Boutique hotels
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Hotel Pastis
- Style
- Graphic detail
- Setting
- Sea and be seen
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Kube Hotel St Tropez
- Style
- Palm-fringed party pad
- Setting
- Hip St Tropez hilltop
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La Réserve Ramatuelle
- Style
- Polished and prestigious
- Setting
- Exclusive Riviera
St Tropez Eating, drinking and dancing
We’ve hung out in, then hand-picked the cafes perfect for people-watching, the bars with the best cocktails, the finest restaurants – and the coolest nightlife in St Tropez. Take our word for it and add them to your to-do list…
Restaurants
(+33 (0)4 94 97 15 43)
Café Milano
For a simple lunchtime pizza, sit on the square, under cover, or inside. With dark red velvet chairs, wooden floorboards and music pumping from the next restaurant along, this place is a feast of tagliatelle and pizza specialities. Smith loved: the mushroom risotto – around €17.
Place des Lices
(+33 (0)4 94 97 76 78)
Caprice de Deux
For great wine – and busy, traditional French fare that locals approve of, Caprice de Deux is definitely a check-box to tick off.
40, Rue Portail Neuf
(+33 (0)4 94 97 31 58)
La Rhumerie
For a pizza while you’re yacht-spotting, or simply a crème caramel and coffee, La Rhumerie restaurant has the perfect portside position – and serves cocktails throughout the day.
Quai Jean Jaures
(+33 (0)4 94 97 02 58)
La Table du Marché
Opened in 1991, this revered St Tropez establishment has been a people-watching hub for two decades. Celebrated chef Christophe Leroy combines a casual bistro ambiance with the best delicatessen delights.
21 bis Rue Allard
(+33 (0)4 94 56 68 00
Le B
This poolside restaurant with peninsula views serves breakfast, lunch and all-day "luxury finger foods" – think tapas and mezze. The terrace is ideal for sunset cocktails. Le B is open from April until October.
Byblos Hotel, Avenue Paul Signac
(+33 (0)4 94 97 01 11)
Le Bistrot d'Olivier Fuchs
This down-to-earth and unpretentious Provençal restaurant and bar is welcome respite from the neighbourhood's designer Dior and DVF stores. Grab a table inside or on the terrace.
9 Rue de la Citadelle
(+33 (0)4 94 56 68 20)
Spoon at Byblos
The original Spoon location (there are now outposts in Hong Kong, Paris and Mauritius), this St Tropez staple serves cuisine inspired by Mediterranean flavours. Founded by star chef Alain Ducasse, Spoon has an atmosphere of laid-back elegance and a wine list to die for. It's open from March to November.
Byblos Hotel, Avenue Paul Signac
(+33 (0)4 94 55 91 00)
Vague d'Or
This sumptuous spot shows off St Tropez at its gastronomic best. The Vague d'Or has two Michelin stars and prices to match, and chef Arnaud Donckele creates inventive Mediterranean feasts.
Résidence de la Pinède, Plage de la Bouillabaisse
Bars
(+33 (0)4 94 55 55 55)
Club 55
Cavort with A-listers and Tropezian movers ‘n’ shakers at this legendary beach club on Pampelonne beach. Open daily for lunch on the terrace; booking is essential. As is the tiniest bikini/speedo combination and keen eye for P Diddy-spotting.
Plage de Pampelonne, Boulevard Patch, Ramatuelle
(+33 (0)4 94 97 30 04)
Hotel Sube
With the best balcony seats in St Tropez, this bar above Café de Paris is perfect for yacht-watching and boob job-spotting on the promenade down below. Inside, with its dusty sailing boat models everywhere, you feel as if you’re in a big wooden boat yourself. Especially after trying the vast collection of single malts tucked behind the bar. The balcony seats can’t be booked, so turn up early.
15, Quai de Suffren
(+33 (0)4 94 97 36 85)
Le Pigeonnier
Drink and dance until dawn at Le Pigeonnier. With a mostly gay and lesbian crowd, it may only be small, but it’s open until 5am.
13, Rue de la Ponche
(+33 (0)4 94 97 04)
Le Quai Joseph
With hugely successful sister restaurants Joseph L’Escale and Le Grand Joseph, this black and white cocktail bar is a dramatic waterfront medley of huge white lilies and a huge marble bar.
Quai Jean Jaurès, Saint Tropez, France
(+33 (0)4 94 97 14 70)
VIP Room
It’s not unusual to see stars on the dancefloor. Paris Hilton, Beyonce and Elton John have all partied at this legendary St Trop hotspot that's open from midnight until dawn.
Résidences du Nouveau Port
Cafés
(+33 (0)4 94 97 00 65)
Café de Paris
The most famous café in St Tropez, this portside place is perfect for coffee, lunch or supper. The people-watching tables are at the front, the affair tables are at the back. In the evening, they pull their huge billowing white curtains tightly across the restaurant and give them a UV glow.
15, Quai Suffren
(+33 (0)4 94 97 02 25)
Café Des Arts
Look for the green director chairs outside. With marble tables, well-worn old floorboards and men standing at the bar getting drunk on pastis, this is the French real deal at the back. Lunch is until 3pm, dinner until 12.30am.
Place des Lices
(+33 (0)4 94 97 04 69)
La Tarte Tropezienne
There’s a display chocka with pastries and breads that’s too tempting to pass by. Sip a coffee and nibble on a pastry while you decide which of the vast range of confitures you’re going to take home.
Place des Lices
+33 (0)4 94 97 44 69
Le Café
On the market square, Place des Lices, this place is a treasure trove of local Tropezians, with an old-fashioned but lively atmosphere that really livens up at night. Wander through to the secret bar and DJ at the back – this is where the party’s really happening.
Place des Lices
(+33 (0)4 94 97 00 90)
Le Senequier
The oldest café in St Tropez, this café has been overlooking the port since 1887. Watch harbour-life go by on red seats that all face outwards, like in a cinema.
Quai Jean Jaurès, Place aux Herbes
