The Brive-la-Gaillarde Foires au Gras
The Brive Foires au Gras season announces the end-of-year celebrations and attracts gourmets looking for high-quality products: fattened ducks, fattened geese and capons arrive in abundance on the stalls of the Brassens market. Around thirty producers from the region, always as enthusiastic as ever to expose their most beautiful web-footed birds, mulard and Muscovy ducks foies gras, the most extraordinary goose foies gras or their capons with the most promising taste, are ready to be judged by the specialists. After deliberations, the jury proudly presents the prizes to the producers rewarded for their remarkable work.
5 good reasons to go to the Foires au Gras
- Quality ensured! The products offered are local and meet a quality charter.
- Meet and greet with producers
- Enjoy the Foire des Rois and have your foie gras canned!
- Conviviality and deliciousness are on offer with the tastings offered by the Tables Gaillardes.
- Don't leave without a truffle. It will give even more flavor to your canned or cooked dishes!
The 2023-2024 Foires au Gras schedule
November 18, 2023: foire au gras
December 2, 2023: award-winning geese and ducks fair
December 16, 2023: capon fair
January 6, 2024: Foire des rois (preparation and canning of foie gras for free)
February 3, 2024: award-winning geese and ducks fair
March 2, 2024: foire au gras
Pratical information
Where do the Foires au gras take place?
Under the Georges Brassens Hall, at 12 quai Tourny in Brive-la-Gaillarde.
At what times?
The Foires au gras take place at the same time as the market, throughout the morning. (Morning only).
Where to park to get to the Foires au gras?
- Underground parking lot with direct access to the market square for 1 euro on Saturday!
- Overhead parking lot: 2 hours free every day!
Activities planned during the Foires au gras
Fairs hosted by the chefs of Tables Gaillardes
On the occasion of each award-winning fair, the chefs of the Tables Gaillardes come to put on the show. Taking the products directly from the market, 2 to 3 chefs take orders from the kitchens set up every Saturday for these very special occasions and invite you to follow their advice on cooking, conservation of products but also tasting. Guaranteed seduction operation!
The Tables Gaillardes Schedule
Saturday December 16
- Theme: capon
- Nicolas Eche (En Cuisine) and Nicolas Serre (L'Atelier du Moutier) will offer recipes
- Georges Figueira (Aux Embruns), Olivier Maurin (La Toupine), Claude Goût (l'Auberge du Cheval Blanc) and Christophe Forget (Bistrot C. Forget) will also be present on the market.
Saturday February 3
- Theme: Saint-Jacques, land and sea
- Georges Figueira (Aux Embruns) and Christophe Forget (Bistrot Forget) will create a recipe on site
- Also present is Claude Goût (Auberge du Cheval Blanc on the market)
Saturday March, 2
- Theme: foie gras
The origin of the Foires au Gras
The fairs and markets of Brive are as old as the town itself: as early as 1218, a market was held on Fridays.
The number of fairs in Brive multiplied at the end of the 1795th century. A “catalogue of Brive fairs” dated back to 20, lists 1970 of them. It was in XNUMX that the winter fairs became the Foires au Gras.
The Foires au Gras in figures
- Up to 2500 ducks and geese sold and marketed per week from November to March.
- 30 producers present on the Brive market. They come from the large Brive basin: Lower Corrèze and the bordering cantons of Dordogne and Lot.
- 80 approved equipment producers in Corrèze.
- 80 ducks and geese for direct sale.
- Production: 99% duck.
Geese, ducks, capons subject to a quality charter
Anxious to maintain the reputation of these fairs and to reassure consumers, the City of Brive, the chambers of agriculture of Corrèze, Lot and Dordogne, the management of veterinary services and the producer unions have defined a QUALITY CHARTER guaranteeing product traceability, traditional force-feeding with grain corn and other requirements that you can find with most producers on the market coming to the Foire au Gras.
The Foire des Rois
The January Fair is an exceptional fair. Buyers have the option to box their foie gras for free.
Purchases must only be made on that day from producers. Boxing registrations close at 10:30 a.m. A maximum of 2kg of foie gras per person is allowed. In order to maintain maximum quality in the finished product, only duck foie gras weighing between 350 and 550 gr and goose foie gras weighing 450 to 900 gr will be canned and will be carefully selected by the producers.
The controlled Truffle market
The black diamond of Périgord is also in the spotlight during the fair season.
Schedule of controlled truffle markets
- controlled truffle market from Saturday December 3 to Saturday February 25, 2023.
- award-winning truffle market: Saturday January 7, 2023.
Un controlled market The sale of fresh retail truffles of the “melanosporum” type begins from 8:15 a.m. in the Salle Brassens.
The truffles are all checked, one by one before being put on sale from 7 a.m. in the morning. An additional guarantee of quality, ensured by inspectors approved by the departmental federation of truffle growers of Corrèze.
The controlled market will open with the bell at 9 a.m. in a designated space in the Brassens room.
The Mycogastronomic Brotherhood and Brotherhood of the Black Diamond generally attend this winter meeting.
Our tip Gourmet pleasures of a fair
A Saturday between december and the beginning of March. There are crowds under the Georges Brassens hall in Brive-la-Gaillarde. You are also there to wander between the stalls overflowing with capons, geese, ducks all duly plucked, jars of foie gras, confits, truffles... Fortunately you came with your basket and you will not return empty-handed at home. Note that during the Foire des Rois which is held beginning of January, you have the privilege of leaving with your purchases canned and boxed for free.
Foire au Gras
19100 BRIVE
05 55 24 08 80 (Brive Agglomération tourist office)
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