Le Sloop

Description:

• Le Sloop is the most popular and most reasonably priced bistro in this expensive area. Outfitted in blue and white inside and out, it sits at the edge of the port, overlooking the harbor. A meal may begin with a salad of flap mushrooms steeped en cappuccino with liquefied foie gras, or perhaps tartare of salmon with aioli and lemon crepes. You may follow with a filet of sea bass served with red-wine sauce, or a mixed fish fry of three kinds of Mediterranean fish, bound together with olive oil and truffles. Dessert may include strawberry soup with sweet white wine and apricot ice cream or any of about seven other choices, each based on "the red fruits of the region." The regional wines are reasonably priced.

• © Frommer's 2012