Traditional Bordeaux housing is often quite different to what tourists might imagine from glossy tourist brochures.When you wander around the city, you can clearly see that in the neighbourhoods where the people of the city really…

There are some things that I take seriously. The specialties of Bordeaux are some of those things. Some have become victims of their own success and are imitated in the rest of France. The Cannelé or Canelé is undoubtedly the best…

More fish bar than chic seafood restaurant, Le Petit Commerce is a no frills restaurant with its own shellfish bar, serving some of the best seafood in Bordeaux. At the heart of the Arcachon, a French region famed for its oysters…