La Gabare

Atlantic Coast


Follow knowing locals away from the old town to this superb cave à bières, a thoroughly contemporary beer bar with spartan interior dedicated to the serious business of dégustation (tasting). It stocks some 300 different world beers, including several brewed in southwest France: try non-filtered Aliénor beers made in St-Caprais de Bordeaux or beers from the La Debauche brewery in Angoulême.


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