In the restaurants of Saint-Tropez, you can taste unusual dishes resulting from a mixture of Provence and Mediterranean cuisine. Provence cuisine, or "cuisine of the sun", provides cooks with a variety of vegetables: olives, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants.
Mediterranean cuisine, or "cuisine of long-livers", brings a lot of seafood, several varieties of lean meat (mostly baked or stewed lamb, chicken, rabbit) and a variety of cheeses. Reviews of restaurants in Saint-Tropez testify: spices are not forgotten here. Estragon, thyme, basil, rosemary and other fragrant spices are skillfully used in the preparation of dishes even novice cooks from inexpensive restaurants in Saint-Tropez.
Tarte Tropezienne is a must-try in Saint-Tropez. This dessert, famous throughout France, was invented and introduced in Saint-Tropez in the early fifties of the last century by Polish confectioner Alexander Mika. It consists of a large airy bun sprinkled with coarse sugar and filled with a cream consisting of three types of pastry cream. The best tarte tropezienne is made, naturally, in the bakery of the same name!
