Exploring the newer food and drink spots that have fueled the city’s reinvention.

Four-hundred and fifty thousand square feet of dull grey concrete, with a roof almost 33 feet thick, built by over 6,000 Spanish and Portuguese prisoners of war. The German submarine pen in the Bassins à Flots is possibly the only truly ugly feature in the entire UNESCO World Heritage city of Bordeaux.  It’s now owned by the city and used as an art gallery and music venue—and a more recent addition to its cavernous halls makes it the perfect place to start a food-and-wine walk of the city.

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