Bought, not scavenged
We purchase surplus from local farmers, cooperatives and market sellers. Their excess becomes income, not landfill.
Atelier-Boutique Restaurant · L'Entre-Deux · Réunion Island
Ugly fruit, glorious jars of joy.
Founded in August 2022 by Sandra Ramaye, the association celebrates so-called “ugly” fruit and vegetables. Surplus becomes jams, syrups, pickles, chutneys, compotes, nectars, soups, ketchup and other sauces, made by hand.
- Sunday – Friday · 9 am – 5 pm
- 4A rue Fortuné Hoarau, 97414 Entre Deux, Réunion Island
- +262 692 55 35 72
Bruised mangoes, Overripe bananas, Crooked tomatoes, Off-size pomelos, Wonky eggplants, Speckled guavas, Lopsided pineapples, Bumpy combavas
Our promise
Nothing wasted, everything transformed.
Three simple principles, followed every day at the workshop.
Transformed by hand
Peeling, slow cooking and jarring all happen at the 4A rue Fortuné Hoarau workshop, with Creole-inspired and inventive recipes, small batches and even recycled jars.
Good for the island
The non-profit also nurtures professional inclusion: learning a trade while saving fruit — that's the idea.
One price
8€
per meal
The anti-waste restaurant
At lunchtime, pull up a chair.
Sandra has opened her restaurant at the entrance of L'Entre-Deux village: a kitchen that is 100% vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free, built around the “ugly” fruit and vegetables saved from the bin.
- 100% vegan, vegetarian and gluten-freeEvery plate is generous, meat-free and gluten-free, composed from whatever the island's growers have in surplus.
- Eat in or take awayAt lunchtime, sit down with us… or grab your box and go.
- Short circuit, all the way“All the money we earn goes straight back into the circuit”: producers paid, running costs and wages covered.
The dish that says it all
Banana-peel curry with red lentils
Sandra's own example: the peels everyone throws away become a generous curry.
The frozen treat
Homemade sorbet, vegan and gluten-free
Our homemade ice cream, churned from rescued local fruit: 100% vegan and gluten-free, like everything else on the menu.
The menu changes with each rescue: call us to hear today's dish.
From ugly to wonderful
The journey of a rescued fruit
The surplus
Unsold or downgraded harvests from growers across the island.
The purchase
We buy at a fair price — the skip can stay empty.
The transformation
Sorting, chopping, cooking, jarring at the workshop.
The treat
Jars sold at the shop keep the social mission moving.
The treats
What we rescue, we jar.
The selection changes with the seasons and the rescues — here are the workshop's great jar families.
Sweet jarsJams
Rescued fruit, cooked in small batches.
To drinkSyrups
A splash of the tropics in your glass.
Fruit comfortsCompotes
The taste of fruit — nothing but fruit.
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Availability varies: call or drop by the shop to hear what's on the shelf right now.
Handmade
The shop & workshop
Come see where the jars are born.
In the heart of the village of L'Entre-Deux, at 4A rue Fortuné Hoarau, the shop smells of simmering sugar and ripe fruit. Browse the current batches, chat about rescue cooking, and maybe leave with a recipe.
- Jams, soups, nectars, syrups and compotes of the moment
- Friendly advice — and the story behind every jar
- A living craft venue, surrounded by L'Entre-Deux's creators
Opening hours
Sunday – Friday · 9 am – 5 pm
Closed on Saturdays
Address
4A rue Fortuné Hoarau
97414 L'Entre-Deux
The jam-maker
Sandra Ramaye, fruit rescuer.
“I hate food waste. An ugly fruit is never a bad fruit.”
Sandra Ramaye founded the association in August 2022 with one simple conviction: an ugly fruit is never a bad fruit. At the workshop, surplus becomes jars, workshops and an invitation to taste differently.
L'Entre-Deux, the wild south
A generous island, a village of makers.
Between ocean and cirque, L'Entre-Deux cultivates flavours and know-how. It's here, in the “kaz à fabrik” (making house) at 4A rue Fortuné Hoarau, that the workshop set down its jam pot.
Loved already
Jars that travel.
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Fresh batches are announced on Instagram
Fancy tasting a rescued fruit?
Drop by the shop, call us to set jars aside, or come cook with us at a workshop.