ST. TROPEZRoute de L'epi 83350 St. Tropez, Ramatuelle, France, France • +33494798204Nikki Beach St. Tropez is an exquisite location and a favorite vacation destination of the world’s most beautiful, celebrated, rich, and powerful people. Hosting one of the most renowned party scenes in St. Tropez, Nikki Beach is the consummate see-and-be-seen party places for guests, visitors, VIPs and celebrities alike. Casually elegant, The Strand sets an identifiable benchmark of progress in contemporary restaurants, combining mood, setting, people and food in perfect proportion, and proving that a restaurant doesn't have to be boring to put out great food, or sacrifice culinary standards because it's hip, here, both are admirably achieved, but culinary purists, come before 10 pm, after which the restaurant mood swings decidely more the lounge. Hours of Operation Opens at 7pm to 1am About St. Tropez The French daily Figaro once noted St. Tropez in summer presents "the greatest number of famous faces per square meter." Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro, Sean Combs, Elton John, Sly Stallone, Sting, the Hilton girls, Bono, Beyoncé, the Olsen twins, Leonardo DiCaprio, Serena Boardman, Jenna Bush… the A-list goes on and on. The town remains an almost clichéd picture-postcard: from pink ochre buildings with red-tile barrel roofs and blue and white shutters to historic forts crowning craggy rose-hued rocks overseeing the forest of masts that sprout from yachts in the sparkling sapphire water. The Vieux Port is a warren of narrow twisting cobblestone streets radiating from the harbor, dominated by the four-towered La Citadelle, originally constructed in 1583, whose keep offers a fine historic Naval Museum as well as superb sweeping panoramas of the city, gulf, and Massif of Maures. |