French Riviera

Saint-Tropez

The driver’s guide

The fishing village that became a legend: three MICHELIN stars on the Bouillabaisse beach, Sénéquier's red terrace since 1887, the citadel above the rooftops, and the Place des Lices where they still play boules under the plane trees. The addresses I give my own passengers, each with its phone number, its website and directions.

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Where to eat

Restaurants

Nothing here was picked from online ratings. Five MICHELIN stars in the 2026 guide across three houses — including the only THREE-STAR table in the gulf — and four institutions people ask for by name, one of them open since 1887 and one a brasserie dating from 1789.

Photo Kev22 — CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The distinguished tables

All three are inside hotels, all three are booked far ahead, and none of them is a walk from the port.

Three Michelin stars
La Vague d'Or – Cheval Blanc St-Tropez
Plage de la Bouillabaisse, Saint-Tropez
THREE MICHELIN STARS in the 2026 guide — the highest distinction there is, and the only one in the gulf of Saint-Tropez. Arnaud Donckele works the fish of the bay species by species and signs the sauces that have become his trademark. Facing the sea, in the pines of the Bouillabaisse beach. A seasonal table, like the house itself.
ARNAUD DONCKELEBOOK WELL AHEAD
Michelin star
La Terrasse – Cheval Blanc St-Tropez
Plage de la Bouillabaisse, Saint-Tropez
ONE MICHELIN STAR in the 2026 guide, the second table of the same house: Mediterranean cooking with Provençal leanings, in the shade of the umbrella pines, with the whole bay of Saint-Tropez in front of you. More affordable than La Vague d'Or, and just as hard to get in August.
OVERLOOKING THE BAYBOOK AHEAD
Michelin star
Colette – Hôtel Sezz
151 route des Salins, Saint-Tropez
ONE MICHELIN STAR since 2021 and two Gault&Millau toques, under Philippe Colinet, Maître Restaurateur. Cooking built around vegetables and Provençal produce, in a design hotel on the Route des Salins. ⚠️ SEASONAL — open from May to early October — and DINNER ONLY, 7.30pm to 9.30pm, closed two days a week (the days change with the month). Menus from €148 to €196.
DINNER ONLYGAULT&MILLAU: 2 TOQUESSEASONAL: MAY → OCTOBER

The institutions

All of them on the port or on the Place des Lices, all within five minutes' walk of one another.

The institutions
Sénéquier
27 quai Jean-Jaurès, Saint-Tropez
The red terrace on the Quai Jean-Jaurès, the most photographed on the Riviera. Marie and Martin Sénéquier opened the pastry shop in 1887; Lisette Sénéquier added the café on the port side in 1930. Destroyed in the bombardments of 1944, rebuilt and reopened in 1951 with its thirty metres of terrace, its director's chairs and its triangular tables. People come for the white nougat, and to watch the port.
SINCE 1887THE RED TERRACEHOUSE NOUGAT
Photo Mathieu BROSSAIS — CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
An institution
Le Girelier
21 quai Jean-Jaurès, Saint-Tropez
The fish institution on the port, run by the same house for over fifty years: bouillabaisse, seafood platters, sole, turbot, langoustines. SERVED ALL DAY FROM NOON TO MIDNIGHT, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK — the address to remember when you step off a boat at 4pm and you are hungry.
SERVED ALL DAY, NOON – MIDNIGHTOPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK
The institutions
Le Gorille
Quai du Bailli de Suffren, Saint-Tropez
Born in the 1930s as the Bar Suffren, renamed after a former owner, Henri Guérin — short, muscular and famously hairy. A no-nonsense bar-brasserie at the end of the quay, open from 6.30am to 1.30am: the fishermen's morning croque-monsieur and the last drink of the night are served over the same counter, at prices that are not remotely Tropezian.
6.30AM – 1.30AMNO BOOKING NEEDEDREASONABLE PRICES
The institutions
Le Café
5 place des Lices, Saint-Tropez — 1 Traverse des Lices
The old Café des Arts on the Place des Lices, a brasserie since 1789 — not to be confused with the green-awninged place that carries that name today on the corner of the square. Terrace under the plane trees, facing the boules pitch; the house lends boules to anyone who wants to play. The Rolling Stones celebrated Mick and Bianca Jagger's wedding here.
A BRASSERIE SINCE 1789FACING THE BOULES PITCHPLACE DES LICES

🚕 I'll drive you there — and I'll come back for you when the meal is over. The village is pedestrian and parking is a blood sport in summer: this is the trip where a taxi pays for itself.

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