Marseille 2: Drink and Eat




Bar de la Marine



Bar des Amis

Addresses in Marseille

Drinking:
Bar des Amis, 23 Bd de la Pointe Rouge: breakfast before going to the beach or a drink late
Bar de la Marine, 15 Quai de Rive Neuve: lunch (a wonderful omelette with frites) or a pastis in the evenin
La Caravelle, 34 Quai du Port (Hotel Bellevue entry) : a suze or a cagole served with tapas after 18,3
La Boulangerie Aixoise, 45 Rue Francis Davso: wonderful cake
Le Cafe Populaire, 110 rue Paradis: near Gas bijous shop, same own
Bar des 13 Coins, 45 Rue Sainte Françoise: a little turistic but a good pause in the Panier


La Boulangerie Aixoise



Le Bistrot Plage, down the Corniche



Le Zinc

Eating:

Le Zinc, 182 rue Rouet (8eme): lunch and dinner, everytime I go to Marseille I enjoy the kitchen!

Chez Jeannot, Vallon des Auffes, a little romantic corner of the old city

Les Arcenaux, 25, cours Estienne d'Orves - http://www.les-arcenaulx.com: books, salon des thees and restaurant

Le Yen, 60 avenue du Prado: vegetarian sushi and Jap design.

The Small, 386 avenue du Prado.

All over Marseille, there are a lot of 'pizza au feu' like this one in the photo, you can stop there or at a fournished boulangerie like the 'Tarte Tropezienne', 194 avenue de Mazargues, to buy your dinner to eat on the beach near Escale Borely looking at the sunset.

Avenue de Mazargues

Marseille 2011

Marseille is changing quickly, a lot of work to do yet before 2013, when the city will be one of the 'Capitals of Culture'. Not only the modern quartiers but also the ancients ones are fronting renovation: Le Panier is really different from 5 years ago, the facades are the same, surely restored, but the inhabitants? Luxury bed and breakfasts, shops and a lot of tourists are his new face. Going down toward the old port, I had a bad surprise: the historic 'Café de Paris' in rue de Mery, with his beatiful decor, is been discontinued.

Anyway Marseille is a city when you can really have a good time. You can have a bath in a crystal sea, not bad for a portual city. Here people is very informal and I can feel free; they rarely stay long but are often used to take a long bath, to dry at the sun and leave. If you have more time you can walk to the famous calanques or go there with a boat.
Marseille is also ideal to rest out 'till late with a drink in the sunny terraces of one of the numerous bars. Drink a pastis, a Suze or a Cagole, the local beer, blonde or blanche. After, in the good season, a lot of people is used to have a picnic on the grass looking at the sunset in the sea – Escale Borely or Pointe Rouge – . If you want a restaurant, you can surely choose a tipic one but you' find also an incredible choice of all the world's kitchens.
After the Panier and the old port, another lively centre is Cours Julien – marchée bio each wednesday morning – that comes alive expecially after 18 when bars and restaurants are fulled. There, in the streets around, you'll find the best walls paintings.
At the opposite site of the port, the quarter of Docks de la Juliette offers an interessant example of restoration of ancient buildings now devoted to offices and chic bars.
Don't miss a walk here:
- Notre Dame de la Garde
- Old Port
- Le Panier
- Cours Julien
- Docks de la Juliette
- The beach between Prado and Pointe Rouge

- Jardins: Parc du XXVI Centenaire – really worth a visit this contemporary garden - , Parc Henri Fabre (you can take your dog here) - follow the river to the sea long the near Parc Borely.

- Maison du Fada: 280 boulevard Michelet – They called this way before discovering it was a capolavoro. L'unitè d'habitation designed by Le Corbusier in Marseille is a gift the master offered to the city.

Escapades:

- Isles et calanques, take a boat from the old port and wear your swimsuit or you'll regret it;-)

- Les Goudes

- La Madrague

- Cassis

ps: If you're a sportif, you can begin a marseilleise day with jogging down (or up) the beautiful 'corniche'

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