Start from 37 curated places around Cannes, FR, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Aux Bons Enfants
A four-generation family restaurant on Rue Meynadier operating since 1935 with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, cash-only, no reservations, no menu printed in advance. You eat what the Giorsetti family cooked that morning from whatever came in from Marché Forville next door: Provençal stuffed vegetables, daube, fresh fish, homemade rum baba. It's the restaurant you bring a visiting friend who wants to understand what Cannes actually eats when it's not film festival season.
Table 22 par Noël Mantel
A 22-seat gastronomic restaurant on a cobblestone lane in Le Suquet with Michelin recognition and the deepest wine list in Cannes — over 200 bottles spanning Rhône to Burgundy at fair markups. The kitchen produces classical Mediterranean cooking with composed dishes built around daily market runs: lobster ravioli, local fish with herb-crusted vegetables, seasonal tasting menus that rotate with the produce. A serious evening out that doesn't require the hotel-dining pretension of the Croisette.
Trails & outdoors
Île Sainte-Marguerite Loop
A 7.5km loop around the full perimeter of Île Sainte-Marguerite via the Allée de Ceinture and Chemin de la Batterie, accessible by a 15-minute ferry from the Vieux Port. The route passes pine and eucalyptus forest, rocky coves with swimming access, and the northern-shore site of a submerged sculpture garden. The terrain is mostly flat and unpaved but manageable in regular trainers; it's classified easy but feels more substantial than most short island walks because of the perimeter's variety.
La Croix des Gardes Loop
An 80-hectare natural forest park on the heights of Cannes, less than a kilometre from the Croisette, with a network of trails through Mediterranean pine, maquis scrub, and mimosa groves. The Belvédère du Cèdre viewpoint on the main loop offers one of the best panoramas of the Bay of Cannes, the Esterel range, and the Lérins Islands without requiring significant elevation gain. Multiple loop options from 3km (under an hour) to 9km (two-and-a-half hours) leave from the Frayère entrance.
Things to do
Musée Picasso
Pablo Picasso lived and worked in the Château Grimaldi in Antibes in 1946, leaving the city the entire body of work he created there — paintings, drawings, ceramics — which became the nucleus of this intimate museum in the old town. The collection is modest in size compared to the Paris or Barcelona Picasso museums, but the specificity of the period and the stone-vaulted rooms of a 14th-century castle overlooking the sea make it feel more personal than either. The terrasse outside holds sculpture with the Mediterranean as backdrop.
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
A privately assembled collection installed in a narrow 16th-century house at the entrance to Mougins' old village, pairing ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian objects with modern and contemporary works — Picasso drawings beside Roman bronzes, a Warhol print beside Greek vases — to explore how classical antiquity has been reinterpreted across five centuries. The curatorial conceit works better than it sounds; the juxtapositions are thought-provoking rather than gimmicky, and the collection depth across both ancient and modern material is genuinely serious.
Landmarks & sights
Le Suquet
Cannes' original fishing village, now a pedestrian hilltop quarter of cobblestone lanes dating back to the 12th century. Climb Rue Saint-Antoine — the oldest street in the city — to reach the summit, where the views of the bay and the Lérins Islands open up without any effort from the fancy hotels below. The mix of neighbourhood restaurants, working-class history, and genuine calm makes it the counterpoint every trip to Cannes needs.
Marché Forville
A 3,000-square-metre covered Provençal market hall built in 1929 at the base of Le Suquet, open Tuesday through Sunday mornings with stalls of local fishermen, olive oil producers, cheesemakers, and prepared-food vendors. The Monday flea market is a different animal entirely — antiques and bric-a-brac dealers rather than food. Within range of this hall you'll find socca (a chickpea flour pancake) cooked on copper pans in wood-fired ovens, fresh bouillabaisse fish, and cheeses that smell like the hills of Provence.