Plate M-21 · 1,249 stores · 1201–1249 of 1249 · curated ORBIS register
What makes great gourmet & pantry?
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.
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A craft butcher trading from the English Market, best known for Cork's traditional spiced beef, which won gold at the 2021 Irish Food Awards. Alongside the spiced beef the counter runs to spring lamb, dry-aged steaks and a 'taste of Cork' burger kit, with delivery across Ireland.
Tonami Seimen has hand-stretched Okado somen noodles using a technique passed down for over 160 years, alongside yuzu-infused udon made with citrus from Toyama's Shogawa Kanaya district. Orders ship from its Gorōmaru facility in Tonami through its BASE-powered online shop.
Best for Over 160 years, alongside yuzu-infused udon made with citrus from Toyama's Shogawa
Topsail Island Trading Co. has been the island's gift shop since 1992, now built around dozens of handmade fudge flavors alongside beach-branded apparel and permanent jewelry. The full online store ships fudge and merchandise, with an in-store visit encouraged for the full lineup.
Trenker Bakery has baked at 1,240 metres in South Tyrol's Dolomites since 1954, known for its crisp Schüttelbrot flatbread and buchteln. The family-run bakery has won multiple DLG Quality Contest gold medals, including four in 2023 recorded by the bakery and now supplies fourteen branches.
Best for Alpine Schüttelbrot and buchteln baked at 1,240 metres
Trenker Bakery has been baking in Dobbiaco/Toblach, in South Tyrol's Dolomites, since 1954, working at 1,240 metres above sea level in a UNESCO World Heritage mountain landscape. The business remains family-run, and its stated approach favors hand-shaped dough over fully automated production even as it has grown to fourteen branches and roughly seventy employees across production and retail.
The bakery's signature is Schüttelbrot, a thin, crisp alpine flatbread whose name literally means "shaken bread," alongside sweet buchteln buns and apple strudel. The company credits the region's clean mountain air and water as part of what makes the bread distinctive, and says its Schüttelbrot has developed a following well beyond South Tyrol, citing customers as far away as Australia and Canada.
That quality claim has some independent backing: Trenker has won multiple gold medals at the DLG Quality Contest, a German food-industry award, including four in 2023 alone, and the bakery is IFS-certified for food safety. Seventy years after opening, the operation still frames itself as balancing "traditional & modern methods" -- mechanized enough to supply fourteen retail branches, but still shaping bread by hand at the production level.
Trout's House operates its own trout farm in Pyeongchang-eup and sells fresh fillets, gravlax, and trout-gondeure rice bowls straight from the farm, with HACCP food-safety certification. Orders go through the farm's own e-commerce site for direct-to-door delivery.
Run since April 1966 beside the Hirayu Onsen bus terminal, Tsuruya Shoten stocks Okuhida sake and shochu, hoba miso and Hida wagyu curry alongside its own hot-spring cosmetics blended with Tsuru-no-yu spring water. The shop also carries the area's soft-boiled onsen eggs, sansho spice blends and mineral bath salts drawn from the surrounding springs.
Bastia family grocer since 1984 — farm charcuterie, AOP cheeses, maquis honey, canistrelli, and island wines, vacuum-packed and shipped to the continent.
Best for Corsican charcuterie, AOP cheese, honey, and island gift boxes.
Ucok Durian has sold Medan's prized durian since the 1980s, offering peeled fruit, frozen flesh, pancakes and other durian treats with a satisfaction guarantee. Buy at the Jalan Pelajar shop or order online for delivery.
Uje gathers Croatian olive oils, capers and coastal pantry products into shops along the Adriatic and an online store, presenting regional ingredients through a focused gourmet range.
Best for Dalmatia’s finest olive oils under one roof
Run by Cai Yunsong, the German GBA-tested, 11th-generation bearer of the Enshi Yulu steamed-green-tea craft on Dongfeng Avenue, the house also makes pan-fired Enshi Buds, a local dragonwell using Longjing 43 cultivars, and a fermented Redwood black tea.
Best for Steamed Enshi Yulu green tea made by Cai Yunsong
Uncle Cai's Tea is run by Cai Yunsong, who graduated from a Hubei tea specialization program in 1979 and later trained under Yang Shengwei, the tenth-generation, nationally recognized master of Enshi Yulu tea-making. Yang formally recognized Cai as the craft's eleventh-generation bearer, a lineage tied to Enshi Yulu's status as a steamed green tea and one of China's intangible cultural heritage crafts - a technique distinguished from most Chinese green teas by steaming rather than pan-firing the leaf to halt oxidation, a method rooted in the Enshi hills of western Hubei. The flagship tea takes roughly five minutes to fully brew and has been independently tested at Germany's GBA laboratory, confirming no pesticide or chemical residue. The house also produces Enshi Buds, a pan-fired green tea whose leaves stand upright while steeping; a local dragonwell made with Longjing 43 cultivars using techniques adapted from Hangzhou; and Redwood, a fermented black tea made from tea buds. Based at 195 Dongfeng Avenue in Enshi city, the shop sells online through yulu-tea.com and is also distributed in Germany. It functions less as a retail tea shop than as a working transmission point for a specific regional craft, with Cai's own hands carrying the technique forward under a named, documented lineage rather than a generic 'traditional' label.
A Cotswold smokehouse near Burford curing salmon, trout, poultry, game and cheese over oak. Its farm shop and cafe sell the full smoked range alongside local produce, and it supplies restaurants and delis across the region.
The world's largest truffle company, Umbrian since 1852 — fresh and preserved truffles from the Valnerina. museum opened to the public in March 2012 in what was the first Urbani plant, founded by Paolo Urbani at the end of the 19th century in his own house in Scheggino.
Best for Truffles fresh, preserved, and gift-boxed.
This family business, a member of the Reykjanes Geopark, makes herbal teas, herb salts, syrups, jams and chocolate from local Icelandic herbs. Its shop is at Basvegur 10 in Reykjanesbaer.
Milwaukee sausage maker founded in 1880 by German immigrant Fred Usinger, now run by a fifth generation of his family. Its riverfront deli and gift store sell the full range of old-world wursts, franks and specialty meats, also stocked in stores nationwide.
Best for Old-world wursts and franks from a fifth-generation Milwaukee sausage maker.
Fred Usinger arrived in Milwaukee from Wehen, Germany, in the late 1870s as an apprentice sausage maker. He took work at a small butcher shop on 3rd Street run by the widow Julia Gaertner, eventually buying the business from her, marrying her niece Louise, and moving into the living quarters above the store — the founding of what became Usinger's in 1880.
The company has stayed in family hands since. After Fred Usinger's death in 1930, his son Fred Jr. led the business; Fredrick Usinger III took over in 1953 and remained at the helm into the 1990s, when fourth-generation siblings Fritz and Debra Usinger assumed day-to-day control during a period of expansion. A 2005 civic proclamation marked the company's 136 years and four generations of family ownership; a fifth generation is now involved.
Today Usinger's makes its wursts, franks and specialty meats to what it describes as the same old-world recipes, sold from its Milwaukee riverfront deli and gift store as well as through retailers across the country.
A long-established Nikko pickle house drawing on 400 years of local brewing, Uwasawa Umetaro Shoten makes tamari-zuke pickles delivered fresh from the cellar each morning. Its shop and online store sell tamari pickles, pickled rakkyo and Nikko miso.
Secondo Vergani has made Cremona's classic torrone since 1881, pressing honey, egg white and toasted almonds into hard nougat bars alongside marrons glacés and candied mostarda. The confectionery on Via Tacito also turns out chocolate pralines, truffles and seasonal specialties under the historic Vergani name.
Viedma Galería de Arte in Asunción, Paraguay has held exhibitions including Poéticas del Territorio and Altea - La Forma y su Eco by Eneide Boneu, and Herbarium by Verónica Viedma Paoli. It also presented Entre Tierras at Pinta Miami 2025 with Joaquín Sánchez, Carolina Noguera and Verónica Viedma.
VKs Manufaktur hand-produces small-batch jams, syrups, and other preserves in St. Gilgen from foraged and garden-grown fruit, selling them through its own online product shop as well as weekly farmers' markets across the Salzkammergut. Founder Sven Kreymann sources ingredients from wild collection, home gardens, and small farms rather than large-scale agriculture.
VNest opened Ipoh's first bird's-nest-themed cafe on Jalan Bandar Timah in 2016, serving freshly boiled bird's nest drinks alongside dry bird's nest and gift sets sold through its online store. The Old Town shopfront keeps its original fittings while the company ships subscription boxes, including pregnancy-focused bundles, outside Perak.
This family producer in the Astrakhan region catches, salts and cures Volga fish by traditional recipes. It sells dried vobla, pike perch, bream, roach, roe and smoked fish direct, without intermediaries.
Best for Astrakhan dried vobla and cured Volga fish
Voodoo Doughnut sells elaborate doughnuts with varied glazes, fillings and toppings from its Colfax shop. The counter is genuine takeaway food retail, with boxed assortments practical for groups and gifts.
Best for Creative doughnuts and signature pink-box assortments
Wagh Bakri traces to 1892, when Narandas Desai first owned a tea estate in Durban, South Africa, before founding the Gujarat Tea Depot Co. in Ahmedabad in 1919. The company remains headquartered in Ahmedabad and privately run by his descendants.
Best for Everyday Indian chai blends from a Gujarat house dating
Wagh Bakri traces to 1892, when Narandas Desai first owned a tea estate in Durban, South Africa. Racial prejudice pushed him to leave, and by 1919, back in India and carrying a letter of recommendation from Mahatma Gandhi praising his integrity and skill in the tea trade, he used it to found the Gujarat Tea Depot Co. in Ahmedabad, aiming to bring quality tea blends to India's working class, particularly the city's textile mill workers who had little access to it before.
The brand name Wagh Bakri — tiger and goat — was registered in 1934, paired with a logo showing the two animals sharing a teacup. The image was chosen deliberately: it represented social harmony and the breaking down of caste and class divisions, a message built directly into the company's branding rather than added as marketing after the fact.
More than a century after Desai founded the Gujarat Tea Depot Co., Wagh Bakri remains headquartered in Ahmedabad and privately run by his descendants, one of India's oldest continuously operating tea houses. Its founding story — a South African tea estate, a Gandhi reference letter, and a logo built around social equality — is unusually well documented for a company of its age.
Wally's Delicatessen occupies a Royal Arcade address in Cardiff, with a food selection that reaches beyond Welsh products. Continental cheeses and charcuterie sit within a wider range of pantry ingredients and drinks. Shoppers can also browse hampers and gifts through its online catalogue, which groups products by type and regional origin.
Best for Continental cheeses, charcuterie and international pantry ingredients
Wally's traces its origin to Ignatz Salamon, a Polish-born shopkeeper who fled Nazi persecution — first in Poland, then from a Vienna ghetto — and reached Britain in 1939 after enlisting in the British Army and arranging for his wife and three children to follow. Ignatz ran a general store in Cardiff until his death in 1963, when his sons Wally (Walter) and Otto took over; Wally later set up a dedicated delicatessen under his own name in the city's Victorian Royal Arcade, where the current shop has traded since 1981. It is now run by Steven Salamon, Ignatz's grandson, who has described heritage as central to the business while keeping an eye on current food trends. The shop stocks continental cheeses, cured meats and preserves alongside goods sourced from far beyond Europe — Polish sausages, Canadian hot sauce, Greek honey, South African chutney — reflecting the family's own history of displacement and resettlement. Upstairs, a Viennese-style Kaffeehaus serves cakes and espresso as a direct nod to the Salamons' Central European roots. The business has been featured in trade press as one of Britain's best delis, credited for both the depth of its stock and for staying a genuine family operation across three generations in the same arcade.
German brewer Uli Bennewitz opened Weeping Radish in 1986, and the farm brewery now brews Bavarian-style lagers to the 1516 purity law and cures its own sausages in an on-site butchery at Jarvisburg. The property pairs the microbrewery with a farm-to-table kitchen and shop.
Rum has flowed from this St. David's estate since the early nineteenth century, blended into aged and spiced expressions led by the flagship XXO. The historic estate remains one of the island's landmark blending houses.
Based on the Hongyuan grasslands, the Western Yak Industry Group processes local yak milk into its Hongyuan-branded milk powder. That grassland herd's milk powder is the company's mainstay.
435 Franklin St, Ithaca, NY (bakery in Trumansburg)
Founded by baker Stefan Senders with Liz Brown and grain grower Thor Oechsner, this Trumansburg bakery uses grain milled nearby by Farmer Ground Flour. Its nine-ton wood-fired oven, stoked with its own woodlot's timber, bakes loaves like the sifted-wheat 'Gary's Bread.'
Best for Wood-fired bread from locally grown grain
Stefan Senders founded this bakery with his wife, Liz Brown, and their friend Thor Oechsner, a Newfield grain grower, building it around a partnership between farm, mill and oven rather than sourcing flour from a distributor. Oechsner's grain is milled nearby by Greg Mol at Farmer Ground Flour in Trumansburg before it reaches the bakery — a short supply chain by design, not circumstance.
The bakery bakes in a wood-fired oven built with roughly nine tons of brick, steel, stone and insulation, designed with builder Billy O'Brien to move and hold heated air through a network of internal spaces. It's fired with local wood, some of it pulled from the bakery's own woodlot by Liz's horse, Reno, about three times a week — a detail that says as much about the operation's scale as any production number would.
Among the roughly 200 bread varieties the bakery has produced, Gary's Bread — a sifted wheat sourdough — carries a specific tribute: it's named for Gary Redmond, founder of the regional food distributor Regional Access, and has become one of the bakery's most popular loaves. The bakery sells from its Trumansburg production site and a retail storefront on Franklin Street in Ithaca.
wielandleben runs an organic farm in the Emmental that pairs assisted-living care with a working farm shop selling its own vegetables, meat, eggs, leather goods and organic cosmetics. The Hofladen and matching online shop operate alongside a bistro, and the farm has been welcoming visitors and resident boarders for ten years.
Best for Farm-shop vegetables, meat, eggs, leather goods
Wilex turns coconut and other Pacific crops into value-added goods, among them organic coconut oil products. It sources from organic small family farms across the Pacific, pays farmers above commodity prices and ships worldwide.
Best for Organic coconut and Pacific value-added products
Windsor Farm Shop, founded by Prince Philip in 2001, sells locally sourced meat, cheese, bread and gifts from converted Victorian potting sheds on the Windsor Estate. The shop's own butchery and delicatessen supply produce from Windsor Farms alongside a seasonal Christmas shop.
The Winstone family has churned ice cream on Rodborough Common above Stroud since 1925, selling from vans on the National Trust common and a farm counter. Flavours run from rum and raisin to rhubarb, made in small batches at the dairy.
Working from Al Mamzar, World of Dates supplies varieties including Ajwa, Medjool, Mabroom and Sukkari alongside sidr honey, dried fruit and nuts. It assembles gift hampers and corporate boxes and delivers across the emirates.
Wyoming Buffalo Company sells bison jerky, summer sausage, and meat snacks alongside Western foods and gifts from its Sheridan Avenue store. It packs its own-brand buffalo products for the trail and ships them nationwide.
Xie Yuda dates to 1875, when Xie Zheng'an created Huangshan Maofeng near Fuxi in the Huangshan foothills. Six generations later the company still processes Maofeng, Taiping Houkui and Keemun black tea, now recognized as UNESCO intangible cultural heritage.
Best for Huangshan Maofeng green tea
Xie Yuda traces to 1875, when Xie Zheng'an, born into a Huizhou tea-merchant family whose fortunes had been wrecked by the Taiping Rebellion decades earlier, rebuilt the business and created Huangshan Maofeng at Caoxi (now Fuxi), in the foothills of Huangshan. His method — picking especially tender leaf and refining the traditional firing and rolling process — produced a silver-tipped tea that sold out on its first shipment to Shanghai and quickly became a fixture among the city's tea-drinking elite. The house grew into the leading name among Huizhou's five major historical tea merchants, and its Huangshan Maofeng processing technique is now recognized as part of China's UNESCO-listed intangible cultural heritage. Six generations later, the company — now operating as Huangshan Xie Yuda Tea Leaf Co., Ltd — still processes tea from gardens around Huangshan, producing roughly 2,000 tons a year across Maofeng, Taiping Houkui and Keemun black tea, with 2022 revenue near 197 million yuan. The business markets a "state-gift tea" line alongside its retail range and sells through Tmall and its own storefronts as well as its Huizhou headquarters. It's a rare case of a single 1875 recipe still anchoring the company that invented it, six generations and roughly a century and a half on.
The Cini family has hand-harvested sea salt from the chequerboard rock pans below Xwejni Bay for five generations, scraping the crystals off weekly between mid-May and September. The shop packs the unrefined salt in table jars and 30-kilogram household sacks.
Yamada Jozo has brewed soy sauce and miso in Niigata since 1891, using its own resident kura yeast. The Kuzuduka store and online shop sell miso, soy sauce, amazake, pickles and fermented specialties.
Best for Miso, soy sauce, fermented foods, amazake
In the Yatsugatake foothills of Fujimi, this long-running country complex bakes bread in a wood-fired stone oven beside a café-restaurant, a shop, and a rental gallery. The loaves lean on slow-proved dough for the toasty, fragrant crust the ovens are known for.
A small family farm near Davis pressing organic extra-virgin olive oil since 1986 and selling at the Davis Farmers Market and Food Co-op. The same land yields jams, skincare products, and cut flowers.
A small Goto salt works selling its Nmaka-shio sea salt, drawn from the surrounding waters and offered in 80, 180 and 500 gram sizes as well as discounted bulk lots. The operation runs its own shop under the Salt Meister banner rather than through a marketplace reseller.
Yutang has fermented soy sauce, vinegar, and pickled vegetables in Jining since the Qing dynasty, a run of roughly 300 years that earned it recognition as a China Time-Honored Brand. Its jiangcai pickled condiments remain the signature Jining product, still made by the original slow-fermentation methods described on the company's own site.
Best for Jiangcai pickled vegetables, brewed soy sauce and vinegar
A Bicholim cashew house founded by the Zantye family, which made its first cashew-kernel export to the United States in 1928 and still roasts and flavours nuts by family recipes. Shops carry plain and spiced cashews alongside cashew chiwda.
Zealong began in 1996 when Vincent Chen and his father, convinced the Waikato region's climate could support real tea cultivation, imported 1,500 tea cuttings from leading tea-growing regions across Asia.
Best for Organic tea grown entirely on New Zealand soil
Zealong began in 1996 when Vincent Chen and his father, convinced the Waikato region's climate could support real tea cultivation, imported 1,500 tea cuttings from leading tea-growing regions across Asia. New Zealand's strict quarantine process let only 130 of those cuttings survive — the small surviving stock that became the founding stand of what is now the country's only commercial tea estate.
Three decades on, the Gordonton property near Hamilton grows and processes 100% organic tea entirely on New Zealand soil, an unusual claim for a country with no prior tea-growing tradition, comparable in kind to England's Tregothnan. Visitors walk a tea trail through sculptures and displays tracing tea history before a guided tasting teaches the same appearance-aroma-taste appreciation method used across the industry, followed by a Signature High Tea at the estate's own Tea House overlooking the plantation. The tea has since been served to figures including King Charles III, a marker of how far the estate's reputation has traveled from its quarantine-survivor beginnings.
For a country better known internationally for wine and dairy, Zealong is the rare case of a founder betting an entire agricultural category could be grown somewhere it had never been grown before — and being right.
Set in an antique-fixtured building on White Mountain Highway, Zeb's stocks over 5,000 New England-made products, from a 112-foot candy counter to specialty foods, maple, soaps and apparel. Everything can be bought in store or shipped through its online shop.
Best for General store, New England specialty foods, maple products, candy, gift baskets
Livade, central Istria, Croatia (truffle heartland; retail shops in Istrian towns)
Founded by Giancarlo Zigante, who once dug up a Guinness-record white truffle, this Istrian truffle house sells fresh truffles, oils, spreads and cheeses. Its own shops and a Livade restaurant carry the range.
Best for Istrian white/black truffles and truffle products