Brico Café

Bordeaux


The smell of freshly baked bread is irresistible at this hole-in-the-wall bakery, run by Hungarian baker Andras Csuha near the Grosse Cloche belfry. His savoury borek (pasties) stuffed with cheese and spinach, chicken or beef are lunch-perfect, but it is the gâteau cheminée ('chimney cake') – a hollow, cylindrical-shaped brioche covered in sugar, cinnamon, almonds or grilled hazelnuts – that steals the show.


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