Guidebook for Marseille

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Guidebook for Marseille

Essentials

The best home made ice creams in town!
44 locals recommend
L'Eléphant Rose à Pois Blancs
25 Rue André Poggioli
44 locals recommend
The best home made ice creams in town!
Another excellent boulangerie around, bread and cakes and croissants and sandwiches, all is very good. Really don't bother going to any other boulangeries (don't confuse with Le Fournil de la Plaine)
Le Fournil du Mont
7 Pl. Notre Dame du Mont
Another excellent boulangerie around, bread and cakes and croissants and sandwiches, all is very good. Really don't bother going to any other boulangeries (don't confuse with Le Fournil de la Plaine)
You can't do better than this in terms of patisseries. The cakes are pure wonders, for less than 4€. You need to go. Sandwiches and salads too.
50 locals recommend
Patisserie Sylvain Depuichaffray
66 Rue Grignan
50 locals recommend
You can't do better than this in terms of patisseries. The cakes are pure wonders, for less than 4€. You need to go. Sandwiches and salads too.
Best cheese shop!!!
27 locals recommend
L'Art de la Fromagerie
20 Rue Saint-Michel
27 locals recommend
Best cheese shop!!!
The best Lebanese delicatessen shop of Marseilles... Opposite is the great new Fiedje, a beer shop where you can get the best beers (local and from everywhere around the world)
Exosud
26 Rue Saint-Michel
The best Lebanese delicatessen shop of Marseilles... Opposite is the great new Fiedje, a beer shop where you can get the best beers (local and from everywhere around the world)
Supermaket, not too close but the best around. Our Marks and Spencer.
72 locals recommend
Castellane
72 locals recommend
Supermaket, not too close but the best around. Our Marks and Spencer.
Supermarket. The closest Monop around. Nice clothes, and good food.
160 locals recommend
MONOPRIX
36 La Canebière
160 locals recommend
Supermarket. The closest Monop around. Nice clothes, and good food.
Small supermaket... Nothing more to say! Better to go to the big market on La Plaine (Place Jean Jaurès) on Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings, or the Farmer's market on wed on the Cours Julien.
94 locals recommend
Carrefour City
80 La Canebière
94 locals recommend
Small supermaket... Nothing more to say! Better to go to the big market on La Plaine (Place Jean Jaurès) on Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings, or the Farmer's market on wed on the Cours Julien.
Mini supermarket around the corner.. Quite spendy...
29 locals recommend
Casino Shop
56 Bd Camille Flammarion
29 locals recommend
Mini supermarket around the corner.. Quite spendy...

Food Scene

Delicious take away: prawns cooked in pastis, lovely squids and the famous "Panisses", all for 5 euros or less a portion.
17 locals recommend
Chez Gilda
13 Rue des trois Mages
17 locals recommend
Delicious take away: prawns cooked in pastis, lovely squids and the famous "Panisses", all for 5 euros or less a portion.
Very good italian restaurant, with a lovely backyard and vegetalised wall... under 20€.
240 locals recommend
La Cantinetta
24 Cr Julien
240 locals recommend
Very good italian restaurant, with a lovely backyard and vegetalised wall... under 20€.
Delicious, really original and lovely place... around euros for a meal, less at lunchtime
Le Fournil de l'Étoile
61 Pl. Jean Jaurès
Delicious, really original and lovely place... around euros for a meal, less at lunchtime
Delicatessen and really good restaurant, 15€ menu, you can eat outside, take way... The cakes are delicious. An old Marseillais treasure.
10 locals recommend
BATAILLE
18 Rue Fontange
10 locals recommend
Delicatessen and really good restaurant, 15€ menu, you can eat outside, take way... The cakes are delicious. An old Marseillais treasure.
And bar too, lovely lunch (big assiettes/mezze for 12€) and as trendy as you get.
48 locals recommend
WAAW
17 Rue Pastoret
48 locals recommend
And bar too, lovely lunch (big assiettes/mezze for 12€) and as trendy as you get.
Really nice taps place, with cool backyard.
55 locals recommend
Dos Hermanas
18 Rue Bussy l'Indien
55 locals recommend
Really nice taps place, with cool backyard.
Excellent tapas, lovely back garden.
89 locals recommend
La Tasca
102 Rue Ferrari
89 locals recommend
Excellent tapas, lovely back garden.
Very nice restaurant brasserie Parisian type, big terrace, plat du jour around 10€ and also good for a coffee on saturday morning when the flower and plant market is in front of you...
76 locals recommend
Les Danaïdes
6 Sq. Stalingrad
76 locals recommend
Very nice restaurant brasserie Parisian type, big terrace, plat du jour around 10€ and also good for a coffee on saturday morning when the flower and plant market is in front of you...
Excellent and fresh fish restaurant for lunch (do book in advance, or at least in the morning), and fish monger all day! Make the most of it...
96 locals recommend
La Boîte à Sardine
2 Bd de la Libération
96 locals recommend
Excellent and fresh fish restaurant for lunch (do book in advance, or at least in the morning), and fish monger all day! Make the most of it...
Perfect for lovely tea and biscuits, carrot cakes and cookies, all homemade.
Biscuit & Biscuit
9 Rue de Lodi
Perfect for lovely tea and biscuits, carrot cakes and cookies, all homemade.
One of the many delicious restaurants of Rue Vian. Very good meat, for those who like it...
15 locals recommend
Café Vian
3 Rue Crudère
15 locals recommend
One of the many delicious restaurants of Rue Vian. Very good meat, for those who like it...
Love it, really good food for lunch especially... Take away possible.
45 locals recommend
Green Bear Coffee
123 La Canebière
45 locals recommend
Love it, really good food for lunch especially... Take away possible.
Café, bar, restaurant. really nice atmosphere, very good wine.
15 locals recommend
Planète Livre Marseille la Passerelle
26 Rue des trois Mages
15 locals recommend
Café, bar, restaurant. really nice atmosphere, very good wine.
Bar and restaurant, vegetarian and they have their own garden...
103 locals recommend
La Passarelle
52 Rue Plan Fourmiguier
103 locals recommend
Bar and restaurant, vegetarian and they have their own garden...
Vegetarian restaurant, real good.
Country Life Marseille
14 Rue Venture
Vegetarian restaurant, real good.

Entertainment & Activities

Our lovely parc, bigger than it looks as it is made of several parts. 20 minuts walk from us, 5 minuts by tram.
584 locals recommend
Palais Longchamp
Boulevard Jardin Zoologique
584 locals recommend
Our lovely parc, bigger than it looks as it is made of several parts. 20 minuts walk from us, 5 minuts by tram.

Drinks & Nightlife

One of our favourite bars, really cool atmosphere. Plus very nice brunch on sundays. (wrong on the airbnb map, it is actually on the boulevard Longchamp, n°22)
274 locals recommend
Longchamp Palace
22 Bd Longchamp
274 locals recommend
One of our favourite bars, really cool atmosphere. Plus very nice brunch on sundays. (wrong on the airbnb map, it is actually on the boulevard Longchamp, n°22)
One of my favourite bars on the Cours Julien, though they're all quite cool. They do have really good tea choice, plus they sell nice clothes too, the food is cool for about 15€.
23 locals recommend
Oogie
55 Cr Julien
23 locals recommend
One of my favourite bars on the Cours Julien, though they're all quite cool. They do have really good tea choice, plus they sell nice clothes too, the food is cool for about 15€.
Gay friendly bar, with a huge terrace, cool Djs at night, really nice to be there when you're down the quite touristy Vieux Port.
51 locals recommend
Polikarpov
24 Cr Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves
51 locals recommend
Gay friendly bar, with a huge terrace, cool Djs at night, really nice to be there when you're down the quite touristy Vieux Port.
Can be a bit rough, but no other place still open and wild in the small hours...
17 locals recommend
L'Art Haché
14 Rue de l'Olivier
17 locals recommend
Can be a bit rough, but no other place still open and wild in the small hours...
One of the big terraced bars of Notre Dame du Mont, really cheap food and drinks.
Le Petit Montmartre
17 Place Notre Dame du Mont
One of the big terraced bars of Notre Dame du Mont, really cheap food and drinks.
L'Estaque, old fishermen "village", nice beach, cool "Yes We Camp" campsite with lots of activities. the navette Maritime goes there too, leaving the Vieux Port at half past of every hour both ways.
Pressing CLEAN City
L'Estaque, old fishermen "village", nice beach, cool "Yes We Camp" campsite with lots of activities. the navette Maritime goes there too, leaving the Vieux Port at half past of every hour both ways.

Everything Else

Adorable tea shop...
6 locals recommend
Luciole sarl
15 Rue Venture
6 locals recommend
Adorable tea shop...
DVD rentals of the best quality. Whatever you're looking for (apart from bud blockbusters!) is here.
35 locals recommend
Bar Cinéma Le Videodrome 2
49 Cr Julien
35 locals recommend
DVD rentals of the best quality. Whatever you're looking for (apart from bud blockbusters!) is here.
Cool recycling place, open on wednesdays and saturdays in the summer. Anything found is reused and sold here!
Recyclodrome
47 Rue d'Aubagne
Cool recycling place, open on wednesdays and saturdays in the summer. Anything found is reused and sold here!
Huge flea market...
18 locals recommend
Marché aux Puces Cap Pinède
136 Chem. de la Madrague-Ville
18 locals recommend
Huge flea market...
There are hundreds in Marseille, we like this one.
Topolino Pizza
100 Cr Lieutaud
There are hundreds in Marseille, we like this one.
Very good one. Ideal croissants to go with your coffee at the terrace of the Danaides...
12 locals recommend
Boulangerie L'Atelier Des Saveurs
1 Rue de la Grande Armée
12 locals recommend
Very good one. Ideal croissants to go with your coffee at the terrace of the Danaides...
Quite a big one, with also beauty (sun protection!) products.
Grande Pharmacie de la Plaine
48 Pl. Jean Jaurès
Quite a big one, with also beauty (sun protection!) products.
Beach! Really lovely place to hang out, and now you can get there by boat from the Old Port with the Navette Maritime (one boat every hour sharp, both ways) 3€.
Avenue de la Pointe Rouge
Beach! Really lovely place to hang out, and now you can get there by boat from the Old Port with the Navette Maritime (one boat every hour sharp, both ways) 3€.
Beautiful calnque, worth the trip. Take bus 21 to Luminy (the end of the bus road) and follow the track to the calanque... quite spectacular.
196 locals recommend
Calanque de Morgiou
196 locals recommend
Beautiful calnque, worth the trip. Take bus 21 to Luminy (the end of the bus road) and follow the track to the calanque... quite spectacular.
Beautiful town not far from Marseille, the train (sncf.com) will take you there in 15 min. beautiful calanques.
550 locals recommend
Cassis
550 locals recommend
Beautiful town not far from Marseille, the train (sncf.com) will take you there in 15 min. beautiful calanques.

Arts & Culture

Excellent bookshop dow the road.
26 locals recommend
Librairie Maupetit Marseille
142 La Canebière
26 locals recommend
Excellent bookshop dow the road.
One of the many great bookshops around La Plaine. This one is more about design and art.
Librairie le lièvre de mars
21 Rue des trois Mages
One of the many great bookshops around La Plaine. This one is more about design and art.
One of the dozens of "créateurs" shops in these small pedestrian streets: you can find clothes, jewelry, antics, design...
In your dreams
1bis Rue Pastoret
One of the dozens of "créateurs" shops in these small pedestrian streets: you can find clothes, jewelry, antics, design...
Good first and second hand books... Same as the Paris one.
Gibert Joseph Marseille
4-8 Bd Dugommier
Good first and second hand books... Same as the Paris one.
Best art cinema in town, films in original version, 7€...
135 locals recommend
Cinéma Les Variétés
37 Rue Vincent Scotto
135 locals recommend
Best art cinema in town, films in original version, 7€...

Shopping

One of the great record shops around our flat. Indie pop and rock mainly.
Lollipop Music Store
2 Bd Théodore Thurner
One of the great record shops around our flat. Indie pop and rock mainly.
Perfect record store, old and new vinyls, really cool guy: feel like you're in "High Fidelity"...
Tangerine Musiques
28 Rue des trois Mages
Perfect record store, old and new vinyls, really cool guy: feel like you're in "High Fidelity"...