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Southwestern France

Food, Drink shopping in Southwestern France

  1. A

    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.

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  2. B

    Debotte Gautier

    When Jules Verne was a young boy he too was awed by this beautiful chocolate shop decorated with chandeliers, marble floors and a circular velvet banquette where Nantais have waited while their orders were filled since 1823. Handmade specialities include mascarons (finely ground chocolates encased in a dark chocolate shell) and a rainbow of hardboiled sweets.

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  3. C

    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.

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  4. D

    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.

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  5. E

    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.

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  6. F

    Food Market

    Find fresh beach picnic supplies at the food market adjacent to the train station.

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  7. G

    Monoprix Supermarket

    In the old city you can pick up staples at Monoprix supermarket.

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  8. H

    Boulangerie Fillon

    Pick up fresh-baked breads and pastries at Boulangerie Fillon .

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  9. I

    Monoprix

    Monoprix is another supermarket.

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  10. J

    E Leclerc

    Supermarkets include E Leclerc

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  12. K

    Monoprix supermarket

    Monoprix supermarket

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