What doesn’t this Italian wonderland stock? A well-kept secret on the outskirts of Hyères, David Pirone’s fines foods store-cum-deli (the prolific force already behind beachside restaurant Le Marais and hotels Lilou and La Reine Jane) pays tribute to his distant Italian roots in a setting designed to spoil both the eye and the appetite. Inside the saffron-yellow walls, Everything seems to have made the journey across the Alps: wines from the Boot, pasta fresca, punchy cheeses, charcuterie from Piedmont, Calabria and Tuscany, crowd-pleasing focaccia, tiramisu and limoncello… not to mention the pizza oven, ready to send you home with a perfectly blistered pie tucked under your arm. In short, if a trip to Italy isn’t on the cards, this is the next best thing. · Artie Show

Shopping list: Plump arancini stuffed with beef, pork, peas and saffron (€2.30), proper Sicilian caponata (€18 per kilo), potato, pecorino and smoked scamorza croquettes (€1.50 each) and aragostine oozing with hazelnut and pistachio cream (same price).