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Bordeaux

Shopping in Bordeaux

  1. A

    Bordeaux Magnum

    Speciality wine shop.

    reviewed

  2. B

    Cadiot-Badie

    Bordeaux's greatest chocolate maker offers the gourmand a whole range of delicious specialties to take home: chocolate Bordeaux truffles flavoured with liqueur brandy and grapes, fanchonettes (flaky pastry tartlets filled with pastry cream and covered with meringue) and tourny, a ball of praline. With its crystal chandeliers and carved moulding, the shop itself, which dates from 1826, is worth a visit.

    reviewed

  3. C

    Marché des Capucins

    A classic Bordeaux experience is a Saturday morning spent slurping oysters and white wine from one of the seafood stands to be found at Marché des Capucins. Afterwards you can peruse the stalls while shopping for the freshest ingredients to take on a picnic to one of the city’s parks. To get there, head south down cours Pasteur and once at place de la Victoire turn left onto rue Élie Gintrec.

    reviewed

  4. D

    Fromagerie Jean D'Alos'

    Near the Place des Grands Hommes is this highly respected fromagerie. If you are a lover of cheese in all its forms, soft, hard or blue, made from cow, sheep or goats milk, this shop will delight you. Buy some eye-wateringly aromatic Roquefort or a subtle chévre, a baguette and a bottle of something and retire to a park for a picnic. Vive la France.

    reviewed

  5. E

    Marché Saint-Michel

    The popular and multi-ethnic market is held every Tuesday and Saturday morning alongside the Saint Michel Cathedral. It features stalls selling fresh fruits and vegetables, foodstuffs, and used clothing, as well as second-hand dealers, whose shops are set up around the Place to the south. It is a lively place that should not be missed.

    reviewed

  6. F

    Le Fournil des Capucins

    Le Fournil des Capucins near place de la Victoire, is a bakery that never closes. So if you're heading out early or rolling home late this place can provide all of your daily (and nightly) breads and cakes. Perfect for when you simply must have a brioche at 03:00 in the morning.

    reviewed

  7. G

    Baillardran

    For a taste of Bordeaux (that for once doesn’t involve wine!), head to Baillardran, which has several branches in town, including this one in the Galerie des Grands Hommes shopping centre, where you can watch the chefs make canelés, a local vanilla-infused fluted cake.

    reviewed

  8. H

    L'Intendant

    A central spiral staircase climbing four floors is surrounded by cylindrical shelves holding 15,000 bottles of regional wine.

    reviewed

  9. I

    Antique Market

    Stalls of antiques fill the square on Sunday mornings. Located a 700m walk down river from the city centre.

    reviewed

  10. J

    Jean d’Alos

    Jean d’Alos is a fine fromagerie with over 150 raw-milk and farm cheeses.

    reviewed

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  12. Carrefour Supermarket

    This supermarket is in the basement of Galerie des Grands Hommes shopping centre.

    reviewed

  13. K

    Bradley's Bookshop

    Stacks of English-language books and guides.

    reviewed

  14. L

    Librairie Mollat

    Books in several different languages.

    reviewed

  15. M

    Galerie Bordelaise

    A 19th-century shopping arcade.

    reviewed