Magasin Général

Top choice in Bordeaux


Follow the hip crowd across the river to this huge industrial hangar on the right bank, France's biggest and best organic restaurant with a gargantuan terrace complete with vintage sofa seating, ping-pong table and table football. Everything here – from vegan burgers and superfood salads to smoothies, pizzas, wine and French bistro fare – is bio (organic) and sourced locally. Sunday brunch is a bottomless feast.

Find the restaurant in a former military barracks, abandoned in 2005 and since transformed into the green creative hub known as Darwin.


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