shelves run on that premise: certified organic honey from native highland flowers, ground and whole-bean arabica grown locally, and jars of umbu jam made from the tart native fruit, alongside natural cosmetics, handmade ceramics and a line of printed shirts carrying the shop's own name. Everything ships nationwide from the Centro address on Rua da Baderna, with orders taken by phone and WhatsApp from 8:30 in the morning to 10:30 at night -- a schedule closer to a market stall's than a typical retailer's. It reads less like a souvenir shop trading on the Chapada's reputation than an attempt to move the highlands' actual pantry -- honey, coffee, fruit, craft -- onto a shelf and out to the rest of Brazil.
This online shop sends the specialties of Okinoerabu Island across Japan, led by the island's kokuto brown-sugar shochu from local distilleries. It also carries island mulberry-leaf teas, health foods, seafood, and shell craft.
Best for Specialty-food, kokuto-shochu, island-products
A Bremen fish house trading since 1860 in fish, mussels and seafood, long a fixture of the city's maritime food trade. It supplies fresh catch and specialties with online ordering available.
A Baltimore seafood market and raw bar that has traded in historic Lexington Market since 1886. Its jumbo lump crab cakes have earned a following well beyond the city.
Best for Jumbo lump Maryland crab cakes and fresh seafood
Anjou honey producer founded in 1921 by beekeeper Jean Mary at the Moulin de Beaurivage on the Moine river; still run by his descendants, selling honey, royal jelly, propolis and pollen from what became one of France's largest apiaries.
Best for French honeys, royal jelly and hive gift sets
Jean Mary, born in 1894 into an Anjou farming family, discovered beekeeping almost by accident: wounded in 1916 during the First World War, he convalesced at a Swiss hospital located near a beekeeping school, where he first learned the craft. In 1921 he moved his family to the Moulin de Beaurivage, a 17th-century water mill on the Moine river in the Loire valley that remains the company's home today. That same year he built his first wooden hives with movable frames and, during a historically dry, hot July, brought in his first honey harvests.
For over a decade Jean balanced beekeeping with farming, but in 1936 he gave up agriculture entirely to focus solely on bees, expanding with new hives along the Atlantic coast. After his death in 1967, his sons Jean and Pierre took over management and grew the operation further; within three years the domain held around 1,500 hives, making Beaurivage the largest apiary estate in France at the time.
The company has stayed headquartered at Beaurivage for over a century, selling honey alongside other hive products — royal jelly, propolis, and pollen — built on the founding generation's original methods.
A Fernandina Beach institution on historic Centre Street, making fudge, hand-dipped chocolates and saltwater taffy on-site. It has been a downtown Amelia Island fixture for decades.
Best for Handmade fudge, chocolates, saltwater taffy
A longtime Albuquerque market known for roasting green chile through the season, filling the air with that late-summer smell. Its shelves carry New Mexico chile products, sauces and salsas year-round.
Best for Fresh-roasted Hatch/New Mexico green chile and chile products
Founded in 1926, Fausto's is a Key West grocery, having outlasted the cigar factories and sponging docks that once defined the island's economy. The Fleming Street grocery still stocks gourmet and local products alongside everyday staples, and it delivers to homes and boats around the island the way it has for a century.
Best for A working grocery that has supplied Key West households since 1926
Feinkost Böhm is a Stuttgart delicatessen and wine merchant trading from its Stammhaus at Kronprinzstraße 6, selling gift baskets, wine, champagne and confectionery alongside a restaurant and sushi bar. Its full range is also available through an online shop that ships gift hampers and wine by the case.
The Schmidt family has run this butchery on Alte Heerstraße since 1806, and Uwe Schmidt has led it for more than two decades, curing Rheinischer Saftschinken and dry-aging beef on site. Sausages and cured meats are made in-house, with traceability and animal welfare built into their sourcing.
Best for Cured Rheinischer Saftschinken and dry-aged beef
The Schmidt family butchery has stood in Koblenz since 1806. For more than 20 years Uwe Schmidt has led the family firm at Alte Heer Strasse 34. He describes himself as part of a new generation of butchers who follow quality from the field to the plate. The shop calls its work meisterhafte Delikatessen, natürlich hausgemacht. The house speciality is Rheinischer Saftschinken, a Rhineland ham cured in the shop's own manufaktur. Dry-aged steaks mature in a ripening cabinet on the premises. The sausage specialities and preserving jars come from the same in-house kitchen using family recipes. Sourcing rests on farmers and producers the family knows personally, chosen for animal welfare from rearing through low-stress slaughter to whole-animal use. Transparency and the origin of the meat sit at the centre of the work, balanced with what the shop calls new international flavour impulses. The result is a counter where old Rhineland tradition and current tastes are handled by the same pair of hands.
Founded in 2019 by veteran tea maker Chen Shenghe (also behind the Chen Sheng Hao pu-erh house), this Fengqing County producer makes Dianhong red teas from local large-leaf material at a roughly 33-acre eco-focused headquarters in Yunnan.
Best for High-altitude Fengqing Dianhong black tea made under tea master Chen Shenghe
Fengqing Chensheng Hong Tea Co. is the Dianhong-focused offshoot of Chen Shenghe's Chen Sheng Hao tea house, established in 2019 in Fengqing County -- a part of Lincang, Yunnan, promoted locally as the "world capital of Dianhong red tea." Chen Shenghe, who built his reputation over more than 50 years in the trade and is best known for founding the Menghai-based pu-erh house Chen Sheng Hao, brought that experience to Fengqing to focus on the region's own specialty: red tea pressed from local large-leaf tea-tree material. The company's headquarters sits on roughly 200 mu (about 33 acres) of ground the company describes as a garden-style, ecological "green factory," backed by a planned investment north of 200 million yuan and a workforce of more than 150. Its catalog runs from everyday loose-leaf tins and gift sets to seasonal releases and portable tea bags, all built around the high-altitude Dianhong style that gave Fengqing its name in the tea trade. The brand trades on continuity with Chen Shenghe's decades of hands-on tea-making rather than novelty -- a newer company built on an old maker's technique, rooted specifically in Fengqing's growing conditions rather than trying to replicate Menghai's pu-erh identity.
South Australia (retail at Hendon and Port Macdonnell)
This family seafood company in Port Lincoln harvests and sells premium South Australian catch—King George whiting, kingfish and lobster. It ships direct through its own online shop.
Best for Premium South Australian seafood
Ferguson Australia is a family seafood company built on the Southern Rock Lobster of South Australia. Robert Ferguson left the family farm in the 1960s for the lobster grounds of the south-east coast, at Port Macdonnell, Robe, Beachport, Cape Jaffa and Kingston. His son Andrew went to sea on a fishing boat after leaving school in 1975. He later moved north to fish the waters off Kangaroo Island and Port Lincoln. In 2003 Andrew and his wife Debra decided the only way to deliver lobsters to customers around the world in perfect condition was to process and export them themselves. Other fishing families followed them. In 2015 the company bought Five Star Seafoods in Port Macdonnell and Mori Seafood in Port Lincoln. Today it runs deep sea ocean jacket vessels and three export facilities in South Australia. It remains wholly owned by the Ferguson family, with Kate Birch as general manager. The range still rests on Southern Rock Lobster but has widened to Ocean Jacket, Southern Bluefin Tuna and Bight Redfish. Flathead, Boarfish, John Dory and Yellowtail Kingfish follow, plus a lobster oil. The company dates its quality mark to 1969. Orders ship from the online shop, and retail counters trade at the Adelaide head office in Hendon and at Five Star Seafoods in Port Macdonnell.
Based at Good Life Farm outside Interlaken, this cidery makes its flagship Kite & String cider from fruit grown on-site and ships to more than 36 states through a cider club. The farm-based tasting room sits within the Cayuga Lake wine and cider country near Ithaca.
This general store has anchored Main Street in Fishtail since around 1900, supplying ranchers and Beartooth-bound travelers with groceries, a deli counter, and hand-cut meats. New owners took over the roughly 125-year-old business in 2025 to keep it running as the small town's grocery and gathering spot.
Best for Local groceries, deli sandwiches, and Montana provisions
Isaac and Stephanie Meek founded Five Daughters Bakery in their Franklin, Tennessee home in 2015, naming it for their five daughters. Its signature 100-Layer Donut takes three days to laminate, proof, and fry.
Best for Three-day laminated 100-Layer Donut from a family-run Franklin bakery
Flowers Seafood Company runs a market and food truck on Highway 174, selling wild-caught local shrimp and fish landed daily from Lowcountry waters. The kitchen turns the same catch into fried baskets and to-go plates on weekend afternoons.
A water-powered cider mill three miles from Cooperstown, Fly Creek presses fresh apple cider on site and runs a marketplace of New York cheddar, butter-cream fudge, hard ciders and apple wines. The property pairs the working mill and tasting room with orchard products and farm activities in the hamlet of Fly Creek.
Best for Fresh-pressed and hard cider, cheddar, fudge, apple wine
A barbecue smokehouse in Emigrant's Paradise Valley, with a sibling location in Gardiner near Yellowstone's north gate. Beyond the smoked plates, the kitchen bottles its own sauces and dry rubs, sold on-site and shipped through the online store.
Fortwenger has made pain d'épices in Gertwiller, Alsace, since 1768, alongside bredele cookies, leckerlis, and nonnette honey cakes. The house also runs a chocolaterie and épicerie, and pauses chocolate shipments in hot weather to protect quality.
Best for Alsatian pain d'épices gingerbread since 1768.
Frank Hederman has run the Belvelly Smokehouse for over four decades, cold-smoking Irish salmon over traditional timber and hanging the fish to smoke in the old way. The smoked salmon, along with smoked butter, nuts and spices, is sold at his English Market stall in Cork six days a week.
Sicilian preserves, sauces and caponata made by hand from family recipes since 1978, sold from the original Salumeria in Ortigia's old market and online. There is an aperitivo bar and a short-stay rental in Ortigia besides.
Best for Food & Confections, Sicilian Preserves, Salumeria
Running since the mid-20th century, this Saturday market on George Street gathers New Brunswick growers, bakers and makers under one roof. Produce, maple, crafts and prepared foods are sold direct by more than a hundred vendors.
Best for Local produce, maple and crafts direct from makers
On Coles Bay Road at the doorstep of Freycinet National Park, this farm harvests its own oysters and mussels daily and supplements them with Tasmanian scallops, rock lobster and line-caught fish. Diners eat at the outdoor tables or take fresh seafood away, with a signature scallop pie on the board.
An organic stone-fruit farm started by Al 'Farmer Al' Courchesne in the 1970s, celebrated for tree-ripened peaches, nectarines, apricots and cherries grown on East Contra Costa ground. It ships fruit and conserves nationwide and runs a CSA and farm operation on Brentwood Boulevard.
This Meiringen bakery produces the meringues the town is known for, along with other Bernese Oberland specialities. A mail-order service ships them well beyond the valley.
Formed in 2006 to bring fallow highland fields back into use, this cooperative of Fujimi growers cultivates red rhubarb at around 1,000 meters and sells the stalks fresh alongside their own jams and processed goods. Autumn harvest reservations and hands-on picking sessions round out a project rooted in the town's cool Yatsugatake plateau.
Best for Red rhubarb and rhubarb jam direct from a growers' cooperative
Full Mountain (富自山中), registered as Cheng Jun Co. Ltd, sells dried fruit, nuts, grains, tea and baking supplies from 337 Huanhe North Road in Taipei's Datong District, alongside its own Vilson cereal and snack line.
Best for Ltd, sells dried fruit, nuts, grains
Full Mountain, known in Chinese as Fu Zi Shan Zhong (富自山中), operates from 1F, 337 Huanhe North Road Section 1 in Taipei's Datong District, registered under the business name Cheng Jun Co., Ltd. (澄鈞有限公司). The shop's catalog runs wide rather than deep: dried fruit and nuts (walnuts, cashews, almonds, dates, figs), grains and legumes including quinoa and black beans, tea and beverage ingredients, baking supplies and chocolate, functional supplements, and general cooking seasonings, alongside an in-house brand, Vilson (日日米森), covering cereals, snacks and protein drinks. Customer service runs Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm, reachable by phone, LINE, Facebook and email -- a service structure built more around a specialty online grocer fielding individual orders than a walk-in retail counter. The breadth of the catalog, spanning pantry staples, snack foods and a private-label functional-food line under one roof, points to a business modeled on a curated Taiwanese pantry supplier rather than a single-category tea or nut shop, with the Huanhe North Road address serving as its registered base of operations in northern Taipei.
Fumeiros da Guarda cures traditional Beira sausages, presunto and smoked meats at its facility in Vila Cortes do Mondego, in the Guarda municipality. Its ranges include the Lugar do Serrano line of chourico, morcela and salpicao made to regional recipes.
Best for Traditional smoked sausages and cured ham
Fundokin has brewed soy sauce and miso in Usuki, Oita since 1861, still relying on live fermentation cultures alongside modern production for its dressings, sauces, and seasonings. The company sells its full range through its own online shop and offers factory tours at the Usuki plant.
Barbate, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain (almadraba grounds off Zahara de los Atunes)
Gadira works wild bluefin tuna caught by the traditional almadraba trap nets off Zahara de los Atunes, Tarifa and Conil. The tuna is sold fresh, ultra-frozen at −60°C, and as traditional salazones such as mojama and canned conservas of ventresca and tarantelo.
Best for Almadraba wild bluefin tuna — mojama, salazones and canned ventresca/tarantelo
This woman-owned Main Street kitchen makes scratch salsas, barbecue and hot sauces, mustards, jams and seasonings in small batches. Its jars reach more than fifty wholesale partners beyond the Galena storefront.
Galería Sala-Marte works with established and successful artists to offer a wide range of art, including paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media alongside sculpture, photography, prints, drawings and murals. Pieces are delivered directly from suppliers to customers' homes within a few days.
Karashi renkon, lotus root stuffed with mustard-miso paste and fried in a turmeric batter, traces its origin to 1632, when this shop's ancestor Heigoro is said to have presented the dish to feudal lord Hosokawa Tadatoshi. Mori still fills each root by the traditional hand method and sells it fresh from stores around the city as well as by mail order.
Founded in 1946 and still run by the same family, Gates greets every customer with its trademark 'Hi, may I help you?' before serving ribs and burnt ends beneath its red-roofed dining rooms. The tangy, vinegar-forward sauce that built the chain's reputation is bottled and shipped nationwide from the same recipe used at the original 19th and Vine storefront.