One Again Club Marseille Vieux Port
Where to drink in Marseille, from quirky spots to archetype confined
One thousandarseille is both a large metropolis and a working port, and so naturally it doesn't lack for bars, some of them with pretty raucous reputations. Many of the best of the rest cluster around the Vieux Port, though these days, the hippest of all, gather in the streets around Rue Sainte et Rue d'Endoume, up to a higher place the Vieux Port in a previously little-visited district. Other highlights include a sprawling rooftop bar that gives directly onto the bounding main, a pleasingly bonkers bar in a pattern-conscious hotel, and a fab spot for arts and crafts beer drinkers with more than 400 varieties on offer.
Vieux Port
La Matriarch Noir 7
One of Marseille's hippest nighttime spots shut downward on Notre-Dame du Mont a year or two back, to re-open – just as cool – on the Vieux Port – with the addition of "Vii" to its name. That'due south for the Seven Mortiferous Sins, every bit if you needed telling. The walls are nonetheless black, blue and gold, the space yet hot and funky and the music a mix of alive and DJ sets. Simply now at that place'southward food alongside the drinks, and a slightly less exclusive atmosphere. Which is all to the good. If electro-techno is your thing, this is the identify – if you tin can get in. Entry is free simply the chaps on the door are quite exacting.
Contact: 00 33 695 177812 / 00 33 491 666137; see Facebook page
Opening times: Tues-Sat, 6pm-2am
Prices: £
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Le Bar de la Marine
Despite what the locals will tell you, this port-side bar is virtually certainly non where Marseille author and film-maker Marcel Pagnol set vital scenes from his Marius, Fanny and César trilogy, merely it is where Colin Firth declared his feelings in Love Actually. The huge terrace is a fine gathering bespeak at aperitif time, and the interior retains a 1930s aspect. Later on on, the Marine gives over to feisty contemporary music. Archetype Provençal dishes are too available.
Contact:00 33 491 549542; meet Facebook page
Opening times: Mon-Sun, 7am-2am
Prices: £
La Caravelle
Go into the Hotel Belle Vue and up the grand staircase to this small, outset-floor jazz and tapas bar. It has retained atmospheric pre-war elements – it was already a jazz bar in the 1930s – and boasts a tiny terrace affording cracking views over the Vieux Port. The atmosphere is part bodega, part maritime. Expect live jazz on Wednesdays and Fridays, October through May. There's also decent food at lunchtime and dinner, with mains from €12 (£10).
Contact: 00 33 491 903644; lacaravelle-marseille.com
Opening times: Mon-Sun, 7am-2am
Prices: £
Cours Julien
Bar Mama Shelter
The outside is anonymous – but inside this low-cost, high-design hotel, the bar is pleasingly bonkers... think primary-schoolhouse-meets-gentleman's club, with prophylactic swimming rings above the bar, a skilful little terrace and some of Marseille'due south hippest elements assembling for apéritifs. It'due south off-centre, in the Plaine district, with other skillful options nearby if you fancy a bit of a bar clamber. The Café Julien (39 Cours Julien) is equally rock'n'gyre every bit a lilliputian music café gets, while Le Makeda also puts on some groovy shows (103 Rue Ferrari).
Contact: 00 33 484 352000; mamashelter.com
Opening times: Mon-Sun, 5pm-1am
Prices:££
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La Tasca
La Tasca is a recommendable tapas bar – with Spanish, Provençal and Corsican elements – in the arty Cours Julien district. Look out for fish, vegetable and meat specialities, together with proper aperitif platters of charcuterie and/or cheese, which might fifty-fifty constitute your full meal. Tapas-wise, you'll need maybe three or four to replenish the equivalent of a main course. With tapas starting at around €4 (£iii.forty), that's pretty much ok, price-wise, especially if you're seated on the somewhat romantic summertime terrace. Cocktails – from €8/£vii a throw – or maybe a drinking glass of Provençal rosé wine won't hurt at all.
Contact: 00 33 491 42 26 02; latasca.fr
Opening times: Tue-Sat, 7pm-1am
Prices: £
Le Panier
Voute Virgo
Adue north unbelievably cool spot slotted into the vaulted arcades fronting the sea and sabbatum in the lee of the cathedral. Visual arts meet a contemporary rock and electro soundtrack in what turn out to exist surprisingly vivacious environment. The idea is that what meets the eye nourishes the contemporary urban soundtrack – and vice versa – and that, this being the instance, anybody has a good fourth dimension. There are regularly changing exhibitions, concerts, drinks, tapas and a Sunday brunch. If you are cool and cultivated, you lot'll fit right in. If you're not – you'll at least find the place fascinating.
Contact: 00 33 645 848258; facebook.com/VouteVirgo
Opening times: Wed-Friday, 5pm-2am; Sat and Lord's day, 10am-6pm
Prices: ££
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Bar des 13 Coins
The "13 Coins" has a reputation for embodying the typical Marseille bar, to the extent that it's featured as such in several films. It also served as the model for the bar in France's favourite telebvision lather opera, the Marseille-based Plus Belle La Vie, and so is revered by fans, as Brit soap fans might revere the original of the Rover'south Render. More than interesting renown, perhaps, comes from information technology in one case being the haunt of poet and crime-writer Jean-Claude Izzo, than whom no-i ever wrote improve about Marseille (try Full Kheops). Above and beyond all that, withal, it's a super-friendly spot on whose terrace locals and tourists all meet upwards.
Contact: 00 33 491 915649; see Facebook page
Opening times: 9am-12am
Prices: £
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Le Rooftop
It's widely reckoned that this is France's best-sited rooftop bar and order. They may exist right. Perched on summit of the vast Terrasses du Port commercial centre, it gives directly onto the body of water, making for the loveliest possible summer evenings under the stars. The premises are shinily new and pretty large – they tin can take some i,500 people, who come up here for the music (everything from stone to house), aperitifs (go for rosé vino with chick-pea flour panisse sticks) and a certain well-dressed repose. One floor downward, the Reverso restaurant takes care of more than substantial food needs. Getting to the identify requires a decent walk from the centre, so consider taking the 83 passenger vehicle or T2 or T3 trams.
Contact: 00 33 491 917939; airdemarseille.com
Opening times: Tue-Sabbatum, 7pm-2am; Dominicus, 11am-12am
Prices: £
Getting in: Smart casual dress; €x (£9) entry
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St Victor
Café de l'Abbaye
This looks like a pretty standard café-bar from the outside, its bluish wooden frontage flanked by a scattering of terrace tables. But it's here, on the cusp between anonymity and urban coolness, that young professionals and students join locals in impressive numbers. The loveliest time is sundown, when the dusk views over the port and bounding main beyond are a sumptuous accompaniment to any apéritif. You'll capeesh them from the modest terrace or, more than likely, from the pavement contrary onto which customers spill with panache. But matters continue into the dark as the lights go downward.
Contact:00 33 491 66 87 57; facebook.com/lecafedelabbaye
Opening times: Mon-Saturday, eight.30am-10.30pm
Prices: £
Le Victor
A favourite Marseille beer bar that mixes seriousness of purpose – 400 craft beers and special tasting glasses for each category – with cool conviviality. You're not being tested on your beer knowledge, but yous are being given a run a risk to expand it with beers from Marseille itself, Provence, French republic, Europe and the rest of the globe. If undecided, try i of the two improve Marseille brews: Minotte or Bières de la Plaine. Environment are chic and simple – somewhere betwixt a warehouse, a bookshop and a public bar – and the place in general is devilish difficult to leave.
Contact: 00 33 986 764714; victor-biere.com
Opening times: Tues-Sat, 12pm-12am
Prices: £
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/cote-d-azur/marseille/articles/marseille-nightlife/
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