The best shops and boutiques in the area:
📚 Droguerie de Marine: An old-fashioned drugstore with useful and fragrant products on the ground floor and a very nice bookstore upstairs . Do not leave without a pop-pop boat | 66 Rue Georges Clemenceau, 35400 Saint-Malo | Tel. +33 2 99 19 36 78
👕 Malouin-Malouine: bags, organic cotton t-shirts and sweaters. The brand was created by a young designer from Saint-Malo | 41 rue Ville-Pépin, 35400 Saint-Malo | Tel. +33 2 99 19 51 29
🥕 🍒 Saint-Servan food market, on Tuesdays and Fridays -for locally grown vegetables, visit Mrs. Conquérant'stand. For the finest fish and seafood, visit Mrs. Beaulieu' stand. For farm-raised meats, go to Mr Lepage's counter. Get Bordier butter and sublime artisan cheese from Sophie - 3 Place Bouvet, 35400 Saint-Malo.
🧂 Epices Roellinger: do not miss to visit this superb premium spice shop. A must-see in Saint-Malo | 12 rue Saint Vincent, 35400 Saint-Malo | Tel +33 2 23 18 24 12
🛍️ Maison Générale: wide choice of linens, designer furniture, decorative objects, carpets, lighting. Excellent brunch on Sundays. Two addresses : 4 Rue de la Corne de Cerf, 35400 Saint-Malo and 6 rue Saint-Thomas, 35400 Saint-Malo | Tel +33 2 99 20 11 00
🧈 Maison du beurre Bordier: Jean-Yves Bordier is the last artisan to churn his butter by hand in a wooden kneading bowl. During the mixing and salt scattering process, the butter ‘cries’ and develops gustatory qualities, a great complexity of aromas and a silky texture... The butter is then shaped by hand and struck with a box tree paddle to form regular and made to measure packs for top chefs. Try flavored butter with seaweed, sweet Madagascar vanilla and buckwheat | 9 Rue de l'Orme, 35400 Saint-Malo | Tel +33 2 99 40 88 79
🍦 Vent de Vanille: Last born of the Roellinger family. Freshly churned ice creams and sorbets. Both an ice cream factory and a millefeuille workshop where customers can discover the various stages of manufacturing process | 3 Bis Boulevard Wilson, 35800 Dinard | Tel +33 2 99 89 61 03
🍫 Balthazar: The "Guide des Croqueurs de Chocolat", which is to chocolate makers what the Michelin Guide is to restaurateurs, is laudatory: "Unmissable and excellent chocolate factory in Dinard ... Grandiose." | 32 Rue Levavasseur, 35800 Dinard | Tel +33 2 90 10 28 14
🥧 Grain de Vanille: Roellinger family's millefeuille has earned its reputation well beyond the walls of Cancale | 12 Place de la Victoire, 35260 Cancale | Tel +33 2 23 15 12 70
🧼 Savonnerie cancalaise: Morgane and Tiphaine offer you a wide range of 100% natural and artisanal cosmetics scented with essential oils | ZA de la Bretonnière, 4 Rue des Ateliers, 35260 Cancale | Tel +33 2 99 40 24 23
🧥 Boutique Bénic: the only shop in Saint-Malo where Dalmard Marine pea coats are sold, a Breton house specialised since 1922 in the manufacture of protective clothing for sailors embarking on fishing trips to Newfoundland and Iceland. You can also buy Gloverall duffle-coats made in England since 1951 | 16 Rue de Dinan, 35400 Saint-Malo | Tel +33 2 99 40 98 60
🧥 Tricots Saint-James: Timeless sweaters and sailor cotton t-shirts. Shop in Saint-Malo. You can also go to the factory store in Saint-James, near Mont Saint-Michel. Call in advance for a guided tour of the clothing workshop | 1 Beaufour, 50240 Saint-James | Tel +33 2 33 89 15 55
🧥 Comptoir de la mer: Armor Lux sailor t-shirts, yellow oilskin raincoats, traditional sou'westers and waterproof bags by Guy Cotten, reefers by Le Glazik (made since 1928) and boots by Le Chameau (made since 1927) | 35 rue du Général Patton, 35400 Saint-Malo | Tel +33 892 31 14 18