In the restaurants of Saint-Tropez, you can taste unique dishes born from the fusion of Provençal and Mediterranean cuisines. Provençal cuisine, also known as the “cuisine of the sun,” offers chefs an abundance of vegetables such as olives, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants.
Mediterranean cuisine, often called the “cuisine of longevity,” features a variety of seafood, several types of lean meats (mainly baked or stewed lamb, chicken, and rabbit), and a wide selection of cheeses. Reviews of Saint-Tropez restaurants highlight that spices are never forgotten here. Tarragon, thyme, basil, rosemary, and other fragrant herbs are skillfully used even by beginner chefs in Saint-Tropez’s more affordable restaurants.
In Saint-Tropez, you must try the Tarte Tropézienne. This dessert, famous throughout France, was invented and first presented in Saint-Tropez in the early 1950s by Polish pastry chef Alexandre Micka. It consists of a large airy brioche sprinkled with coarse sugar and filled with a cream made from three different types of pastry creams. Naturally, the best Tarte Tropézienne is prepared in the bakery-pastry shop of the same name!
