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A long ridged doughnut of wheat and chickpea flour, fragrant with orange-blossom water, deep-fried in olive oil until shatteringly crisp and rolled in caster sugar. The L'Estaque seaside snack since 1907.
Chichis frégis were popularised in 1907 by Alexis Guglielmi in Toulon and migrated up the coast to L'Estaque in the 1930s, where the fishing-village stalls turned them into the canonical Marseille beach snack. Chez Magali, run by the Magali Pisciotto family, still cooks them in 20-litre olive oil cauldrons at the L'Estaque seafront. The Sunday-afternoon queue is unchanged across generations.
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Chez Magali on the L'Estaque port in Marseille's 16e has fried chichis and panisses since 1947, the Italian-imported chichis fregis recipe still cooked.
OrderPanisses and chichis fregis
TipOpen the seven-day summer schedule from May; panisses by the dozen with aioli on the side.
Marche aux Poissons in Marseille's 1er on the Quai de la Fraternite is the city's last working fish market, around ten stalls each morning selling whatever.
TipOpen daily 8am-1pm; pack-up around 12:30, the rascasse and scorpion fish go first.
Chez Sauveur in Marseille's 1er Noailles has cooked Sicilian-rooted Marseillais pizza since 1943 founded by Sauveur Di Paola, taken over in 2023 by a young.
OrderThe Pizza Speciale with mozzarella di bufala, cherry tomatoes and pistou.
TipOpen Tue-Sat lunch and dinner; closed Sunday and Monday Walk-ins usually OK.
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