Home Wares Boutique Find: Maison Empereur Marseille

Maison Empereur Marseille | meltingbutter.com Shopping Hotspot

Maison Empereur is old Marseille’s most fabled general store. Established in 1827 and still run by the same family six generations later, this home goods emporium is an institution as genuine as they come. Seekers of quality home goods can spend hours scanning through traditional hardware items, children’s toys, bathroom products, hung leather goods, French […]

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Modern Art Find: MaMo Marseille

MaMo Marseille | meltingbutter.com Modern Art Hotspot

One visit to MaMo Marseille and you’ll understand right away why this city is a European capital of culture. There is something truly extraordinary about showcasing inspirational modern artworks atop one of urbanist Le Corbusier’s greatest architectural achievements. The landmark building Cité Radieuse, is a vast apartment complex built in the early 50s just outside […]

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Jazz Club Find: U.Percut Marseille

U.Percut Marseille | meltingbutter.com Nightlife Hotspot

U.Percut is where Marseille’s musically educated congregate in the evenings. The small, subterranean nightlife hotspot keeps a pretty strict music policy covering local and international jazz acts as well as attracting underground musical tastemakers such as Quantic, Alex Barck and Mo Kolours who play curated global sounds for the discerning audience. http://u-percut.fr/ U.Percut Marseille 127 […]

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Shopping Find: Honoré Décoration Marseille

Honoré Décoration Marseille | meltingbutter.com Shopping Hotspot

If you’re staying at Casa Honoré, which in our opinion is Marseille’s chicest bed & breakfast, you’re going to covet almost every piece of furniture and décor in there. Fortunately, adjacent to the guest house visitors will be pleased to discover owner Annick de Lestrohan’s home and furniture store Honoré Décoration. The studio, which is […]

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Restaurant Find: Orgasme Marseille

Orgasme Marseille | meltingbutter.com Restaurant Hotspot

Orgasme is Marseille’s freshest, most innovative take on pan Asian cuisine ”“ a true temple of taste that locals look to for a clean, modern and minimalistic interpretation of anything from raw Vietnamese salad (Goi Ga) to Japanese donburi. Just walking past Orgasme will attract any design lover’s attention. The light, bright, expansive space situated […]

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Restaurant Find: Café Populaire Marseille

Cafe Populaire Marseille | meltingbutter.com Restaurant Hotspot

Enter through the bar area to the back dining room and let your inner-interior designer relish in visual delight. Café Populaire Marseille has been designed in mid-century modern style with elements of industrial vintage and traditional French elegance, but it’s the generous skylight and outdoor dining terrace that make this restaurant special. Go for lunch, […]

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Design Bed & Breakfast Find: Casa Honoré Marseille

Casa Honore Marseille | meltingbutter.com Hotel Hotspot

At Casa Honoré Marseille, the most fashion-forward bed & breakfast in the city, guests can relish in surroundings that can only be described as Marseille chic crossed with a Moroccan riad. The former printing factory converted into an art-filled inn has four individually decorated guest rooms that reflect the owner’s excellent taste and affection for […]

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Beach Find: Calanque de Sormiou Marseille

Calanque de Sormiou Marseille | meltingbutter.com Sights

Marseille’s Calanque de Sormiou has been dubbed (by us) as the lazy man’s calanque. Although a trip to Marseille shouldn’t happen without a visit to one of its breathtaking calanques, they take hard work and effort to get to ”“ often requiring hours of hiking or even kayaking to enter the secluded inlets. If this […]

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Design Hotel Find: Mama Shelter Marseille

Mama Shelter Marseille | meltingbutter.com Design Hotel Hotspot

Mama Shelter Marseille is a stylish and vivacious addition to the city’s quiet Notre-Dame-du-Mont neighborhood, which is located a short 15-minute walk to Marseille’s famed old port. Inside the Philippe Starck designed hotel, guests should expect to be captivated by his playful imagination and off-the-wall style ”“ both of which contribute to the bar and […]

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