Where to eat cinema at the Cannes Film Festival
Whether in one of the historic venues or in the restaurants that offer special menus to celebrate the 70th edition of the contest , between film and film, you can live great gastronomic experiences.
If you ask a rasa journalist (hello!) to go to the city of the Côte d'Azur to cover the great cinephile event of the year, she will tell you that the possibility of eating at the cinema or luxury in Cannes does not exist . Impossible. The menu of most of the four thousand accredited letter boards will consist of almost 12 days (even more; for some lucky ones, less) in ingesting what they can and when they can for sheer survival . A menu that will include: jambon cru paninis in La Croisette in which the jambon cru is non-existent; sweet or savory pancakes ; bagels (from Coffee & Cookies, in front of the Palais) ; pizza or pasta of different quality; if you can sit down, maybe a _steak tarta_r, the same even a milanese, and a salad from time to time.
The journalist's menu at the Cannes festival
But if you could ask where he eats one of the hundreds of celebrities or socialites that come up to Cannes attracted by the glamor of the Festival which this year celebrates its 70th edition, the answer would be very different. In fact, if you find the moment to breathe between the six movies you can see a day, perhaps one of these gastronomic plans will capture your attention. The restaurants in Cannes turn to the Festival (it is one of their 'Augusts' in the year, the other is the advertising festival), to the point that classics like ** Astoux & Brun **, where you go to eat fish and shellfish since 1953, They have created a special anniversary tableware this year.
Other sites like Nikki Beach They are also celebrating their anniversary this month: 15 years celebrate on the beach of Cannes, 15 years associated with the Festival . Every year, some of the most exclusive parties for the teams of the films in competition are held on its terrace, which is entered from the La Croisette promenade or from the beach. Events for which it is not easy to get an invitation, but during the day you can enter at any time to try their menu or regular cocktails or any of the dishes they have created and serve especially in these days of the 70th edition of Cannes. Like the mozzarella tresse, the Bateau sushi or the Nikki Beach's Sushi Dragon.
Nikki Beach Cannes
Other classics, in which if you get a table these days, you'll rub shoulders with **Robert Pattinson, Sofia Coppola or Uma Thurman are Tetou **, famous for its fish and shellfish or La Colombe D'or , whose walls are decorated with paintings by some of its most iconic clients: Picasso, Matisse, Braque...
Pattinson enjoying it in Tetou
But there are even more exclusive places. In The Serviette Blanche, chef Eliane Muskus serves in an almost secret second floor in the center of Cannes the menu that she herself has thought of that day. Every morning Muskus goes to the market , and with those fresh products she cooks for her 15 or 16 diners of it. For an average price of 60 euros it is a homemade and luxurious meal, even more luxurious.
The White Napkin
Lastly, the ultimate plan for luxury in Cannes is to cross over to Ile Sainte-Marguerite , the largest island of the small Lérins archipelago in front of the city, and to which you go to eat at one of the restaurants in its small fishing village. Away from the madding crowd that floods Cannes, between crystal clear waters and quiet beaches . You can slip into one of the hundreds of yachts that dock here these days or ** check the regular lines .**
Ile Sainte-Marguerite
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