Marseille Guide

The best places to eat, drink, shop and stay in Marseille, from neighborhood cafés to tables by the sea.

• Cafés and bakeries
• Restaurants and bars
• Shops
• Sights, landmarks and swimming coves
• The spots only locals know
• The best hotels and private stays
• The best places for day trips just outside of the city

Every Déstaire guide is built the same way: from time spent in a place across its seasons, and from the people who live there or know the place exceptionally well, the chefs, shopkeepers, designers, artists and neighbors. It is not meant as a definitive list, but as a picture of a city as the people inside it see it.

The places in it have been chosen the slow way: visited, returned to, and kept only if the second or third visit held up as well as the first. Some of these recommendations have been in business for generations, others opened in recent years. A few are the kind of place the Marseillais would rather keep to themselves.

A guide is not finished the day it is published. Addresses close, chefs move on, rooms are renovated and new places emerge. We revise each guide as the city changes, adding what has earned its place and removing what no longer holds up. Buy it once and every future edition is included, at no further cost.