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Biarritz / Online
Maison Arostéguy is a Biarritz gourmet house for Basque pantry goods, peppers, preserves, oils, spices, and gift boxes. At Biarritz, the range centers on basque pantry goods, peppers, preserves, oils, spices, and gift boxes.
Best for Basque pantry goods, peppers, preserves, oils, spices, and gift boxes
Paris / Online
Albert Ménès founded his Maison in 1921 at Landerneau in Brittany, importing rare grocery goods for knowledgeable friends. Thierry Hervey created the brand in 1986 as a labelled range of fine grocery worked with small producers. More than 300 references now carry the name, from jams and spices to biscuits and preserved fish, with spices packed near Beauvais.
Best for Artisan jams, biscuits, and gourmet pantry.
The story begins in 1921 at Landerneau in Brittany, where Albert Ménès returned from years at sea to the flavours of his Breton childhood. He founded the Maison Albert Ménès that year and imported rare grocery goods from around the world for friends and knowledgeable amateurs. He later became a grocer for Edouard Leclerc, who gave him shelf space in his first Breton supermarket. He rose to the rank of wholesaler while keeping his taste for forgotten recipes from a region or a terroir. A leaner economy then pushed many small producers out of the market. The meeting of Albert Ménès and Thierry Hervey changed the course of the house. In 1986 Hervey created the brand as it exists today, a labelled range of fine grocery worked with small producers and sold on supermarket shelves. Jams and spices sit beside biscuits and dried fruit. Fish and sauces share the range with condiments and honeys. The range now counts more than 300 references of sweet and savoury épicerie fine, chosen from French regions and from the better sources of the world. Spices and pepper blends are packed in the house's own workshop near Beauvais. The brand favours products without colourings or additives. Two jams took silver medals at the Concours Général Agricole in 2026.
78 rue de Seine, Paris / Online
Trudon traces its story to 1643, when Claude Trudon took over a shop on rue Saint Honore in Paris selling spices and candles. In 1737 Jerome Trudon bought the Royal Wax Manufacture at Antony, which supplied the Imperial court by 1811. The scented candles were born in 2007 and the first five perfumes followed in 2017. Candles are made in the house's Normandy workshop, and the Paris shop stands at 78 rue de Seine.
Best for The world’s oldest candles
Cire Trudon traces its origins to 1643, when Claude Trudon opened a shop on Paris's rue Saint-Honoré selling wax and candles for domestic and ecclesiastical use. His son Jacques joined the royal court at Versailles in 1687 as apothecary and distiller to Queen Marie-Thérèse, and the family's wax business grew alongside its court connections; Louis XIV later elevated Charles Trudon to the French nobility. In 1737 Jérôme Trudon purchased a large wax factory in Antony, in what is now Hauts-de-Seine, where more than a hundred workers once labored — the building survives today, listed on France's inventory of historical monuments. The house supplied candles for the royal chapel at Versailles and continued serving the court through the Ancien Régime and the Revolution; even during his imprisonment, Louis XVI is recorded as having used Trudon candles. The engineer Duhamel du Monceau praised the family's craftsmanship in his 1762 encyclopedia. Cire Trudon still supplies the Paris church of Saint-Roch, lit by its candles continuously since 1643. Its headquarters and flagship boutique now sit at 78 rue de Seine in Paris's sixth arrondissement, a few streets from the house's original rue Saint-Honoré premises, and the maison markets itself today as the oldest surviving candlemaker in France.
Paris / Multiple
Paris chocolatier opened in 2014 by Edwin Yansane, trained at L'Ecole de Paris des Metiers de la Table and several French chocolate houses; known for spice- and travel-influenced bonbons such as a curry-spiced Taj Mahal and a Japanese-whisky ganache.
Best for Edwin Yansané's spice-route flavored bonbons
Edwart Chocolatier was founded by Edwin Yansane, who trained for three years in pastry at L'Ecole de Paris des Metiers de la Table followed by a further three years of chocolate apprenticeship, working for several established French chocolate houses. The brand's name blends 'Edwin' with 'Arthur,' a fellow student Yansane worked with while developing the concept. His first shop opened in 2014 in Paris and Edwart has since grown to around five boutiques across the city. The house is known for adventurous, travel-influenced flavor combinations - signature pieces include the Taj Mahal, a bonbon spiced with Indian curry, and Yoichi, a ganache pairing Japanese whisky with Brazilian-origin chocolate.
Paris / Online
Spice house opened by three-Michelin-star chef Olivier Roellinger after retiring from his restaurant Bricourt in 2010, rooted in Cancale's maritime spice-trade history. Sells peppers, salts, vanilla and blends from the Maison du Voyageur; boutiques in Cancale, Saint-Malo and Paris.
Best for Olivier Roellinger's Cancale-born pepper and vanilla spice library
Olivier Roellinger, born in Cancale in 1955, grew up in the Maison du Voyageur, an 18th-century shipowner's mansion in the Breton port town long tied to the spice and trading routes of Saint-Malo. He began building spice blends into his cooking from 1984, and his restaurant Le Coquillage/Bricourt eventually earned three Michelin stars. In 2010, citing health reasons, Roellinger closed the restaurant and redirected the business toward spices, opening Épices Roellinger as a dedicated house for rare peppers, salts, oils, vinegars, vanilla, seaweed and original blends. Production and blending remain tied to the Maison du Voyageur in Cancale, and the brand has since opened boutiques in Cancale, Saint-Malo and Paris.
Paris / 3rd
Paris spice house at 3 rue Dupuis in the 3rd arrondissement, run by the Thiercelin family since 1809; formerly branded Goumanyat and now trading as Thiercelin 1809, it prepares saffron on site and supplies chefs including Pierre Gagnaire and Alain Ducasse.
Best for Six generations of saffron — the Thiercelin family’s spice temple
The Thiercelin family's spice business dates to 1809, when Jean Thiercelin — originally a cooper and vinegar-maker in Pithiviers — began trading in spices. Seven generations later, the house is still known above all for saffron, which it prepares as powder and threads on site using techniques passed down through the family. The Paris boutique sits at 3 rue Dupuis in the 3rd arrondissement, a shop long known to Paris food circles under the name Goumanyat before the family consolidated its retail identity under the older Thiercelin 1809 name. Its client list has included star chefs such as Pierre Gagnaire and Alain Ducasse, who source spices there for restaurant use, and the shop stocks a wide range of spices beyond saffron for both professional cooks and home visitors. The rue Dupuis address remains the house's Paris retail anchor, continuing a specialist trade that has survived under one family's stewardship since the early 19th century.
Marais
Izrael focuses on World pantry institution: spices, grains, dried fruits, sweets, and global groceries.
Best for Edible gifts, pantry treats, chocolate, biscuits, and regional specialties.
Paris
Paris's 'Little India.' This covered passage is lined with Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan restaurants, spice shops, and sari merchants.
Best for Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan restaurants, spice shops, and sari merchants
Strasbourg / Alsace / Online
Mireille Oster's grandfather Joseph began selling pain d'épices at Strasbourg's Christmas market in 1933; her mother Constance opened the first permanent shop in 1980 in a 1643 building in Petite-France. Mireille took over in 1998 and now offers more than 40 gingerbread varieties.
Best for 40-plus varieties of hand-spiced pain d'épices, family-made since 1933.
The Oster family's pain d'épices tradition began in 1933, when Mireille Oster's grandfather Joseph started selling gingerbread at Strasbourg's Christmas market.
In 1980, Mireille's mother Constance turned that market presence into a permanent shop at 14 rue des Dentelles, in the Petite-France quarter, inside a building dating to 1643. Mireille took over the business in 1998 and has since expanded the range to more than 40 varieties, drawing on ingredients and flavors gathered from her travels to create recipes such as pains d'Amour, de Soleil, des Anges, and des Délices, each hand-spiced rather than machine-mixed.
The house has since opened a third Strasbourg boutique, and Mireille is described locally as an "Ambassador of Alsace" for keeping the region's gingerbread tradition alive in a historic quarter that draws heavy tourist foot traffic.
Colmar (rue du Stauffen)
Founded in 1895 by the ampelographer Chretien Oberlin, this municipal estate farms more than 28 hectares that include the Clos Saint-Jacques and the Hospices Civils Louis Pasteur vineyard. Its Riesling, Pinot Noir rose, cremant, late-harvest wines and eaux-de-vie are poured at the tasting room on rue du Stauffen and sold at a boutique on the Grand'Rue.
Best for Alsace wines and cremant tasting
Beaune, Côte-d'Or
La Vinothèque calls itself the oldest wine shop in Beaune, trading from 4 Rue Pasumot a few steps from the Hospices. Its 350 references are chosen from the owner-growers of Burgundy with pride of place for the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits. Whiskies, regional liqueurs and Marc de Bourgogne line the seventeenth century cellars.
Best for Wide selection of Burgundy wines
La Vinothèque has been established in Beaune for several generations and calls itself the oldest wine shop in the town. The door at 4 Rue Pasumot sits in the historic centre a few steps from the Hospices de Beaune. The cellars beneath it date from the seventeenth century. The shop welcomes amateur and newcomer alike and calls itself a committed merchant, always looking for the right ratio of quality to price. Its 350 references are chosen with care from the many owner-growers of Burgundy, giving pride of place to the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits. Domaines of exception and the more sought-after winemakers share the racks with safe bets and the rising stars of the region. The range runs from the grandest names to appellations that few visitors know. Spirits form a second strength. Whiskies and rums stand beside gins and calvados, with bas-armagnac and cognac, and the Fine and Marc de Bourgogne of the region. Traditional fruit liqueurs and ratafias keep company with prunelles, Chartreuse and the Abricot du Roulot. Corkscrews, carafes and tasting glasses are sold for the service of wine. The team offers its advice in the shop, and the house calls itself the good address that customers pass to one another.
Beaune, Côte-d'Or
Making pain d'épices and nonnettes since 1796, this Burgundy house sells its spiced breads from a boutique in central Beaune. Gift boxes round out the counter.
Best for Traditional Burgundy pain d'épices and nonnettes
Saint-Tropez, Côte d'Azur
The Tuesday and Saturday market of Saint-Tropez — antiques, Provençal fabrics, spices, and the outdoor market that fills the town with color and life.
Best for Antiques, Provençal fabrics, spices, and Saint-Tropez's market.
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