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Eating and drinking
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Bordeaux is packed with numerous
restaurants
, many of them top-notch, and due to its position close to the Atlantic coast, fresh seafood features prominently on many a Bordelais menu. The best place to look for restaurants is around place du Parlement and place St-Pierre, where you'll find something to please all tastes and budgets. There are numerous sandwich bars and fast-food outlets at the south end of rue Ste-Catherine and spilling into studenty place de la Victoire. In recent summers,
guinguettes
- open-air
riverside stalls
selling shrimps, king prawns and other seafood snacks - have proved a huge success, and they set up along the quai des Chartrons. Surprisingly, Bordeaux lacks any truly grand, people-watching
cafAŠs
. Though
CafAŠ Regent
on place Gambetta is the place to be seen, a nicer, cheaper alternative is to be found across the square at
CafAŠ Dijeaux
beside the city gate. For
picnic fodder
, there is a marvellous, round
market
in the place des Grand-Hommes, north of cours de l'Intendance. And on rue de Montesquieu, just off the square, Jean d'Alos runs the city's best
fromagerie
, with dozens of farm-produced cheeses.
Bordeaux's student population ensures a collection of young, lively
bars
, a host of which are found on and around place de la Victoire. Several offer live music and all are packed on Thursday nights. There's also a clutch of English, Irish and antipodean
pubs
now in Bordeaux and a low-key
gay scene
concentrated at the south end of rue des Remparts. Other useful information
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