Best Burgers in Marseille: Neighbourhood Guide

The best burgers in Marseille are spread around the Vieux-Port, the streets of Cours Julien and La Plaine in the 6th arrondissement, the market district of Noailles, and the redeveloped waterfront at La Joliette. Halal burgers are easy to find in a city with a large North African community, and it is worth keeping room for panisse, the chickpea fritter of L’Estaque, cut like thick chips.

Marseille has a street-food invention of its own, and it is not the burger. In 1962 Jean Méritan, a former steward on Mediterranean liners, fitted a wood-fired oven to a trailer and sold pizza across the city. By 1966, Marseille counted more than 200 pizza trucks, and around fifty licensed ones still work its neighbourhoods. That habit of eating good, cheap food close to home, often to take away, is the backdrop against which any Marseille burger is judged. Cours Julien, with its street art and terraces, is where the city goes out.

Burgers in Marseille: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: Vieux-Port, Le Panier, Cours Julien, La Plaine, Noailles, La Joliette and Castellane.
• Local specialties: panisse from L’Estaque, and the pizza truck, invented in Marseille in 1962.
• Halal: widely available; a guide lists a venue as halal only if the venue itself says so.
• Getting around: two metro lines and three tram lines run by RTM.
• Mediterranean prices: in euros (EUR), service included.

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