Aioli appears as a signature dish in 1 France cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Aioli (le grand aioli) · Marseille
Le grand aioli is the Friday lunch tradition of Marseille and Provence, a feast plate of poached salt cod, boiled vegetables, eggs and snails arranged round a deep bowl of garlic-and-olive-oil aioli mayonnaise.
Aioli has been the canonical garlic emulsion of Provence since the Middle Ages, the dish (le grand aioli) the canonical Friday Lenten meal of the city. The full plate includes salt cod, carrots, fennel, green beans, potatoes, hard-boiled eggs and sometimes snails or octopus, with the aioli mounted in a mortar (mortier) by hand. La Caravelle and Madie Les Galinettes both run it as a Friday lunch special; the home version comes out at Provencal family lunches across the year.
Where to eat in Marseille:
- La Caravelle
- Chez Madie Les Galinettes
- Le Bouchon Provencal