Bacar occupies a redone brick-and-timber warehouse, and of the 1,000 wines on the menu, 100 are available either by the glass or by carafe.
Eighteenth- and 19th-century timber frame warehouses once lined the shoreline; today, only two remain.
Surrounded by seven mountains, its picturesque city centre boasts timber seaside warehouses that are on Unesco's world heritage list.
The lime-rendered one-up, one-down cottage we see when we park by a willow hedge on the lane behind the gallery is wood-framed (reusing timbers from the warehouse) with wood board exterior walls.
The main street of Lecong is a five-mile Vegas-like stretch of gaudy showrooms and exhibition centers, factories and cavernous warehouses, leather suppliers and timber yards, all dedicated to making and selling furniture.
They may not even think of the car factory, the warehouses on Botley Road, Powell's timber merchants, the registry office in Clarendon Shopping Centre, The Star pub, plantain sandwiches or Fred's Discount Store.
The "immense... entirely plain and unornamented" warehouses through which Woolf meanders are stacked with "timber, iron, grain, wine, sugar, paper, tallow, fruit - whatever the ship has gathered from the plains, from the forests, from the pastures of the whole world".
Around the dock's landward side, meanwhile, are the sparsely populated acres of the Port of Hull: warehouses half-filled with aggregates and animal feed, paper and piles of plastic-wrapped timber from Scandinavia, waiting to be hauled somewhere else.
