Olympics: the best addresses in France
Beyond Paris, eight cities in France will host the Olympic Games: Nantes, Marseille, Nice, Bordeaux, Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Châteauroux and Villeneuve-d’Ascq near Lille.
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Nantes
The city of Nantes will host the events of the Olympic football tournament at the Stade de la Beaujoire. We are taking advantage to (re)discover the restaurant and food cellar Riotby Sarah Mainguy, Top Chef season 12 finalist The young chef just opened free on the sixth floor of an open-air parking lot just opposite the station, a timeless and outside-the-wall vegetable garden restaurant, in which she expresses all her knowledge and her taste for local crops. Next, direction The Regatta Manor for a star-studded treat: chef Mathieu Pérou offers a refined and elegant cuisine, showcasing the best products of the region. For €50 for a three-course menu, it’s a bargain! And before taking the train back, we stop at the bakery-cafe Arlot Cheng Houseawarded by the Fooding Guide 2023, to take some delicacies: organic breads, natural pastries, local cuisine dishes…
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Marseille
Saying south! Marseille, whose gastronomic excitement no longer seems to stop, will be the location of the sailing and football events. When it comes to good addresses, we have a real choice! At first IS., the restaurant of Alexandre Mazzia – a three-star chef and former professional basketball player who was chosen to prepare the menus for Olympic athletes. If the tables are not already taken by storm, we are thinking of booking at Renata Workshop, ripples Or Livingston. For those who dream of having lunch (almost) with their feet in the water, it is obviously the invincible. Tuba Club but also The Navy of Goudes, historic table and oldest of the small fishing port that is changing hands this summer. To sleep, a large peaceful room with coast next to Catalans beach, or at Le Petit Nice Passédatemblematic address since 1917 with a view of the Frioul islands and the Château d’If.