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Restaurant Le Festival de la Mer – Juan les Pins, Antibes

24 Thursday May 2012

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Juan Les Pins is a really beautiful little seaside town at the southeastern France, on the Côte d’Azur (between Nice and Cannes). During the summer, this town is pack with tourist. On the winter however, it’s a different story. Most of the shops were close and this makes it hard to locate good restaurant at night. But, I love the peaceful and quiet pace during winter in Juan-Les-Pins.

It really lovely to take a nice long stroll along the beach after dinner while enjoying the cold air. Hub likes it because he claims it’s the only exercise I do. hahaha..

Restaurant le Festival de la Mer is one of my favorite place to go for dinner here. Main Reason, I LOVE seafood !!! And if you are in a seaside town, how can you not have seafood, right? Second Reason, I love the friendly services here. Not to mention, they have english menu ! hehehee…

Ta – Da !!! Look at the huge seafood platter for 2 !!! yum yum yum… it’s so fresh and you can practically taste the sea.

We ordered a Rosé (Chateau de Roquefeuille) to go with our meal… love it. very nice after taste and went really well with the seafood.

Hub ordered the parma ham savings with rock melon. It was really good. 

And also ordered Spaghetti alla vongole and Lamb with french bean.

By then, we were so stuff we couldn’t possibly try the desserts.

Sorry for the poor quality in pictures as I only use my phone camera.

Please check out their website for more details and clearer pictures. (btw, I just check their website and found that the menu is slightly different from when we ate there. Maybe they change seasonally ?)

Le Festival de la mer
146, bd Président Wilson
06160 – Antibes Juan Les Pins
Tél : 04 93 61 04 62
contact@restaurant-festivaldelamer.com

Provençal Occitan

28 Saturday Mar 2009

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beach I know I should be writting about my Day 2, but, I am so excited to share this. So, I am going to skip ahead…

Yay, after days and days of cold days and snow, I am in Juan les Pins now. It is very near to Nice and Cannes. So, it is Hot HOt HOT !! unfortunately for me, ;o( today, it is raining when I arrive. So, it is slightly cold. But still nice.

I manage to do a little of beach trekking today. Walked for miles along the beach. It was lovely.

As most of you know, Cote d’Azur is famous for their coast / French Riviera.

sea-rambutan

While strollin’ along the beach, I found many funny egg-ish thingy scattered about. It is really weird as it reminds me alot of ‘Rambutan’ (hairy red skinned fruit found typically in tropic country)

But another thing which this Provençal is quite famous for is the perfumery.

Gasse which is slightly north from where I am now, is famous for its perfume since the end of the 18th century. As you can find from wiki, it is also known as the world’s perfume capital ! The provocal name ? Provençal Occitan

Ahh.. most of you would find Occitan familiar eh? YEs – it is none other than the currently favourite brand of mine L’occitane. While shopping around for the honey n lemon delightful cream for my friend (as this is not available in Kuala Lumpur – not sure why? ), I was shown to try out their new range. Peach Blossom .. It was absoulute delicious !!! So yummmy… hehehe.. ;oP

L'occitane Peach Blossom

It will be day-light saving at around 2am tomorrow (29th March) and with one hour advance to 3am (meh – I lose one hour of sleep).

I can’t wait for tomorrow hoping to be able to catch some SUN !!

Wish me luck ;o)