The Best Seafood in Marseille

The dining room sits a few metres from the water, and that proximity is the whole premise: Gérald Passédat holds three Michelin stars and builds his fine dining menu almost entirely around what the Mediterranean gives up on any given day, over 65 species across the seasons. Sauces come from the heads and cooking juices; nothing gets wasted. The set menu devoted to his take on bouillabaisse is the move, and the sea view makes you feel like it ordered the food.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Stars
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

Picture windows over the Mediterranean, the Château d'If floating in the distance, and a Michelin-starred kitchen buying its catch directly from local fishermen. Auffo is a seafood-forward modern restaurant perched above the Vallon des Auffes, where the chef builds vegetable and seafood dishes around sauces that do most of the talking, including a red wine bouillabaisse jus that rewrites the local brief. The room is calm, neutral, and quietly serious.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The dining room hangs over the rocks on the Marseille corniche, with the château d'If sitting in the bay like it's waiting for someone to escape. This seafood restaurant has been around forever, and the menu leans into the Mediterranean hard, with local catches, a proper bouillabaisse, and modern preparations of grouper and monkfish. Warm weather means tables outside, which is when the whole setup makes the most sense.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant