ORBISThe World Shopping Atlas

Gourmet & Pantry

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Gourmet

1,249 shops · 76 Icons & Heritage Houses first. Hand-checked. Walk in.

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Gourmet by city

Craft guide

The Gourmet Issue

ORBISTHE GOURMET ISSUE
1,249 shops in the atlas.
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Prepared meals and sandwiches accompany groceries at Sterk Staaltje, where Amsterdam cooks use ingredients from the shop's own shelves. The Pancake Bakery serves sweet and savoury Dutch pancakes inside a seventeenth-century warehouse on Amsterdam's Prinsengracht canal. Metzgerei Spahni Andermatt combines its meat counter with Alpine cheeses, also carrying Urner dried beef and venison sausages.

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.

Check the import rules: meat, dairy and fresh produce are restricted in many countries, so check before buying to carry.

Explore gourmet & pantry

Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.

Illustrative still-life generated for ORBIS; not a photograph of any shop.