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.
La Gabare
Atlantic Coast