Must-see shopping in Atlantic Coast

  • Les Dock des Épices

    Bordeaux

    For red Sauternes- or Syrah-flavoured rock salt, fleur de sel from Île de Ré and Bordeaux look no further than this incredible spice shop and upmarket…

  • Promenade Ste-Catherine

    Bordeaux

    Thirty-seven-odd independent boutiques, mainstream shops, cafes and restaurants stack up on two floors at this modern shopping complex arranged around a…

  • Deep End Records

    Bordeaux

    Be it punk, funk, soul, jazz or hardcore rock, track it down on vinyl at this old-timer record shop rammed to the rafters some 10,000 singles and LPs,…

  • L’Atelier

    Bordeaux

    Browse this attractive artisan-glass workshop and boutique for uniquely crafted mirrors, jewellery and objets deco (decorative objects) for the home.

  • Baillardran

    Bordeaux

    Canelés – a sandcastle-shaped, vanilla-infused fluted cake typical to Bordeaux – is the sweet speciality of this cake shop inside the Les Grands Hommes…

  • La Cognathèque

    Atlantic Coast

    This chic shop, just off main square place François 1er, sells cognac produced by more than 100 different producers, ranging from the grandes maisons to…

  • Village Notre Dame

    Bordeaux

    Browse stall after stall, laden with 17th- to 20th-century furniture and ornaments, tapestries and trinkets, paintings, household items and silverware at…

  • Les Grands Hommes

    Bordeaux

    This art-decor shopping mall, at home in a modern round glass-and-steel building with striking cupola, mirrors the original 1860 food market hall that was…

  • Atelier Ex-Anima

    Bordeaux

    The age-old craft of gold-leaf art and gilding is practised with style and panache by artists Rizwan Fatahu and Claire Selosse at their small workshop,…

  • Macarons Nadia Fermingier

    St-Émilion

    Nip into this 1930s boutique with red-and-white candy-striped awning and tiny kitchen out back to buy a box of St-Émilion's famous macarons (moist almond…

  • Galerie Bordelaise

    Bordeaux

    Dip into 19th-century Bordeaux with this old-world, covered shopping arcade peppered with a handful of small boutiques including a toy shop specialising…

  • Les Hangars

    Bordeaux

    Behind Basilica St-Michel, secondhand dealers sell their vintage wares – furniture, homewares, clothing, decorative objects – in an old recycled warehouse.

  • Marché des Bouquinistes

    Bordeaux

    Bookworms linger longer than usual on place de la Victoire on Friday during the weekly secondhand book market.

  • Bordeaux Magnum

    Bordeaux

    Speciality wine shop with rack upon rack of Bordeaux's gift to the world.