Discover - For gourmets

Bessan: Croustade

Pastry filled with raisins or chocolate and walnuts. “Le Pastissou” a chocolate with a special flavour anise alcohol and nut, the adorned Bessan chocolate. Open every day except Monday off-season from 7 a.m. to 12:30 noon and from 4.30 to 7.30 p.m. Open Monday morning during the season.
The pastry is also available in most of the local bakers’ shops.

Pâtisserie CILIEGIO (pastry maker, chocolate maker, sweets maker, ice cream maker, baker)
2 rue des Caves in Bessan
Tel: 04 67 77 43 44
Email: patrick.ciliegio@aliceadsl.fr

Lézignan-la-Cèbe: mild onions

Mild onions - Lézignan onions go back a long way, probably first grown in Persia. The Egyptians revered them, placing them in tombs and at the centre of their diet. Pliny the Elder claimed they were a source of health and long life. They have been grown in Lézignan since at least the 17th c.

Nézignan-l'Evêque: fig

Fig eaters, "Bécos figos", the people of Nézignan l'Evêque, are proud of their history. Since Francis I, and maybe before, this village has been standard-bearer for the fig, as shown by the restored painting in the Musée d'Art Sacré. An experimental orchard has over 80 varieties of this noble specie from Asia Minor, which loves Mediterranean heat and dryness. Its digestive, laxative, mineral and anti-inflammatory properties have been known since Antiquity. Cooked or raw, after a meal or with a meat dish, the flavoursome fresh fig melts in the mouth.
Fig speciality from Aux délices de l’Evêque, bakery. Open every day except Monday from 7 a.m. to 12:30 noon and 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
13 avenue d'Agde in Nézignan-l'Evêque - Tel : 04 67 09 35 50

Pézenas mince pies

A kind of mince pie shaped like a cotton-reel, introduced in the mid-18th c. by the Indian cooks of Clive of India when he stayed in Pézenas, served warm at the start of a meal, with a glass of white wine - dry (like Picpoul de Pinet) or sweet (like St-Jean-de-Minervois Muscat or Rancio). Sold in all pastry shops in town, it keeps well for a fortnight in the fridge. The Très Noble et Très Gourmande Confrérie du Petit Pâté de Pézenas, 6 rue Four de la Ville, controls the quality of the product and has protected it by registering it at the INPI.

Bakers and pastry makers / Petits Pâtés makers

Dominique ALARY
5, rue Saint Jean in Pézenas - Tel. 04 67 98 13 12

Mr PERCHERON
Chocolate maker, ice-cream maker, sweets maker
41, cours Jean Jaurès in Pézenas - Tel. 04 67 98 13 32

Dominique CAZANAVE
“Le petit Scapin” Production of Petits Pâtés de Pézenas
On line sales and shipping
15, Avenue Camille Guérin in Pézenas - Tel. 04 67 98 92 47 - Fax 04 67 98 92 16
infos@lepetitscapin.com  - www.petitpate.com

Daniel LALLEMAND
Pastry and chocolate maker
19, rue Saint Jean in Pézenas - Tel. 04 67 98 81 98

Confiserie QUATREFAGES
“Le Petit Pâté de Pézenas” Pastry and Petits Pâtés maker
3, rue Conti in Pézenas - Tel. 04 67 98 16 29
 

Honey

Garrigue, lavender and mixed flowers. Honey on sale at the Saturday market in Pézenas.

Florence MOUTOU
Route de Nizas in Pézenas
Tel. 04 67 98 80 51

Pézenas' Berlingot

A local speciality of unknown origin. Sugar is formed into a stick and flavoured with essences (aniseed, mint, coffee, lemon, etc.). It keeps for many months. Just one firm, Boudet, makes it now and it is sold in all local pastry shops and groceries. You can Sample it in a shop on Place Gambetta in the town centre, and visit the factory in the morning free of charge from 1st  June to 15th September, from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m., from Monday to Friday. Groups over 10 persons only with previous booking.

SARL BOUDET
Sweets maker: 
Shop: 5, place Gambetta in Pézenas
Tel. 04 67 90 76 05
Factory: chemin de Saint-Christol in Pézenas
Tel. 04 67 98 16 32 - Fax : 04 67 90 75 09
E-mail: contact@berlingotspezenas.com
Website: www.lesberlingotsdepezenas.com
 

Baker Guy Bouzigues in Pomérols

Baker Guy Bouzigues proposes fig, almond, chocolate chips, nut or dried raisin shortbreads. The Languedoc Shortbreads bear the label Sud de France.
Closed Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday all day and Sunday afternoon.

Guy BOUZIGUES
2 rue de la Quille in Pomerols
Tel. 04 67 77 04 99 - http://guy.bouzigues.pagesperso-orange.fr  

Pézenas homemade jams: "Les artisans confituriers"

Jams, chutneys, mustard and vinegar. Nadine set up her copper pans in Pézenas more than 10 years ago and has over 100 preserves flavoured with spices and some with vinegar.
Open all year round including Sundays.

Nadine De Brabandère
2, rue de la Foire in Pézenas
Tel/fax. 04 67 98 24 99

Preserves, appetizers, peppers and berries in Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens

Rue Traversette is an original canning factory. This small company offers a wide choice of condiments preserved in extra virgin olive oil and Camargue salt, appetizers made of vegetables and spices and also original and varied peppers and some berries and herbs.

SARL Rue Traversette
Stéphane Strobl
25 rue de la Traversette
34230 Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens
Tel. 04 67 98 71 02 / 06 64 86 28 81
www.ruetraversette.com - contact@ruetraversette.com
 

Markets

Adissan: Tuesday and Friday.
Bessan: Tuesday and Sunday morning.
Caux: Friday morning.
Cazouls d’Hérault: Tuesday and Friday.
Florensac: Traditional on Tuesday, Saturday: food
Montagnac: Friday morning (upper esplanade).
Pézenas: Saturday.
Pinet: Tuesday and Friday.
Pomérols: Monday morning: clothes, flowers, general; Thursday morning: food.
Saint-Thibéry: Tuesday morning.