Bordeaux baking turns on the canele, the small fluted cake with a caramelised shell and a soft, rum-and-vanilla centre that the city claims as its own. The Golden Triangle holds the most-quoted houses: Baillardran on Cours de l'Intendance and La Toque Cuivree on Place Gambetta have run the head-to-head for decades, with Cassonade in Saint-Pierre making a third. Beyond the canele, modern patissiers like Pierre Mathieu Patissier Bordelais on Place Pey Berland and Patisserie S on Cours d'Alsace et Lorraine carry the city's pastry work forward.
